Year: 2005

JPOGDNA writes to say that new management has taken over on the Halo: Blood Covenant project (a side-scrolling Halo game) – but they’ve hit a snag. They need a new sprite artist (just one), to help with backgrounds, some weapons, character actions and the like. Interested people can send samples of their work to either…

A number of people pointed out this article at Xbox-Scene, showing pictures of the upcoming Xbox 360 kiosk… you gotta wonder why the picture used is a sideways shot from Lockout. Weird. I think SUPERTOY was first.

Over at Halo Babies, you’ll find a photo diary of Master Chief’s E3 Adventure… that guy can get into a lot of trouble! When you’re done with that… there’s also a new strip for the day. You gotta pick your friends carefully…

Dennis Powers points out that the HaloCE 1.07 hotfix is now in the auto-update – but the dedicated server patch (for servers that didn’t use the installation utility to install the server) can still be found at Gearbox Game Zone. Details (and usage) are on this page.

22 out of 24 Xbox Live global regions have a declared winner in the worldwide Halo 2 contest (last mentioned about a month ago) – you can read the official press release for more details. (Only Japan and the US are still awaiting a national champion.) Finals will be played on Friday, June 10.

There’s a short note over at Bungie.net – apparently, the official Nile Rogers website has announced that Marty has finished mastering the Halo 2 soundtrack. No other info is given – but if you’ll remember, the Weekly What’s Update on May 14 suggested an early July release.

It’s not a Top News Story, for some reason… but the Halo Humpday Challenge has now been written up by Frankie. Polite and genteel – he’s a gracious winner. (I’m not sure what that ‘continued on page 2…’ thing is at the bottom of the second game…) Go read. (As a side note to SketchFactor:…

Wow. It’s taken an inordinately long time to prepare – and for that I offer abject apologies – but as of today, the Halo Cutscene Library here on HBO begins to be built. (The Halo 2 Cutscene Library has been online for several months now.) Today, we offer you the opening scene from Pillar of…

Another movie has passed through the Movie Peer Review Rating System – this one is a filming of Monty Python’s ‘The Argument’ sketch. It’s the work of The7ftman, and what reviewers liked was the editing and environment choices. (Don’t look for a lot of gunplay in this one…) You can grab it in QuickTime (29.4…

Early this week, Paradox sent along a couple of pictures of his new work-in-progress, a model of the Halo rocket launcher. We’ve started a gallery for this, and will add pictures as they come in. Looks to be pretty heavy-duty!

Looks like this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted Bungie against 2070Films – Dan Chosich posted links to the games themselves, though we still need to wait for the official Bungie writeup. Bungie blew ’em out for the first two games, but 2070Films won the third game, and the unofficial chaser was pretty darn close. Nice…

Dennis Powers, of the Gearbox Game Zone, points out that the HaloCE 1.07 Hot-Fix patch is now available for download on his site. (Gearbox has chosen that site as its primary distribution point for this file.) It’s 4.6 mb, and brings HaloCE back into parity with HaloPC (which was patched a couple of days ago).…

I was a little hesitant about posting this, since I’m afraid that some of the people who see it from a front-page post won’t bother to learn the context, and Roger Wilco will come off as a much harsher person than he really is… but it’s just too funny to pass up on. Ross Mills…

Jillybean tosses around popular sci-fi references with abandon as she plucks a few morsels from the cornucopious Halo Story mailbag. (Yes, I know that’s not a word.) The focus today seems to be Forerunner. Go read!

Whee – still ANOTHER movie. This one comes from Fireb0rn (whose last offering was ALSO quite good) – and it has the honor of garnering the highest score of any of the 130+ videos that have so far passed through the Movie Peer Review Rating System. It’s called ‘Talking Smack Over Xbox Live: An Educational…

Captain Spark has turned in another 33 dialogue snippets, this time a combination of Elites, Grunts, and female marines. You can grab the lot on his website, or search for (and listen to) the ones you want in our Dialogue Databank.

Cortana gets roped into tripe into today’s One One Se7en… gotta watch that.

Another MPRRS release for you today – this one comes from Spuzzum, and is called ‘Sticky Style’. It’s basically a runthrough of Cairo Station (well, the highlights, anyway) – but the timing is amazingly good. (Gameplay’s pretty good, too…) Gameplay is Heroic, because some of the stuff Spuzzum was trying was “a little too suicidal…

There’s a Halo 2 Walkthrough posted up on IGN FAQs (among other places) – if you’re having trouble with the game, and our Legendary Walkthrough hasn’t helped, try this!

Peter Moore talked to GameDaily – mostly it’s about Xbox stuff, but Halo gets a few mentions; there’s a discussion about the impetus behind the I Love Bees promotion, and a look at backwards compatibility, with Halo and Halo 2 being the only two named titles at the moment promised to work on the 360.…