The Junkyard Interviews The Duke
The Junkyard has another spotlight for the Halo community today; they got in touch with Ducain from HighImpactHalo and he was kind enough to sit down and answer their questions. Thanks Ryan "Mhaddy" Matthews.
Death by intelligence.
Halo Fans Acting Their Age
New guest strip by Stuntmutt over at Halo Babies today; also a new One One Se7en that cuts the other way. Thanks mr smiley.
Halo, Mein Führer!
Team 7hr33, consisting of Daniel "Finn" Barbour of the Halo Story Page, Richard "Shovelface" Nickel and Rob-Roy "M3" Schmidt have put up their review of Halo 2, titled Page of Woah|Woe, or, How I learned to stop worrying and criticize Halo 2.
CPL Summer Championship Announced
Cooked Gamers today has word of the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships 2005 to be held from July 6 to 10, 2005 in Grapevine, Texas. Thanks rapture.
I Can See Clearly Now
They Put The Hump Into Humpday
Obviously showing off in front of the Frag Dollz took away whatever humility Bungie might have developed as a result of being beaten by the forum mods; triumphant in the latest Humpday Challenge against OXM, the egos run rampant.
Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty
If you've reached thirty you can try like hell for renewal on Carousel or you can join the GeezerGamers, a group of plus-thirty folks who like to play games against each other for fun. Bungie.net has an interview with the group's founder, Microsoft employee Jamey Tisdale.
Fun With CSS
A Rampancy.net reader was kind enough to create this Flash demonstration of a flaw in our CSS code which caused the size of link tags to change when moused over in some browsers. It's interesting now because the animation also includes the javascript countdown some six and a half days before the release of Halo 2.
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Halo 2's One Month Honeymoon
K.R. Wicks of Rockslide Megabattle fame put up his own review of Halo 2, entitled Halo 2 Disappointment. Generally, it is a nice collation of most of the complaints that many players have had about the game, altough the postscript, added on November 29, is more harsh:
Bungie.net Forums Back Up
Achronos noted yesterday morning that Bungie.net's forums are back up; maintenance took longer than expected because of the size of some of the forums. "New Mombassa alone has 51,541 total topics and 623,614 total posts," said Achronos.
Minotaur Box Art Found In Foundation
[image:8886 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Given the recent release of the Pathways Redux mod for Doom 3, it seemed appropriate to look for more old school Bungie news, and Izual delivered it: box art for Minotaur, Bungie's dungeon-crawling game, in Halo multiplayer levels: Foundation, to be exact. You can find it in our Halo 2 Tricks Database under Multiplayer.
"Yesterday" by The Beatles, adapted for Halo 2
Yesterday, the Covenant fleet seemed so far away
Now it looks as if they'd like to play
Oh, Earth was safer yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm twice the SPARTAN that I used to be,
With an AI hanging out with me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.
I shot something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
Yesterday, Halo 1 was such an easy game to play.
Now from the Flood I need to hide away
I should've stood in bed yesterday.
Mm mm mm mm mm.
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Third Person Mod For Halo Custom Edition
bitterbanana over in the Gearbox Software forum has announced the release of a mod for Halo Custom Edition and PC Halo that provides a chase camera (third person view) and adjustable field of vision (FOV). Thanks VerdaFolio.
Roundup: Short Trip Around The Haloverse
Things outside the Haloverse are going to be busy for a bit, so here's a news roundup to start things off:
No Swedish Meatball Jokes, Please
[image:8865 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Andreas "BOLL" Aronsson of Wheels on Fire and flashy gruntness (grunty flashness?) fame is the subject of the latest Spotlight at The Junkyard by Ryan "Mhaddy" Matthews. BOLL hits the nail right on the head when he says:
On a side note, the world needs more co-op games.
How right he is.