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Month: February 2001

  • More fan fiction

    “Then I realized that Bob, whom I personally felt was in cahoots with the Covenant to kill me…” Maszimo sent us in another piece of fan fiction. This piece is called ‘War Thoughts’. Maszimo also wrote ‘The Second Fall’.

  • Vote Halo at PC Game Review

    Poll smash! Clark Williams-Derry sends word that there is a poll at PC Game Review that asks what game are you most looking forward to. Halo is on the list but not doing so well. Let’s tell them about Halo. Go vote!

  • Matt Soell interview

    eldar-colonel of Halo HQ dropped us a note to say: We’ve just posted a community interview with bungies matt seoll, you can view it at this link: http://halohq.hqgaming.com/views/matt_seoll.shtml There’s also some news on our front page below the latest stuff that you might wanna check out, it’s about PcPowerplays poll and Halo comment. Check out…

  • nVidia GeForce 3 coming to Macs first

    Good news for Mac gamers as Jonathan Keegan points out that nVidia GeForce 3 is coming to Macs first. Watch Halo fly on that. Of course we have to get Halo first.

  • More wallpaper

    Diogo Barbosa’s second wallpaper is now up. It’s called called Rock (328K).

  • Halo’s Universe a new Halo site

    Bosskiller 51 sends word of a new French Halo site called Halo’s Universe. Check it out. Parlez Vous Francais?

  • New wallpaper

    Diogo Barbosa kindly sent us in some nice wallpapers. Here’s the first one called Desert. It’s a biggie 509K.

  • Halo merchandise poll

    As seen on the Marathon’s Story page bungie.net have a new poll up about what Halo merchandise you’d like to buy at the Bungie Store. Here are the choices: Wall Poster Action Figure DVD (with cool content) Art Book (with cool pictures) Go vote!

  • Want to work on Halo?

    Want to work on Halo? Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi maintainer of Oni Central for this cool heads up. Bungie are looking for a 3D Multiplayer Artist to create exciting multiplayer battlegrounds in Halo. Check this out for size: 3D Multiplayer Artist (Redmond) We are looking for a contractor to help design the site of a…

  • New look bungie.comon the way

    New look bungie.com on the way says Matt in a news update on our forums. Here’s the details: I’m working on some stuff for the relaunch of bungie.com, doing preliminary work for the next FanFest, meeting with various folks about various Halo-related things (websites, merchandise, etc.), and doing some other stuff that’s still a secret.…

  • New fan fiction

    “He remembered his pistol. Not much, only a 9mm Glock. He pulled it out. He jammed it against the alien’s face.” NevinNiven sent us some fan fiction. The piece is called “Halo Offshoot”. This is the second piece submitted by NevinNiven.

  • Louis to do SETI stats!

    “Who’s gonna do SETI stats this Monday?” is our usual fun game of tag at coffee time in the HBO offices. Louis lost (hey you go on holidays what do you expect?). The Halo SETI Marines added ten new members to their ranks since last Monday bringing total membership up to 569 marines. We’re ranked…

  • Don’t forget about AoD Halo

    Sorry to the AoD Halo boys for not adding their site to our links page. We mention their site back in February 13th news. You can blame Louis guys… we do. 😉

  • Blam!, a new Halo order goes live.

    Blam!, a new Halo order goes live. Thanks to Wodasini for the heads up. The page is still under construction. So contact Wodasini if you want to join up. For a full list of Halo clans see our ever expanding Links page.

  • New fan fiction

    “As I leapt off the cliff, the Covenant roared and got off a final shot that sizzled over my head as I fell.” Maszimo sent us some fan fiction. The piece is called “The Second Fall”. We printed it out and slipped it under Crux’s cell door. He’s been silent ever since. So for pity’s…

  • Matt’s Halo update added to the Database(tm)

    We’ve added Matt’s recent Halo update to the Database(tm). Don’t forget you can search the database for all that Halo goodness. Word of the day is “levels”. Go find it. 🙂

  • new look cortana.org?

    Early this morning we got an email from Allenthar telling us that cortana.org was in the process of being redesigned. We checked it out and went back to sleep. Now fire phoenix over at Halo Center has posted a news item about it. The new look cortana.org however has vanished and the old look is…

  • Halo Tip URL change

    Kaidu webmaster over at Halo Tip tells us that they are changing their URL again. It’s changing from http://www.halotip.com to http://halo.tip.nu. http://www.halotip.com will not work after March 2, 2001. Please adjusted your links.

  • New Wallpaper

    Hey who needs Louis! We put our collective heads together and figured out how to add Wallpaper to the database thingie. This new piece is by Kaidu webmaster over at Halo Tip. We printed it out and shoved it until the door of Crux’s cell. You should have heard the howls!

  • Matt likes his hippos!

    Just great! Louis heads off to the sun and pina coladas leaving me here with a mad monk and an aging packet router for company. Didn’t bother to leave the keys to Crux’s cell either. Damn monk is starting to count out primes again. Louis won’t let us answer your HBO mail either not after…