Year: 2005

That Weasel points out that although the Grand Finale Awards Ceremony for Rockets on Prisoner is still in production, a ‘pre-release segment of the ceremony’ has been released. Comes in four flavors, two sizes each for WMP9 and QuickTime. Download it, and see who won the Award for Best Trailer!

The next step in montages – now we have trailers for upcoming montages at the beginning. I’m just waiting for the animated popcorn and candy clip… over at Halo2Forum.com, you can download UnReal’s first montage (lots of sniping, lots of sticking), and it comes with a trailer for Halzred’s Montage 3 tacked onto the front.…

Another machinima project is recruiting – go visit The Ark if you’re interested in helping out. They’ve got a script for episode one posted, if you want to see what you’d be getting into.

Wow. Jamie98s has put up a bunch of movies over the last four months – but this one might be my favorite. It’s called Metal Gear Solid, and it’s (as might be expected) a story starring Solid Snake, from the MGS series. Jamie’s plot description: “Solid Snake is deployed to a secret miltary base to…

Elnea has been sketching up a storm since the data loss suffered by Red vs Blue a couple of days ago – there are two new sketches (one is an early version of a piece of artwork already in the collection, the other is crash-related)… and while you’re there, there’s couple of new avatars at…

Sith went through the current playlists, and broke out the weightings for maps and gametypes on each one. Interesting data!

Gamespot has put up a new article on the Best Launch Titles of all time – and Halo makes the list (at number 5). They had really nice things to say about the game:With Halo, [Bungie] accomplished the rarest of feats: It broke through to a new audience in the biggest way imaginable and set…

So last night, Ducain pointed out a post he’d made over at High Impact Halo, giving props to WLT, a trickster who managed to put not one, but TWO hogs on top of one of the Blue Beam towers in the level Halo… along with himself. It’s one of those totally useless, totally amazing tricks…

Pinkuh’s new comic, Lost the Lead, has a promo comic up in our forum now. (The full site is still waiting for the coding to be finished.) Go read!

A couple of new pieces over at MLGPro.com – there’s an article on Storm Ventures, an up-and-coming team with promise, and a gallery full of pics from MLG Seattle. Good stuff! Thanks, 3Suns.

Gamespot says the rumor that Halo 3 will be shown to the public at X05 in Amsterdam next week is false. (Whoa, what a surprise.) I suppose I’m glad they came to that conclusion – but I’m really only posting this so folks can stop telling us they said this. It ain’t announced until it’s…

This Spartan Life has added another video blog entry – it’s a dispatch from the Bodyguard Competition (part 1, actually). During the competition to see who’ll make the best bodyguard, the cameraman has a really hard time staying alive – you gotta wonder about a bunch of applicants for a bodyguard position have trouble telling…

DOH! Webshift gently reminded me (via the forum) that while I’d updated the reordered I Love Bees page yesterday to include the last three chapters, I’d forgotten to make a news post about it. Go grab the end of the story! And feel free to use that forum thread to let Webshift know what you…

Bungie’s Weekly Update is now posted, and the majority is spent discussing a new playlist coming in a few weeks – it’ll be known as Team Hardcore, and it will be significantly more difficult than anything currently on Matchmaking. (Go read the update for full details.) There are also small tidbits about other stuff, and…

The time has come – we’re officially announcing this year’s 343 Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkin carving contest. The prize list is rather substantial, though I haven’t found the time to sort out what’s going in which goodie bag, so as of now, I can’t tell you who gets what… but rest assured that there’s some…

Captain Spark released another 22 dialogue snippets today – you can grab them from his website, or you can browse them in the Dialogue Databank. Some pretty funny ones in this batch!

There’s still time to get entries in for the 117 Words contest being run by Stuntmutt and Jillybean – the contest ends today! (No whining about needing more time, either – 117 words isn’t very much at all, you can write them over lunch.)

Now, I’m not sayin’ that Stuntmutt was taking a direct shot at me with today’s One One Se7en… well, I know he wasn’t, cause I try not to even PICK UP the sniper rifle, but just in case… phpthbbbb.

Teamcoltra wrote to point out Geeks Paradox, with a collection of Halo 2 Game vids for download. They’re poppin’ up everywhere…

That Weasel posted a note about a new TWTv sub-site – MODex, a group dedicated to eploring mods (for HaloCE, it looks like). Check ’em out.