Year: 2005

Several people filmed the new maps with hand-held video cameras yesterday; You can find stuff here, here, and here on our forum (I’m sure there are others, but I don’t have time to hunt right now). No time to mirror stuff – here’s hoping bandwidth holds out! (And that’s it for me, for now -…

Today’s One One Se7en looks at clan heirarchies.

I got a chance to play the Stubbs the Zombie demo yesterday – this game is a LOT of fun. There’s a hands-on over at Eurogamer, that points out some of the pieces that are unchanged from its Halo engine roots (thanks, 3Suns), but mostly it feels like its own game completely. This is one…

Major Nelson has put the kibosh on the rumor (we mentioned it yesterday) that Xbox games would have to be recompiled for the Xbox 360. Bottom line: you will not need to buy new copies of any original Xbox games that eventually get certified for use on the 360. Thanks to several people – orion…

IGN has a hands-on writeup of the five new maps, which are playable on the E3 flooor – thanks, Capt 0bvious.

A few quick notes before heading out again today – sorry for the briefness. First up – Halo Babies has posted a special E3-related strip today. Poor Cortana!

Mr. Wu is gone. So is the rest of the HBO staff. Doesn’t mean they’re completely ignoring this site while at E3, but they’re going to be very busy trying to squeeze the last drop of info from Sketch and Frankie. I know you’re jealous, but don’t make a mess of the house, willya? Thanks!

Okay, that’s it for me. Time to pack up and head to the airport – though I won’t be landing in LA for another 8 hours. (Gotta love travel times.) Almost all the rest of the HBO admin staff is already there for E3, so news coverage will be pretty sparse for a bit. We’ll…

Well, it’s not working out like I’d expected… but yeah, we’re still tweaking. The Movie Peer Review Rating System hasn’t passed a film since May 8 – but I’ve taken to looking at the ‘near misses’, and I’ve got a pair for you to watch today. Bunker 27 is an upcoming Machinima series which looks…

Yesterday, we pointed out an article that suggested that certain titles in the Xbox collection would be singled out for backwards compatibility – Halo and Halo 2 among them. That article implied that emulation would be involved; code running on the Xbox 360 that handled the calls to the Intel CPU that Xbox games expected…

Halo popped up in yet another webcomic yesterday – 6X9 College looked at its ability to suck your concentration right down. Thanks, Elizar.

Captain Spark posted another 30-plus dialogue snippets today, this time all from Sargeant Stacker. You can find them on his website, or in our Dialogue Databank. That man is pretty full of himself! (Stacker, not Spark.)

Whee! Bluestone whipped up a very pretty Flash montage showing all the HBO Helljumpers (and their special talents – or whatever). You can find it in this forum post on the HBO Clan forums. You can also comment on it in this thread.

Gah. You want a lot of desktop choices? We got a lot of desktop choices for you, in our Wallpaper section today. 71 of them, in fact – or almost 90 if you count variants. I’m praying right now for the safety of the server. (You can use this link, instead, if you’d like to…

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – including a story by someone who usually submits artwork to us, instead of words. Check ’em all out! (Just clearing queues before I leave for E3…)

MarkHawk is broke, and looking to make up a little of the cash he needs by auctioning off a pair of Civilian Warthog action figures and a giant promotional poster. You can find the forum post here, and the eBay auction here. Not a bad starting price for a pair of extremely rare hogs and…

I’m thinkin’… that’s Stuntmutt behind the wheel in today’s One One Se7en. Could be wrong, of course.

Gah – I almost forgot that I’d submitted the Going Nowhere Fast Highlight Reel to archive.org! You can grab all four flavors (high and medium res, WMP9 and QT) from their download page; we haven’t run out of bandwidth on other links yet, but it’s always nice to have a really large pipe at your…

Microsoft promised to announce whether the Xbox 360 would be backwards-compatible this Monday – and they kept their word. The answer is yes – but only for a limited number of titles. (Emulation will be required.) They haven’t released a full list – but according to Newsday (in an article about the Playstation 3), David…

Dennis Powers points out an update to a recent news post we put up – the Zelda Ocarina of Time mod for Halo CE is coming along nicely, and in fact has released a video flythrough of the levels they’re working on. You can find commentary and download links (WMP9 or QT) in this post…