The second batch of Halo figurines, including Green and Red Master Chiefs, an Elite (with Needler and Plasma Rifle) and the Ghost, has now shipped. The collection also includes the Jackal, which we noted on the Bungiecam earlier. Thanks SketchFactor.
Bungie.net has posted the winners of the Halo-Ween contest, where fans were asked to carve a Halo-themed pumpkin. Oddly enough, the 1st place winner was not a 343 Guilty Spark, as a lot of us thought, but a rendition of the Halo 2 EGM Cover. The full list of winners is posted at Bungie.net. Thanks SketchFactor.
...on November 6th at 6 p.m. UTC. There have only been 5 winners so far, which means a lot of prizes are going to go unclaimed. Thanks SketchFactor and Louis Wu.
everyone should get halo on pc because it is the bomb. when i say bomb i mean it will rip you to shreads your teamates kill you for a vehicle they never let you have the banshee. but the fun part is that you kill them then you get it so if you don't got it get it
i have got far on my halo game i have betteen all on heroic and only a couple on legendary. i need help on the maw, library, keys, spark363.
I beat all the other levels with my friend toke us like 2 hours a level on legendary.
Tycho at Halo Ops (not to be confused with Tycho at Penny Arcade, or Rhymes With Psycho from Marathon) writes that he took information from an Atari Forums thread about tweaking PC Halo and made an article out of it. It looks eerily similar to the PC Tweak Guide we've seen elsewhere...
Penny Arcade is a popular webcomic that once gave Xbox Halo a mock "Game Of The Year" award accompanied by an image of a toilet to express their feelings about Halo's repetetive level design (what, did they play nothing except The Library?) and then came around later, after having played multiplayer and seen the Halo 2 announcement trailer (they're such scrubs).
For a game that on the Xbox received almost unanimous praise, Gearbox's PC port seems to inspire reactions ranging from ambivalence to adulation, with some deeply divided opinions in between. In some cases, those opinions are divided even within the same review.
Randy "Duval Magic" Pitchford of Gearbox Software chatted on the CPL IRC channel with a bunch of Halo fans to answer their questions; a complete transcript of the chat is up at HaloMods and The Junkyard.
In summary, I'd say the important points were:
the longest time i have played a multy player game was like 1 hour and 30 minutes. me against 3 people capture the flag. i won afther many trys. but we had spone time ass like 15 seconds added after every death and i had 1 minute to get the flag while they where rejoining. it was fun
i my self like the halo version on the xbox because i have one. i don't have dsl or cable so i cant have halo pc so. plaese replay on this message
oh sorry for all the stuped blogs i wrote a while back because i was just being stuped.
HateKill rated Halo "worth buying", as opposed to Worth Playing. While they liked the AI and the "classic gameplay", they decided to "leave out the storyline and get onto the important stuff" in their review, which didn't bode well for the game from the start.
This item at Slashdot points to coverage of the awards at the 2003 Machinima Film Festival, where Red vs. Blue cleaned up.
SourceGuy over at HaloMods has put up a short review of the BansheeWars mod by IronForge. The mod is currently running on HaloMods' own server.