Year: 2005

TalkXbox continues their weekly strategy guides – this one covers Coagulation Assault. Thanks, as usual, to 3Suns.

Captain Spark has recorded another several dozen dialogue snippets, this time all Sargeant Stacker. You can find them on his website, in a zip archive (link is in his forum post), or in our Halo 2 Dialogue Databank, individually. Man, that Sarge has a way with words…

Stuntmutt takes a look at Wideload’s first Halo-based offering in today’s One One Se7en.

Fourteen new entries in the Fan Fiction database today – busy writers over the weekend! Go read.

MrJukes has put up a pair of ‘Mix’ videos containing jumps he missed during his first go-round – new stuff from Ascension, Foundation, Zanzibar, Beaver Creek, Coagulation, Lockout, and Ivory Tower. Go check ’em out!

I was pretty sure one of these was already posted… but maybe not. Over at Red vs Blue, there are two new Sponsors-only vids; a third clip shown at Barenaked Ladies concerts last summer (‘Sublime’), and a look at Red vs Blue in days gone by released on an EGM cover disc at one point.…

The C&C Generals TC Halogen has another update on its website – newly-skinned Warthogs, and a Wallpaper (busy, but cool to look at). Go check it out!

Xbox.com is hosting the 2004 Xbox Live Awards, and accepting votes for nominations in 10 categories. Halo 2 is up for Toughest Map, Hottest Ride, Best Game Character, and Best Live Peripheral. Check out the page to find out how to vote. Thanks, World War Seven.

Khas writes to tell us that there’s a press release for ‘Open Rebellion’, a total conversion mod that wil convert all single player maps to an ‘Elite’ campaign for Mac Halo (and Halo PC), over at Macologist. There’s also a report at Inside Mac Games, and an official forum set up by the team. Check…

Xbox Solution just reviewed the Plantronics Halo 2 headset. They gave it an 8/10, mostly because it’s expensive – they liked it, otherwise.

The Cutscene Library is now fully complete for Halo 2, with the inclusion, today, of the credits, as well as a separate download for just the small cinematic at the end of the credits. (The credits are available in printed form, in the Manual PDF, from either Bungie.net or Xbox.com, if you don’t want to…

Marty O’Donnell and Jay Weinland are speaking about Audio Production for Halo 2 at the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference. A promotional flyer for the conference contained a short interview with Marty – and thesoffish was kind enough to transcribe it on our forum.

Red vs Blue Episode 46 has been posted for Sponsors – 60 mb of cold fission and salsa music, and a return of an old friend. (It looks, from recent entry in Burnie’s journal, that they’re back on track for a one-a-week release for the next few episodes.) Free versions should be available tomorrow.

A couple of months ago, mnemesis got the chance to ask Joe Staten a few questions about some of the thornier mysteries in the Haloverse. (Well, to be honest, he cornered Joe at a party, and wouldn’t let him leave for the restroom without answering some stuff. I’m not sure I was supposed to tell…

Looks like we slipped up – we’d been following w00tness, a webcomic with Halo ties, for a while in November. Starting in December, a new chapter began – and 19 new comics have been posted since then. Thanks to Duo, for mentioning it. (The latest one has some pretty nice artwork…)

Whoa. IceWeasel listened to a section of the Whisper in the Storm cutscene that sounded odd to him… so he isolated it, sped it up, and reversed it – and found a rather odd prayer:”I wander the earth. I seek your forgiveness for my horrible crimes against God. Amen . I wish to seek death,…

The Cutscene Library grows with the inclusion of the final Halo 2 scene today; the failsafes of the system are revealed. We have one more release for you – the credits, a rather large (and largely uninteresting to most) vid… but we’ll release the small bit of story at the end as a separate download,…

Yet another Best of the Year award for Bungie – 1Up (the website for EGM, XBN, and CGW magazines, among others) posted their Readers Choice Awards, and Halo 2 took Best Online/Multiplayer, and Best Game of the Year. I got this one from Frankie himself.

Bungie has posted the next in its ongoing series of Weekly What’s Updates at Bungie.net. A long answer to the ‘why is cheating so rampant?’ question (but one that probably won’t assuage the most angry among the players), along with a bunch of other stuff. One rumor we neglected to report this week was that…

Took a little while… but I’ve finally found time to clear out the Miscellaneous Art queue. 20 new items, dating back about 3 weeks. Some of everything – sketches, paintings, digital, traditional, you name it. Go look.