Year: 2005

The New York Times has an article (registration required, don’t forget about bugmenot.com) on the genre-melding of movies and video games, and it focuses on Peter Jackson as one of the prime players that is bringing cinematics to games, rather than the other way around. Halo, of course, is mentioned (although King Kong plays a…

Episode 10, the season finale of the Outpost Coagulation machinima series, has been posted over at TreeSkunk Productions. (If you’re having trouble finding them, trigger119 published direct links in this forum post (for the low-res) and this post (for the high-res). A cliffhanger…

c0ld Vengeance found a mod for Halo 2 that changes all enemy resources to UNSC resources – so that you’re fighting marines, Pelicans, hogs and tanks. He put up a short vid showing a fun encounter – check it out! (The forum post contains a link to the mod as well, if you want to…

The Rockets on Prisoner 2005 Awards are nearly done – all of the winners have now been announced (you can find the full list on the RoP website, and at some point, an enormous (1 hour, 22 minutes) video containing the entire ceremony will be up. Congrats to all the winners!

The latest episode (episode 4) of the Halo Nation podcast has been posted – 45 minutes, 50 mb. From their description: “We get to play some Xbox 360 games, Every 10 Minutes Tips, Halo-isms, Girls of Xbox Live, and no singing (we promise)…” Thanks, animefx.

KP has written up a rather comprehensive guide for IRC n00bs; if you would LIKE to hang out and chat with HBO regulars, but aren’t sure how to go about it… go read this page. (It’s aimed mostly at Windows-based chat clients… but the general ideas work fine with Mac clients, too. We’ll be linking…

QuackJAG put together a great video for Elnea’s ‘Blow Boys Away’ music parody (first mentioned here), and Elnea mentioned it in her Red vs Blue journal (RvB membership required). The thing is, it’s hosted at YouTube, in small, Flash-only format, which seemed… belittling. So I offered to provide space for a larger version, and QuackJAG…

A RATING TEN sent us word that he’d finished his montage, and that he had enough bandwidth left this month to serve it himself. The high-res version is six and a half minutes long, 640×480, in MPEG2 format, and weighs in at 246 mb. (There’s a lower-res version available on the downloads page – 32…

Red vs Blue Episode 65, ‘Looking for Group’, was released last night for sponsors (which means it’ll be available for the masses by tomorrow sometime). Clearly, Caboose is a closet RPG player. And Simmons is… well, pretty dumb. Props to sarge, for the best epithet of the week (“Great sodium chloride!”). If you’re a sponsor,…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a London-based tournament to be held over Xbox Live – it took place on Friday, and the winning team was [TmC]. Thanks to [TmC]’s Samscrim for letting us know!

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dennis McCauley wrote a column for tech.life@play called ‘Xbox Hitting the road’. (You have to sign in to read it in its original location, so you might as well grab it from a syndicated location, instead – The Wichita Eagle is running it, for example.) It’s taking a look at the run…

This Spartan Life has updated with a new video blog entry – blog 04 continues to chronicle the Bodyguard Competition. Some nice camera angles (I’m impressed with how careful the competitors are to not kill the camera people); I’m guessing he’s getting closer to picking a winner. QuickTime (13.8 mb) or WMP9 (10.5 mb) formats.…

There’s a nice interview with Matt Soell over at Gaming Nexus – he talks about Stubbs the Zombie, and though much of the info is already out there, there are a few new and interesting questions. Go read! Thanks, Rampancy.net.

The movie trifecta is completed with a high-res version of one of the high-speed runs we mentioned a couple of days ago. I wished for higher quality, Cody Miller answered me. You can grab a 640×480 QuickTime (82.5 mb) of Jeff’s Cairo Station run from our server; the original source was VHS tape, so it’s…

Another recent submission to the MPRRS that the reviewers gave their thumbs-up to was the HALO 2: Mombasa trailer. This is a trailer for the second installment of Clan Dyslexia’s re-enactment of the Halo 2 story (the first installment was mentioned here, here, and here), and aside from being too dark in places, is a…

Halzred submitted his latest montage to the MPRRS; he didn’t want hosting (it’s already being hosted over at Halo2forum.com – WMP9, 64.9 mb), but it passed with a pretty high score, and we always try to make hosted movies available to as many people as possible… so I’m putting up a QuickTime version (65.9 mb)…

Bungie’s Weekly Update is up – and while there’s nothing ground-breaking in there, it’s a nice read. Small details about the DoA pics (they’re real, in case you doubted), teasers about the Xbox360 and its capabilities with respect to Halo and Halo 2, cool numbers about the Fight the Flood campaign, and a funky Mister…