Year: 2005

Ducain, over at High Impact Halo, has interviewed FrogBlast, trickster extraordinaire, about what drives him to do the stuff he does. Great read – thanks to both of them! (Ducain pointed it out in our forum.)

Interesting article over at MLGPro.com – Brick Shoemaker lays out why he thinks Halo 2 is no good for 1v1 battles. The main argument is a solid one; Halo 2’s multiplayer focus is geared more towards teamwork and cooperation than solo heroics. Go read. Thanks, 3Suns.

Thanks to Frankie, for pointing out a writeup at Aussie Xbox of a charity bash they hosted to benefit the tsunami relief effort. Great pics – that’s a lot of people playing Halo 2! Update: Gah – looks like mnemesis got to this one already; you’d think I’d be more careful reading existing news…

Bungie has put up an interview with BlAcKjAk, a high-ranking XBL player (he’s currently number 2 in the Rumble Pit stats). It’s just a quick ‘what do you like/dislike about XBL/Halo 2?’ piece – but it might make some people feel better to know that the folks at the top of the leaderboards are complaining…

There were a few news bits recently that might be of interest to Halo fans…Business Week has an article about the big-business aspect of the current videogame market – and Halo/Halo 2 play a pretty big role.The Oregon Daily Emerald looks at Halo’s ability to suck in and keep players.Pantagraph.com focuses on Steve Scott, a…

Eternity 117 sent along a tabbed version of the Halo 2 theme, Mjolnir Mix, as played by Steve Vai. Go play!

We mentioned a vid called ‘Broken’ a few days ago; one of the mirrors came from HaloImpulse. Wasn’t until just now that I saw the actual link to the mirror… if you still haven’t gotten this, you can grab it here (12.7 mb, .rar format).

Another hefty art update over at Halo Babies; some really, really cool stuff. (If you like the ‘Ambush’ piece by tanqexe, be sure you’ve seen his other Halo-related work in our Misc Art section.) Thanks to mrsmiley, who sent this along a few days ago – sorry I wasn’t here to pass it along to…

Dzejms writes to point out that “Pete Parsons & the Bungie Crew” have won the Wired Rave award mentioned here recently.

A couple of interesting (to me, anyway) movies popped up recently on our forum. The first, mentioned by nof, was done by Blackstar and stars the HBO Lekgolos in a send-off to one of their own. That Blackstar sure knows his stuff. The second was put together by Hikaru-119 as a sort of tribute to…

Jump Tactics, mentioned here a few times before, has released a whole mess of styles vids via their forum. Give ’em a look and see if they don’t improve your pouncing panache, your vaulting verve, your evading élan. They may possibly help you jump better, too.

Hep, from Aussie Xbox, writes to tell us of an article on their site detailing the results of the charity Halo 2 tournament, held this last week on the 12th, that we’d previously mentioned. Check out the final stats, plus all the tons of great prizes from Logitech, Xbox, and Netgear and the fun being…

Episode 3 of the machinima series The Codex has been posted. It’s called “Aftermath”, and it’s available in Quicktime format for now; with Divx and WMV versions coming soon. The plot thickens…

To sleep, perchance to dream… or to play. Check today’s One One Se7en for deep philosophical meaning. Or not. Pax.

Somebody was messing around in one of the sub-basements where some of the servers are. This somebody apparently spilled their drink, or possibly some soup, all over a bunch of arcane equipment I can’t understand. Anyway, some sections here are offline for awhile, like Tips, the Story Page, and maybe some others. I blame Crux.

Deep thanks to Mike Miller, who submitted his Oracle chapter of the Halo 2 Legendary Walkthrough early enough that Louis could format it and prepare it for the masses before he left. Because of Mike’s consideration, you can read it on time, today, rather than at the end of this week. This level contains the…

OK, you naggers finally have your new Mailbag. Can I go back to sleep now?

A number of people have written to point out that tech news site Slashdot has posted a rather belated review of Halo 2. They give it an 8 out of 10, and also comment on the MagicBox XFPS, another adapter that lets you plug a keyboard and mouse into an Xbox (it gets a 6…

Unable to pass up a golden opportunity, and with a bunch of other great stuff to boot, Jillybean takes time out from her busy schedule to update the Story Page once again.

That’s it – I’m out. My family and I are on vacation for the next few days; I’ll be back Thursday night. There’s a chance I might find a few minutes to add stuff here and there (mostly late evening)… but the bulk of the updating job is going to be taken on by mnemesis…