Year: 2005

There’s an article in today’s News Tribune (a Tacoma, WA newspaper) about machinima – and it comes with a great poster. Thanks to Ename Nep for the heads-up.

Trigger119 posted a note on our forum, pointing to a page on halomachinima.com; he’s made all the episodes to date of The Codex Series (17 in all) available in a format readable by your PSP. (There are also standard WMP9 and QuickTime mirror links, to take some of the strain off the Codex Series website.)…

There’s a nice radio interview with SketchFactor over on Majornelson.com – he’s released the podcast in both WMA format and MP3 format. The podcast is about 45 minutes long – the interview with Sketch starts around 18:30 in, and lasts about 20 minutes. It covers a variety of subjects – worth a listen! Thanks to…

Ajay wrote to point out Halo2D, a 2D Halo game he’s working on. (A very early screenshot can be seen here.) You can download a really early version (it’s NOT done) off his website – he gives props to Halo: Resolution’s sprites. (This is PC-only.) Update: Turkman points out another 2D Halo game – this…

Continuing their ongoing “I want to see the sun rise against a horizon of floating hypodermic needles” travelogue, the RvB clan (somehow legitimizing their sorry drunken asses with “Rooster Teeth Productions”) will be appearing at Lincoln Center, Sunday, August 21st 6PM. You can buy tickets for their NYC Premiere showing of Season Three here. Even…

PraetoriaGuard has opened a new website – Halo2Cheaters.com. They want to provide a player-accessible database of cheaters; you can submit gamertags and game links, upload vids of cheaters, or just vent. (All reports will be reviewed by site admins before being made public; you won’t be able to accuse the guy who just pissed you…

MLGPro.com has started up a new weekly feature, to be posted on Fridays – it’s called ‘Editor’s Corner’, and it gives Dyslexia a place to hold forth on topics of interest. This week’s rant (posted on Sunday, accidentally) looks at the recent AutoUpdate – or, more accurately, at the reaction it’s received on forums around…

duderlock wanted us to point out that the GameRiot tour will be hitting the House of Blues in LA this week – visiting will give you the chance to play against Zyos; score 3 point, win 6 months of Gamefly rentals… beat him, get $100, an MTV jacket, and an MLG management contract. This is…

RmicF is working on a Halo vid, and looking for help. You can see some renders of the work done so far in his forum post – looks promising!

*Butcher interviewed Foxygrandpa117 (I refuse to write it the way he did), and posted the result on our forum. Just turned 15… and has been part of the tricking scene for a while, is going to tournaments, it’s interesting. Go read.

rockslider continues to add battle plans to his Rockslide Megabattle site – check this forum post for details. Great to see this stuff is still being refined!

Patriarch917 continues his Halo Parody spree – the latest entry is ‘My SMGs’, a takeoff of Green Day’s ‘Minority’. It weighs in at 2.4 mb, and you can find a download link – and lyrics – on his music page. (His email address is at the top of the page, if you want to let…

Yet another one of those Top X lists – Gamespy put up a ‘Top 5 Xbox Live Games’ recently, and Halo 2 took the number one spot. Nice! Thanks, Promotheus.

Yesterday, a fun Flash piece passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System – it’s the first episode of ‘Life in General’, submitted by Tim Murray, and it tells the tale of four friends playing Halo. It weighs in at about 9 mb, and we’ve put it up on a page for viewing. Enjoy!

The Halo Humpday Challenge happened a bit late again this week – the Bungie guys played Xbox Taiwan this time around. Mintz found 4 matches, with Bungie winning the first and last, but losing 2 and 3. (He missed this game, which came between his first and second game, and was won by Bungie… and…

Okay, I’ve got no confirmation on this (my copy of OXM usually comes weeks after everyone else’s), but Mars Man 0013 just wrote in to say that his copy just arrived… and the demo disc contains all 9 multiplayer maps! The cover price of a newstand issue with a CD is probably around $7 (I…

Hikaru, of Halo Arena, took some time out to ask KP a few questions. (KP can occasionally be seen forgetting to delete the ‘KP’ from the bottom of his ‘Badmin’ admin posts on our forum.) I can’t believe there’s no mention of that life-altering whiffle-ball game anywhere! Good read, otherwise, though. Except for the goats.

A couple of weeks ago, GameTrailers posted video coverage of the Video Games Live kickoff concert in LA – Geary just noticed that there’s an interview with Marty O’Donnell from there up now at Gametrailers, as well. (There are a few other interviews, as well, for folks interested in the tour.) Marty mentions a super-secret…

Today’s Weekly What’s Update got an awful lot of its questions from a thread started by Frankie in our forum a few hours ago. Some of them are good, some of them aren’t. The liquid Mister Chief is particularly disturbing. Overall, though, it’s worth a read – and don’t forget to take Frankie up on…

Wow… that took a LOT longer than I’d expected – but the Wallpaper queue has been cleared out. 23 entries – 38, if you count all variants. Some are amazingly good. These have built up over the past two months in our uploads folder, our email, the forum… go see what you can find! (Be…