Month: October 2002

Bungie’s hiring again… this time, they’re looking for a Community Development Manager. Responsibilities, requirements, and general info can be found on Bungie.net… oh, how I wish I lived near Seattle sometimes.

A European mirror for the Halo Winter Season promo mentioned yesterday has come online – thanks again to GJ of Fantazm!

Halo in your local pub? Narcogen, of Rampancy.net, found an interesting article describing a new marketing deal between Microsoft and Anheuser-Busch which will get Xboxes into bars. Promotional schwag, including Xboxes, will be given away during the initial phase. Nice!

In the midst of the forum madness of the last couple of days, Lorraine Reyes-McLees dropped by with an update on Eagan (misspelled the last time we mentioned him) – sounds like everyone’s doing well! (We want sketches, Lorraine!)

Strykerwolf created a pretty cool image for Halo-ween… we’ve shamelessly stolen it for use here on this page. (You can see the original on our forum.) Strykerwolf – if this thievery is not acceptable, we’ll yank it… but it was just too cool not to use.

Lots of Fan Fiction today… Unexpected Surprises, part 3, by JediKnight114 Fafnir, part 7, by KnightmareWolf Shadows of Archon II, part 25, by Wado The Shadows, part 10, by Glenny Cooking Covies with Neco Divad, by Neco Divad The Time Vortex: Intro, by Arthur Wellesly Revolution 2 Return of the Forerunner, part 3, by Gruntkiller…

Whoa. Can’t remember the last time we did this, but hey, exigent circumstances, and all… Travis Cossel, quickly making a name for himself in the Halo Video scene, has put together a promo film for the iGames Halo Winter Season – you can grab a copy (6.3 mb, 1:22 long, QT 5 format) over at…

On October 25th, jackass the movie opened in theaters. Within three days, we’d received two submissions parodying this film. Our limited bandwidth resources required that we choose one… Kevin Kranzky has created a 6:45, 32.5 mb film that looks at stupid Halo stunts. Some of it’s hilarious, some of it is kind of silly… but…

iGames has posted the tournament rules for the Halo Winter Season; if you’re interested in competing in this national event (the first qualifiers are this weekend), check out this page! Thanks to Team Overkill for the heads-up.

Tuesday’s Fan Fiction: Liberation, part 8, by Hoju Indoctrination, by Havok Have at ’em…

SilverBrin****, of The Psyjnir Complex, has created another piece of Halo fan music. In SB’s words:Think Halo meets Oni… If the Master Chief and Konoko were out clubbing, you might hear this….then again mb not not :(.It’s interesting. I have trouble hearing the Halo influences in places… but you should check it out for yourself!…

Game Nation has interviewed Xbox Canada’s marketing manager, Ryan Mugford. There are some interesting numbers in there; Canada has the highest percentage of Xbox gamers in the world (30.1% of their home console market), the highest percentage of Halo purchasers, and a ridiculously high percentage of people with access to broadband (80% of Xbox owners…

Hojjen drops off a big, bright desktop for our Wallpaper section. Take a look…

Bizarre pair of Miscellaneous Art submissions tonight. (For what it’s worth, the creator of the first one has nothing to do with me, and I probably wouldn’t have posted the second one if I hadn’t been so amused by goings-on on the forum this evening.)

Better late than never… today’s Fan Fiction offerings:He’s Baaaaaack! Chapter 1, by Killer_Fairy Outlaw, Chapter 4, by Chris Cassani The Hephaestus Equation I, by Dirty Commie Apparently, the comments abuse is getting worse. A forum thread has been started to get votes from people interested (one way or the other) in the continued existence of…

Weekend Fan Fiction:Halo 2: Return of Death,, part 4, by Lord Dagon ‘GET OUT!’, by Neile Pederson Justification, part 2, by Rixor A word of advice to fan fic writers: If you decide to use a font that 95% of your readers do not have access to (like, say, Tengwar Sindarin), be sure to submit…

We received another movie from Jiberish Halo Productions. This one’s called ‘Fear and Wonder, and it’s a 3:21 long, 13.8 mb gameplay film. There are some great moments in this film (the dismount/mount at 0:40 is fantastic), but I’d like to make something clear… this movie (and more than a dozen like it that have…

Pair of desktops for you today. (One was submitted probably as a logo enhancement… but it’s wallpaper-sized, so I’m putting it here.) Check our Wallpaper section.

We’ve added the three map views from Bungie’s recent Team Tournament Strategy Guide to our Screenshots database.

Griffon writes to point out that Halo Command Central (a site that has existed in many guises over the years) is live again, in its prettiest format yet, over at Forerunners.org. There’s not much content yet (Just a Weapons page and a Vehicles page, it seems)… but it’s open, and content will fill out quickly,…