Month: November 2002

According to Hedgemony, Halo is pushing Xbox sales in Australia STILL, more than a year after release. (Okay, it’s only been out for 8 months Down Under… but you know what I mean.) For more details and speculation, check his forum post!

The 2003 Game Developers Conference is coming up soon (March 4-8, just 4 months away), and there are already at least three Bungie talks scheduled:Marty O’Donnell will be part of a 6-person panel deciding Does Melody Matter? Jaime Griesemer, Tim Longo, and Randy Smith (of Ion Storm) will look at level design On All Levels…

Recently, someone going by the name of ArakniZ has been dropping movies off in our Uploads directory. They’re in WMP9 format, so we can’t watch them. (There is no player for WMP9 for Macs, and none of the front-page HBO staffers has a PC.) Normally, we’d email this information… but ArakniZ hasn’t given us an…

MereCatFish drops off a desktop for our Wallpaper collection.

While we Americans filled our bellies, Finn, the Tireless Canadian, updated the Halo Story page. More stuffing than you can shake a fork at!

Friday’s Fan Fiction: Stormbringers, part 3, by WildebeestNZ The Ones He Left Behind: Prologue, by Fallen Heros Sarges Platoon, part 2, by Bobby Lucas Order of the Seraphim, part 5, by Jehkoh Revolution 2 Return of the Forerunner, part 5, by Gruntkiller Kelly-087: Prologue, by Tristan WolfeThat clears out the most recent stuff…

Submitted artwork over the past couple of days… JangoMaster126 turns in a minimalist Halo 2 case, Mr. Lolly Pop Man composites a nice Halo montage (full of spoilers), and Andrew Katz takes another stab at the Spartan II logo described in the Fall of Reach. You can find all three images in our Miscellaneous Art…

Whoa – long break for me. Felt good. 🙂 Back in the saddle, bit in my mouth… Miguel Chavez points out that the guys who were planning to build a Mjolnir Mark VI suit have given up. Bummer… but then, it was a rather ambitious project.

Heh – I had every intention of taking the whole day off… but I came down to check for email from a couple of guests, and I saw this Thanksgiving offering from Doggone. I couldn’t pass it up. Enjoy the day, everyone!

Just a couple of new Fan Fiction pieces for you this evening:The Collective, by Gasmask Halo 2: A New Hope, Part 4, by SephirothAnd with that, I’ll wish you a Happy Turkey Day, and bid you adeiu for a bit…

Tuesday’s Fan Fiction offering: TOUCHDOWN, by John Tabat Halo: Standing Firm, part 2, by Xzilen Fafnir, part 11, by KnightmareWolf Shadows of Archon II, part 29, by WadoSome of you may have noticed that there was some confusion with Fafnir chapters 9 and 10 – I managed to overwrite the comments for chapter 9 accidentally.…

It’s a snowy morning here at HBO HQ (there are almost 10 inches on the ground, and it’s still coming down) – but the fan submissions continue. A pair of images for you in our Miscellaneous Art collection…

Curious about who won the AGP Tournament that took place last weekend? Wonder no longer – the full scoop can be found over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. HP Darkman, the winner of the Halo National Championship, anchored the winning team… but check out all the details!

In a perfect world, new items we mention on our news page would be added to the various subsections of the site as we get them. In real life, though, I neglect to actually make those secondary additions until someone complains that they can’t find some relatively new item. The Miscellaneous section and the Movies…

Last week, Bungie posted an article on the Tru7h and Reconciliation website called ‘Designing for Carnage’, which looked at 3 multiplayer maps and how they were developed. We’ve added the 15 images (screenshots, 3D Studio Max views, and sketches) to our Screenshots database. For posterity, and all that.

Stosh is really turning ’em out… the third ‘blam’ comic was sent to us recently. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. (There are some comments about it on Stosh’s Blam website.)

A couple of weeks ago, a suggestion came up that it might be fun to see how fast folks could run through the various levels of Halo. Travis Cossel, Halo moviemaker, has taken up the challenge – and has created a Seventh Column chapter devoted to the cause. Visit Halo@LightningSpeed and check up on the…

Team Overkill drops off a Van Gogh-ized version of a Halo screenshot for our Miscellaneous Art collection. (It pulled an ‘A’ in the class it was turned in for.)

A few days ago, Blackstar updated his ‘Halo: The Movie Q & A’ with some additional information about international folks and assorted sundries. Please, read it and stop emailing him. 🙂 (Thanks to Phoenix155 for the heads-up.)

Monday’s Fan Fiction allotment:Halo 2: A New Hope, Part 3, by Sephiroth Origins, by Gasmask The Jump, Part II, by Stefano Scalia The Jump, Part II is dedicated to the author’s friend Ken, who died recently in a car accident. Our sympathies… Update – oops, forgot one; Cameron Eades’ Halo: Combat Evolved, chapter 2. Sorry…