Year: 2005

Joshua Rennert posted a note on our forum about a sequel he and the Tricking IT crew are working on; working title is Beach of the Dead 2, though that won’t be the release title. The trailer, made by ipushmycar, is short (48 seconds) but pretty sweet; high and low resolutin WMP9 links are in…

Blackstar’s sent along another Calvin and Halo for your entertainment today – having dealt with exactly this sort of kid logic myself, I was tickled. Check it out.

According to this Reuters article, Halo 2 hit 6.4 million in sales worldwide today. (This seems silly; the article was posted at 4:30 am PT Thursday, and states that Microsoft ‘said [this] on Thursday’ – hopefully they meant Wednesday, or MS PR folks are working REALLY odd hours.) If this number is accurate, it means…

Gossip tossed us a link to the Amazon Web Services Blog, and an interview with Eric Neustadter, of the Xbox Live team, at the Amazon DevCon. Gossip characterized this as ‘dry’ – I’d have to agree. There ARE some interesting facts in it, though – Xbox Live increased some of its systems by a factor…

Apparently, you can look at the Master Chief while preparing to play Half-Life 2 – there’s a Halo 2 skin for Steam. (A screenshot is here.) Thanks, Samir Patel.

Stuntmutt has put up a new batch of Guest One One Se7en strips on his blog – if you feel like you’re not getting enough corn with the 3-a-week diet here, go visit and see what others are creating! (He also whipped out a nice ‘thank-you’ post to Zzombie13, the guest artist who helped out…

Whoa. Greg Hill and his brothers were visiting Detroit recently, staying close to the Canadian side of town (Windsor Canada is right on the other side of the river). He saw a building he HAD to take a picture of. Look familiar? (He made it easy for you, just in case it’s not ringing any…

3Suns noticed a whole bunch of content over at the Geezer Gamers’ site, related to the recent Halo Humpday Challenge they participated in. They’re all linked from the current front page, but in case things change, here’s what we’ve got:Bungie Challenge: Geezer Point of ViewVideo from the Humpday Challenge (great stuff – but the big…

Gamefly, a video game rental company, has posted the top video game rentals for 2004 – Halo 2 was 4th, following Ninja Gaiden (released March 2), Grand Theft Auto (released October 25), and Fable (released September 14). They’re also taking votes for your favorite games for the 2nd Annual Q Awards (you have to join…

Weird – Halo 2 had fallen off the charts in the UK, according to ELSPA (the marketing firm who keeps track of game sales there) – but this week jumped from 27th to 13th, as described by PC Pro. Wonder what caused the surge?

Xtournaments has opened neXtournaments, a site devoted to online Halo 2 tournaments held over XBConnect. There are two types of tourneys – one is free, the other has an entrance fee (but also cash prizes). Go read more details on either website! Thanks, Sick Vic.

Namemad whipped up a Flash-based stop-motion vid showing the MC bustin’ some moves to Jay-Z and Linkin Park. Get down.

The HBO Lekgolos clan is on a movie-making tear; in short order, two films have popped up. The first was done by Arashi90 and Blackstar, and features nice gameplay, awesome production values, and crystal-clear video; it’s a blood-pumper to get people interested in playing this clan. It’s being hosted by both KP’s Boomerica.com and Verdafolio’s…

We’d like to point out that today’s One One Se7en in no way represents the actual actions or activities of anyone here at HBO.

There are a couple of upcoming events at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame at Seattle Center of interest to Halo fans; both involve author Eric Nylund. On January 25th (that’s next Tuesday), at 7 pm, he’ll be reading and signing books with his wife, Syne Mitchell. Admission is free. In February and…

22 new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. Old faces, new faces… they’re all writing. Go read.

Another IGN article – their 2004 Readers’ Choice results are up. The fans picked the same things that the editors picked, with one Halo-related exception; Bungie.net lost out to Fable for ‘Most Innovative Design’. Thanks again, John Rivas. Update: Alerus points out that there was one other change with respect to the Editors’ awards; the…

Tons of articles out there right now about the NPD 2004 numbers (the NPD Group keeps track of gaming sales, and yesterday released their top 10 game sellers in 2004 list) – first one I saw (and one with a nice Halo slant, to boot) was at MLGPro.com; thanks, Dolbex. Halo 2 sold more units…

mrsmiley and Master Chief headed to New York recently for a holiday… and came back with pictures. Just thinking about what was needed for the photography should bring a smile to your face.

Seiru found a mini Master Chief game at Crimson Edge – it’s only in the very beginning stages, but it looks pretty nice! Check it out.