Year: 2005

There’s a bunch of Halo 2 news that popped up last night, too… again, I doubt this is a comprehensive list, but it should lighten the mailbox just a little.MLG posted a writeup of the DC event that took place last weekend; thanks to Dyslexia for the text, and Dolbex for the heads-up. This contains…

Man… you can’t take a night off around here, things just move too fast. Okay, while I was sleeping (and other stuff), we heard: Ripp0n’s Montage got another pair of direct download mirrors; a bunch of you have gotten it via BitTorrent, but for those who can’t, HALOChat has put it up via HTTP, and…

Okay, that’s it. We killed another account with Ripp0n’s Montage… so I’m doing what I should have done at the start… and putting up a BitTorrent seed for it. If you wanted to get this earlier today, and couldn’t… get it now.

Bizarre. SirDougOfUsbek made a film in which one of his party members just… fell asleep during gameplay. Proximity voice let everyone nearby hear the guy snoring… they messed with him for a while. Mantis posted a link on our forum; nof has mirrored a director’s cut (somewhat longer). Take this as a warning; fall asleep…

Tourney in Wayne, NJ, this coming Saturday; 2v2 Team Slayer, $500 cash prize. Details in this forum post.

Holy… so there are tons of skill vids out there, and as I’ve said before, there’s ALWAYS someone better than you… but this was pretty amazing. Ripp0n posted a link to a montage vid he put together from his XBC (Halo 1) gameplay, and man… that guy can stick. There are some grenade throws that…

Whoa – more awards possibilities. The Game Audio Network Guild is hosting the 3rd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards, to be held this year on March 10 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Halo 2 is up for:Audio Of The YearBest Cinematic/Cut-Scene AudioMusic Of The YearBest Live Performance RecordingBest Interactive ScoreBest Original Instrumental Song (for…

Randomhero has started an Art contest; entries can be almost anything (as long as they haven’t been seen before), and you’ve got until Feburary 28 to submit. Full details, including a prize list, can be found at his 7th Column Group.

We mentioned a couple of movies yesterday that have updates in availability… lessee. DementedPuppy has posted a QuickTime version of Vehicular Pwnage; it’s about 17 mb. (The WMP9 version is, of course, still available.) And HALOChat has put up a copy of the DivX version of the Codex Trailer – it’s always good to have…

A week or so ago, we mentioned the Interactive Achievement Awards – they were given out yesterday. Halo brought home 4 of them; of the 6 it was nominated for, it missed only Game of the Year (to Half-Life 2) and Outstanding Achievement in Game Design (to Katamari Damacy). Not too shabby!

Last night, we posted links to a trailer for The Codex, a new machinima production. Their server melted. They moved to a new host, and the links are back online, with smaller downloads (which means more people can view them)… and to make sure it doesn’t happen again, we’ve tossed up mirrors on mythica.org and…

For those waiting breathlessly… it’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another chapter of Mike Miller’s Legendary Walkthrough. This one looks at Outskirts… and the bane of Legendary in general – jackal snipers. Go read, go watch. (8 new movies.)

There’s another interesting article linked from Rampancy.net over on TheHollywoodReporter.com – it’s an interview with Henry Jenkins, a professor at MIT and a gamer. It brings up some pretty salient points about video game violence, and why we as a society seem to target it as a cure for our ills… and why this might…

Verdafolio posted a note on our forum a few days ago about a movie called ‘Vehicular Pwnage’ – it’s almost 20 mb, in WMP9 format, hosted over at DementedPuppy.com (thanks also to WhoKnew). This shows footage of the HBO Lekgolos doing some… well, check the title. A QuickTime version should be coming soon.

A couple of days ago, Xboxter posted a note on our forum – the links in that first post are funky, but the concept is there: he remixed the Last Spartan track off the Halo 2 Soundtrack to recreate the music you hear in the Return to Sender cutscene. I think he did a pretty…

The MLGPro website was having a bit of trouble yesterday… this news isn’t on their front page anywhere yet, but Gonzo sent us the details of last weekend’s MLG DC event; looks like OGRE 2 took the FFA competition, StK was first in the 4v4, and Walshy and OGRE 2 teamed up to win the…

And still more stats tools come on the scene. LunarShadow posted v1.06 of his Halo 2 Online (H2O) Stats reader – details and links are on our forum. (I couldn’t get it to work, but I didn’t check and make sure I had the latest versions of Microsoft’s Visual Basic stuff.) And Todd Houser pointed…

New tourneys – Slothboy mentioned one in Oregon; the Frag Fiesta will be taking place in Newberg (south of Portland) on February 12… and Kin Hulamm wrote to us about a 4v4 tourney to benefit UNICEF coming up in Greenbelt, Maryland on February 16; no website, but you can email him for details.

Jillybean let us know that there are a couple of small updates on the Halo Story page (one that mnemesis put up a few days ago, but we missed, another she posted last night)… go read the latest!