Year: 2005

A new work from Stephen Loftus – he’s put the Halo Covenant Dropship under his microscope, and taken a close look at its capabilities, with plenty of cool in-game visuals. Give it a read! (There’s more stuff in the queue for today, but it’s gonna have to wait – it’s Mother’s Day, after all, so…

Bitter and dejected, Dev created a new comic strip to pour his unhappiness about Halo 2 into. The first few episodes aren’t very funny – but who knows, maybe it’ll get better?

Last Stand gets another episode – or at least another Informational Announcement. Get to know Inigo Montoya, up close and personal. Sort of.

Sixteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section… they keep coming in! Go read.

Speaking of the MPRRS, two movies that have passed in the last couple of days are now ready for download. Spartan Smasher originally posted his Hpod Shuffle vid in our forum – when it passed our rating system, we put up another pair of links for it. (The originals, plus our mirrors – both WMP9…

Wow. The Movie Peer Review Rating System turns one month old today – and I think it’s surpassed our hopes for it already! In the past 30 days, our volunteer reviewers have rated 79 films, passing 21 of them – just over a quarter. That SERIOUSLY decreases the amount of watching I, personally, have to…

LiL Poison, the world’s youngest professional gamer, turned 7 yesterday. Happy Birthday! (Thanks, stosh.)

Mothergoat tried his hand at pinning down what makes Halo as good as it is… interesting analysis. Go read!

Red vs Blue episode 56, ‘Calm Before The Storm’, has been posted for sponsors. (This is also a notice to the general public that the free versions will be available in about 2 days – but that won’t stop the flood of email telling us that once they go up…) It’s all about Lopez and…

I meant to get to some of these yesterday – but then I was gone for most of yesterday. The MPRRS has approved a new slew of movies – first off the blocks is a film called ‘Enemy at the Gates’, a Halo 2 version of the big-screen film of the same name. This one…

Thanks a million to HymnToNinkasi, of the PraetoriaGuard – she went through our Links page, site by site, and culled the chaff, the sites that were no longer in existence. w00t! To thank her, you should go visit their website, download their movies, and give ’em feedback. They love that stuff.

Interesting article about game soundtracks over at the Hollywood Reporter; the focus is on the Hitman series, and its composer… but Halo 2, with sales of 120,000 copies for its first volume (12 times the average sales of a game soundtrack), is used as a benchmark. Thanks to Greg O’Connor-Read, of Music 4 Games, for…

A tad late, because of family obligations, but it’s time to let you know about another Bungie Weekly What’s Update, posted over at Bungie.net. It’s a pretty big one – it contains information about the new maps to be released in June (including two new teaser screens, of Relic and Backwash), as well as plenty…

A couple of days ago, Mukelo posted a trailer on our forum. I let him know that if we pointed people to a 58 mb video with a positive review, he could expect a couple of thousand downloads, as a minimum, but that if he were willing to submit it to our Movie Peer Review…

Today’s One One Se7en looks at the hazards of multitasking. I think some credit for the concept goes to Patroclus, but I’m not positive.

Today’s w00tness focuses on Halo’s Hunter – nice pic! (Thanks, Endbringer)

VGman17 posted a countdown to the new maps coming out in June – if you simply MUST know how long it’ll be before you can play Backwash, go visit! Update: you might experience a freeze due to faulty Flash programming if you visit this page. Works fine in Firefox on OSX and XP, and on…

A few days ago, LightingXCE dropped by our forum to mention that he’d been working on recreating LibraryMP for Halo Custom Edition. (LibraryMP was an early modding effort by Monoxide which allowed multiplayer gameplay in Halo’s Library. We mentioned it in January 2004, though the vid in the linked forum post no longer exists.) Well,…

Garry Webber points out a Halo mention in today’s Exerminatus Now.

Evil_Kefka points out a Flash movie he’s got at Newgrounds; it’s a look at how powerful the plasma grenade has become since the AutoUpdate. Nice graphics.