Year: 2005

Hardcore sends along word of a Halo 2 4v4 Slayer tourney hosted by Storm Gaming Ladders – more details can be found on their website. $1/player, money is due by July 31. Go look!

They say it’s not cheating, really – but it can be pretty darn annoying. What? Well, you’ll have to read One One Se7en to find out.

DarkChief writes to point out First Drop, a fanfic he’s writing on his website, Halotips.net. Give it a look! (Check out the rest of the site while you’re there.) Update: eep, looks like his account has gotten suspended. Skip this one for now – it’ll be back soon.

Marl heard one too many Livers call someone a n00b – and snapped. You can read his rant on his Xanga site.

The top two guys on Project Torlan (the Halo to UT total conversion project) have dropped out, for personal reasons, which will likely bring this project to an end, though they still plan on releasing most of their work in development this summer. Sadness. Thanks to zugy for the heads-up.

Time for bed, here… but before I go, something that’s been in the works for quite some time. The Fan Fiction section has been moved – it’s now hosted on a far more robust connection, and the code has all been rewritten in php. Should look (mostly) the same – well, the huge page listing…

In honor of Father’s Day here in the US (a holiday my family usually gives pretty minimal attention to, except for this year, it seems), HBO is going to take the day off. I’ll be back posting later tonight or tomorrow – apologies for the downtime!

A bit ago, we heard from Juan Martinez, who was working on another Rocket Launcher model. (We mentioned one last month.) Yesterday, he sent us pictures – that thing looks pretty cool! Check it out.

Steve The Plank released ‘Sin City: Trailer’ last week over at High Impact Halo; it was greeted with approval. He submitted it to the Movie Peer Review Rating System, where it was ALSO greeted with approval. For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet – you can grab the original WMP9 (6.8 mb), or a cropped…

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen takes a close look at the recent rumors swirling around about Halo 3, taking them apart point by point. He doesn’t have any more (or less) info about this stuff than anyone else on the net – he just seems to have his feet more firmly on the ground than many.…

Gravity lets us know that HALOader, a stats program, has been updated – it now handles gamer comparisons. Swing by and give it a look!

The Codex, Episode 14, has been released – this one keeps getting better. Great filming, great voice work, an interesting storyline. Nice cliffhanger, even. Go watch – and let ’em know what you think! (QuickTime and WMP9 formats.)

Mercury is worried about how a Halo movie might turn out. He pins down why in a nice blog entry over on The Oracle. Go read!

Over at Geezer Gamers, there’s an article containing foolproof tips for improving your Halo 2 performance – if you’re a geezer gamer. I have to remember to work on my reflexes later today. Thanks, Jamey Tisdale.

The Weekly What’s Update has been posted already at Bungie.net (thanks, Frankie) – go read it for stuff about what’s happening with the hackers using modded Containment/Warlock maps, plus lots of other tidbits. Go read!

Wow – this one’s unusual. Laird, from Sponsors vs Freeloaders, sent along a rather large request. Easier to simply quote him (with a few typo corrections):In the footsteps that of episode 8, I am taking auditions for Freeloaders for episode 9. So if you’re looking for a role on SvF please feel free to send…

When in doubt, pun really badly. That’s Stuntmutt’s motto, nicely demonstrated in today’s One One Se7en.

Yeah, Fanfic is offline again. Yeah, it’s being worked on. No, it won’t be up before tomorrow. Yes, a long-term solution is in the works. Yes, the fastest way to really annoy me is to post snide comments about how this section is always down on our forum. That is all.

Another batch of dialogue snippets from Captain Spark – once again, you can snag ’em in bulk from his website, or browse the new ones in our Dialogue Databank.

A week ago, rywateska posted a note on our forum about a montage vid he put together, to commemorate his need to leave the Halo 2 community. It was hosted over at cheapassgamer.com (still is, in fact) – but he then submitted it to our Movie Peer Review Rating System. The reviewers liked it -…