Year: 2005

Another avatar from Elnea – a female spartan with a light saber? Wonga. (She says she’ll never catch up with the number of pending requests for these, so you might want to re-think sending her your specs.)

Some of you may remember the Futuristic Sex Robotz, the Gangster Nerd Rap group that created ‘Don’t Make Us Kick Your Ass’ a while back. (It’s not clean – but it’s pretty hilarious, and I don’t even LIKE gangsta rap.) They’ve got a spiffy new website up, in preparation for a full-length album coming out…

Mothergoat has created a new version of ‘The Prisoner’, the song he released yesterday with his new HaloCE maps. This version is missing the narration at the beginning, making it more suitable for Halo vids. (If you use it as such, read his post carefully for credit requirements.) He’s linked a copy from his website……

Guardian found a number of very nice pieces of Halo-related artwork at DeviantART, pieces that have never been mentioned here. Great stuff. Go look. Update: Exiled Zealot proves the Search function at DA works nicely, by turning up a LOT of Elite art links.

Wow. ManKitten posted a bunch of scans from a coloring book he made in one of his illustration classes last year. They’re just from screenshots – but they’re beautifully clean. I’m lovin’ em. (I’d love to see the hi-res versions he mentions…) Update: ManKitten sent along those higher-res scans, and I’ve posted the whole lot…

SketchFactor has posted another ‘Fight the Flood’ shirt update – total number of shirts sold is closing in on 10,000, and total dollar amount donated to the Red Cross disaster relief fund is almost $150,000. Nice! (If you haven’t bought a shirt yet, consider it.) Thanks, Schedonnardus.

Heh – there’s a followup to the recent Houston Chronicle story on Zyos in today’s paper; this one is a short piece detailing Zyos’ loss in last weekend’s WCG 2005 US Finals. (He says that if next year’s competition is team-based, he won’t even enter; he’s decided he’s better by himself.) Thanks, Tom Pittman.

Nirvana dropped a note on our forum to let folks know about the second ‘Interview with a Star’, this time with Alexander Winn, otherwise known as Nerrolken, one of the driving forces behind the Codex Series. Interesting read – go find out what drives him!

Over at Wired.com, there’s an article about video game novels; Halo’s titles get some nice coverage. Thanks, 3Suns.

VII Toast interviewed one of the newest Bungie hires, RocketMoose, and has posted the interview on his 7th Column Group site. Go learn more about the people behind the scenes!

Couple of vids for you over at Halo2Forum.com – the first is a montage full of sticks from Fershetta (plenty of pros in it – WMP9 format, 68.4 mb). The second is from Team Confusion, and aims to demonstrate how to throw grenades with precision on Lockout. (There were movies like this in the original…

Broken Console Productions has posted Episode 4 of The Squadron – ‘Your Mom’s An Episode’. It was fun – go watch it. Because of bandwidth issues, they’ve begun accepting sponsors – toss ’em £10 and you’re a sponsor for a year. (That link contains details about what you get, as well as how to go…

The Halo CE Chronicles nears the end of season 2 – the penultimate episode, Episode 19, ‘Gaia’, has been posted on the Movies page. The struggle for control of the ring heats up… at the same time that the station commander comes face to face with something much bigger than himself… and teaches a friend…

Well… she hasn’t been keeping me appraised of new work, but that’s not gonna stop me from adding it to her art page anyway. Go check Elnea’s Art Page for two new comics (both combining Farscape and Red vs Blue, two of her biggest passions), and two new avatars made for friends. (Look for the…

2old2play.com has posted Episode 8.5 – a short (20 minute) interview with Major Nelson. The guy’s really doing the podcast circuit! Go listen.

And speaking of our favorite pun-ter, Stuntmutt has been spotlighted over at The Junkyard; go read what makes him tick. There’s even a custom strip, made just for the occasion. Thanks, Mhaddy.

Today’s One One Se7en will make your teeth hurt.

11 new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this morning – go read!

The US Finals of the World Cyber Games were held this weekend, as well (MLG Seattle on the West coast, WCG2005 finals on the East coast – it was Halo across the land); Team3D came out on top. The final match was actually OGRE1 and OGRE2 against Hotshy and Saiyan – T3D against T3D! The…

mothergoat’s been around for quite some time, and has garnered community respect both for his mapmaking skills in HaloCE, and for his musical abilities (do a search in our news database for some of his Halo-related works) – he’s back, with more of both. The Goatacular Map Pack includes 3 new maps, created with the…