Year: 2005

LunarShadow stopped by to point out that a new version of his H2O Stats Reader is out. Check the forum post for details and a download link.

Whee – tooting my own horn! The next installment of the CBS News ‘Violence in Gaming’ series has been posted – and it’s me answering the questions this time around. Remember – as is true with all pieces in this series, the questions were answered without reading any of the other respondents’ replies. This is…

AYB Fonzi, a member of the Str8 Rippin clan, has been interviewed over at MLGPro.com. (Interestingly enough, the interview was conducted over XBL, via headsets – nice!) An interesting story about a group of guys who came together over Xbox Live, and challenged the upper crusts of the Halo Pro scene. Give it a read…

Sarge meets up with an Elite Councillor in today’s One One Se7en… and the results ain’t pretty.

Fourteen new stories for you in today’s Fan Fiction offering – and a milestone for me; the first post that I can remember where I didn’t need to delete a single entry! Wow. Go read. Update: There’s a fifteenth now, because someone… made noise. (No, this will not become a habit.)

There’s another massive art update (Halo and non-Halo work both) over at Halo Babies today – some fun stuff in there!

The Gamefly Q Awards (we mentioned these in January) were announced this morning at the Game Developers Conference – Halo 2 took hom Favorite Game of the Year, Favorite Xbox Game, and Favorite Shooter. Nice! You can read about it on PR Newswire or Yahoo Finance.

Turns out that National Xbox Tournament we mentioned a couple of days ago is not just Europe – it’s happening in Canada, too. Thanks, Speny Honest.

Captain Spark posted another batch of dialogue snippets on his website yesterday – all elites, this time around. We’ve added them to the Dialogue Databank.

Shane writes to remind everyone that Halo will be inducted into the Walk of Game this evening at 5:30 pm on Metreon’s Ground Level in San Francisco. Not exactly the same as getting your hands into the concrete… but if you’re in SF, go show your support!

Mike Miller once again comes through – what can arguably be called the most difficult level in Halo 2 now has a Legendary Walkthrough to help you along. Regret went up today – with 15 movies showing you a multitude of techniques that can get you past the hard stuff. Mix them in with Mike’s…

Work on Last Stand continues – Phoenix_9286 announced Page Seven on our forum yesterday. This is turning into an F-Troop sort of thing…

Back in January, we mentioned that Bungie was beginning work on a series of Multiplayer guides, with Lockout and Ascension first up. It’s unclear when it went up… but Cptn Mexico just pointed out that the Lockout guide is now online. It’s pretty in-depth; a walkthrough, strategies, tips, all backed up with pretty pictures and…

Spenser noticed the next installment of William Vitka’s series on video game violence at CBSNews.com – this interview is with Scott Ramsoomair, of VG Cats. This one’s a bit more ‘off the cuff’ – someone who doesn’t take the issue quite as seriously as say, Jack Thompson. And for those who think that discussion in…

imSuck wrote to let us know that Halogrid, a ‘movie making clan kind of joining the ranks’, had released their OWN ‘storming the beach’ video a few days ago; it’s called The Platoon Remix, and can be found on their website. It’s 44 mb, 6:03 long, 640×480. They tried to recreate the beach scene in…

Blade is having a Halo 2 party – and wants to invite you. It’s like a LAN fest – but it’s online. Details can be found on the teamhalo forum. (If you want to reply, you’ll need to register.)

A month ago, TurtleTurtleClan hit the scene with Episode 1 of Saving Private Cyan. Great cinematography, so-so voice acting. Today, they’re releasing episode 2 – well, I guess we are releasing it for them. (The last time around, the fans shut ’em down, they loved ’em so much.) Voice acting is much better, cinematography is…

Two days ago, we mentioned an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that quoted J Allard as saying that Bungie was “doubling staff for the next installment [of Halo]”. Today, that quote is all over the net – I saw stories about it at CVG and TeamXbox, for example. Straight from the horse’s mouth (separate emails…

Europeans – start preparing for the first official European Halo 2 Championship, being set up by Xbox.com. Check your country-based Xbox.com website to see if signups are open for your country yet. (The UK-based page is up, for example.) There’s some nice schwag up for grabs, so register soon! Thanks to Eurogamer and CVG for…