Year: 2005

Vic posted word of an East Coast Halo 2 4v4 Tournament with $3500 in cash and prizes; activities will take place on March 12, adn details can be found at the Xtournaments site.

The Halo Sheet Music collection at Rampancy.net has grown again; Spencer “Poop Scoop” Anunsen has submitted the theme from the Truth & Reconciliation Suite. Registration (free) required for download. This one comes in a 3-pack; you get a Midi file, a .mus file (I don’t know what can read this on a Mac), and a…

The next chapter of Mike Miller’s Legendary Walkthrough has gone live – find the hints that will get you through Metropolis, a gorgeous – though limited in exploration potential – level. There are 5 movies this time around, highlighting some of the strengths – and pitfalls – of the gameplay here. Mike has also added…

Stryke Force, an up-and-coming machinima series, has just released episode 3, ‘Finders Keepers’. If you haven’t seen these yet, go watch episodes one and two first – this series is among the best out there, in terms of production quality and voice acting. Episode 3 continues the hunt for Venom – you’d be amazed at…

Whoa. Our very own Count Zero created a Halo 2 timeline in an attempt to reconcile the two parallel storylines running through the game. Take a look at this – it might help you put some pieces together!

There’s a pretty big Fan Art update over at Halo Babies; 13 pieces of gallery art, another large handful of fan strips and sketches. mrsmiley’s done a great job of delineating all the new work; go look! Some spectacular stuff in there…

There is a MASSIVE piece over at Bungie.net about HaloCE, and one of the most ambitious teams out there working with it – SketchFactor sat down for some serious in-depth interviews with the folks behind the Halo2CE project. NiTrOuSoXiDe, Mrs. Doublefire, Farsight, Kornman00, JamesD, Stefander, Kerr Halla, Supreme Taco, ZexGX, and rec0 all talk about…

N1NJ4 posted a link on our forum to a movie made by Uber Hax0r, to celebrate the HBO Forerunners Clan. The second half is pretty… odd. Worth watching, if only to see how far you can actually push your friends on XBL. WMP9 format, 24.5 mb. Be gentle, it’s being hosted on N1NJ4’s school connection.…

In the last couple of days, Walshicus has colored the second and third tablets from the Covenant Hall of Murals (see this news post for more details; we’ve added links to our Hall of Murals page. Pretty slick-looking!

Captain Spark continues to collect large quantities of Halo 2 dialogue – he’s posted another batch on his website (zip file, 1.3 mb). You can see the individual snippets in our Dialogue Databank, as well. Some pretty funny ones in there this time!

Hikaru-119 posted a note about Project ODST – there are a few more pictures up on the website, showing some of the filming sites and props.

mfsamuel posted a link to his MyHalo2Stats.com website, another option for folks looking to save their XBL stats on the web. Check it out! (Izual posted this a couple of weeks ago, but nobody noticed.)

Hypnotoad put together a chart showing what’s needed, melee-wise, to kill your opponent in multiplayer, depending on what you’re holding in your hand and how you’re moving. That first chart was updated – and augmented with another way of looking at the data – in this forum post, so if you’re going to view only…

Interesting. MereCatfish posted a note on the Gearbox forums announcing that the HBO-COERCE HCE server is back online. Looks like it’s being hosted at Gameservers.net (a European gaming network) – ping times aren’t too bad from this side of the pond. The coerce.net website is still offline… but if you’ve been hankering for some good…

Sorry – I actually had to change the title, because using odd characters messes up the RSS feeds of this site, and then I get mail from the most rabid among you. Go read today’s One One Se7en to see what really bugs Stuntmutt.

The Fan Fiction section grew by another 13 pieces this morning – go see what the crew wrote over the weekend!

I… just don’t know what to say.

ICDedPpl sent in a link to The DePauw Online, the student newspaper of DePauw University, with an article written by a non-gamer about the popularity of Halo. You gotta wonder when the folks interviewed say stuff like ‘you can play 64-player games in Halo 2’…

1UP.com has posted its Essential 50 list, the top 50 Most Important Games Ever Made. Halo pulled in slot 50 (they’re listed in ‘roughly chronological order’ rather than ranking). Nice! We got this from Rampancy.net, who got it from Joystiq.

In remembrance of last year’s Wardrobe Malfunction during the Superbowl, a new episode of Sector 7’s Marines comic takes some precautions. Thanks, Wolfy.