Month: March 2006

Halzred submitted a montage trailer he’d created for Frantic to the MPRRS – and the reviewers liked it. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (21.5 mb) or QuickTime format (23.8 mb)… the final montage should be pretty cool! (Side note: hisTALLness, check your email, wouldja? I’ve now sent three emails to you about…

Wow. Bungie’s Weekly Update is certainly worth reading this week… they’ve announced what looks to be a pretty darned spectacular product, coming this summer… a Halo Graphic Novel, put together by some amazing names. Go read it; I can’t do it justice with a news post. (It’s at B.net, of course, but it’s also local,…

Elnea (who’s known around here for her artwork, and around Red vs Blue for her funny journals) and OboeCrazy (who’s not known around here at all, but is pretty visible at RvB) put together a trailer for an upcoming machinima that does what hasn’t been done yet, that I know of – it incorporates footage…

Dennis Powers points out that you can now play all the Halo PC campaign levels in HaloCE; all you need to do is download one of the custom UI files that supports the ‘Campaign’ menu function (like this one, or this one, or this one), and then grab the Single Player levels off this page,…

Okay – I’ve STARTED to get through some of the backlogged dialogue snippets. Real work calls, so I need to stop here… but be aware that there are still almost 350 snippets in the queue from Hellhawk. In the meantime, check out batches from Bloodpuppy (29 snippets) and RibsMaster (18 snippets). There are some funny…

Stuntmutt gets frisky in today’s One One Se7en. Luckily, Cortana’s there to cool him off.

Nineteen new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – check ’em out!

A bunch of new dialogue snippets from Captain Spark got posted today – you can grab them off his site, or browse them in the Dialogue Databank. And yes, there are still a bunch of submitted clips in the queue; I’m really sorry about that. Today, if all goes well…

Bungie recently hired a new mission designer – and Frankie took some time out to interview him. What it’s like to be a mission designer, where he came from, what you need to be wearing in order not to get your ideas rejected. That sort of thing. I’d love to tell you someone else was…

Well, I haven’t gotten EXPLICIT approval, but he’s linked to it from his Red vs Blue profile… so I guess he’s okay with it. If you visit Red vs Blue for anything other than the videos themselves (that is – if you avail yourself of the community tools provided by the website), you’ve almost certainly…

Swing by This Spartan Life for Episode 3, Module 2: Travelogue. It’s a really quick overview of some glitches accessible in Halo 2 levels. If you’re a regular at High Impact Halo, you won’t see anything new – but the composition is quite nice. There’s another new ep coming soon, as well!

Rockslider continues his Halo Level 2 expansions with Banshee Battle Engineering, allowing you to pick the spots for your battles. Check out his forum post, and follow it to his website!

This has been asked several times and always dismissed since we have seen that publicly viewed ranking systems can be bad things. However, as a movie “watcher” and “submitter” you may find it interesting in what your fellow community members find to be the top ranked movies. This shows the percentage that each passed movie…

This showed up in our forum a couple of days ago, and was quickly debunked by Frankie… but we’re getting plenty of mail right now, so it’s probably time for a front page post. The April issue (April? That month should send up flags) of Game Informer contains a story about Bungie’s next game -…

Speaking of eBay… this is pretty nice. Sulaco is selling his Xbox goodies – a Halo Special Edition Xbox, copies of Halo, Halo 2 (the Limited Edition version), Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Splinter Cell, hi-def cables, the Xbox DVD remote, a communicator headset for Live, and more – current bid is $51, and there’s no…

Gryponosiris found a Covenant Plasma Pistol replica (heh – as though there’s a REAL one I need to differentiate from) on eBay; two days left, starting bid of $99. I guess this is becoming big business! Bungie has said, more than once, that the day might come when they crack down on this stuff… so…

Someone sent me this link, I think it’s pretty hilarious. It’s a 2 minute snippet from Howard Stern’s Sirius radio broadcast of 3-15-06 where one of the staff explains his adventures in XBL playing Halo 2. It’s interesting to see how others who are not clued in about XBL, Halo 2, and console games in…

If you’re in or near Philadelphia, check out Cyberzone – they’re having a Halo 2 2v2 Team Slayer tourney this weekend. More details can be found on their website.

PEZ writes to point out that halowiki.net has revamped their Halo 2 Sites article – it gives you an overview of many of the sites in the Halo community, and if there’s a site you like that isn’t on the list, you can simply add it. Swing by and take a look!