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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Halo 2 Adium Icon

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    L30N1DAS (or is it Thanatos?) created a new Halo 2 Adium icon – if you get messaged, it gets active. (There’s also a new soundset.) Comments can go here.

  • The Art is Back, Part 1

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    Wow. There’s a massive art update over at Halo Babies… some really draw-dropping stuff. Go check it out!

  • MLG LA Wrapup

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    Over at MLGPro.com, Dyslexia wrote up the MLG LA event, covering highs and lows, winners and losers, and all the drama that happens at a major tournament. Great read! Thanks, Dolbex. And thanks to 3Suns, who also mentioned the new Video on Demand content (including a rebroadcast of the entire event) that went live recently.

  • Frankie thinks he’s Ethan Suplee

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    Cogent’s outage in southern Florida last night (due to Hurricane Wilma, and affecting HBO’s datacenter) coincided nicely with the window of opportunity I had for updates yesterday evening – so I couldn’t tell you about the new story on Bungie.net, about the followup to the Fight the Flood campaign Bungie ran last month. Thanks to you, the fans, the American Red Cross received a check for over $175,000 from Bungie and Sunrise Identity (the guys who run the Bungie Store) for hurricane relief. Wonga!

  • 17 Days Through Hell Trailer

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    DOH! I forgot to post this yesterday; it passed the MPRRS on Sunday night. It’s a trailer for ‘From the Oder to the Elbe: 17 Days Through Hell’, and it was created by Roland. Screen format is a very strange 1200×600 pixels, but if that doesn’t fit on your screen, you can watch it at 50% resolution, and it will actually look better. It’s a trailer for an upcoming World War II reenactment. The WMP9 version is 21.7 mb, the QuickTime version is 21.9 mb. Enjoy!

  • The Glide Dragon

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    Se7en One has put together a page on the ‘Glide dragon’, his name for the birds (or, I guess, insects, according to Se7en One) you can see on the Delta Halo and Regret levels of Halo 2. (Look closely – that’s the HBO Helljumpers website, not HBO; they just use a design based on ours.) He also posted this info in our forum. Interesting collection of information gleaned from a few sightings!

  • Getting Up To Miss Chief.

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    Stuntmutt stays focused on the DoA4 Spartan in today’s One One Se7en. How bad would it get if she weren’t wearing armor?

  • Monday Reading

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    Twenty two new pieces in the Fan Fiction section since Friday. Dang, they’re keeping busy…

  • The road to good videogame-based movies

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    The New York Times has an article (registration required, don’t forget about bugmenot.com) on the genre-melding of movies and video games, and it focuses on Peter Jackson as one of the prime players that is bringing cinematics to games, rather than the other way around. Halo, of course, is mentioned (although King Kong plays a bigger role in the piece). Interesting read. Thanks, Adam Daniel.

  • Outpost: Coagulation Episode 10

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    Episode 10, the season finale of the Outpost Coagulation machinima series, has been posted over at TreeSkunk Productions. (If you’re having trouble finding them, trigger119 published direct links in this forum post (for the low-res) and this post (for the high-res). A cliffhanger…

  • Those Pelicans are NASTY.

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    c0ld Vengeance found a mod for Halo 2 that changes all enemy resources to UNSC resources – so that you’re fighting marines, Pelicans, hogs and tanks. He put up a short vid showing a fun encounter – check it out! (The forum post contains a link to the mod as well, if you want to try it yourself – but remember that you have to have a modded Xbox to make this work. That link also contains a couple of movies – one showing this global war mod, the other showing a ‘Betrayal’ version where you’re teamed up with Hunters against the rest of the Covenant.)

  • Rockets on Prisoner 2005 – All Winners

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    The Rockets on Prisoner 2005 Awards are nearly done – all of the winners have now been announced (you can find the full list on the RoP website, and at some point, an enormous (1 hour, 22 minutes) video containing the entire ceremony will be up. Congrats to all the winners!

