Today marks the start of a new series by a new staffer here at Rampancy. Sistimatic, a fan of Bungie games since the days of Marathon on the Macintosh, has looked back into the Marathon manual's retrospective on the battle at the Plain of Marathon to find war lessons applicable to Halo players today. Marathon Lessons is the first article in a series we're calling A Sistimatic Approach.
Other news:
Joystiq links to a story at gamenews.botros.net saying that the latest OXM demo disc contained an update with five new game types for Halo 2. They are:
Cody Miller of High Speed Halo notes in the HBO forum that their efforts to complete the entirety of Halo, on legendary difficulty, in under two hours, is currently only nine minutes short of the mark. Submissions of shorter times is encouraged. Times for Halo and Halo 2 are tracked.
Stuntmutt's 300th One One Se7en comic is online today, along with a frightening afterword and shocking revelations.
Over at Truth and Rationalization, prometheus continues his focus on the Halo moviemaking community with an interview of Blackstar of Blackstar Productions.
In other news:
Nick at HaloDev has announced Prometheus, a map editor for Halo engine games. The editor isn't quite available yet, but information about the upcoming application is available at HaloDev; the team says they expect to provide updates on their progress at the site about twice a month.
The last in the series of Bungie Fundamentals (and the 77th strip overall) is up at Halo Babies. Thanks mrsmiley.
The newest community Spotlight over at The Junkyard is on Richard "Sep7imus" Heppner, Jr. It's worth reading for bits like this:
You know how Anne Heche wasn't really a lesbian, she just liked Ellen Degeneres? That's me: not really a hardcore gamer, but in love with Halo.
Katana at demented puppy dot com notes that IWTPH2 has come up with an "unexpected" Halo CE map release. It's called Chop Chop, and is custom-made for close-quarters sword combat with DocOctavius' sword mod. See this thread in the Gearbox forum for screenshots and download links.
New edition of Calvin and Halo today by Blackstar; at least the trash-talking is equal opportunity. Thanks Louis Wu who pointed it out and Blackstar for the comic and the tips on sniper positions in Colossus.
Katana writes on demented puppy dot com that he's going to be covering Halo Custom Edition for that site.