Year: 2005

Some great content over at Team3D – an interview with the OGREs about WCG Singapore (where they won $20k) and MLG Atlanta (where they split $6500 with the other two members of their 4-man team, and OGRE2 took another $1200 home in FFA championship money)… and reflections on Atlanta directly from the OGREs themselves. Go…

Back in November, we mentioned an article in the South Dakota State University Collegian in which a female student complained that Halo was sucking up time rightly spent with girlfriends. A couple of weeks later, we mentioned a rebuttal, by Lady Rziha. Yesterday, the Collegian posted yet ANOTHER followup, again from a woman, condemning not…

Over on Bungie.net, there’s word of an art contest being sponsored by Bungie Fans Online – it’s Bungie-related, so it’s not necessarily ONLY Halo, though I’d be surprised if the majority of submissions weren’t about Halo. Prizes are ‘some Bungie stuff’ (not sure what that means, but that’s what the note says), and submissions are…

Stuntmutt makes it clear in today’s One One Se7en that if you’re going to be punny, be sure you know your audience.

Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today. Too late for lunchtime reading… unless you’re on the US west coast.

Hehe – Jim Shorts pointed out some photos showing a bunch of guys (presumably waiting to buy 360s last week) playing Halo 2 on the side of a Best Buy. Now THAT might make the time go faster!

Over in the UK, it looks like Halo 2 has been released as an ‘Xbox Classic’ (similar to the US ‘Platinum’ category?), and is selling for £16.99 (just under $30 US). That’s better than the US Amazon price of $33.95… though it wouldn’t pay to order from the UK, for a few reasons; it’s PAL,…

GameDaily has a My Turn column (written by Chance Thomas, a composer who’s worked on games like King Kong, X-Men, and Lord of the Rings), discussing how the videogame soundtrack is an underexploited market. Halo is held up as a shining example – go Marty!

UNSCDF has put up a legendary walkthrough of The Arbiter – it’s the fourth level they’ve posted. Check it out!

Word from Cybrfrk is that we’re getting short of movie reviewers for the MPRRS. He just added everyone in the queue, and pulled all those who weren’t actually submitting reviews… and the end result was a shortage of bodies. If you’re interested in participating, please fill out an application! (Remember, before you do, that the…

Nexus Beat sends word of a new tournament site – they’re starting with Halo and Halo 2, but they’ll be adding others down the road. Wasabi 360 has already gotten going with a 2v2 MLG-style tourney that’s pretty close to capacity – go check it out!

Over at Podtacular.com, you’ll find Episode 33 – where the talk ranges from 360 madness to halo 2 on the 360 to the latest news from the Halo community. 19.3 mb, 21 minutes. Go listen! Thanks, Foo Mo Jive.

Last week, Red vs Blue appeared on ‘Total Request Live’, an MTV program. The team was interviewed about how the series is put together, and for fun they created a video involving TRL’s host. That video is now available for download for sponsors – it should be up for everyone in the next day or…

Stuntmutt explains why you should always know who you’re talking to, in today’s One One Se7en.

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. Burn off some turkey calories by reading!

Man, I HATE rumors. I hate ’em because they travel around the net, and they take on a life of their own, and by the time they get back to you a second time, they’re fact, in the eyes of many who read them. I’m posting this because I want to make it clear that…

The guys over at UNSCDF have put up a new article… about a weapon that gets a half-sentence mention in Fall of Reach. It covers the HMG-38, an outmoded machine gun now in use by pirates. (I guess this should be classified as Fan Fiction?) Comments can go here.

MLG Atlanta has wrapped up, and you can find info at both MLGPro.com (full bracket info is here) and Team3D.net (roundup, focusing on Team3D of course, is here – thanks, FI3ND). Congrats to Ogre2, who took the FFA tourney, and Team3D, who dominated the 4v4 race.

We don’t normally keep track of the ups and downs of Halo-related websites around the net… but The Library was a pretty formidable resource that has been offline for quite some time. It’s back – thanks Psyrixx!

The third and last segment of Crossfire’s Hell Quarters, ‘Blood Spilled Redemption’, passed the MPRRS this afternoon – you can grab it in WMP9 format (61.6 mb) or QuickTime format (64.3 mb). Dark and moody, this segment uses music powerfully to keep the atmosphere mysterious, and to keep you guessing until the end. Very, very…