Month: September 2002

Whoa… truth or fiction? We got this pic of a master chief model – it comes from a friend who works with ERTL toys. You make the call. (I hope it’s real!) Update: picture has been yanked; too much potential trouble for all involved. Sorry…

A couple of weeks ago, GamesRadar put up some teaser info from the most recent Edge magazine. Today, they put up a more meaty slice – go check it out! (Thanks to Griffon for the heads-up.)

At the request of a fan, Warbow has reversed his recently submitted wallpaper so that Mac users don’t have to cover the cool artwork with icons. You can find the new version in our Wallpaper section, too. Update: forgot to check the uploads directory – there’s one more wallpaper for you, from RAT 9.3, in…

Couple of art bits for you today: a sketch of a jackal (embossed after the fact, it would seem) and a pretty cool pic of Jeff Lofland’s vision of Mrs. Chief. You’ll find both in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Fan Fiction that’s come in since Saturday night: Revolution, part 11, by Gruntkiller After Halo pt. 3 Chapter 2, by Kyle Halo Side Story, part 3, by Jordan Dotson On Their Shields: The Exodus, by mad_jackalstories down, off to do art…

Da Loaph found a rather unusual Halo review yesterday – it’s part of a site called Christian Spotlight, and focuses on how games fit into the Christian viewpoint. Halo got high marks for gameplay, but was heavily downgraded for the potentially anti-Christian messages implicit in the use of Christian ‘jargon’, and for the violence. We’ve…

Five new magazine bits for you – no, we can’t bring you the newest Edge or EGM mags yet, but there are a couple of articles from the August 2002 XBM, a couple more from the same issue of XGamer, and the article that got forumgoer BOLL into Halo fandom, a 2-pager from the June…

Dave sends in a pic of a situation he thinks might happen in Halo 2 – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Whoa. It really is time to get a ‘Halo Fan Music’ section set up; we’ve just gotten another entry. This one comes from Justin R. Durban, of Edgen Animations. It’s a 2:36 long .mp3, weighing in at a bit under 2 and a half megs… and it’s beautiful. (Very martial.) Justin says:I played the game…

Lots of art bits submitted recently. We’ll start with the miscellaneous art – there’s an airbrushed MC, a Halo box, and an MC with a sword, from XAL, Jack Smith, and Chris, respectively. You’ll find these in our Miscellaneous Art section. And then there’s a new banner in our Banners section, and two new logos…

Okay, so it’s simple. It’s just so cool, though. If you can spare about 200k of downloading, and have Flash installed, go take a look at BOLL’s MC model. It makes me giggle. Update: Chime in.

Early morning Fan Fiction:THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM, chapter 1, by ThASuPaMaN8 Shadows of Archon II, part 18, by Wado After Halo (k), part 3, by Kyle Wings of Death, part 7, by el_halo_diablo Go take a look…

Jack points out that a VH1 ‘Behind the Music’ episode about Aerosmith shows one of the band members playing Halo at the back of the tour bus during a Japan tour earlier this year. Jack was tickled by the idea of meeting up with Aerosmith on the Halo 2 Xbox Live battlefield…

Three new desktops for you today; a spectacular image, cleaned up by Warbow, and a pair of clean black pics by michael hopkins. Check ’em all out in our Wallpapers section.

Ritalin adds another Halo moment to his artwork collection – you can find this one in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Michael Frank turns in a new twisting of the original Halo logo for our Logos section.

Chris Hamilton has set up a countdown page to the release of Halo 2. Currently, it counts down to the first of December, 2003 – but as dates become clearer, he’ll adjust the end result. (Interestingly, the timer on the front page of Rampancy.net shows a countdown that’s over 2 weeks shorter…)

mnemesis points out that the Halo Story Page has been updated… again. Nice to have a tag team working on it now!

Ever wonder about the tools used to build Halo? Wonder no more. Bungie.net has put up an interview with Mat Noguchi… you’ll learn a lot. Not all of it is useful information… but you’ll have fun anyway.

Another Halo 2 preview has popped up – this time over at GamingWorld X. Take a look.