Month: August 2005

  • Arsenal get Ajax in Champions League draw

    Arsenal have been drawn in Group B for the initial group stage of this season’s Champions Leage. They will face Ajax, Sparta Prague, and swiss side FC Thun. The details of the full draw can be seen here on Arsenal.com, and the details of the fixtures can be found here.

  • Cygan gets two as Arsenal beat Fulham 4 – 1

    Pascal Cygan trebled his goalscoring tally at Arsenal with two strikes in a 4 – 1 win by Arsenal over Fulham. Fulham went ahead in the first half with a strike by Claus Jensen after a Toure mistake, not long after Lauren had a penalty saved. However, the Gunners came back to equalise on the…

  • Halo Movie Update

    Joseph Staten has posted an update over at Bungie.net about progress on the Halo Movie. Details have been worked out with Universal and 20th Century Fox – i.e. the lawyers are now happy – and things can start really moving on the project. Joseph takes us on a journey through the evolution of the project,…

  • Chelsea defeat Arsenal 1 – 0

    Chelsea welcomed Arsenal to Stamford Bridge on Sunday, and managed to take the three points thanks to a lucky goal from Drogba. Arsenal had significantly more possession, but lacked the ability to produce results in the final third. Freddie Ljungberg was substituted off after injuring himself on an advertising hoarding. He has undergone initial scans…

  • J Allard XBox 360 chat transcript

    Major Nelson organised an online chat with J Allard over the weekend. The transcript of the chat can be found here on his blog. J answered some key questions, such as support for backwards compatibility: J Allard (Expert): Another one from mail: What about backward compatibility in the core system?J Allard (Expert): because we didn’t…

  • Bungie Weekly Update – August 19th

    In this week’s Weekly Update over at Bungie (where they seem to have dropped the “Weekly What’s Update” moniker), Frankie gives us a couple of tidbits in a short update. All the new Halo 2 maps from the Multiplayer Map Pack will be available for free download on XBox Live from August 30th. All the…

  • Bungie Spotlights Major Nelson

    Bungie have posted a Community Spotlight story about Larry Hryb, a.k.a. Major Nelson, (Xbox Live Director of Programming). It focuses mainly on how the XBox Live team are helping weed out the Halo 2 cheaters, but also Frankie just won’t let it go about Bungie’s defeat at the hands of Major Nelson and the XBox…

  • Bungie bans boosters

    Frankie has posted a news item about the mass (temporary) banning of “boosters” from playing Halo 2 on XBox Live. “Yesterday several thousand players were banned, all people who were found to have played a significant number of games with known reported modders. ” Frankie describes the phenomenon of “boosting”: “Since the banhammer came down…

  • XBox 360 packages and prices announced

    Microsoft have announced details of the packages and prices for the XBox 360 when it launches later this year. Major Nelson has the full press release here, and I’m sure it’s available elsewhere too. There will be two packages, the XBox 360 and the XBox 360 Core System. The Core System version will come with…

  • Bungie Weekly What’s Update

    In last Friday’s WWU, Frankie lets us know that the matchmaking playlists are due to be updated in September. Part of the update will be to add the new maps to the standard playlists, since by September they will be available for free download via XBox Live. The Preview playlists will be removed at the…