Month: January 2006

The Ultimate Movie Cynic pipes up in today’s One One Se7en. The man’s got a way with words…

MLG’s Sundance DiGiovanni wrote an article for GameDaily Biz about the potential for watching televised gaming – it was picked up by an Ars Technica blog with some enthusiasm. Has the time come for videogames to join pro sports as spectator events? You decide!

Jessica (I refuse to use her forum tag name!) details her involvement in getting her HS Orchestra Band to play The T&R Suite!The just under 4 min, 18 mb WMV file is being hosted by Mythica, go grab a copy and enjoy!This isn’t the first time we’ve seen video of a school attempting to play…

DigitalPh33r has put together a machinima called ‘Abnormality 2’, which tells the story of some unofficial Spartan augmentations, and what can happen when things go wrong. It’s really well-filmed, has a solid storyline, and decent acting – the only downside is that the video quality isn’t fantastic. Unfortunately, the raw video files have been lost,…

Compton wrote up a 6v6 CTF match in a way that puts you in the game – you can read it here. (And yes, it seems that Compton will soon be acting like a giddy school girl. Scary thought.)

Over at his Tied the Leader blog, XerxdeeJ has written a piece looking at the job Guillermo del Toro might do as director for the Halo movie, if he does, indeed, become the director. A nice upbeat outlook – we all need to read these at times! Check it out.

Ross Mills found a couple of Halo-related strips at the Press Start to Play webcomic – you can find links in his forum thread.

Dead or Alive 4’s unlockable Spartan has been the subject of quite a bit of scrutiny recently… Major Nelson posted 22 new screenshots (thanks, Capt 0bvious), though they look better if you stretch them back to 4:3 aspect ratio, instead of the 16:9 he posted them at, and Jeux France has a 75 mb MPEG-encoded…

Whoa. You don’t have much time – but if you’re interested in Master Chief armor, Briar’s Armor (search our news if you’ve never heard of them) has a red set up on eBay – with just under a day left in the auction. What a great after-Christmas present for that special Halo fan in your…

Stephen Loftus has been busy again – this time, he’s taken a close look at the Bumblebee-class Lifepod. Everything from design considerations to statistics to known passenger rosters have been covered – as usual, the depth is astounding. Go read.

CliffyB, an outspoken developer known for the Unreal series and now Gears of War, has put up a new blog entry at 1UP.com, talking about ‘Clarity of Experience’. He’s discussing how some games make it really hard to know what’s going on – who you’re fighting, who’s on your team. His example of a game…

I’m not sure what’s going on, but in the past week or two, we’ve gotten a whole bunch of requests to publicize threads on the Bungie.net forums – and the only thing these threads have in common is that they’re complaining about certain features of Halo 2, and they’re asking Bungie to ‘fix’ the problem(s).…

Stuntmutt gets a little help (is that what we’re calling it these days?) from Pinkuh in today’s One One Se7en. Nice Dickens reference, too.

Yoozel, over at Bungie.net, points out IGN’s Best of 2005 article – the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack won Best Xbox Downloadable Content and Best Xbox Live game. Nice!

Halo: Portable has resumed posting again, after a short hiatus – and you can grab a collection of 17 wallpapers for your PSP there right now. Go gussy up your portable!

Wow. Over at High Impact Halo, there’s a link to a new Jump Tactics vid focusing on Over Jumping – a new kind of jumping that doesn’t involve any aided jumps (no rockets, no grenades, no other people), getting its participants to pretty ridiculous places. If you’re a fan of jumping, you’ve got to go…

Hellion points out a video at Youtube showing Nicole, Spartan 458, in action in Dead or Alive 4. 7 minutes long, 17 mb big, Flash format (it’s Youtube, after all). Quality is a little shakey (filmed off a TV screen, looks like, but you can get a decent sense for how the level looks, and…

An inauspicious beginning for 2006… down for a day with stomach flu. Seems like it’s over, though, so here we go again! To start with, Eegs002 posted a note on Saturday about a comic his friend does, called ‘Unfortunately Sober’. The December 28 episode was Halo 2-related. Go read!

I had meant to post this a few minutes before midnight, but festivities here at home prevented me from doing so. All of us here at HBO wish all of our friends and family the very best for a bright and fruitful new year. In what I would like to consider a tradition started back…