Month: April 2002

A couple of escapades have been posted to the Gameplay Tricks section – some great out-of-map shots on Battle Creek (nobody’s ever gotten out before) and Blood Gulch (a whole BUNCH of places never seen before)… check ’em out! (More stuff coming soon.)

Djoey 154 writes to say he’s translated Marty O’Donnell’s GDC talk into French – you can read it at Halo-Game.

Your daily Fan Fiction batch: Covie In The Crib, by WolfgangMjolnir Halo: Aftermath (gj) (Prologue), by GarlicJr11 The First Step Into A Long Fall Part 1, by JediKnight114 Capture of the Bounty Part III, by SkyRyan1 ODST Saga part 5, by Robo42786 Interesting mix, today…

Last week, Trey Ikon submitted a series of pistol concept sketches – pretty cool stuff. Today, we’re adding another series that he mentioned on our forum yesterday – you’ll find ’em in our Miscellaneous Art section. That pistol/shotgun combo is getting prettier and prettier…

We get some pretty odd Wallpaper sometimes…

An early greyscale concept drawing of the Master Chief has been colored by WeTsLaYeR – we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section.

A few weeks ago, SaTaN discovered a cool new trick – you could use the momentum of a vehicle to push your player up a LONG way. He described it on our forum, and then Bonk filmed a demo of the technique… but SaTaN’s put out a video of his own, showing how versatile this…

Daniel, of Team 7hr33, points out that his sister Robyn (Dephalt) wrote (and recorded) a very nice addition to Marty O’Donnell’s ‘Siege of Madrigal’, and the result is posted on Team 7hr33’s website. (Sheet music is also included.) Go listen! (It’s on the Miscellaneous page.)

Fan Fic For Freddy:The awakening, part 1, by agsbladerboy55 Capture of the Bounty, part 2, by SkyRyan1 The Hell Of War, part 9, by Jaywhit10 Get to readin’!

Alex Cross, who has been writing chapters for the Fan Fiction series Aftermath for about a month now, has submitted a desktop image to accompany the writing. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Now this is just plain cool. Some Halo fanatics recreated some Halo wallpaper at a Sidewalk Arts festival in Georgia… in chalk. Lots of chalk. Check out the results in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Explanation included.)

Yesterday, Matthew Brady found this Japanese Halo review, but didn’t know what it said. A quick question on our forum elicited two translations – interesting reading!

Small change in the Gameplay Tricks section – you now have the option to search by Trick Type. (If you don’t care about Exploration, but want to see all the weird glitches people have found… this is for you.) As soon as I can figure out a clean way to do it, you’ll be able…

Red hunter at night, take flight. To the Wallpaper section with you!

Today’s Fan Fiction batch: Capture of the Bounty, by SkyRyan1 Effusion, part 6, by Tursas The Hell Of War, part 8, by Jaywhit10 Operation False Prophets, part 10, by Ian Barnes Went nicely with Barenaked Ladies…

Another half-dozen tricks have been uploaded to the Gameplay Tricks section – keep an eye out for easier navigation, coming soon. In the meantime, check these babies out – they range from elegant to seriously useful, with fun stuff thrown in just for kicks. And what’s this? The queue is almost empty! W00t!

Nice article over at Gamespot – this issue of Gamespotting has ‘Halo’s 10 Commandments’, a well-written list explaining why Greg Kasavin says he “wouldn’t hesitate to name Halo as my single favorite system launch game of all time.” The only thing that bugged me was the pic he chose to illustrate The Co-op Mode’… Thanks…

Robert Whitaker has kindly translated (or explained) the speech and captions of the four Japanese Halo commercials released last week – visit his translations page and see if you can decipher the inscrutable Japanese advertising mindset…

Wondering why the number of grenades in ammo caches on multiplayer maps isn’t constant? Read this.

The Gameplay Tricks database has gotten rather large – currently, there are 114 entries in it (plus another collection of tricks illustrated by some of the One-Shots entries; there are almost 50 of those). It’s becoming difficult to tell what tricks have been done, how they’ve been done, and what still needs to be done.…