Year: 2005

Xbox.com has posted a page advertising the Ultimate Halo Freak contest. It’s open only to US residents 18 or older – write a snippet, 250 words or less, about why you’re the freakiest of the Halo freaks, and if you win, go home with a bundle of Halo schwag. Sounds easy! Thanks, altodarknight.

Comic Number Two for the day: Halo Babies hits the magical 77 strips with the third in their three-part series about Bungie Fundamentals. You know, I’d completely forgotten about Muro…

Today’s Penny Arcade answers the nasty beatdown the PA boys took from Bungie’s harsh Humpday challengers… sort of. The news writeup is pretty funny, too. Looks like Recoil was the first to find it.

He’s baaack…

Blackstar sent in a new Calvin and Halo for your viewing pleasure – and he brings up a very good point. I’ve wondered myself…

There’s a blow-by-blow writeup of the StK-x6 championship match at the MLG event in Houston last weekend over at the MLGPro.com website. Interesting read! Thanks, 3Suns.

Wow… now I’ve seen everything. There’s an article in the Christian Post about using Halo 2 to get the word out about Christianity. “Jesus came to this planet to save the planet from a group much worse than the Covenant (the aliens) and from a fate much worse than physical death.”… I don’t know what…

Well, just the song, actually. Back in July, 2003, Eric Vogt set Halo gameplay to Tenacious D’s Wonderboy, a wonderfully overmelodramatic ballad about Wonderboy and Nastyman. (A working link to that movie can be found in our movies section.) Today, markhamx2 posted a note on our forum about a new vid, filmed in Halo 2…

Jillybean took time out from pub-crawling to rummage through the Halo Story Page mailbag – go read what she found.

Query Spree, a polished and feature-rich Halo Stats aggregator, got an update last night – tons of new features. Go read about it, and grab a copy to keep track of your winnings! Thanks, MrMischief66.

That Weasel writes to point out that mirrors for several really large movies have been added to the That Weasel Television HBO Mirror – you can find downloadable versions of Platoon Remix (WMP9 and QT), Platoon 2 (WMP9 and QT), and Say Good Night (QT). If BitTorrent doesn’t do it for you – here’s a…

Episode 6 of The Codex Series was posted last night – and wow, has the action heated up. This one has an original score and some great shot compositing. Overall, a fantastic battle sequence – two, actually. The Covenant shoot about as well as Imperial Stormtroopers… but that model worked really well for Lucas, so…

Yesterday’s Halo Humpday Challenge went off against Penny Arcade, as expected… and ouch, what a hammering the poor PA guys took! Three sets, same map, same rules… mostly the same outcome. Go read Frankie talk some mean trash. I’m expecting retribution – in the form of a funny comic – sometime in the not-too-distant future.…

CNN’s Game Over column has a piece on a wishlist for Xbox 2 – top on the list is backwards compatibiliity, so folks can play Halo 2. Thanks, Byrne McLaughlin.

TalkXbox has started a series of strategy videos – an intro video promoting the series is now posted. Eisen Feuer, the new Strategy Video Maker at TalkXbox, let us know on our forum.

William Vitka’s Violence in Videogame series at CBSNews.com continues with an interview with Hal Halpin, president of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association. This one’s a little different than older ones in the series – the questions aren’t the same, but the idea – to explore the effect of violence in videogames on our society -…

Once again, I’ve been remiss at clearing out the various art queues around this place. I just processed the Miscellaneous Art queue – more than a month’s worth of images in there, some ASTOUNDINGLY good. Somewhere between 30 and 40 images, depending on how you count them. Of particular note are the two movie posters…

So what happens when you’re not up on ‘l33t speak’? Read One One Se7en to find out.

Nineteen new pieces up in the Fan Fiction section – growing by leaps and bounds…

Another large art update over at Halo Babies – Tina’s posted her Dre’al images there, as well, plus many, many other creations. The Sexy Joe image is fantastic! (The MS Paint artwork is also really impressive.) Go look at all of it!