  • Halo Nation Episode 4

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    The latest episode (episode 4) of the Halo Nation podcast has been posted – 45 minutes, 50 mb. From their description: “We get to play some Xbox 360 games, Every 10 Minutes Tips, Halo-isms, Girls of Xbox Live, and no singing (we promise)…” Thanks, animefx.

  • Did Stubbs make an appearance?

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    Caught this on Slashdot. Apparently there’s a ‘grassroots’ Zombie Lurch that has been occurring annually for the last few years, in different cities. Madison, WI (A lovely city by the way, I attended a LAN there a few years back) is this year’s ‘victim’ of the zombie horde. You can check out a bunch of the pics here, here and here, and I must say, it looks exactly like certain scenes in Stubbs. Quite charming actually. 🙂 One could imagine someone in that crowd is a Stubbs fan, but I didn’t spot anyone trying to corner his look. Too bad….

  • Did Stubbs make an appearance?

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    Caught this on Slashdot. Apparently there’s a ‘grassroots’ Zombie Lurch that has been occurring annually for the last few years, in different cities. Madison, WI (A lovely city by the way, I attended a LAN there a few years back) is this year’s ‘victim’ of the zombie horde. You can check out a bunch of the pics here, here and here, and I must say, it looks exactly like certain scenes in Stubbs. Quite charming actually. 🙂 One could imagine someone in that crowd is a Stubbs fan, but I didn’t spot anyone trying to corner his look. Too bad. 🙁

    As for the actual Xbox game, I’m not done with it, though I sense I’m just a few levels away from completion.

  • Did Stubbs make an appearance?

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    Caught this on Slashdot. Apparently there’s a ‘grassroots’ Zombie Lurch that has been occurring annually for the last few years, in different cities. Madison, WI (A lovely city by the way, I attended a LAN there a few years back) is this year’s ‘victim’ of the zombie horde. You can check out a bunch of the pics here, here and here, and I must say, it looks exactly like certain scenes in Stubbs. Quite charming actually. 🙂 One could imagine someone in that crowd is a Stubbs fan, but I didn’t spot anyone trying to corner his look. Too bad. 🙁

    As for the actual Xbox game, I’m not done with it, though I sense I’m just a few levels away from completion.

  • Gettin’ on IRC

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    KP has written up a rather comprehensive guide for IRC n00bs; if you would LIKE to hang out and chat with HBO regulars, but aren’t sure how to go about it… go read this page. (It’s aimed mostly at Windows-based chat clients… but the general ideas work fine with Mac clients, too. We’ll be linking this in a more permanent location soon (but right now, I have to leave).

  • Blow me away – the video

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    QuackJAG put together a great video for Elnea’s ‘Blow Boys Away’ music parody (first mentioned here), and Elnea mentioned it in her Red vs Blue journal (RvB membership required). The thing is, it’s hosted at YouTube, in small, Flash-only format, which seemed… belittling. So I offered to provide space for a larger version, and QuackJAG accepted. You can grab the vid (23.5 mb, 720×480, WMP9 format) from us, now. Great use of HaloCE! (Elnea also created a new sketch for him, in thanks – you can see it in our gallery here, or see what her son did to it in her journal there.)

  • A RATING TEN’s montage

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    A RATING TEN sent us word that he’d finished his montage, and that he had enough bandwidth left this month to serve it himself. The high-res version is six and a half minutes long, 640×480, in MPEG2 format, and weighs in at 246 mb. (There’s a lower-res version available on the downloads page – 32 mb – for folks who can’t handle the big one.) He also started a thread in our forum, if you want to comment.

  • Those Godless Chiropractors…

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    Red vs Blue Episode 65, ‘Looking for Group’, was released last night for sponsors (which means it’ll be available for the masses by tomorrow sometime). Clearly, Caboose is a closet RPG player. And Simmons is… well, pretty dumb. Props to sarge, for the best epithet of the week (“Great sodium chloride!”). If you’re a sponsor, go watch. If you’re not, wait a bit. (And please – don’t feel you need to tell us when the public versions are live… we announce RvB episodes ONCE, and assume anyone who isn’t a sponsor can count to 48, and figure out when to look for the version they can see.)