The Player Will Explore This Entire World... Ouch!
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:
Death by intelligence.
HUDless Halo Screenshots At Been Mawed
Dolbex from Been Mawed has put up a post that he's been able to make screenshots of Halo without the heads-up display, just like those that Bungie makes using the Xbox Devkit. A tutorial on how to do it may be forthcoming.
The Bungie Factor
James McQuillian of Film Oasis produced a show for the Discovery Channel about the Xbox entitled "The X Factor: Inside Microsoft's Xbox". One segment, about six minutes long, focuses on Bungie.
McQuillian recently made this clip available online for the Bungie community at HBO, and we've mirrored a copy here.
Halo 2 Media Blitz Rumored For January
There is a site called GameDreamZ, which has been mentioned here and there recently, and apparently allows people to post things they think they know and have other people, who may or may not know anything but have a function
That's How It's Done
HBO has followed up on their September story about a video showing the Halo50K Tournament finals featuring TDT vs DM playing CTF on Battle Creek. (Who says the military has a monopoly on alphabet soup?) Video CD Productions had a streaming version back then, but now there are QuickTime and Windows Media versions, hosted at Mythica and files.bungie.org.
Halo50K Finals, 2003
Is That A High Res Screenshot In Your Pocket?
SketchFactor sauntered into the HBO forum and laid down links to three high res screenshots suitable for wallpaper-making. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Mirrors Of Making
We've put up a mirror of the lo-res QuickTime version of the Making Of Halo 2 video in our Halo 2 Movies page of our Movies section. It's also available from RHL.
Not Quite The First Strike
Okay, this is official this time, not a few backroom stockboys itchin' to put the new stuff out front before they're supposed to-- Eric Nylund's new Halo novelization, Halo: First Strike, has been released.
Will you read Eric Nylund's latest Halo book, Halo: First Strike?
Yes!
69% (61 votes)
No.
13% (12 votes)
What's a book?
18% (16 votes)
Total votes: 89
Halo 2 Is Not A Mirage
An outfit called Film Oasis put together a documentary on the making of Halo 2; it was in the bonus DVD/controller package that went on sale last month, but now it's available online in two sizes. As usual HBO has a mirror page. Thanks again Louis Wu at HBO and SketchFactor at Bungie.net.
Fire Team Charlie #9 Finally Released
Andrew from Team XBO wrote to let us know that FTC9 is finally released and available for download for by members; all others get BitTorrent.
Red Vs Blue Takes Three Machinima Awards
Blood Gulch Chronicles, the popular webseries by the group Red vs Blue, using the Halo engine running on the Xbox and set in the Blood Gulch multiplayer map, has taken three prizes at the Machinima Awards 2003: Best Independent Machinima Film, Best Writing, and Best Picture. Congratulations to the Red vs.