Year: 2005

Back in December, Tina Leyk sketched out Dre’al, her Elite fan character, on the Halo Babies forum. (We hosted a copy here, too.) It wasn’t colored, though, because she didn’t feel she had the right tools at the time. She’s gotten back to it… and while she’s not thrilled with the result, I think I…

Today’s Penny Arcade suggests who might be playing in tonight’s Halo Humpday Challenge… Thanks, Ross Mills.

I’ve said for over a year that the web needs more Halo-based weblogs. prometheus felt the same way – and recently, Tru7h and Rationalization was born. The first entry deals with matchmaking. Go give it a read!

It’s looking like the HBO Sentinels, the West Coast (US) Clan of HBO regulars, is leaderless at the moment. Clan Uberlord (hey, he has the title cause he’s the only one who was willing to muck out the clans’ stable stalls) KP is hunting for a new sucker – erm, leader – willing to keep…

Mr Jukes continues his work in the Halo Jumping field – Jump Session #10 has been posted to his website (and to our mirror site, as well – good for QuickTime lovers). There are also a couple of vids from the Jumptacular crew… if you haven’t been in a while, go visit! (For the person…

As mentioned this morning, the Halogrid team released ‘The Platoon 2: Concrete Jungle’ today. There’s a direct download link for the WMP9 version (71 mb) on their movies page – but there’s no guarantee how long the bandwidth for that will last. I’ve created BitTorrent seeds (with decent starting bandwidth) for both that WMP9 version…

Cybrfrk has finished the conversion of the Halo Tips section (which has languished for some time) – it’s back up and running, and we’re going to need volunteers to man it. (If you’re interested, mail us and let us know why.) The approval process will be similar to the one that will soon go into…

Mike Miller’s Halo 2 Legendary Walkthrough continues – this week it’s Sacred Icon. It’s a short chapter – because it’s a relatively short level. (Especially the way Mike does it.) Go read – and watch. And kick some butt.

LunarShadow’s H2O Stats reader has been updated to deal with the changes in Bungie’s Stats feeds. You can grab a new copy in this forum post.

FuzzySmurf put together a nice montage vid – great quality, some nice moves (I like seeing teamwork sometimes). Since he’s okay with us releasing it via BitTorrent, the bandwidth hit to us is minimal (and fully controllable) – we like that. The movie is in QuickTime format, 54 mb, and the torrent can be grabbed…

A week ago, we mentioned a movie called ‘Platoon’, which recreated the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan. The Platoon Remix was only available in WMP9 format… and they were victims of their own success; they ran out of bandwidth. It was a really nicely done film, so we’ve put up a pair of mirrors…

Dan Brennan writes to say that his Halo in your Hometown photoshop contest has announced winners – the top 7 entries can be found here. Nice work, everyone!

Sep7imus has been Spotlighted over at The Junkyard – he’s the latest in their long series of community interviews. Go read it for a glimpse into the life of a longtime HBO forum poster! Thanks, Mhaddy.

The next GameSpeak, the series of interviews at CBSNews.com about violence in videogames, has been posted – this one has Jeff McAllister, of PlanetDoom, taking a crack at the questions. Not surprisingly, Jeff falls firmly into the ‘video games are no better or worse than other forms of entertainment’ camp. Coming up in the series:…

DoctorEvol decided to mill the Seventh Column logo out of solid aluminum. There are a pair of pictures in this post – the circle is 8 inches (20.3 cm) across, the depth of the cut is about a seventh of an inch or so (40 mm). Check it out!

Damian Isla’s talk from the 2005 Game Developers Conference, ‘Handling Complexity in the Halo 2 AI’, is now online at Gamasutra. If you’re not a member (and don’t feel like signing up), the Printer-Friendly version does not require a login to view. It’s a pretty intense read – but fascinating. Check it out, if you’re…

Today’s One One Se7en looks at some of the things you might hear on your XBL headset just before that Red X appears…

HowStuffWorks has put together their Halo 3 Wishlist. Comes with pictures, even. Funky. Thanks, Eli Payne.

A few weeks ago, Tree Skunk productions released the first couple of episodes of Outpost: Coagulation. We’ve been announcing them as they come out – but the news posts haven’t been terribly enthusiastic. This was primarily because I felt the series needed to focus; audio work was shakey in most episodes, and the plot seemed…

HALOChat posted an update for the Jump Tactics JUMPS tournament – if you’re participating, it’s in your interest to read this stuff before Wednesday. So what are you waiting for?