im sure u all have seen in level 343 guilty sparks not only a downed pelican, but also a downed dropship. i thought that the flood had just been released, so y would there be both dropships destroyed? and if it was that the flood got to them both, wasnt there 2 pelicans in the area? then what happened to the other one?
[image:6750 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Quit giggling at the headline, the Weekly Bungie Update is serious business.
The Bungie Store now has new Grunt short-sleeved T-shirts; thanks SketchFactor at Bungie.net.
Frankie has written up a postmortem-cum-pictures on the Bungie Winter Pentathlon 2004, featuring competition between four teams, Grizzled Ancients, Old Skool, Middle Skool and Newbies in five events: Halo 2, Top Spin, Pictionary, Mario Kart and EyeToy.
Frankie's latest installment of the Bungie Weekly Update is over at HBO right now. This week he stresses that there's no trickery involved in the grandeur that is the new Halo 2 screenshot:
As many of you know Halo was a huge sucess, and I feel that the main reason for it, besides the many ways to kill someone, was the story and its characters. I mean who doesn't like watching those interludes and such. Myself having read the books behind the series can see the many shortcomings in the game, would of loved to have seen the Battle for the Butte as described in the book by the Helljumpers but anyway back to the point.
[image:6662 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Everybody's new best friend, Frankie, has put up the first Halo 2 Weekly Update, and the first fansite to get the nod is (not surprisingly) HBO.
Lorraine has been super busy. A beautiful poster that I wish you could see*, has been created for product placement. That means that if Freddie Prinze Jr. is in a movie about teenagers or baseball, he might use that poster on his wall. We'd be disturbed but we can't control that stuff. She's also recently approved paint jobs for the new Grunt action figures. More interestingly, Lorraine is making design decisions about the new Halo 2 action figures. Not too much we can say there without revealing plot points, but they're going to be epic.
*Or you could just look at my artist's impression of it. I had to give him a lightsaber because guns are hard to draw. Lightsabers are as easy as snakes.
Got a question about Halo 2? Yeah, yeah... who doesn't? Well, this is your chance to Ask Frankie through TeamXbox in advance of the Halo 2 Weekly Updates starting up.
And yes, we know this item is late, we're including it here for extra credit. It's either that, or head out back to clap more erasers.
Emil from CobaltNova already has made his own 2004 prediction come true, and it's still 2003. CobaltNova has reinvented itself as a Halo-related art site.
After a long hiatus the Bungie Comics page has been updated; this one is written by Frankie and drawn by Zoë.
A quick viewing of the Bungie-related clip from Inside the Xbox by Film Oasis, as shown on the Discovery Channel and now available for download, reveals a few points about Halo 2, the sequel:
The last couple of rants on community, statistics and player rankings in Narc's Retorts prompted longtime Bungie fan and Rampancy reader Bullseye (author of the compendious tome known as the Myth 3 Buglist) to go look up a History of Bungie he wrote that touches on the idea of what the Bungie community is, and the relationship between a game and its community.