Year: 2005

A billion years ago (well, summer of 2004) High Impact Halo ran a contest to see who could get to the top of the beam towers on the level Halo with the most s7yle. The prizes for that contest took a little while (in the sense that dinosaurs ruled the earth for a little while)…

XerxdeeJ pointed out a new update on his Tied the Leader blog – a look back at the development of Halo 2 (and Halo before it) as community builders. Nice stuff!

The South Dakota State University Collegian has posted an Op-Ed piece written by HBO forumgoer Lady Rziha, addressing the complaints in the piece we mentioned a couple of weeks ago – another female perspective on the Halo-as-a-timesink phenomenon. Sometimes joining ’em (and beating ’em) is more fun than beating ’em.

Crossfire submitted Hell Quarters: Jonathan Quail to the MPRRS a couple of days ago – the reviewers loved it. (This version uses subtitles, because of a technical glitch during the creation – he’s hoping to submit a new version with voice acting once the problem is solved, and if he does, we’ll simply swap it…

One One Se7en episode 400 comes out today – and Stuntmutt burns through more than 2 months of material for this punchline. You better like it! (Congrats, Stunt, on 400 episodes!)

Foo Mo Jive writes to let us know that Podtacular 28 is out – tips and tactics for Headlong are the focus, but there’s plenty more. (They were recently written up in Tips and Tricks magazine, and scans can be found on their website.) Go look!

Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

Bill writes to let us know that DropShock episode 5 has been released. We’ve warned you before – we’ll do it again; this podcast definitely needs an MPAA warning. An hour and 12 minutes, 33 mb. Go listen.

Captain Spark says he’s done collecting Halo 2 dialogue – he’s released another 14 snippets that you can grab from his website, or from our Dialogue Databank, but at this point, he’s decided that the returns no longer justify the work. We’re gonna miss the submissions – go see what he brought you this time!

CSports.net sent us a collection of links to Halo articles they’ve published recently – there’s Present and Future Marine Weaponry, which compares the weaponry in Halo to the weaponry used by today’s US Marines, a Halo: Combat Evolved review, which reviews the original version of the game, and a study of the Halo: Race Clans…

After Stat wrote to point out a video over at Final Supremacy – it’s called ‘Four on One’, and is exactly that – a nicely filmed game of slayer on Lockout, where all of the Blue team except for one quit at the start. I’m not sure where it goes – the resolution isn’t nearly…

Tempus Fugit pointed out an article at TeamXbox about some of the content that will be available on the Live Marketplace when the 360 launches next week – and Red vs Blue videos are among the items you will be able to download. Nice!

Well, not really… Halo, the GAME, was available on the 9th or 10th of November, 2001… but you didn’t have anything to play it on until the 15th. So for all intents and purposes, today is Halo’s fourth birthday – and what a run it’s been!

SketchFactor posted an update in last week’s Weekly Update (scroll down to the bottom, look for ‘EDIT’) explaining that because of community outcry, they’re NOT going to pull the Big Team Battle playlist from XBL; it will remain, as it is today. (The unranked 16-player playlist they were talking about will not go up right…

Stuntmutt takes a look at the Halo script reviewed recently by Latino Review in today’s One One Se7en. This one was supposed to be worked out by c0ld vengeance… but he was otherwise occupied.

Thirteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. None of them were written by c0ld vengeance… but they COULD have been. Go read.

Foo Mo Jive points out that Episode 27 of Podtacular is up – it discusses upcoming playlist changes, the next tournament, and more. (We also missed Episode 26, Customs and Call-ins, which was released on Saturday.You’d think c0ld vengeance would have mentioned it…)

Thanks to Narcogen, who did a nice job over at Rampancy.net of rounding up some reviews of the Mac and PC versions of Stubbs the Zombie, Wideload’s Halo-engined game. Gamespy grabbed the PC version, Inside Mac Games and MacWorld tackled the Mac version, and Gaming Horizon did a more general (probably Xbox-based) review. c0ld vengeance…

Marty O’Donnell posted a pretty important note in the Marty Army 7th Column group – some folks have had trouble following this link, so I’m going to post the content here (with Marty’s permission):If you buy an Xbox 360 – DO NOT play your old Halo or Halo 2 games without getting the update from…

Cybrfrk spent the day at the Arizona State High School marching band competition yesterday (congrats to his son’s band, rated as Excellent at the event!). He was taking pictures with his digital camera when Sandra Day O’Connor High School, from Deer Valley, Arizona, took the field – they performed a program called ‘Halo 2’. He…