Year: 2005

Nicholas Singer, a professional composer who studied at Oxford and the National Film School, is looking for single-player Halo mods that need original music. You can hear some samples of his work in the forum post – I’d say anyone who picked him up would be doing pretty well!

In early May, Raz0r_117 submitted his movie, entitled ‘A Day In Halo And Halo 2’, to our Movie Peer Review Rating System. It didn’t pass – although reviewers liked the diversity of the montage, they thought parts were repetitive, and the quality of the video was pretty low – but Raz0r found hosting for this…

Today, in the Halo Cutscene Library, you’ll find the Two Betrayals cutscenes – the Chief gets his eyes opened. The hard way. Go watch!

There’s an interesting read over at Pitchfork Media, a music review site. John Cage’s Xbox looks at game audio as an up-and-coming genre, attracting more big-name composers – and the problems that come with the mixing of worlds (in this case, movies and games). I’m really surprised Marty O’Donnell and the Halo audio crew aren’t…

Thanks to our own Count Zero for submitting another level transcript – Gravemind is now available in the Halo Story Page navbar. As more levels come in, we’ll be adding them!

Stuntmutt speculates about Halo 3 in today’s One One Se7en. You ask me, though, that last balloon sounds more like J Allard than Frankie…

kapowaz pointed out a writeup of a Halo PC match between the HBO Helljumpers and his own Helljumpers (not affiliated with HBO). Looks like the HBO team got their butts kicked pretty bad… it’s an entertaining writeup.

Sector 7 is putting together a machinima series, called Squad 7. The promo for the series (51 seconds long, QT format, 8 mb) is available on their website. Thanks, JPOGDNA

Thanks to Peptuck, who submitted Level Transcripts for both The Arbiter and Oracle. The Arbiter is now online – Oracle should be soon. (Apparently, a number of other levels are in progress, thanks to fan response to mnemesis’ call for help last week.) Remember: these are works in progress; if you come across a mistake,…

Two new cutscenes added to the Halo Cutscene Library today – The Library is now documented. Go grab ’em!

Anelf3 submitted an audio recording of a piano recital he performed a couple of weeks ago – his subject material was the Halo theme (figured out on his own, rather than read from published material). The MP3 is 2.7 mb, and just under 3 minutes long. Give it a listen!

Fifteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. A quick note – one of these pieces is an analysis of in-game relationships – it belongs in the Halo Story section, rather than the Fan Fiction section. I let this one go, because up until now there hasn’t been a rule against them…

Jillybean has snagged several forum threads and bundled them up for inclusion on the Halo Story Page – you’re welcome to toss in your own two cents about the credibility of any of the theories mentioned!

Today, the Halo Cutscene Library adds the three cutscenes from 343 Guilty Spark – please download the files to your local hard drive (instead of streaming them from our mirrors), and if the download is going very slowly, try a different mirror. (The middle cutscene is quite large.) Enjoy!

Titan85c noticed a Halo mod for Madness Interactive over at Matrix Rayne Online – there aren’t any screenshots, but there’s a downloadable zip (4 mb). If you have Madness Interactive, check this out!

Henri sent us a link from the High Impact Halo forums, containing download links (three resolutions, all WMP9 format) for his jumping vid. Mostly new maps. Take a look!

Recently, the PraetoriaGuard clan has appeared on the movie-making scene, to considerable praise. Now, we’re happy to bring you some of the secrets of its leader, LordGideon, who is working on a guide to help you make movies, hosted right here at HBO. It’s written for Windows XP users – because that’s what LordGideon uses.…

There’s a Worms-based Halo Flash movie at Newgrounds – that is, a movie showing a Worms-like battle, but with Halo-themed worms. Well done, but a bit slow. Thanks, Eww.

Episode 12 of the Codex Series, ‘Emergency Response’, has been posted – 6:40 worth of great storyline, cinematography, voice work. This one rocks. Go watch. Thanks, trigger119.

Bungie’s Weekly What’s Update was posted last night (as usual) – there’s information about cheating (including a clarification about the difference between Bungie banning folks and Xbox Live banning folks, and a new email address for reporting cheaters), plus some other random stuff – it’s been a bit of a slow week. Go read it!