Year: 2005

Hmm… is disappointment a natural consequence of rational competition? Are we only happy when we win? nof looks at how the impersonal and implacable matchmaking system drives us to be who we don’t like. (Something to remember: matchmaking attempts to pit you against those of equal skill level. This means, if it’s working properly, that…

Yesterday, we pointed out that Frankie had hinted that some of the Swahili announcements, audible on the Outskirts level, might contain material of interest to fans. Last night, rehema popped onto our forum, and with some file help from m32, was able to listen to the clips – and translate them. We’ve added all 7…

Two bits over at Halo Babies this morning… there’s your standard Friday strip, ‘Fear of Change’ – which takes a light-hearted shot at fans and their need for instant gratification – and a great interview with Matt Soell, former Community Guy at Bungie and now working at Wideload Games. Matt’s always had a way with…

Front-page this morning on Variety.com (login required, check the last entry at bugmenot.com) is a story called ‘Halo, Hollywood’… Looks like Microsoft has hired screenwriter Alex Garland to adapt the games into a movie – they’ve signed a ‘million-dollar-deal’ with him. Apparently, the buzz is that Microsoft (and Bungie) won’t be involved beyond the script…

Jump Tactics, the clan behind a pretty cool movie we mentioned recently, has launched its website. You can read the PR stuff on our forum, or just go visit the site. Downloads require registration (free) – they’ve got a couple of new movies up. Go check out the jumping action!

Chester gets his butt kicked a lot. Enough that he decided to make a movie about it. The original version is a 23 mb .AVI that doesn’t show up at all on a mac. (Work in Windows Media Player on a PC, though.) The Se7enth Prophet whipped him up a WMP9 version – half the…

Speaks for itself. Thanks, Mr.Cynical.

Holy crud. Bungie got tired of getting whupped in their Halo Humpday Challenges… so they picked on a team of non-computer geeks. The Discovery Channel crew accepted the challenge… and whupped their butts. (Well, okay, the games were close. But Discovery Channel took all three.) OUCH! (They even had a pair of Clan PMS filling…

Dolbex, in an attempt to coopt our front page, sends along the THIRD piece of MLG news for the day; The MLG Houston tournament dates have changed (it will now take place on March 11-13, with registration opening soon), and the MLG San Francisco event (February 26th and 27th) has opened its doors for registration.…

Whoa. A month ago ZexGX posted a bunch of sounds collected on Outskirts; public service announcements, playing on loudspeakers in Swahili. He was asking for translation help. (He wasn’t the first to find these – but as far as I know, this was the first time they were made available as recordings.) Nobody was able…

The Se7enth Prophet found a tab for Incubus’ Follow on powertabs.net, and transcribed it on our forum. (The original is a Power Tab Editor file.) If you’re a guitar player, give this a shot! Update: He’s added the Halo and Halo 2 themes, and Blow Me Away from Breaking Benjamin.

Yesterday, Captain Spark released 44 new dialogue snippets on his website; it’s a 2 mb zip download to get them all. A day before that, we got mail from KaworuNagisa, containing 19 new snippets of his own – most of them from the Prophet Regret (including his sermon, in pieces). Some really good stuff here;…

Jumping vids seem to be all the rage these days. Synide’s put together a nice one for MLGPro.com; if you’re a Video On Demand subscriber, you can watch a direct stream of this, and if you’re not, just connect to MLG-TV and wait for it to come around in the rotation. (It’s not ALL jumping;…

Today’s Calvin and Halo takes a look at the more mature gamer… and what might happen occasionally on XBL.

Thanks to Cody Cress, who pointed out that there is a new jump session at http://www.jukesbox.com/. This one focuses on slide jumping… wow. 9.5 mb, WMP9 format. Go watch. And come back to this news post later today.

The stats analysis options continue to improve – Tom Mathews has upgraded his Halo 2 Statistics Browser (screenshots show how powerful this is – here and here).

Black Six pointed out that the Bungie Store is having a closeout sale on a number of items – visit if you want stuff at reduced prices. (The Titanium Eclipse Tumbler is under $10 now. Not bad!)

GRAH! I’m an idiot. Yesterday’s One One Se7en followed Tuesday’s Outskirts on Legendary Walkthrough release SO beautifully… but I forgot to post it on time. Wow – it’s been a while since i screwed THAT up. Go read it now, though. It’s funny.