Year: 2005

Darkphibre has released version 2.1 of his Halo 2 Stats Tracker – lots of new features. You can read about it (and download it) from his site – and you can comment in his forum thread.

Hehe – Pak wished SOMEONE a Happy Valentines Day in Halo fashion. (Not sure how I’d feel if I got a card like that – but from the outside, it’s pretty funny.)

Interactive Civilian took some photos of the Kubrick Master Chief that all Japanese Halo buyers were entitled to (it was finally delivered this week). Pretty cool – I’m guessing the hardcore Halo schwag collectors are gonna be scouring eBay…

The StK Ogres have a new montage vid out – you can grab it off the ComboVideos.com Halo videos page. 50 mb, WMP9 format (almost 11 minutes long). Some really nice moves… I learned stuff from this one. Thanks, BlazeD, for the heads-up. Update: ComboVideos went down last night – excessive bandwidth. HALOChat has put…

Wow. Didn’t think it was going to happen – but I’ve cleared out the desktop queue again, and updated the Wallpaper section. Almost a month’s worth of submissions – there are 23 new entries, but if you count all the variants (color, size, etc) there are over 50 new images. Check ’em out!

Wow. Frogblast has taken the time to compile a list of almost all the death cameras in Halo 2. What’s a death camera, you ask? When you die, the camera jumps to a preset angle, depending on where you were and which direction you were facing. Froggie’s pinned these down. Go look; as he says,…

Jillybean continues to work on this beautiful Sunday – check the Halo Story page for a pair of tidbits to advance your understanding of the Halo backstory.

I meant to post this yesterday – things got away from me. We mentioned a new contest being hosted by ICDedPpl on Friday – by Saturday, the prize list had grown sizeably. Go visit the contest page to see what’s up for grabs at this point; there are now 7 prizewinning slots, with a pretty…

Walshicus has finished his conversions of the Hall of Mural tablets from the originally submitted black and white versions that 7he One sent us in late January to full-color, larger renderings – you can find the last 3 in this forum post or on our Hall of Murals page. Nice work, all around!

A bit ago, Eric Oxenberg submitted a movie he’d made for an audio engineering class in college. It’s something a little different; it’s footage from the E3 2003 trailer, with all new sound effects, music, and dialogue. It contains over 100 SFX queues. It’s not for everyone (the video hasn’t been altered at all, it’s…

Red vs Blue Episode 49 has been released for sponsors… and for long-time Bungie fans, this one’s fantastic. (It’s great for everyone, actually – but the Marathon nod is awesome.) This is one of the funniest episodes I can remember; I think I like it when the whole team is feverish while recording. If you’re…

Walshicus continues his work on coloring the Hall of Mural tablets; he’s redone the third tablet (basically just a recoloring of the Prophets’ headdresses) and finished off the fourth. You can find them in his forum post, or on our Hall of Murals page.

Last week, a movie showing Ogre 1 participating in a KotH game on Lockout and racking up an amazing 41-0 kill record started making the rounds. It crushed Boomerica.com for the month, in less than a day. It looks like if you haven’t seen it, you can grab a copy off of Halo-Pro.com – thanks…

Week 13 of TalkXbox’s Halo 2 Strategy Series covers Colossus CTF. Thanks again to 3Suns for the heads-up.

Dennis Powers writes to point out that Episode 4 of the Halo CE Chronicles is now online at Halo Maps. Conceived as a showcase for Custom Edition works, this flash-based series is pretty different from most Halo-based machinima… it’s a lot less violent, for example. This episode continues the development of the Spartan and AI…

AGoldElite points out that W00tness (a comic we’ve followed in the past, and one we’ve unfortunately helped to take offline occasionally, due to bandwidth overages), has a new episode out – and Halo once again features prominently. It’s a serial strip, so you might have to go back a while if you haven’t been reading…

Yesterday evening, Bungie posted its weekly What’s Update – general answers to common questions, with a few oddities tossed in. A hint that a cheating fix might not be too far off, details on when you can and cannot use Halo-related artwork, when downloadable content is NOT coming out (Feb 14), and more. There’s also…

KingFarnox and the rest of Chronic V1RU5 Studios have created the first episode of a new machinima series, Delta Squad. Episode 1 is called ‘Zanzibar: Hostage Rescue’. Camera work is very nice; has the feel of wartime journalism, at least at the start. Nice timing, nice moves. Originally a 23.7 mb WMP9, I created a…

Hehe. Stuntmutt took his inspiration for today’s One One Se7en from today’s Halo Babies – how often do you get a chance like this? Made me laugh, anyway.

18 new pieces in the Fan Fiction hopper today – clears out the week. Go read! The weekend’s coming.