DiehardSouljah has posted links to three videos in the High Impact Halo forum; they look like sneak peeks at some of Bungie's as-yet-unreleased Halo 2 maps due out later this summer. They're shakeycam footage, most probably from the E3 floor. Thanks supernostro for the heads-up in #hih.
Major Nelson's blog entry today has a schedule grid for 21 different countries, showing the Xbox/MTV special showing dates and times.
Exclusive Global Representation to Encompass Licensing of Mobile Content, Action Figures, Apparel and Others
Devin has produced transcripts of the A Walk in the Woods and Under Cover of Night tracks from Halo; each file archive includes a PDF, a MIDI file, a PrintMusic document and a read me. We've added them to our Halo Sheetmusic section.
PDF, MIDI, PrintMusic and read me files for Under Cover of Night from Halo, by Marty O'Donnell.
Over at Truth and Rationalization, prometheus continues his focus on the Halo moviemaking community with an interview of Blackstar of Blackstar Productions.
In other news:
Prometheus addresses the concern that so many bad Halo machinimas may end up being made that no one will pay attention anymore. However, he thinks that original writing and high production values will keep the wheat and the chaff sufficiently separated that this won't happen.
Prometheus writes in his blog that he believes that originality will be the quality that separates wortwhile Halo machinima from the rest, and will prevent the market from being flooded with so much low-quality work that no one will pay any attention to Halo machinima at all.
Colin Plamondon wrote to let us know about a new series of Halo instructional videos at TalkXbox. The series will have seven episodes, and was created by Eisen Feuer, the new strategy video maker for TalkXbox. Online right now is an introductory trailer for the series.
[image:9123 align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Joystiq points to a page at Engadget showing an image that purports to be a leaked picture of Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 2, codenamed "Xenon" but that its sources say is actually a decoy.
Fourteen new screenshots for Wideload's upcoming Xbox third-person action game, Stubbs the Zombie in: Rebel Without A Pulse have showed up on stubbsthezombie.com, and were later picked up by GameSpot.
[image:9096 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Only slightly more than three years have passed since the Xbox brought Microsoft into the console wars, and the next generation, if rumors are to be believed, will be upon us by the 2005 holiday season. Ahh.. Xbox. A console of infinite games... assuming they're all made by Bungie.
Here's a look at recent items about upcoming consoles, as well as goings-on in the Bungieverse:
But before we do, we'll just note that TheTaintedOne posted in our forum about his latest video release, Tainted Love. Check it out.