Year: 2005

Blade writes that the online LAN party he hosted recently was a success – a writeup can be found here. (Keep an eye on the site, if you liked the writeup – that was part one.)

Chronic V1RU5 has released episode 2 of their Delta Squad series. 55 mb, WMP9 format. Infiltration of an enemy base (Headlong), followed by a huge battle. Once again, battle footage has some nice ‘shakeycam’ work… really feels like wartime journalism. It’s a little hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys – armor…

Eep – this came in almost 2 weeks ago – but I missed it. SUPERTOY was in San Francisco during the Walk of Game induction ceremony on March 8, and took a couple of pictures – one of the Halo display, and one of the Halo star on the walk itself. If you visit San…

Phoenix_9286 pointed out that Page 8 of his Last Stand comic is up at DevianART. I gotta say… if the elites really WERE this incompetent, I’d be whipping through Legendary with ease.

Red vs Blue has posted Episode 52, ‘Have We Met?’ on their video page for sponsors. (Yes, of course, it’ll be up for everyone else in a couple of days.) Time travel can be rough. This one’s more than 10 minutes long – and pretty funny. Thanks to lots of folks for pointing this out…

Captain Spark pumped out ANOTHER collection of dialogue snippets – you can grab the whole pack on his website, or see them individually in our Dialogue Databank. Good stuff!

Andras Ostrom sent us a short little flick, based on Canyonero, the monster SUV from The Simpsons. If you want to see how great timing can make a difference between a ho-hum vid and a fun one, watch this. Great song, nice footage, wonderful camera angles – and perfect timing. QuickTime format, 7.8 mb.

Last week, we mentioned an online LAN party. It didn’t happen – but apparently, Blade’s trying again – today, at 5 pm eastern. See the previous post for details.

Ross Cidlowski points out that CBS has been using some Halo 2 tracks as background music for player highlights during the NCAA tournament. We saw this last year during football season, as well – just goes to show, Marty’s music fits well when trying to convey strength and power!

A bit more info on the New Zealand Halo 2 Battle tourney we mentioned last month – looks like the winners will not only represent NZ in the online Global Halo 2 tournament, but they’ll also compete in the Australasia heats of the World Cyber Games in Sydney, Australia – and if they win, will…

HaloMaps.org has put up Episode 8, For All Things a First, of the Halo CE Chronicles. The Spartan and the AI continue their search for the drop pod, but meet up with some trouble. Thanks, Dennis Powers.

Burly posted a note on our forum about a Halo1 and 2 montage he’s created; it’s available via BitTorrent. (At the moment, there are only a couple of seeds, so downloads may be slow until this picks up.) It’s six and a half minutes of clan play (you’ll see the same names over and over…

Man… the things that can fill your inbox. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how much mail we got (and even more surprising, the variety of email addresses people thought it would be appropriate to send this news TO) about the Halo 2 add-on rumors circulating around the internet right now. Frankie said last night in his Weekly…

A small but informative update this week, over on Bungie.Net. An announcement about a big announcement about DLC, specific info on upcoming cheat and bug fixes, some humonguous stats, and a pretty sad Mister Chief. Like that’s any different. Check it out!

Took us long enough – but the first four chapters of Halo 2, in transcript form, are now up on the Halo Story page. (Look down the left navbar for them. Thanks, Apeman and mnemesis!) If anyone feels up to transcribing other levels (and can convince our Story page crew that they’ll do a competent…

More good machinima for you today – Stryke Force Episode 4 has been released. If you haven’t seen this series, grab the earlier episodes first. (If you live in Great Britain, think about picking up Xbox World magazine – the cover discs will be including hi-res (DVD-quality) versions for the forseeable future; Episode 1 is…

It’s been a little while since w00tness had Halo content in it… but it does again. Thnaks to Chris Cantrall for noticing. (Comic-Trocity!)

Not too long ago, we got email from Tim Leyk (brother to one of our favorite artists) about a movie a friend of his, Fireb0rn, of RAWR Productions, had put together. It’s the story of a lone Spartan defending Zanzibar against impossible odds; camerawork is great, the musical choice fits perfectly, and the story (though…

Looks to me like Stuntmutt’s got his hands on another game – check out today’s One One Se7en. (Comic-Tacular!)

Captain Spark put up another twenty dialogue snippets yesterday; on his own website, they’re now available for individual download, or you can search for particular text in our Dialogue Databank. (Current volume of Halo 2 dialogue: 853 snippets.)