Year: 2005

SketchFactor wrote up Bungie’s version of the Halo Humpday Challenge against the Halo Babies crew (you’ve already seen HB’s version) yesterday – there’s a veiled threat that unless the next challenger tosses the match and lets Bungie win, they might cancel the whole idea of the HHC. Ouch!

mindquirk hivebrain writes to say that his Mac OSX software, which includes a Friends List viewer, a Halo 2 Stats viewer, and a standalone Halo2 emblem designer, is now fully compatible with Tiger, and available for download. Go Grab the suite – or just the apps that interest you!

The last two contestants (winners from Japan and the US) have been added to the Worldwide Halo 2 tourney, so finals are all set for today. Xbox.com has set up a Tournament Bracket to allow you to keep track of the action – check it out! Thanks to TeamXbox and Daily Game for the heads-up.

Lots and lots and LOTS of people have been sending us links to stories about the Halo movie script being shopped out recently – they must have missed this news post, and this one, both of which went up on Tuesday. However, today, there’s NEW news – Variety has put up this story (it was…

Supertoy sends word that AICN is reporting (with back-up from Variety) that Fox and Universal have partnered to purchase the Alex Garland Halo script mentioned earlier this week. Not like it wasn’t going to get bought by somebody, right?

Thanks muchly to Fazeaway, who’s minding the store while Deimos is away – the Subnova branch of HBO is back up and running properly, which means Fan Fiction is back online. Go read!

There’s a great summary of Elongation, complete with screenshots and developer commentary, up at Bungie.net right now. This is the first of 5 weekly map previews, leading up to the release of these maps in early July. Thanks to all the folks who sent in links – I think Nedus might have been first.

There’s a new guitar tab – this time for The Last Spartan – over at Powertabs.net… thanks, Shadowsniper689.

Like Halo action figures? Wanna save a little dough? Over at littleplasticmen, all in stock, non-exclusive HALO 2 action figures are only $11.70. (Gee, I wonder how they came up with that price?) Sale runs through Sunday. Thanks, hacksolo. Update: PJ Hamlen points out that littleplasticmen’s shipping costs are several dollars more than their competitors…

Nearing completion of the Halo Cutscene Library – today’s releases all show the end of the Maw, and include the standard ending cutscene, as well as the short piece that changes if you play on Legendary, and the scene you get if you DON’T make it to the Longsword before the ship explodes. Go watch!

The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have been getting ready to strike over contract disputes with video game publishers – but a deal was struck yesterday that will keep that from happening (pending approval from the unions themselves). Voice actors will receive a substantial increase in minimum pay…

Over at Kikizo.com, there’s a nice long video interview with J Allard about the Xbox 360 – and of course, Halo 3 gets mentioned. The interviewer asked if the idea that Halo 3 would ship to coincide with the PS3 (a comment that’s already been discredited) would go against the existing philosophy of ‘we’ll ship…

Apologies – the server handling our fan fiction section is currently having problems. Its maintainer, Deimos, is on his honeymoon, and won’t be back for a couple of weeks; we’re hoping to get things running again before then, but for now, at least, FF is offline. Sorry about this!

Major League Gaming has posted an info page for MLG Philadelphia, coming up in late July. It includes a look back at the Pennsylvania tourney that started it all for some of the staff – an interesting reminiscence of a much less professional time. Go read! Thanks, 3Suns.

We have two cutscenes from the Maw for you today in the Halo Cutscene Library – the opening scene from the level, as well as the Bridge scene. Beautiful imagery, diabolical villians! Go watch.

Ferrago.com has an article about glitches in videogames – and the last (and biggest) example is Halo. Thanks, aaron.

In today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt takes a look at the Halo Movie buzz, and comes up with a scenario that makes me pray that Alex Garland doesn’t like sticking with the same actors from movie to movie…

XerxdeeJ posted a note about updates on Tied The Leader, his Halo-related blog. I swung by – and there are quite a number. Profiled XBL personalities, women gamers who can kick his butt, silly things you hear on XBL, a disturbing Halo 2 clan, and how multiplayer gaming has evolved over the years are just…

Last week’s Halo Humpday Challenge never happened; or maybe it just got postponed. There was a challenge match between Bungie and the Halo Babies crew last night, however. (mrsmiley spammed his Friends list last week, telling us not to bother him, because they were preparing for this match – Thursday, I think – so maybe…

Outpost Coagulation Episode 8 has been released – you can grab a copy at Treeskunk’s website, or at HaloMachinima.com. 8 minutes long, and the voice acting continues to improve. Nicely done, overall. 56.4 mb, in WMP9 format. (There’s something funky about halfway through that keeps me from being able to encode this as a QuickTime…