Over at HBO, Louis Wu has put up a long piece on how the Halo movie scene has expanded into something much too large to handle. He's way too nice to say it, but the gist of it is this: you're burying him under a mountain of crap, and he's got a bit of advice that he hopes just might improve the quality of the average released Halo movie:
*_mc* mrsmiley at Halo Babies writes that he and Gruntsbane put together five new Halo Babies emoticons they said "no Halo forum should be without." We interpreted that as a direct order and installed them. For the sake of convenience, the codes needed to use these at R.net are the same as those at Halo Babies.
The Junkyard has broken its three-month Halo spotlight silence with a new piece on Ross "Oz" Mills; check it out. Thanks Mhaddy. Also, the Junkyard's opinion piece on the Xbox power cord replacement program by Jake "Evergreen98" Billo is also worth looking at, if you haven't already.
This movie, produced by GTC, including MaverickJ and Titan, shows various important multiplayer tips, including special tips for jumping, use of powerups such as active camoflauge, and using grenades to acquire distant weapons.
To view this copy, you need QuickTime.
I guess this news story pretty much invalidates the UNSC's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. I suppose Jacob is spinning in his grave... and that's a disturbing image given what he looked like last time we saw him.
Skeletor posted a guitar tab in Power Tab Editor format, as well as a recording, of The Maw from the Halo soundtrack in the HBO forum the other day, and was kind enough to let us add the file to our Sheet Music collection here at Rampancy.
Halo Babies today comments on who we definitely don't want directing a Halo movie (if there is one). Thanks mrsmiley.
I made a transcription of The Maw (from the Halo Soundtrack) for the guitar a while back. I was reminded of it when I saw BitMap's sheet music for Remembrance. Here is a .zip including the transcription in Power Tab Editor format (very useful program, download it here) and a short recording of me playing it.
February 9 has now arrived, and unless you count the resumption of Bungie.net stats tracking, or the Top Story at Bungie.net about RSS and Halo.Defas.Org, then I think it's safe to say that nothing terribly exciting has happened yet, nor is it likely to.
There are those who said something would happen today. What are they to say now?
Over at MacFixIt, Charlie reports that his copy of Halo for the Mac wouldn't run ever since he installed Security Update 2005-001, but that reinstalling the 10.3.7 Combo Updater resolved the situation.
mrsmiley announces the Biggest Fan Art Update Ever over at Halo Babies, a total of thirteen gallery pieces plus extras. Go check it out.
While most players may be paying more attention to Halo 2 than to Halo: Custom Edition, life breathes still in the PC port of Halo modified to accept user-developed content. Bungie.net has an interview with the members of the Halo 2 CE Project.