Month: December 2002

A simply MASSIVE new logo from X – in our Logos section.

Heh. We’re flattered. 🙂

Two months ago, forum regular Tarrsk set up a list of HBO forumgoers and their Xbox Live gamertags, so that people could find friends to play with. Recently, that list moved here, to HBO. Now, it’s become quite a bit more automated. The list keeps track of which XBL games you play, and you have…

Whoa. Nice find by mnemesis. After seeing all those hardcover copies of The Fall of Reach on the Bungie Webcam, he went looking at Del Rey’s online catalog… and the latest iteration of the entry for the next Halo novel is rather intriguing. It’s now listed in 3 categories, instead of just two. The older…

Back in September, we posted a piece of Halo fan art that showed an interesting composite submitted by macro werner. Well, its fame is spreading – you can find this picture (unattributed) on page 91 of the February 2003 issue of OXM. (Interestingly enough, the footer of that page says ‘February 2001’ – maybe they’re…

Griffon pointed out that he announced a piece of Halo fan music more than two years ago. (As far as I can tell, this is the FIRST piece of Halo fan music – I’m sorry it’s remained buried until now.) You can grab a copy (3.2 mb, mp3 format) from mythica.

Matt Purcell asks a momentous question, Katana_701 sketches some weapons based on the Halo assault rifle. You’ll find the results in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Fan Fiction from the last day or so:Fallen Angel, part 2, by Gruntkiller/Covert A Shield of Deception, by Jahan Rebirth – Shadow’s Prologue, part 1, by Shadow War on the Home Front, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, by Anthony CoronadoGo get ’em… Update: oops, missed one. Don’t forget to check out Ring Of The Forerunners…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a new piece of Halo fan music. We’ve recently gotten permission from Spiderstyle (the creator) to host a copy here; we’ve placed it on Mythica’s HBO Mirror. It’s 3.9 mb, and nicely polished. We’ll add comments from the author about the piece as soon as we get them.…

Tarrsk’s HBO XBL Gamertag list was updated recently – but he’s in a place where he has no access to the website. To help out, we’re hosting it here at HBO. Find friends now! (For those who don’t know, this is a list of HBO forum regulars, correlating their Xbox Live gamertags to their HBO…

dolbex writes to say that the new, improved Halo50k.com website is up and running. Check it out!

In the December issue of OXM UK, the top 10 plays included a few Halo pieces (as usual). Most were rehashes of standard stuff… but one was something that I haven’t really seen filmed before. (This might be because it is so mind-numbingly boring to actually film that nobody wanted to bother… or it might…

7 months ago, David Karl created a Warthog out of legos. He’s at it again… check this out. David sez:the ‘hog has almost been completely digitized, and instructions should be done within a couple weeks. in the mean time, you can try and scrounge up this piece, cuz you’ll need four of em. the only…

Nadorst points out that there’s a Halo remix on the Dutch Xbox site Xboxworld.nl that we’ve never mentioned before. It’s pretty powerful – and rather nicely done. I don’t read Dutch, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to contact the creator of the piece… but you can download it from Xboxworld.nl either at…

3 bits of Fan Fiction for you today…No Dice, by Dirty Commie 5 Way War Part I, by Demosthenes A New Year’s Day, Chapter 6, by Guilty Spark Gonna be out for most of the rest of the day. Please don’t get antsy if you submitted something. Thanks!

The Master Chief is… where? Check the Miscellaneous Art section.

Signs for our times? (Spoilers – lots of ’em.)

Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox, spoke recently at CPL’s Winter Event about Halo for PC. (We mentioned this several days ago, referencing the Gamespot article about it.) There was also a summary at The Adrenaline Vault – and Halo Orbit, the German fansite, has translated this into german. Go take a gander if the english…

The latest issue of the Guiness Book of World Records has given the title of ‘Most Advanced Game Console’ to the Xbox – and the picture they’ve chosen to use to illustrate the point is the Master Chief. Not too shabby! (This was posted at Bungie.net – but we received email about 4 hours earlier…

Just a couple of Fan Fiction pieces for you this morning:Mendozas Diary: Unexpected Fatality, by el_halo_diablo The Encounter, part 2, by HarleyAs much as we’d like to, we cannot accept fiction (or artwork, for that matter) with no Halo influences; we are, after all, a fansite devoted to a particular video game, and not a…