Year: 2005

Today’s Halo Babies comic needs no real writeup. Or, maybe more accurately, any writeup I do will simply be digging a deeper hole.

Awesome. Over at High Impact Halo, Dark Helmet has created a fantastic tutorial vid showing how to collect grenades for Halo 1 grenade jumping – not just the basics, but how to make a really nice, tight pile. Soundtrack is from South Park, and deserves a NSFW warning. 29.4 mb, WMP9 format. For the heck…

Not long ago, Goose submitted Bunker 27 Episode 1, “In the Beginning”, to our Movie Peer Review Rating System. The vid didn’t pass, but he got a decent amount of useful feedback; he went back, re-edited the film to fix some of the problems reviewers noted, and resubmitted. Second time’s the charm; this one made…

I’ve been meaning to write this up for some time – apologies to everyone involved. About 6 weeks ago, we posted a note explaining the hardships facing a prominent community member, Tina Leyk, and put a link on our front page, giving folks access to a PayPal link to help out, if they chose to.…

A few days ago, Agonizing_Gas wrote up a satirical post on the 2old2play forums about a 13-year-old who realized his attitude on XBL was influencing his life – yesterday, stosh posted a sanitized version on Bungie.net. We were gonna pass on this… but it was noticed both in our forum (though, scarily, the poster believed…

Yet another R.net heads-up… this one is a blog entry from Wil Wheaton, discussing the recent agreement between the Screen Actors Guild and video games publishers (we mentioned it last week). Wil’s point of view is that actors deserve more. There’s a well-written counterpoint over at Game Girl Advance, suggesting that while everyone might WANT…

Another transcription of the Halo main theme has been posted at Rampancy.net; Devin Eastman has submitted an archive including a MIDI file, a PrintMusic document, and a PDF containing the score. You can find comments by Devin in the R.net news post. (Registration – free – is required to download the archive.)

IGN posted a short piece about what they want to see in the Halo movie once it hits the big screen. I found this at Rampancy.net, where Narcogen said their list ‘makes Baby Jesus cry’ – he ain’t kiddin’.

Area 55, from Halo Hoger, has been released for HaloCE. Animated scenery, new enemies and character models, custom dialogue. 10 mb or so. Give it a try! Thanks, MasterGrief.

More versions of the Microsoft-commissioned map overviews are appearing – 1Up.com was first out of the gate yesterday with Containment, though the aspect ratio is all wrong. (Their QuickTime link works now, though – thanks, Blackstar.) GameTrailers.com is now serving QT and WMP9 versions of this – 480×360, about 8 and a half megs each.…

In keeping with the plan to highlight a new map each week until the release of the Map Pack in early July, Bungie.net has posted a preview of Backwash. Screenshots and developer commentary bring this map to spooky, eery life – check it out!

Stuntmutt gets off track in today’s One One Se7en.

The Clan of Bobs is looking to start up its own weekly challenge match, modeled on Bungie’s Halo Humpday Challenge. If you’re interested in participating, swing by the page and give it a read!

1Up.com has posted a multiplayer video of Containment today – nice footage, in a variety of formats. The QuickTime link, at the time of this writing, does not work – but I’m sure it’ll be up later. The aspect ratio on the large downloadable WMP9 is a little screwy, too… but (as the news post…

Bungie.net reminds you that your chance to win a Master Chief statue at the Bungie store is running out – their sweepstakes closes today. Read the b.net news post (or the Contest page at the Bungie Store) for details!

Z, over at Halo2Forum.com, let us know about a new vid posted last night. It’s called ‘Halo Poo’, and it’s a disappointment vid… but it’s live-action, and parts are pretty funny. There’s some unpleasantness (fake vomit, in the form of oatmeal and water), but mostly it’s a look at the surprise and disappointment these guys…

Charles Hoban pointed out The Bob and George Fancomics Pages – specifically The Ninja Bot, whose episode #218 looks at Halo 2 on Live. Odd…

No, not a FAQ on how to cheat. ;-P I just noticed over on Major Nelson’s blog that Bungie has recently posted an updated FAQ on cheating and Halo 2. Lots of answers about modified content, clans, reporting, and all that stuff, so go check it out, and remember: play fair, it’s more fun.

Kyrceck is looking for a script editor for an upcoming machinima project. Read more about the project (and the folks already involved in this forum post… and drop him a note if you’re interested!

A couple of months in development, the Madda Cheeb Flash Game is now available for play over at the Fire Team Charlie website. Be careful – it plays really screwy on Safari under Tiger. Works fine on other browsers/platforms, though. FUN! Thanks, Madda Cheeb.