Year: 2005

Twelve new pieces submitted to the Fan Fiction section over the weekend… poetry, chapters, standalone pieces. Go read!

While the silence from Bungie about the future of the Halo franchise continues, Narcogen explores another possibility – read about it at Rampancy.net.

Today’s Waffle Hut has a Halo 3 mention… I’m not sure I understand it, but there you are. Thanks, Tricky.

There’s a nice article on glitching, and the problems it’s causing for Microsoft, over at Wired.com. Nothing really new for the hardcore Halo fan, but it’s a nice introduction to the concept for the general public, and it contains great quotes from Ducain and Dark Helmet (and prominent links to High Impact Halo). Go read!

I woke up this morning to an absurdly-full mailbox. Yeah, there was a lot of spam… but there were also hundreds (literally) of notes about the Gamespot article which recounts that Time Magazine quotes Bill Gates confirming Halo 3, to be released at or near the release of Sony’s Playstation 3 next year. Bungie STILL…

A new site, VideoTuts.net, has opened its doors; in the words of one of its admins, “Our goal is to push the gaming and CG industry further, and make it easy and accessible to everyone.” (Well, mostly everyone – not Mac users, but everyone else.) They’ve released 20 new video tutorials on the use of…

Hehe – the Zelda Ocarina of Time mod being created for Halo CE is progressing nicely, as can be seen in the screenshots in this thread on the Gearbox forums. Still a ways from being done, but what’s there is quite impressive! Thanks, MasterGrief.

Stuntmutt has updated his weblog with some submitted Guest strips for One One Se7en – for those who didn’t remember (or never realized), the main One One Se7en section no longer accepts guest or archive submissions, and hasn’t for a year or so. If you have a strip you want made public, mail it to…

In the last two days, more than 1300 copies of the Going Nowhere Fast Highlight reel (first posted here) have been downloaded via BitTorrent – close to 200 gigabytes worth of downloads. That should be enough that the direct download demand is back within reachable limits. A few sites have put up the high-res copies…

There’s a long article over at HaloDev, discussing the ethics of ‘ripping’ – removing content directly from one game (in its original form, without degradation) for insertion into another game (or the same game, in a different context). It’s well-written, and has some decent arguments for why intellectual property should be respected. Go read. (Thanks…

And the medium evolves. Motherstooth wrote to say that the search for Miranda is over – he’s chosen Jenel Glover, of Fremont CA. He posted a short vid (WMP9 or QT) that includes the test line he had her read. (There were 17 applicants for the part… I’m thinking that if someone’s looking for a…

A few days ago, James Meyers, of DS Unforgotten, submitted a film to the MPRRS – it had some technical problems. (That is – one reviewer was able to see it – and liked it, except for its size (31 mb) – while nobody else could even view it.) Getting a new copy took a…

Dennis Powers pointed out a somewhat different vid he’s spotlighted over at GearboxGameZone.com – it’s a visual tour of a pair of HaloCE maps, W4Torn Cove and H2_New_Mombasa. I’m not sure I see it the same way he does – but it’s a great overview of these two maps. Available in both QT and WMP9…

Severian sent along a link to his blog, which he describes as “part blog, and in fact a not-so-serious adolescent fantasy fulfilled”. It’s not really standard blog fare, and in fact I’m hesitant to post it (I’m not interested in a flood of similar pages being sent to us), but…

Peter Snel sent along an eBay link for a Halo 2 watch; if you’d always wanted one of these, but never got around to buying one, now’s your chance. Auction ends in less than 2 days. Update: posted a bit after 8 am ET, before I run out the door… these were found by 7he…

Lothar Hex dropped us a line to let us know that his news post for Friday’s Exterminatus Now comic is a rather lengthy look at the differences between Halo and Halo 2. Most of it has been said before – but I really liked the comment that it’s hard to be in the ‘middle’ in…

hinch put up a few direct download mirrors (here and here) for the Going Nowhere Fast highlight reel we posted – if you can’t use BitTorrent, give one of these a try. (If they die before new mirrors go up, don’t panic – we’ll be putting up more links soon.) If you CAN use BitTorrent,…

Bungie’s Weekly What’s Update has been posted; the big news is that the Map pack (originally slated for a June 28th release) is now coming out on July 5. They’re not happy about it – but that’s how it goes sometimes. On the bright side, if you’re at E3, you’ll be able to play them.…

9 months ago, we wrapped up a contest here at HBO that really captured the spirit of what makes the Halo community strong. Going Nowhere Fast was a chance for folks to show how fast they could race through Halo – straight speedruns, anything was allowed except modded Xboxes. We received dozens of entries, but…