Month: March 2006

There are a couple of sets of Halo armor available on eBay; I forgot to post about this full Nightmare Armor set (mentioned on our forum by devildeggs on Friday) – you still have more than 4 days left to decide about this; starting bid is $2000. And this morning, we got mail from Jake…

spartanerik pointed out a new Flash vid – ‘Halo Nerds Ep 3 Part 1’, over at Newgrounds. Nice artwork – but I found it pretty dull, overall. Maybe it’s just me. Go watch.

Stephen Loftus has restarted his scale model of In Amber Clad, and has taken a couple of new pictures showing the current progress. (He’s a bit beyond where he was before, but with a much more flexible model design.) You can see the work on his own site (linked from the forum post), or in…

Se7en One continues his 3D-ifying of the Murals that showed up on the LE DVD; you can find QuickTime and WMP9 versions of Mural 4 on the Hall of Murals page.

Mintz points out that there a few new items at Halo: Portable this week – the weekly update, of course, and a PSP version of Mothergoat’s MPD vid. Go get ’em!

LazerBlader found a homemade Halo 2 Battle Rifle Airsoft gun on eBay today (six days left on the auction) – and I noticed an older shot of the same gun that was uploaded to us a bit earlier (apologies to Ken, the seller; I’ve been really, really behind on the uploads directory). Pretty nice work!

Man. I can’t believe it’s been two and a half months since the Wallpaper section was updated. There’s some really cool stuff in there this time around – go check ’em out!

QuickTactical submitted Episode Two of his Soldiers of War series to the MPRRS, and it passed. (I guess Ep 1 didn’t pass; you can find a link on their website.) Because we’re hosting, you can grab it in WMP9 format (45.5 mb) or QuickTime format (43.7 mb). (Episodes on their site are WMP9 only.) This…

Rockslider has written up a new section on his Bad Cyborg site which covers getting to the top of Silent Cartographer, including creating a good save to work from. Once up there, you can make use of his plasma pistol sniping suggestions.

Query Spree has been updated; lots and lots of changes, it seems. Swing by the site to grab a copy. (Still no OSX version, unfortunately.) Thanks, Vironex.

Ever broken your Xbox Live headset, and then felt sad because you didn’t have money to buy a new one? This isn’t totally Halo-related… but there are a lot of Halo players in this boat, so… check out Thomas Reynolds’ tutorial (with pics) on how to fix a broken headset.

Heroes & Heretics Episode 3, ‘Operation: Bloated Rodent’, is now available for download. Almost 7 minutes long, it indroduces you to the Mark VIa Combat Exoskeleton, and what happens when insane people try to work together. Hilarious stuff! Go grab a copy at Slacker Entertainment’s website.

Pinkuh posted another piece of work on the forum – it was created using a Java-based painter called ‘Oekaki’. Check it out! (It’s been added to her gallery here at HBO, as well.)

Thanks to Amaroq and Ducain, High Speed Halo is back online! (The URL has changed slightly, but that’s only because the .org was snatched by a squatter.) Go check out this classic Halo site.

Skav’s back. Sort of.

Se7en One put together a documentary on the Glide Dragon (otherwise known as QuadWings, seen primarily on the Delta Halo level of Halo 2) – it’s built entirely in 3ds max. It was submitted to the MPRRS – and didn’t pass… but KP agreed to offer hosting space on Boomerica, so you can visit SO’s…

Way behind on stuff – life’s getting a bit out of control right now. A couple of days ago, DocOctavius posted word of a new HaloCE map on our forum – you can grab a flythrough of the beta version, or download the map (there are pics included in the forum post). Looks like a…

Bungie’s Weekly Update today covers some music stuff (no, not the Soundtrack release, sorry), the 77,777,777th clan-player game session, more taunting about the ‘next game’, staff changes, the making of ponies (or, more accurately, ponys), and a note about ‘Bungie Cribs’, coming soon. Go read! (Or read it in our Weekly Update Archive.) ‘First’ credit…