Year: 2005

Wow. Blind Sniper005 noticed a Halo 2 Kubrick toy (distributed for free to early purchasers of Halo 2) on eBay – with a starting bid of $75. OUCH! Update: Item sold early via a Buy it Now bid. All gone! Thanks, Jammerfer.

We mentioned Chronic V1RU5 about a month ago, when their release of Delta Squad Episode 1 hit the net. They now have a website, and a trailer for Episode 2 (due out March 26). WMP9 format, 9.2 mb. (The money shot at the end is fun.)

Halo Babies continues its look back at Bungie Fundamentals – with another staple, the ‘strong female character’. Too bad Leela was never actualized…

Hehe – less than a day after I rant about how many montage films (well, films in general, I guess) are out there, II TRU7H II sends us a link. He’s hosting, and it’s not a bad piece – so here you go. ’15FPS’ – WMP9 format, 22.6 mb. Snipes and sticks, with some great…

Wednesday’s Halo Humpday Challenge writeup went up on Bungie.net last night – and it looks like Bungie’s long winning drought is over. Bungie took on Pioneer Electronics – and Bungie cleaned up. (Frankie was very nice about it.) Go read!

Wow. The Movie Conunundrum I laid out yesterday has turned into a monster thread, with lots of decent ideas coming from lots of people. If you’ve offered your services as a volunteer ‘watcher’ – please be patient; I’ve recorded all names, but we won’t do anything with them until the new upload system is built.…

There’s been a growing problem I’ve been worried about in the last couple of months, with respect to Halo videos – explaining it is something that would take far too much space for a front-page news post. Besides, I’m looking to start a discussion about the issue, and that’s hard to do from here. Therefore,…

Paul Ritter writes to point out a Halo 2 tourney in Covington, KY (just over the river from Cincinnati, OH). Entry is $30/person, they’re shooting for 35-50 teams. Competition happens on April 9 – so get on over and register!

Wow, very cool. Looks like Joyride’ll be coming out with a die-cast warthog (or three) in the not-too-distant future! (June/July, to be specific.) Thanks to littlebigman for the heads-up.

Hehe – remember LiL Poison, the youngest pro gamer ever? Well, he’s got his own website now. He’ll be playing in the MLG Houston event this weekend. Thanks to Victor of Xtournaments (“Dad”) for the heads-up.

Wideload is showing off Stubbs the Zombie, their Halo-engine-based offering, at the GDC this year – and they’ve updated their Stubbs website to reflect this. There are 14 new screenshots and 9 video clips. Thanks to Rampancy.net for the news – and visit their newly-opened Wideload Games Forum to talk about this stuff!

J Allard was joined by several Bungie employees during yesterday’s GDC keynote speech – Dan Chosich points out an MP3 of the speech at Major Nelson’s weblog, and serpx mentions that Gamespot has video (streaming for free, download for Complete members). Dan also transcribed the Bungie comments, if you don’t want to download anything.

…and figuring out who these guys represented. TheLethalSpartan found the four games of the Halo Humpday Challenge, played yesterday between Bungie and… somebody; looks like Bungie won this time around. We’ll have to wait for the official article on B.net to get the details, though…

In February, we mentioned that Halo 2 was up for Best Audio in the 2005 Game Developers Choice Awards. According to Slashdot, they won. Congrats, guys!

Echoes found a Canadian Halo 2 contest – rules are on this page. You must be a resident of Canada and ‘the age of majority or older in the province or territory in which [you] reside at the time of entry’. Seems like a marketing ploy, more than anything… but there are free Halo 2…

The Lexington Herald-Leader has an article today about the power of Halo to bring people together; it focuses on some local players, but the ideas are pretty universal. Give it a read!

The World Cyber Games Samsung Euro Championship kicked off in Hanover, Germany today; the full list of games is here, the Halo 2-specific stuff is here. Good luck to the competitors! Looking forward to movies… thanks, Marc, of Halo Universe.

The Codex, Episode 5, has been released – swing on by The Codex Series website to grab a copy, in QuickTime, WMP9, or DivX formats. Very nicely done suspense episode this time out. Looking forward to Episode 6! They mention on their site that they’re pretty close to 1,000,000 page hits – with a day…

Jillybean attacked the forest of spam that is our Halo Story email queue, and extracted a few choice truffles hiding in the weeds. (There’s also a tidbit from Finn in there – man, the whole CREW is hopping! Well, except mnemesis. He got into the cough syrup again last night, and I don’t think he’s…

SEspider posted a bunch of entries for his Miniature Halo Art Contest, and declared a winner. Nice work!