This movie, produced by GTC, including MaverickJ and Titan, shows various important multiplayer tips, including special tips for jumping, use of powerups such as active camoflauge, and using grenades to acquire distant weapons.
To view this copy, you need QuickTime.
More additions to HBO's Halo 2 Dialogue Databank, submitted by SaloX. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Between Marathon's tenth anniversary and this Christmas thing coming up, there's lots to do, necessitating Yet Another News Roundup:
Dennis Powers writes to tell of us a contest for Halo CE (Custom Edition) video makers being run at HaloMaps, Gearbox, and EPG Servers. First prize is two free months hosting for a 16-player Halo CE server with TeamSpeak, hosted by EPG Servers. Here's how to enter:
David Galindo has made several Halo 2 movies, the most striking of which perhaps is The Sights of Halo 2, which includes no action or gameplay, just some of the beautiful locations in the game set against part of the Halo 2 soundtrack. Almost... soothing. You can see it, and his other videos, at the recently-opened Sights of Halo 2 site. Thanks Evil Avatar.
[image:8567 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] XLNC has put together another collection of excellent HUDless screenshots from PC Halo, proving that even with less than a week to go before the release of the sequel, fans are still getting enjoyment from the first installment. We've created a third gallery for XLNC's screenshots especially for this collection, and here it is: XLNC Series Three.
[image:8472 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]A new set of 12 screenshots have shown up in the Celebrities section of MSN, spotted by M3XGhost39 who alerted Louis Wu at HBO. Some are old, some are new, some aren't supposed to be out yet, apparently, and some might be spoilers if you knew what you were looking at.
A lot of new media has been released in the past day or so. Bungie.net's Halo 2 Videos page has WMP9 versions of the 30 and 60 second commercial spots, as well as TV ads in French, German, and Italian. There's also another bonus; an online version of the Multiplayer Featurette that's going to be on the Limited Edition DVD.
AEG sends word that a documentary entitled Making the Video Game: Halo 2 will air on MTV on Friday, November 5 at 11 PM ET/PT, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the games, and involving the bands Hoobastank and Incubus, who are contributing to the soundtrack album, also due out with the game on November 9.
According to synide at MLG, they are offering a new feature called MLG-TV; a selection of video-on-demand streams showing various tourney wrapup videos. Thanks Fusion at Sector 7.
The new Halo 2 commercial that was leaked awhile back has now been broadcast in North America, and several versions of it have hit the Internet. Mythica is hosting an MPEG, BSP is mirroring it, a QuickTime, and a DivX.
Wolfy over at Sector 7 has posted up the winners of this year's Rockets on Prisoner video contest; top honors went to FTC #13 by XboxOttawa, which won for best movie and best screenplay. Mike Miller, Pico and Athol Productions also won awards.
I have to reiterate Louis Wu's statements at HBO, that episode one of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is probably the best bit of Halo machinima to come out since Red vs Blue. The movie's own site has already exceeded its bandwidth allocation, but Mythica is hosting a mirror of the first episode.
Eric Trautmann notes in his blog that he got his last payment for his work on The Art of Halo just recently-- and ahead of schedule, at that. Also, it seems, this means the book may be out soon:
Joshua Rennart has pulled out a few frames from the recent spoiler footage of what is assumed to be a new theatrical trailer, and tried to figure out what's hitting what. he's pretty sure one part is a Brute, but the other... he's not so sure about. Some have said it's a hunter, which he doesn't consider. Warning: spoilers!