Year: 2006

Halo’s always been at the top of the XBL game list – but multiplayer isn’t all you can do with your 360. Stuntmutt looks at what happens when good stuff comes out that isn’t really for Live in today’s One One Se7en.

Justin Laufer pointed out an academic conference on video games coming up next weekend at the University of Florida in Gainesville – he’s giving a talk entitled ‘New Cyborg Philosophy: Techno-Religious Hybridization in Marathon and Halo’. Feel the Bungie Love!

One piece of artwork that was submitted in January but didn’t get posted in the Misc Art update yesterday was a new work by Paul Davies – and the reason I didn’t post it is because we were in the process of setting up a new Gallery Page for Paul. His work has shown up…

Amaroq and Ducain put their heads together, and after rubbing the resultant lumps, they managed to create a 100% complete mirror of Frogblast’s website; the seminal trickster had documented most of his work, but the site was up and down, and finally down permanently. Rather than let this work be lost to the bitbucket, HIH…

Blayne Scott, a hardcore Marathon fan who maintains a couple of pieces of the bungie.org family of sites and who’s created a number of traditional-media items inspired by Marathon in the past, has whipped up a pretty cool Marathon Fabric Patch. (It’s simlar to the one seen on Captain Keyes’ uniform in the first game,…

Wow, very very cool. We get email regularly from high school students or teachers looking for sheet music for Halo pieces; we generally send them to Rampancy.net, which has (I think) the largest collection of Halo sheet music on the net. However, most of this is fan-transcribed, and ranges in quality from very, very good…

I’m STILL not done… but there’s another large batch of stuff in the Miscellaneous Art section today; I’m getting CLOSER to cleaning out the queue. There’s some amazing stuff in this round; I hate to draw attention to specific pics (because I worry that folks will look ONLY at those), but don’t miss Khan’s Forerunner,…

imSuck and the HollywoodHalo crew submitted another vid to the MPRRS yesterday; it’s a spoof of the early 90’s Captain Planet cartoon. It’s a pretty funny piece, and (as is true of all of imSuck’s work) beautifully filmed. (To the whole HH crew – you guys need to move your mouths away from the mics…

Valley of the Forerunners, Part 5 has been posted on the Halo CE Chronicles website. The marine contingent doesn’t understand what they’ve gotten themselves into – Sargeant Roberts learns the hard way what happens if he stops trusting Harrington. Great integration of stock Halo footage, combined with lots of new stuff. 8:40 long, available in…

Incogneto submitted ‘Hitman: Redone’ to the MPRRS recently, and they liked it. So we’re serving it to you. It’s a movie about a guy who works for the mob, and one of his deals goes sour. Some nice effects here! Grab it in WMP9 format (41.5 mb) or QuickTime format (41.2 mb).

The Prometheus Team (the folks working on an all-inclusive Halo editor) has posted Update #6 on their website; it’s really long, and basically says ‘we’re doing a lot of stuff, but we still can’t show you most of it.’ (Well, it says a LITTLE more than that.) If you’re wondering what had happened to these…

r2 writes to point out a Halo 2 tourney coming up in West Palm Beach this weekend; $40 per team registration, 2v2 TS 2006 MLG rules, up to $300 cash for first prize. More details (including contact info and directions) are available at their website.

Looks like jman571 was first with the news that Frankie had posted a snippet about those new, limited edition (500 total) mylar prints mentioned in last week’s update. Swing by the Bungie Store, and for $30 (plus shipping), you can snag one of these signed-by-the-artist masterpieces!

Stuntmutt plays with the title of the upcoming Halo novel in today’s One One Se7en. Hmm… ‘plays with’ might not be a fair assessment. ‘Attacks with a hand-axe’ might be closer… Update: if you’re a REAL masochist, there are several followups in this thread. I blame trigger119 for starting it.

Over the years, number of people have put in serious hours converting Warhammer 40K characters to look like Halo characters. JoeIce stopped by several months ago with some cool pics – well, he came back this weekend with a whole batch of new ones. some of the shots are a bit fuzzy – but go…

Narcogen spent his whole weekend, it seems, writing up a comparison of Halo and Half-Life 2 (Xbox versions only). It’s a great read. It’s also really long. Pull up a mug of your favorite beverage and settle in!

Podtacular Episode 55 has been posted – it’s a Customs and Call-ins show. We heard about this from Mintz, who was a guest-host this week (and did their pod art, to boot). Go listen!