Year: 2005

The actual strip in todays’ One One Se7en is quite funny – but the title pun makes me want to tear my eyes out and beat Stuntmutt with them.

You might remember a movie called Tainted Love – 12 minutes of Halo 2 gameplay, presented in Widescreen format. The Tainted One wasn’t satisfied with just presenting this to you in a web-sized box; he decided that folks should be able to see this in full wide-screen, DVD-quality goodness. To that end, he created a…

A couple of weeks ago, Phoenix_9286 posted a link to the start of his new ‘comic’ (I’m not sure it can be called that; it’s more of a storyboard tale, or something – he creates it by combining in-game screenshots and comic-style dialogue balloons). I forgot to mention it – but recently, he posted a…

Stephen Loftus continues his in-depth analyses of the structural underpinnnings of the Halo universe – tonight, we have a treatise on how he’s determined sizes of various objects and creatures. A good read, with great graphics. Check out his Halo Scale Comparison!

Mike Miller’s Legendary Walkthrough grows by another chapter – Delta Halo is now posted. Sixteen vids will help you get through this gorgeous level in style. (Be sure to check the main page, as well; there are a few updates, most notably the Sword Flying information added yesterday.) Mike’s not sure whether he’ll make the…

A couple of years ago, folks sat down and timed the respawn intervals between various weapons and items on various multiplayer maps in the original Halo. We posted the findings in our Miscellaneous section. Now, MurderDog and some friends have done the same work for all the Halo 2 maps; for folks wondering how long…

Alan James continues his work on a Master Chief suit – the main body piece begins to be formed. You’ll find the progress shown on his suit page.

Fans ROCK. An anonymous one just sent me one of the coolest Halo gifts I’ve ever received – a Nightmare Armor helmet (shot 1 | shot 2). It’s stuff like this that will finally get me to build a Halo display area in my office, I think. My week just got better.

Saint has updated the Library with all of the I Love Bees wav files. If you’ve never listened to these, and never felt like looking for them, they’re nicely organized in one place. (Hint for folks announcing stuff on our forum – you’ll get more readers if you actually provide a LINK to the new…

Jump Tactics has announced a Jump Tournament – show off the best jumping skills, win stuff like controllers, T-Shirts, video hosting. You can read all the details at HALOChat, or on our forum. Competition starts in less than three weeks – get practicing!

Wow, cool. OxYgEn, over at the Gearbox forums, has announced a new Halo CE map based on (of all things) a piece of Tina Leyk artwork. Check out the starting phases of Installation 07. Thanks, MasterGrief.

Brian Jarrard, aka SketchFactor, is still in Asia on a promotional tour for Halo 2 – he recently gave an interview to the DigiTimes.com, in Taiwan. It’s a general piece, introducing Taiwanese readers to the phenomenon that is Halo 2. Nice little sketch of Sketch, though!

A very large number of people have pointed us to this article on IGN. This page reports that, allegedly, Microsoft and Bungie are already working on Halo 3, and that it will be timed to coincide with the release of the PS3 (expected in early 2006, but Sony hasn’t fixed a date yet). Remember, this…

Over at Geezer Gamers, there’s a writeup of a game in which a team tried to glitch their way to victory – but didn’t count on the tenacity of geezers. (Go geezers!) Worth a read because it points out the sort of unsportsmanlike conduct you can run into on XBL – and what can be…

Matt Stum wrote to let us know about playroster.com – a new network that is billing itself as ‘the World’s First Online Celebrity Gaming Network’. Their launch title will be Halo 2 – and their goal is to hook you up with celebrities playing online. They plan to list what celebrities are online at any…

Today’s One One Se7en shows that you can, indeed, take a joke too far.

A couple of tourneys came across our inbox recently… Michael M. pointed out one that’s taking place in New Zealand – visit the Halo 2 Battle website for more details. (It’s happening the first two weekends in April.) And Kevin Bunch pointed out a pair of tourneys being run by MVP Gaming in Michigan; end…

Stephen Loftus has spent an awful lot of time studying the intricacies of the Halo world – to a degree that some might consider fanatical. In the coming weeks, we’ll be bringing you a variety of his speculations and analyses… but to start with, we’ve put up a page devoted to a 1/1000 scale model…

Red vs Blue episode 50 has been posted for sponsors; it’s MASSIVE. 124-129 mb, depending on format… 16 and a half minutes of revisionist history. A whole bunch of mysteries from Season One are finally cleared up – sort of. Awesome episode, overall… for everyone except Shishka. If you’re not a sponsor, this should be…

Jillybean sifted through some forum posts and emails to put up another few tidbits on the Halo Story page today; a novels-based morsel commented on by Eric Trautmann himself, along with some speculation about the mechanism behind Halo’s offensive capabilities. Go read!