Year: 2005

Team Sexy put together a 15-minute-long Halo 2 opening night coverage video (talking to folks waiting for the game, and so on) – they’ve been held up on release because of some bandwidth issues, but have decided not to wait any longer anyway. They’ve got a 5 gb/day limit for downloads – for a 70…

Red vs Blue has added a new hoodie to their store – a Sarge hoodie, red and everything. It’s nowhere as cool as the olive Sarge T I bought from the now-defunct w00twear that Gus ran until the server blew up… but it’s warmer than the similarly-colored Sarge T that the RvB store sells, so…

Over at Rampancy.net, the Halo 2 Impressions series continues with a look at The Arbiter. There’s the requisite look at the level itself – but also a look at the shift in game focus at this point, and how it may or may not affect you. As always, thoughtful and well-written.

Yaksha posted a small (3.1 mb) film on our forum, a trailer for ano upcoming machinima called ‘Bob the Engineer’. It’s 1:28 long, in WMP9 format. I’m not sure how long his bandwidth will hold out, so we’ve provided mirrors – for the original file and a QuickTime version (3.9 mb).

Wow… I’d spent the entire day on a plane yesterday, and the evening with my family; I figured when I got in this morning, I’d be swamped with stuff to post… but the mailbox was almost empty! I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… but let’s start going through what…

Red vs Blue’s Episode 47 has been posted on their website for Sponsors – a bit over 5 and a half minutes of plotting and scheming, and playing Volleybomb, or something. As usual, it will be available for the masses tomorrow, or Monday at the latest. (And as usual, we will not be making a…

Chronox wrote to say that a German Halo 2 level transcript is now posted at Halo Orbit. If you can read German, go check it out!

Last month, IGN posted their Xbox Best of 2004 Awards – yesterday, they put up their Overall Best of 2004 awards (all platforms). Halo 2 took Best Multiplayer, and was Runner-Up for best First Person Shooter and Best Use of Sound. Thanks to many – John Rivas (who found it suspicious that the PS2 version…

First piece for the new year from Tina Leyk… and wow, it’s a doozy. She wasn’t completely happy with this one, and says she’ll be using this subject more often in the future… but I love him. (Minor Halo 2 spoilers ahead.)

There’s a singles/doubles tourney in West Chester, Ohio, next week – visit Game Junkie’s page for details. Thanks again, R.net.

Halo Babies points out one of the lesser-known perils of Xbox Live in their most recent comic. Thanks, Rampancy.net.

The Weekly What’s Update has been posted to Bungie.net. The top story? Cheaters are, in fact, being dealt with. What more can I say? Go read it.

Stuntmutt gives us an inside view to what Truth really sounds like, when he’s not speaking for the benefit of the court reporters, in today’s One One Se7en. I think he needs one of those energy beams. Would save us all a lot of trouble.

Eighteen pieces added to the Fan Fiction section today – should keep the readers busy for a little bit.

For a couple of months, forum regular Hikaru-119 has been talking about an ambitious endeavor called Project: ODST; it’s to be a long (an hour or so) real-action movie based on Halo. Today, halochat posted on our forum that a website for this project is now available. (There are a variety of links to get…

In case you didn’t feel there was enough conflict in your life, Bungie increased the number of debate threads on their ‘Voting Booth’ forum. Go duke it out with other Halo fans!

There are a bunch of new Wallpapers up over at Bungie.net – looks like the first public work of AGDTinMan, and I gotta say, I’m looking forward to more. Go check ’em out! Update: Oops, looks like I misstated TinMan’s contributions – Shishka set me straight.

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted the Bungie team against the Geezer Gamers – it was a pretty close match. You can read the details on Bungie’s site – or at GeezerGamers (thanks, 3Suns).

IGN put up ‘The Future of Game Design, Part 1’ – a look at where things should be going. Halo 2 is held up several times as what’s right today… as well as what’s wrong. Thanks, 3Suns.

Dolbex writes that the MLGPro.com website has gotten over its registration glitches – if you wanted to register, but couldn’t, go now! There’s other fun stuff there, as well: they’ve had over 100 rooms registered for the Washington event this weekend, and they’re having a new contest – make a cool fan video, and you…