Year: 2005

ICDedPpl is hosting a new contest – Photoshop Halo into a real-life picture, win cool schwag. (Okay, you don’t need to use Photoshop – any image editor will do, including MS Paint. But the Halo part has to be there.) Go read all the details – including the $250+ in prizes – over at his…

On and off, folks have talked about ‘custom gametype collections’ – websites where folks could get (and share) custom game settings for entertaining multiplay. Halo2Customs just opened its doors – and in addition to maintaining a reader-expandable collection of custom gametypes, it’s gone one step further; it’s offering Action Replay downloads of the most popular…

New strip over at Halo Babies… Gruntsbane makes clear his opinions of at least one possibility for a director for a Halo movie. Ouch!

Skeletor transcribed The Maw (from the Halo Soundtrack) for guitar some time ago, but forgot about it until he saw a recent news post. He’s made it available in Power Tab Editor format, and included a short recording of himself playing it. Grab them in his forum post.

Another Wednesday’s gone by, another Halo Humpday Challenge – this one was against the Halo2CE team (who are NOT, as a matter of fact, affiliated with HaloMods.com, no matter what the Humpday Challenge writeup says). Bungie actually WON this challenge, 2 games to 1… but check the stats for the WHOLE story. Nice playing! (Anyone…

trevor i presume points out a vid he made showing off Fusion Core jumping. It’s being hosted over at Team Dirty Tricks. 11 mb, WMP9 format.

BitMaP sent a note about a transcription he’s done for Remembrance (a beautiful piece that can be found on the Halo 2 Soundtrack). Looks like there’s quite a bit more on the way, as well… keep an eye on the site!

I find this intriguing… recently, GamaSutra offered a Question of the Week, in which they asked readers to discuss the most creative games of 2004 (thanks, Rampancy.net). What interested me was that out of all responses, only one person is quoted as having anything good to say about Halo 2 – and that person prefaces…

Michael Greenwood writes to let us know that H2 Advanced Stats, an online Stats aggregator we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, has moved to new digs, with a new site design, more options, and personalized pages coming soon. Take a look!

Looks like there’s a new Subzero Rivalries up over at Evilburger.net – and someone has a bone to pick with random team matchmaking. Thanks, MarkHawk.

3Suns pointed out a review of the D-Link Wireless 108G Gaming Router over at TeamXbox; it comes with some built-in enhancements that help gamers, and some of them work very well with Xbox Live. They did some specific Halo 2-based tests to see how well things worked. If you’re totally serious about having the best…

Thanks to zugy, who pointed out that Project Torlan, the Unreal Tournament Halo mod, has released Content Pack 1.75. It’s huge – 164 or 200 mb, depending on the compression you choose – so go visit!

The Codex, a new machinima series that released a trailer about a week ago, has made good on its promise to release Episode One on February 9th. Go visit for the new episode (QuickTime now, WMP9 and DivX coming very soon), as well as lots of new updated content. We’ll be posting mirrors if they…

Wow. Frankie pointed out a new article on Bungie.net that gets down and dirty with RSS feeds – it’s an interview with the guys who run the DeFAS.org website about the tools they’re developing that use Bungie’s RSS feeds in new and innovative ways. Go check it out!

Wow. rockslider has updated his Rockslide Megabattle website, with yet another setup you can try for fighting huge numbers of baddies in the original Halo. Check it out! (Thread is here on our forum, for comments.) If you don’t know what a Rockslide Megabattle is… explore his site.

Kevin Ryan points out that a new episode of After War is now up – we’re getting into backstory here. Also, I’ve been… um, penciled into the Rant at the bottom of the page. Sort of.

Stuntmutt’s discovered the REAL secret about Carneyholes in today’s One One Se7en.

Interesting blog entry over at Lawrence.com – Matt Cox (known to many as Mothergoat around these parts) talks about the trend towards real instruments in game music these days, and how the Halo franchise may have sent the wrong message to developers; instead of focusing on the QUALITY of the music Marty and company created,…

Jump Tactics has posted a new vid – the first of a series showing techniques for doing some of the jumping you can see in previous vids. Registration (free) required for downloads. The vid is 21.3 mb, WMP9 format. This one focuses on Bunny Hopping and Crouch-Jumping. Nice work!

Mexican band Molotov is the next ‘Game with Fame’ celebrity you can play with; they’ll be online on February 16, with prizes like an Xbox, an XBL subscription, and schwag like t-shirts and music certificates up for grabs. You can read the press release here on our site, or visit the Xbox.com page devoted to…