Patroclus' homage to Mystery Science Theatre, complete with appropriate Bungie references is now here at R.net in 2Mb and 10Mb sizes. Thanks for the heads-up to Louis Wu at HBO.

We've mirrored two new Halo movies here at Rampancy: the first is the third Halo Movie trailer from Blackstar Productions. It's available here, at the Blackstar Productions website, and from Mythica.org.

The second is a co-op film of players Bluespam, Tarrsk and OXS2000 completing the Pillar of Autumn level without any weapons at all (not sure at what difficulty). It's also available at Mythica.org.

Both have now been added to our movies page.

Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the tip.

We now have a local copy of the Breaking The Rules video (18Mb) by Team Overkill in our movies area. Enjoy!

We noticed over on HBO that there's a powerpoint file from the presentation on Halo's AI given by Jaime Case Griesemer and Chris Butcher at the Game Developers Conference. You can get the file from the GDCon site or from our own local copy. The file is a little over 14 Mb.

GDCon also has PowerPoint and Word versions of Marty O'Donnell's talk on Halo's music. This one is much smaller; 3Mb for the .ppt and a mere 44k for the .doc.

We're reorganizing the Halo Movies area, adding three new items, including the two Blackstar Production trailers and a new entry, as well as removing some of the old files that we are no longer hosting.

Shortly we'll also add links to other files.

The recent Halo Movie 'Trailer' and 'Teaser' videos are now being hosted directly by Blackstar Productions on their new site, as well as by the many mirrors mentioned at HBO.

We've got Khen Rigzin's new video now mirrored on Rampancy.

Siva (W'rk)'s Halo video, How I Learned To Stop Playing And Love The Halo video is now available here on the Rampancy website.

The way to my heart is through metal music and Halo. After seeing Siva (W'rk)'s How I Stopped Playing And Learned To Love The Halo, Khen Rigzin took his footage, modified it a bit, and put in a new music track of his own. He then posted a link here on Rampancy to inform the world. If you liked Siva's version, there's absolutely no reason to miss Khen Rigzin's.

It's 55.6 MB Zip-compressed (uncompressed it's a 60 MB MPG) and is currently being housed at PlanetInternet. There aren't any mirrors just yet, but this site is plenty fast (I pulled 300k/sec the entire download). I'll see what we can do about hosting the video, although I'm not entirely sure we have the webspace for another big file.

We've got yet another masterpiece on our hands, folks. Siva (W'rk) has created an intense video displaying many moments of pure adrenaline during Halo's single player campaign as Napalm Death's Incendiary Incoming song flows seamlessly with the action. I have another name for this video, For Testosterone Apply Within.

The MPEG is 57.7 MB large and is over three minutes long. It definitely contains some spoilers, so those who haven't beaten the game may want to hold off on downloading this one for awhile. Mr. Zarquon is mirroring the video, as is Psyjnir Complex Hotline. The video is also being uploaded to RampancyHL although I can't guarantee it will be there for too long. (Thanks HBO)

The Banshee Flare movie has been added to our Halo Movies page and is now available for download from the website as well as the Hotline server.

YAHV (Yet Another Halo Video) has hit the web and calls for your attention. FrogBlast has posted the Banshee Flare video in the HBO forum. It's not nearly as long as the two other popular Halo videos; this one's short and sweet. Click this link and 1.1 MB later you'll see a plasma grenade explode, launching a second plasma grenade up in the air and attach itself to an overhead Banshee. Pure brilliance!

UPDATE: The video is now mirrored on RampancyHL and will be on the website shortly.

There's no dispute that the original Warthog Jump video was a success, but now Aikidoka and Halorigin are looking to upstage it with their new clip titled What Goes Up. In the original Warthog Jump, R. Glass used a few grenades and a rocket launcher to give the Warthog its lift. This definitely did the job, but Aikidoka and Halorigin figured that 53 grenades would work a little better.

They were right.

What Goes Up is 35 MB and is over six minutes long. Mirrors are appearing over at HBO and we plan on hosting the video here at Rampancy, too. It's already being hosted on RampancyHL for those of you who just can't wait.

You will need Apple's QuickTime software to view the video.

HBO has finally finished setting up its press scans section, which features scans of forty magazines from all over the world. The press scans basically serve as an archive of older Halo material, such as previews and reviews, so they don't get lost in the void of time.