Year: 2005

Twelve new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!

Matt Scalcione points out that HaloTournies.com is running a free tournament on Monday, May 2. Winning prize is a $35 EBGames gift certificate. More details can be found on the site.

DSmooth writes to point out that 2old2play.com has set up a new service whereby you have access to lots of information if you link your gamertag on the site; a Friends list, wireless Friends list, stats integration, and more! Check out all the details.

Wow. This is a little off-topic… but not really. I’ve spent the morning running some tests with QuickTime 7, and the new H.264 codec. It blows away EVERYTHING I’ve used up to this point – I’m seriously considering making it the new ‘default’ QuickTime codec for HBO-released movies. (QuickTime 7 is a free download for…

Lionhead Studios, creators of Black & White and Black and White 2, has put up a page with questions and answers for the developers about the making of B&W 2. If you scroll down to the section entitled ‘Blooming and Trees’, you’ll see that the inspiration for this technique came straight from the original Halo.…

Shinesevens noticed a signed Xbox on eBay – there are 5 days left. This was brought to the Seattle fanfest the day Halo 2 was released, and has been signed by many Bungie employees. No bids, currently. Interesting collector’s item!

rRootage scanned the display case for the new Multiplayer Map Pack – he found it on display at EBGames. It contains pretty solid confirmation that one of the remaining maps (almost certainly Backwash) is set in a 343GS-type swamp… which would pin down Frankie’s last remaining hint word, ‘Firefly’. The original post is here, with…

HaloPC slips to number 9 on the Top 10 PC Games list for the week of April 10-16. The most amazing thing about this is that week is some 80 weeks after the game was released! Thanks, 3Suns.

mrsmiley was unhappy with the changes to the magnum in the recent autoupdate – his response is today’s Halo Babies.

Stephen Loftus has posted yet another in-depth study of Halo – this time, his focus is the signage of Cairo Station. Awesome job – and the pictures, all hand-done in Adobe Illustrator, are gorgeous! Check it out.

Stryke Force had released hi-res versions of their movies on the cover DVDs for Xbox World – now they’re making them available on their website. You can find WMP9 versions of the Opening Credits, plus Episodes 1 and 2, in nice hi-res, on their Videos page. QuickTime links should be up there soon.

Machello writes to point out a new online tourney sponsored by the Arm Chair Athletes – prizes will probably be Halo 2 merchandise, but mostly, you’re playing for pride. If you’re interested in signing up, there’s a forum set up for it.

The Art Institutes system of schools recently conducted a national survey on video game preferences – and the results were more eclectic than the surveyors had expected. A press release from the Institutes suggests that while Halo 2 got the most votes for the overall Favorite Video Game from the over 1,000 students polled, only…

Wow, even the big boys are falling all over themselves with Xbox 360 fever. There’s been a rumor floating around that Halo 2 will come pre-loaded on the hard drive of the next-generation Xbox; we’ve mostly stayed away from it, because Bungie ain’t talking, and nobody else really knows anything. However, it just got sillier…

Looks like the Halo 2 ‘good/bad’ debate has spilled over into today’s PvP – thanks, mnemesis.

Bestmasterchief submitted a trailer for an upcoming Predator remake (in Halo 2). (This has no relation at all to the Halo 1 Predator vids made by c0ld vengeance and demonelite.) Currently it’s just cinematic footage, nicely timed to a Predator trailer audio track, but the final film will contain multiplayer footage mixed with movie sound.…

sorahn, over at High Impact Halo, brought attention to a video posted a week ago on their forum. It’s a nice tribute to an activity that has been sadly curtailed by the recent autoupdate. I’ve put up the original WMP9 vid (7.6 mb), as well as a QuickTime version (8.7 mb) for folks who are…

Nice find by markhamx2 (with some link help from Pballwizard) – Bungie played three team slayer games against the Frag Dolls last night (and kicked some serious booty in the process); it’s not a guarantee that these three games constituted the Halo Humpday Challenge matches… but it’s a good bet. (Some might complain that the…

Overswarm has added 3 new articles to his Not So Common Sense guide – not exactly strategy, but useful to the Halo community nonetheless. These are reviews of products relevant to the community – he looks at CarnageStats, GCSkins, and MLG’s VoD. Check out the articles section for more details!

The Se7enth Prophet found a couple more guitar tabs at powertab.net – they’re posted on our forum. ‘Flawed Legacy’ and ‘In Amber Clad’ – get to playing! (They’re available in .ptb format on this page.)