Month: March 2006

QuickTactical submitted another segment of Soldiers of War to the MPRRS, and got approved – you can grab Episode Five in either WMP9 format (46.5 mb) or QuickTime format (44.9 mb). The Russian attackers are ambushed by a small contingent of Americans.

There’s an article about the perks afforded to pro gamers in the upcoming season over at MLGPro.com – travel stipends, free registrations, and other perks are available to the top players. Go read about the 2006 season! Thanks, 3Suns (who suggested a summary of ‘The Rich Get Richer’ for this piece – ouch!).

Short (but pretty sweet) update this week, over at Bungie.net – soon-to-be-updated playlists, detailed info about the Soundtrack Volume 2, some KILLER artwork, and some nice case mods. And a Mister Chief that makes me wonder what Frankie does on his off hours. Go read – either at Bungie.net, or right here, in the Weekly…

Captain Spark continues his dialogue snippet collection – 22 more tidbits either on his site, or browsable, in our Dialogue Databank.

Many of us miss the weekly updates of the Halo Babies comic; Stuntmutt’s view is that maybe if he taints your memory with bad puns, you’ll miss them less. Go read today’s One One Se7en.

There are 18 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read. I had to delete a surprising number of stories from the queue – either there is a large influx of new writers, or there are community members who simply don’t want to read the rules. If you don’t want your…

I doubt they do this for EVERY applicant – but the fact that they do it at all is pretty darned nice. weephun (a forum regular, and a major contributor during the I Love Bees ARG) applied for a job as a Test Engineer a bit ago. He didn’t have the game programming experience to…

This Spartan Life has released module 3 of Episode 3 – it’s the second part of the interview with Marty O’Donnell. It’s a great discussion of the power of sound design, set amidst the battle for bodyguard position… with a nice homage to Newman and Redford at the end. (I have to say – while…

Wonga. So there’s a project over at High Speed Halo to complete Halo (the first one) in 77 minutes – and they’re currently 6 seconds from that goal. I have no doubt that once it’s completed, they’ll work to bring every difficulty level up to Legendary – but for now, the whole concept of finishing…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a project to put together a ceramic Master Chief – last night, boltofaire stopped by our forum again with new pics. Check ’em out!

If you’re interested in one of those 3-foot-high Master Chief statues, there’s one on eBay right now, with a starting bid of $9.99, and no reserve. (Still almost a week left, though.) Thanks, Cassius.

Pinkuh dropped by our forum last night to display a bunch of commissioned, Halo-related work; neat stuff! (We’ve added them to her Gallery page here, as well.)

Over at the Sumthing Distribution site, you can find a track listing for the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2. As far as I know, nobody else has published this yet. I’m drooling already! Update: Mintz pointed out that Bungie themselves published the track listing more than three months ago.

Last week, Gryphonosiris asked for slogan ideas for T-shirts with ODST themes. Today, Stuntmutt puts up a few in the current One One Se7en. Um…

We got word from Bluestrike2, at MLG PwnCast, that there was a problem with the enhanced version of Episode 6, released yesterday, that affected a small number of people, that has now been fixed. If you tried to get the iTunes version and failed yesterday, you should try again.

Luke McKay wanted to be working on some art projects last night – but he couldn’t concentrate, so what came out instead was another RvB vignette. Ah, memories!

The Halo Movie Cynics Database has been quite popular since its inception back in December. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you to visit. However, not all the submissions have been exactly in line with what we envisioned. So with the help of uber-cool Cybrfrk, the database’s home page has been revamped, calling out…

There were a large number of intriguing forum posts last night – here’s a quick roundup.Jason Jones and Alex Seropian both made it onto Next Generation’s list of ‘The Hot 100 Game Developers’. Interestingly, Randy Pitchford is on the list as well, but Halo PC is not mentioned in the paragraph explaining his contributions. Thanks,…