Year: 2005

Gladiator Evolved, a movie we released yesterday, seems to be a hit – we’ve served over 8000 copies of it in the last 24 hours or so (accounting for over half a terabyte of data). For folks afraid of the 80 mb download, GearboxGameZone has posted smaller versions (320×240, under 40 mb each for the…

Fury Three has once again summarized the Halo-related Lego offerings at Brickshelf – or, at least, the stuff he thinks is worth seeing. (There are 76 entries in his collection.) You can grab a zipped Excel file, or view an Excel-generated html file – both contain the same info.

Dennis Powers pointed out a video called ‘A Halo CE Road Trip’ – it’s a tribute to Halo CE Mappers, and it does a nice job of showing you what’s out there by flying through a number of maps. It was created by Siliconmaster482. It’s available in both WMP9 and QuickTime formats from the GearboxGameZone…

CJC pointed out a video he found on the MLG forums – it’s a takeoff of the MTV show ‘Punk’d’, where Ashton Kutcher plays practical jokes on celebrity friends. The Halo version has tricks played on unsuspecting XBL players. I watched the first couple – it’s probably funnier if you’re there. The vid is huge…

Dennis Powers has posted a 320×240 WMP9 version of Bootstrap Boon’s ‘Oddball’ – this one weighs in at 57.5 mb. If you haven’t downloaded this yet, you can save 20 mb or so grabbing this one!

Foo Mo Jive points out that Podtacular! Ep 8 has been posted – they’ve interviewed Major Nelson in this one, and the Map of the Week is Gemini. 34.5 mb, MP3 format – go get it!

Mike, from H2Press.net, writes to say that they’ve finished work on the Firefox version of their toolbar – more info can be found here.

Boatloads of content over at MLGPro.com right now – in addition to tons of results from MLG Seattle (including mountains of VoD footage), there’s an interview with Team US Eh (recorded after MLG Nashville) and another with IGS Monglers (a team of top stars from three teams that came together to win MLG Nashville.). Thanks,…

Last Thursday, the Houston Chronicle put up a front-page spread (front page of the Entertainment section, that is) on Matt Leto, better known to Halo fans as Zyos. Nice read – and nice to see mainstream articles like this one about competitive Halo players! Thanks, CHRISVIOXXX.

The second video offering we’d like to draw your attention to is something that passed the MPRRS yesterday. It was created by Andras Ostrom, It’s called ‘Gladiator Evolved’, and it might be the best recreation of a movie scene in the Halo engine I’ve ever seen. The melding of audio from Gladiator and content from…

It seems that my news catch-up is going to need to wait until this afternoon; there’s too much family stuff to handle this morning. Before starting the carpentry and gardening, though, there are a couple of video bits you should watch. If you’re a Red vs Blue Sponsor (signups are available again – $10/6 months…

I’m back – thanks to Ding for minding the store while I was gone. I did a pretty silly thing (though not one i regret for a second) – I went on a spur-of-the-moment trip across the US to attend the moving-in party Bungie was holding at their new digs in Kirkland, WA. (We’ve mentioned…

The all-girl gaming clan PMS is given 3 pages in the latest Entertainment Weekly magazine (Sept. 16 issue, on sale the 9th) No online edition as far as I can tell. Since they’re heavily into Halo, there’s much talk about the game, and their participation in the CPL 2005 Summer Championships. Interesting to see how…

With the Wu gone this weekend, updates are a little sporadic, but we’ll do the best we can. First up, thanks to a heads up from Anton P. Nym, The Escapist’s latest issue has an article written by John Tynes, a tabletop game aficianado that had some adventures in computer game development, it’s an interesting…

A few days ago, a secret message was discovered on the mysterious site Origen Xbox 360. The details can be found in this IGN article- basically, there’s a Latin message on the page that, if you kinda squint at it, may or may not have something to do with what may or may not be…

Bootstrap Boon is an HBO Helljumper who put together a long (21:39 long) story called ‘Oddball’ – it uses footage from a couple of multiplayer maps coupled with dialogue from the Dialogue Databank, all wrapped up with nice background music, to tell the story of a Spartan/Covenant conflict. It passed the MPRRS recently, so you…

Stuntmutt takes a walk down Memory Lane in today’s One One Se7en – I’m with ya, brother.

In the ‘what fans are doing’ category, Laird, of Sponsors vs Freeloaders, pointed me to an eBay auction in which he’s selling a sketch of an SvF character, with all proceeds going to Hurricane Katrina relief. Check it out!

Over at Halo Babies, the winning strip in their recent ‘Red vs Blue’ contest has been released as this week’s normal comic. Nrek did the writing, Gruntsbane did the artwork. Knowledge of a popular custom gametype in Halo 2 multiplayer is necessary to get the joke. (Cute stuff!)

The Video Games Live tour, originally set up for this summer but delayed because interest was too great for some of the venues, is getting ready to kick off again; it starts in Seattle on October 29, with 27 additional tour dates to be announced soon around the US. There’s an official trailer, in both…