Gary "Dolbex" Williams of Been Mawed and Halo50k3.com is announcing a new Halo tournament, Halo50k3, will be held on July 24 and 25, 2004, in Atlanta, Georgia, and will be presented by Major League Gaming.
According to their press release, these are the tournament details:
It looks like the new Bungie.net forums are powered by IdealBB 1.5, a Windows-based online collaboration system developed by Ideal Science. (Their company is linked from the bottom of the forum pages.)
Users of the new Bungie.net site might find one thing to be problematic- linking their Xbox Live GamerTag. Although Bungie.net allows you to choose whether or not to display your GamerTag if it is linked, you can't actually link it there if it isn't already. To do that, you have to sign in to Xbox.com using the same Passport you use for Bungie.net.
Those of you with truly nothing better to do may remember that my Christmas wish to Bungie was a flexible statistics system, linked to Xbox Live, that would have hooks that external fansites could link to in order to develop their own customized leader boards.
Louis Wu at HBO notes that the submission period for the Win A Date With One One Se7en contest is now over; there were 3500 entries that now need to be narrowed down to 5 Halo 2 calendar winners by Wednesday. Wow.
...and MasterNeoChief is their instrument, making this mod where you play as an Elite, eliminating UNSC forces. Get it over at HaloMods. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Dolbex got to see the Nightmare Armor guys up close and personal and wrote all about his Adventure at Nightmare Armor over at Been Mawed.
Some doings lately over at Nightmare Armor: shots of Caleb Hunter in a Caboose-blue suit, scores from their latest LAN fest, and special Nightmare Eggs for Easter (even a light red one).
An HBO forumgoer named pilotelite seems to have found a new item on the Red vs Blue site-- a page entitled The History of Red vs Blue, as told by Geoff Fink. I won't spoil the details except to say that I'm sure Justin Timberlake is glad things worked out the way they did.
Louis Wu mentioned in the HBO forum that there are a lot of entries for the Win A Date With One One Se7en contest currently going on at HBO, and not a few are not making the cut because submitters are not following the directions. In short:
That is all.
Ross Mills notes in the HBO forum that if anybody is ordering the Fable DVD, to watch during the "Making Of" vid that's on the disc, as you might catch a glimpse of him wearing a Halo t-shirt. Mills was a Fable tester.
Some news from Red vs Blue: first, the latest episode, 29, is available for sponsors.
Second, a Wall Street Journal reporter watched them make a recent episode and wrote an article that appeared on the front page of the WSJ's Friday edition. Over at HBO, Louis Wu notes that one Jon Keegan who works for the WSJ has sent a link that works for nonsubscribers for the next seven days, so all the Halo fans can read the story.
Bungie is having another Bungie Fan Fest at E3 this year, but there are only 50 spots, so go and register-- quick! For details, read SketchFactor's post on the Fest.