Year: 2005

Wow, very cool. This is the first clip I’ve seen of the Video Games Live production of the Halo music – visit this page, as of right now it’s the first ‘Live Performance’ (a few down from the top). Short film, but makes me want to see that show! Thanks to Schedonnardus for the heads-up.

I hesitate to post this, because the LAST new website Bungie touted went offline for bandwidth overages within a few hours… but hey, they’re still up now. Halo Movie Online was set up to discuss ‘the latest rumors and facts as they come forward’ about the Halo movie. (Here’s hoping all the ‘who do YOU…

Sponsors vs Freeloaders Episode 8 will be coming out a bit over a week – but they’ve posted a teaser to whet your appetite. (If you haven’t seen this series, you really should watch the later episodes – the actual storyline kicks off around episode 5, and since then they’ve been getting better and better.)…

The re-ordered I Love Bees files continue in their release schedule – episodes 5 and 6 are now available. All of the files so far have been mp3-encoded WAV files… but apparently, some folks have had trouble with them, so we’re also making straight MP3 versions available as well. (If you aren’t having trouble with…

Coot dropped us a line about an upcoming Halo 2 Jump Tournament – rules and prizes can be found in this thread on the High Impact Halo forum. Signups close on October 15, so get jumping!

UNSCDF wanted folks to take a look at his website – he and M6D have been working on characterizing the weapons in Halo and Halo 2. It’s a freewebs site, so be gentle.

XerxdeeJ wrote with a weekly update for his Tied the Leader blog. There’s a rant against a modder (who was banned about an hour after the game in question was played), an opportunity to buy a rubber bracelet for a worthy cause, a great recounting of a very personal battle, and a hilarious poster stolen…

For the 8 million people mailing us about the OrigenXbox360.com website… thanks. You can stop now. This has nothing to do with Halo (yeah, I know, it’s another ARG, but it’s a bit wider this time than the Halo franchise), and it seems to be a Europe-only promotion (that is, there is no American flag…

Bizarre – IN-FUSIO, a French mobile-games maker, has made a deal with Microsoft giving them rights to make mobile games (and other products, like ringtones) based on the game. Ringtones, I can understand… but mobile games based on Halo? What, like Blood Covenant? (Blood Covenant is fan-made, and has nothing to do with In-Fusio… it’s…

MLGPro.com has posted a photo essay as a retrospective of their first full Halo 2 season of play. Go put faces to names! Thanks, 3Suns.

Wow, busy morning – lots of Halo news has come in, without being posted. Sorry. First up – it’s podcast day, i guess. Podtacular! has posted episode 10 – 1:24 (that’s hours:minutes, not minutes:seconds), 31 mb large (map focus is Terminal), and H=MC2 has posted episode 3 – 38 minutes long, 17.4 mb, highlight is…

After watching the most recent episodes of Sponsors vs Freeloaders, Elnea was inspired to create a piece of fan art illustrating a scene in Episode 7. We’ve added it to her art collection here. As she says, this is “fan art of a fan series about a fan series about a video game” – shades…

We continue with the release of the remixed I Love Bees audio files Webshift has put together; Episodes 3 and 4 are now available for download. Relive last summer’s magic!

A group called Silhouette-Robin Productions recently came to our attention when the trailer for ArcXnuS, the “first full length halo 2 machinima trilogy” (their description), passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System. They weren’t looking for hosting, just feedback – it’s a short trailer, but the reviewers liked the way it told its story. Go…

If you thought One One Se7en was ALREADY too full of puns, stay far, far away from today’s comic. It’s like someone blew up a fusion core that was standing next to a whole TEAM of puns.

I’m announcing this now, because I want to make sure I don’t let it slip entirely – but the full details haven’t been worked out yet (mostly prizes). Last year, we held a pumpkin-carving contest – it went really well, and folks wanted us to do it again. So we’re doing it again. The rules…

Ten new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this morning. Read.

Dustin wrote to tell us about Splode, a new apparel site that caters to gamers; one of their offerings is directly Halo-related. They’re also offering an HBO-only discount; enter ‘hbo1′ (no quotes, and it’s case-sensitive) in the promotion code box, and you’ll receive 15% off that item. Go check ’em out!

Three new movies for download over at Halo2Forum.com – two montage trailers, one full montage. ArKiVe’s Montage 2 Trailer (19.1 mb) is almost all snipes, with an occasional sticky or beatdown. Titan VIII’s Montage 4 Preview (43.7 mb) is heavy on the BR action. And Fyler’s First Montage (91.7 mb) is full of all sorts…

Red vs Blue Episode 62, ‘Lost in Triangulation’, was a little late in coming this week (congratulations, Geoff!), but it’s here now for sponsors, and should be up in the not-too-distant future for the masses. Almost 6 minutes of RvB goodness, this one follows the three evolving storylines of season 4 – Sarge’s megalomaniacism, the…