Year: 2005

Red Leader says there’s a new This Island Earth up. Go check.

H2Press.net has released a toolbar for Windows Internet Explorer – it adds handy links to a variety of Halo-related RSS feeds, as well as direct buttons to fansites and bungie.net. Read about (and find download links) on their forum.

rec0, over on the Gearbox forums, has released a tool for adding new bipeds (and other characters) into HaloCE. You can find a download link (and basic instructions) in this thread. Thanks, MasterGrief.

Kaboris pointed out a page on the Xbox.com Japan site (I can’t find a corresponding page yet on the main Xbox.com site) touting the multiplayer map pack. it’s got a bunch of screenshots that haven’t been released (legally) anywhere else yet, and walkthrough vids of the first four maps (a lot like the ones Red…

You knew it was only a matter of time before One One Se7en started taking potshots at the new consoles…

nof found a superiffic new Halo remix over at OverClocked ReMix this morning – it was posted a couple of weeks ago, but this is the first we’ve heard of it. It’s a reworking of ‘Insurrection’, and while it sounds a lot like the original, there are also some pretty cool additions. Check it out!…

Half of Halo’s levels are now documented in the Halo Cutscene Library – the two scenes from Assault on the Control Room were added today. (Chester The Destroyer also posted a couple of bloopers he recorded at some point, when he was working on recording cutscenes he never submitted to us – the second one…

A few days ago, we mentioned a high-quality montage vid released on Halo2Forum.com. It was submitted to our Movie Peer Review Rating System, as well – and has passed. If you already grabbed the ginormous WMP9 version at halo2forum.com, you can pass on this – but if you haven’t, you might want to take a…

There’s a new Halo Babies posted today – comes with a spoiler warning for Star Wars III, but it’s pretty funny if you’ve seen the movie.

Wanna give us a hand with our content needs? mnemesis has posted a Help Wanted ad on our forum – he’s looking for level transcriptions. Read the post if you’re interested – as he said, it would be better if we didn’t have duplication of effort, so telling us BEFORE you start is a good…

Whee… Jillybean updated the Halo Story Page with a fan-driven theory, which led another fan to write a blog entry disputing the conclusions, which led to a forum thread about the whole idea. So many words – and the speculation continues!

There’s an interesting article over at Gamasutra – a report of a round-table discussion behind the scenes at E3, involving several industry personalities, including Joe Staten of Bungie. The topics under discussion was character and story development, and how they fit into games today – I’m loving where the conversation eventually got to. Each member…

BloodSignature has released the Harvest 2 trailer, a trailer to the sequel to Harvest. 9.5 mb, almost 3 minutes long. You can grab it from their site, or from a mirror at halomachinima.com. Thanks, trigger119!

Thanks very much to the kindness of SanchezTheLlama, we’ve added a third cutscene mirror to our Halo Cutscene Library – you can now download from bungie.org, mythica.org, or enfinityservers.com. w00t!

Gah. Yesterday was so busy here, I forgot to release any new cutscenes in the Halo Cutscene Library – apologies! If you swing by today, you’ll find all 5 scenes from Silent Cartographer have been added. I’ll do my best to stay on schedule.

Infernus has released a Mac version of his Xbox Live Experience Calculator – you can grab a copy over at Rampancy.net. (The PC version was first mentioned in this forum thread – there are download links in this post.)

trigger119 wrote to point out that HaloMachinima.com has mirrored all of the PraetoriaGuard vids (including yesterday’s Episode 3, both versions). Check ’em out!

Eep – this came in yesterday, but I missed it. DSmooth, of 2old2play, pointed out a new podcast they’re doing, called 2old2type. The first episode is about 60 minutes long, and chock-full of info from E3 this year, including Halo 2 map info. Go download and listen!

Duke87 wrote to us about UK Halo Match Maker, a UK-based tournament community that’s looking to launch its league this Sunday. Matches will be 4v4, with up to 10 people per team – the league will operate like a football league, with one match (3 games) per week, with 3 points for a win, 1…

Mike Riess writes to say that his website, h2press.net, is offering a free video hosting service for Halo vids, with ‘unlimited space and bandwidth’. You can read the details in this forum post.