Year: 2005

Fifteen new stories up in the Fan Fiction section – should give you some nice weekend reading!

Today’s the day for Sponsors vs Freeloaders, I think. Last night, the trailer for Silver Stars/Purple Hearts was released – if you haven’t grabbed it yet, hang tight. They’ve also just released Episode 8 of Sponsors vs Freeloaders – and WOW. GREAT cinematography, great effects (the coolest one is something you might not even notice…

Halo Babies has posted its final RvB runner-up strip today – I’m thinking mind-altering substances were involved. Thanks, mrsmiley.

Wow. Dunno if this is gonna hold up, over time… but over at the Gearbox Forums, TheGhost has created a RAR file containing the HaloCE complete tagset – giving you “access to every biped, vehicle, scenery item, sky, SP tag, and ALL SP AND MP SCENARIO FILES.” It’s a huge package – 362 mb compressed,…

Sevenar Productions and Panda Productions (groups that make up a large chunk of the Sponsors vs Freeloaders crew) have teamed up to create a new, fusion machinima; Silver Stars/Purple Hearts is a blend of Halo CE and EA’s The Sims 2, and tells the story of Project ATHENA, a nearly all-woman team of enhanced SPARTANS.…

DOH! This was posted last night, I put it aside to add to the news today… then spaced completely. AutoDr created an energy sword from plexiglass and steel, and man, is it pretty! He’s wondering whether there would be a market for these if he made more… hmm. There’s always the Microsoft IP issue to…

We’ve got two new images for you today from Theo Prins – “Into the Blue” is an interpretation of a Helljumper (funky mask!), and “Master Dodge” came from the ending of the E3 2003 trailer – originally it was going to contain the ghost the MC jumped out of, but Theo changed his mind. (Interesting,…

Narcogen seems to be fed up with the ‘when it’s ready’ line (with reference to when a given Halo will ship) – he wrote a long rant about the subject over at Rampancy.net. The bottom line (which I think most of us can agree with) is that Bungie’s games are “ready when they need to…

The Rockets on Prisoner pre-release schedule continues – yesterday, Best Montage nominees (and the winner) were announced… and today, the first Main Category pre-release was posted – best Documentary. Go grab a copy and check out both the nominees – and the winner!

There’s news all over the net about the Peter Jackson/Halo situation. Tempus Fugit found a small video clip (WMP9, 12 mb) where Jackson, at X05, made a statement about how excited he is, over at Jeuxfrance.com. Spitvalve scanned the front page of the Dominion Post, Wellington’s biggest newspaper, where the Master Chief takes up a…

Wow. So for those who didn’t notice, the internet broke yesterday. Two of the big boys (Cogent and Level 3) had a falling-out… and much traffic was blocked from getting where it needed to get. If you want to know more about this situation, you can read this Slashdot article (and its comments). Some people…

The Register has a slightly different spin on the ‘Peter Jackson as Exec Producer’ news than other sites have shown so far – they’re wondering if Jackson isn’t just window dressing, ‘more for the poster than the creative input’. While it’s possible that this might have been on Microsoft’s mind, there are a few things…

Halo Underground has posted notes about a couple of FarCry: Instincts maps – Beaver Creek, and now Backwash. There aren’t any screenshots, but there is info in the Backwash post about how to connect and download the map. If you’re playing FarCry – give it a look! Thanks, Rapter Payne.

Okay, this is just scary. Joystiq has a story about a t-shirt design submitted to a T-shirt-selling website that combines Hello Kitty with the Master Chief. (This has been done before, I suppose – there was a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phunnies entry like this, now sadly offline – but this is something you wear.) We’ll see…

Chris Hughes is a computer graphics artist who came to Bungie with the Oni team, and stuck around to work on a little game called Halo. He left before Halo 2 development kicked in, and did a bunch of work for Wideload, on Stubbs the Zombie. He’s recently put up a personal website, showing off…

What to do when you’re not betraying teammates with a rocket launcher? Check today’s One One Se7en for a suggestion.

Dyslexia, over at MLGPro.com, has written up an endorsement of the upcoming Team Hardcore playlist that Bungie will introduce to XBL Matchmaking later this month. He explains why it’s a good thing, and who will benefit from it, and although I STILL don’t like MLG’s use of the word ‘balanced’ (I think they mean ‘uniform’),…