BGH pointed out an article at Halo Phenom documenting how, as has been done to countless PC-based shooters before it, modified maps, models and textures are being applied to PC Halo to give players what might euphemistically be called an unfair advantage. Cheating, that is.
The article contains URLs to some pictures that show such modified maps, models and textures.
Tony "Octanus" Poitra of Cortana.org and Forerunners.org (he has his own site there) is the subject of the latest Spotlight from The Junkyard.
Sid of Nightmare Armor corpse-humps Cananimator BentLlama during a visit to Bungie HQ.
okay this is really weird on Assault on the control room a marine jumped on a ghost and attacked a tank. TRIPPY
when is the next mac update going to come out that will fix the compatibility issues with os x and nvidia cards?
ANY1?
You get the BG:H mailbag, apparently, where Rampancy.net warranted a special mention for being one of the above two kinds of matter. Three guesses which, first two don't count. Thanks Viper at Battleground:Halo.
A great behind-the-scenes vid released during E3 in 2002.
It's got commentary from Marty O'Donnell, Shikai Wang, Rob McLees and Paul Russell. It shows the progression of Halo from an engine for an RTS game to the first-person shooter the game became.
HBO and Mythica are hosting, via BitTorrent and Two Degrees, a new version of a great behind-the-scenes vid released during E3 in 2002 but just recently put out in high resolution on CD by PC Gamer in the UK.
It's got commentary from Marty O'Donnell, Shikai Wang, Rob McLees and Paul Russell. HBO has a list of mirrors. We don't have a version to host over here yet, but we hope we will soon.
UPDATE: We are now offering a mirror of the QuickTime version of Evolution of Halo.
Please bear in mind, Rampancy has been recently forced to limit the speed and number of connections for movie files; if the server is currently over its limit, you may see a broken QuickTime icon, a blank page, or R.net's main page.
mrSmiley wrote about some neat new sketches in the HaloBabies style, as well as a new comic. Check them out at HaloBabies!
Cenobite is the featured spotlight (lucky number seven for members of Starsiege:2845 in fact) over at the Junkyard. Cenobite did the Master Chief skin for Tribes 2, among other things. Thanks to Ryan "Mhaddy" Matthews for the heads-up.
...or when you're just busy with whole lots of other crap.
In any case, in the last ten days since R.net was updated (yes, yes, we know, we know) a lot has happened:
HBO, Bungie.net and other Halo websites were read to prepare this report.
Is this a test? Well, almost.
Big-Ern over at Battleground: Halo got the man himself (no, not The Man, he left Bungie awhile ago) to interview him about his involvement in the Bungie community, what it takes to keep HBO purring along like the sleek white blue-eyed albino kitten it clearly is, and some other stuff about goats that we won't mention. Oops.
The following comics had new editions over the past few days:
So now you know where is teh funni. Mb.