Year: 2005

A new Halo 2 podcast popped up yesterday; the Unofficial MLG PwnCast aims to help folks play Halo 2 better than they did before, and caters specifically to the MLG Customs community. The first episode is three and a half minutes long, weighs in at 4 mb, and introduces the ideas behind the show. Go…

Webshift’s re-ordering of the I Love Bees audio continues – Chapter 2 is now available for download. Go listen!

Tom’s Hardware Guide posted a nice article about Red vs Blue yesterday – it talks about how they got started, and where they might be going. Thanks to Spideroptics for the heads-up.

A week ago, I mentioned that the Miscellaneous Art and Wallpaper sections would be updated soon. The Misc Art queue was cleared out a couple of days after that – I’m finally making good on the Wallpaper promise. Go check the Wallpaper section – there are 28 new entries (many with variants – a total…

Coolness. IGN has posted a split-screen coop gameplay vid for Stubbs the Zombie; I see a rocket launcher, I see a jeep. The interface is wonderfully campy – this puppy looks to be FUN! Thanks, Rampancy.net.

DoctorEvol has been working on the LAN Locator system – you can find it linked off the Coconut Lounge, his website. Add in the details of your next lanfest, and folks will be able to search the database for it! (This is only as good as the data it collects – so if you like…

Webshift loved the I Love Bees game from last summer – but he was unhappy that the story was released in such a way that you occasionally learned things before they made sense, because the releases were character-based, instead of chronologically-based. He took it upon himself to remix the pieces, and we’ll be releasing them…

Our favorite CBS News gamer, William Vitka, has posted an article about Stubbs the Zombie (good read!) – thanks, 3Suns… and Inside Mac Games gets some info about the Mac port of that game from Glenda Jackson, of Aspyr (thanks, Narcogen).

Video Games Live, the concert tour that was planned for this summer and will now kick off at the end of October, has a ‘Name That Tune’ game online to show you some of the music they play. (Halo’s main theme, of course, is among the pieces.) Give it a whirl – and check out…

Today’s Bungie Weekly Update takes a close look at the new office space, with some very nice panoramic shots of the space and a list of nearby eateries (though I’m sure Bentllama is gonna kill Frankie for neglecting the Original Pancake House RIGHT NEXT DOOR). There’s also a pretty awesome Mister Chief Etch-a-Sketch. Go read!

Yesterday, Fireb0rn (creator of the critically-acclaimed Halo vids 117 and Talking Smack over Xbox Live) wrote to say he had a followup to 117 (which was the story of a single Spartan facing nearly insurmountable odds) ready to go, but that it was too big for the MPRRS. I re-encoded it for him, and submitted…

mejp44 noticed an article at TeamXbox about Wideload’s upcoming Halo-engined game, Stubbs the Zombie – they’ve added split-screen 2-player Coop. Now you can zombify Punchbowl… with a buddy!

Wow, I nearly missed this one – the headline doesn’t change much, so you have to pay close attention to dates. Over at Bungie.net, SketchFactor has posted an update on the Fight the Flood campaign – they’ve sold nearly 11,000 shirts, collecting more than $160,000 for the American Red Cross Katrina relief effort. Wow! Sketch…

Stuntmutt takes issue with text embellishment of gamertags – read today’s One One Se7en for more details.

Over at the San Jose Mercury News, there’s an article looking at Halo 2 on Xbox Live (and Live in general), written by Dean Takahashi (last mentioned here 3 years ago, when his book on the plan behind the Xbox was released). Interesting read.

It’s been a few days since the Fan Fiction section was updated – 11 new pieces for you today. Go read.

The second H=MC2 podcast has been posted – Halo news roundup and commentary, plus an interview with Alex Winn, part of the Codex team. (It’s not a ‘live’ interview; Alex answered a series of pre-planned questions, so there’s no interaction with the hosts of the podcast – but it’s still a good listen; nice questions,…

Just a followup on the second Briar’s Armor eBay auction (it ended yesterday) – the green suit sold for $2,076.99. Not bad!

Today’s Halo Babies comic was the runner-up in their Red vs Blue contest a while back; it was written by PBDemon (and drawn, as usual, by Gruntsbane). Go read!

Once again nearly Halo-free in its content (there is a small mention of some Halo 2 fans near the end), but Frankie’s put up part 2 of his Tokyo Game Show impressions article over at Bungie.net. Go see what’s coming! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.