Year: 2005

trigger119 writes to let us know about a trailer for Fall of the Covenant, a new machinima film he’s working on; you can grab it in WMP9 format at halomachinima.com. 13 mb, 640×480. Movie coming ‘Summer 2005’. (Final product will be in the 20-30 minute range.)

Sector 7 Halo has begun mirroring the Halo 2 Cutscene Library – you can find the first 11 scenes up now, with more on the way. We’ve added the mirror link to the scenes that are currently there, and will continue updating until they have the whole collection.

A whole lot of people have sent this one in… On May 12th, MTV will air a special named "MTV Presents: The Next-Generation Xbox Revealed". The event will be hosted by Elijah Wood (Frodo from Lord of the Rings, in case there’s anyone left who doesn’t know that) and feature the band The Killers.Viewers will…

DarkSim took the time to reclassify a number of the dialogue snippets in our Dialogue Databank; they were moved from generic ‘Elite’ snippets to ‘SpecOps Commander’ snippets. (Half-Jaw has a sizeable speaking part, and is voiced by Robert Davi – seems like he should have his own category.) Thanks, DarkSim!

Trixie, over at Xbox.com, has focused a Developer Spotlight on Vic DeLeon, the last person hired for the Halo 2 team (and the artist behind Warlock, one of the first of the upcoming downloadable maps). Check out his road to Bungie Studios, and the reasons he’s earned his Gamertag of ‘Lowest Ranked’. (You can play…

MasterGrief points out pics of Yoyorast Island, a HaloCE map that “looks like something outta a Doctor Seuss book”, in his opinion. (I’d agree.) LOTS of pics; 56k warning.

Mechroneal writes about a Halo 2 tourney in Medford, OR, April 15-17. It’s being held at Creature Coffee, entrance is $10 for singles, $25 for teams, top prize is $100. There should be info added to his website later this week.

MereCatfish sat down with Masters1337, a HaloCE modder working on the Coagulation Halo 2 CE mod (among other things). Go read his opinions on HaloCE vs Halo PC, where Gearbox stands in all this, his thoughts about Halo 2, as well. Update: seems I got a critical fact wrong – Masters1337 is NOT part of…

Another art update at Halo Babies – some really nice stuff! (It’s not all Halo-related… but it’s all fun!) Thanks to PlasmaFire for the heads-up.

MLGPro.com has posted an interview with Sergio, the quiet member of x6. Go read it! (Thanks, 3Suns.)

Halo 2 is up against Burnout 3, Far Cry, GTA: SA, and Half-Life 2 in the Video Game category Spaceys Viewers Choice awards – go tell ’em what you like! Thanks, Cary Trussler.

TalkXbox has posted the next chapter of its Art of War strategy guide – it’s called ‘The Art of Marksmanship’, and it contains an instructional video (25.6 mb, MPEG-4 format) to go with its text instruction. (The video seems like more of a montage – SP and MP – than ‘instruction’… but Eisen Feuer acknowledges…

STK won the 2v2 Halo tournament run by XTournaments last weekend – congrats, LiL Poison and Poison! More details can be found on the XTournaments site.

Cheers, Mr Danger lets us know that the Halo Team has been listed in the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World in the newest Time Magazine (you must be a magazine subscriber to read this online). Way to go!

Progress continues on the Movie Peer Review Rating System; we’ve tweaked the required final score to be a bit lower (it seemed we were weeding out EVERYTHING), and we’ve added 3 more reviewers to the ‘Required Reviewers’ total – when we required 7 reviewers, a single low rating could knock a contender out of the…

Mommeeeeeee! He’s at it AGAIN!

I HATE it when my notes get buried, and I forget to post something. Yaksha visited our forum yesterday to announce Episode 6 of Sponsors vs Freeloaders – Overrun and Underwhelmed. Film quality continues to be quite good – and there’s still a plot. Multiple resolutions are available. Grab a copy!

In order to ‘get’ this week’s One One Se7en, you have to 1) remember the names of downloadable maps Bungie plans to release in June, 2) be old, and 3) have watched some REALLY bad television in your youth. That’s… um, 7 of us. For the rest of you, there’s Google.

Wow. Now THIS is something… I haven’t seen before. A collection of south Texas religious groups (they might all be the same entity; I can’t tell – but we’ve got Fuzion Church, Crossroads Baptist Church, and Chi-Ro Ministries) has put together a series of Halo-based machinima to promote a Christian weekend retreat – and to…

Thirteen new pieces of Fan Fiction for you this morning – the weekend catch. Go read!