Month: January 2003

Lots of new stories in the Fan Fiction offerings today: HALO: The Spartans, part 1, by S7N D-Day: The Beach, by Shadow Spartan 5 Way War, part 4, by Demosthenes Eye of the Storm: Sanity’s Reqiuem, by Ashur Wrong or Right, by Harley Halo Zero, part 1, by nicholas See what you can find…

10 tips have been added to the Tips Database, including a pretty exhaustive look at all the ways of dealing with Banshees on the Natural Bridge of AotCR. Sometimes internet worms can pay useful dividends for fansites…

Hehe… and the egg-like things continue. Yesterday, Argos noticed that ‘Rock Anthem for Saving the World’, a high-energy piece from the Halo Soundtrack, was exactly 1:17 long. Not only does that match up nicely with the Master Chief’s Spartan II designation… but expressed in seconds, it’s got a length of 77. Marty made it clear…

In the first all-from-existing-footage movie in a LONG time that seems worth passing along, Senator32 has combined the soundtrack from the StarCraft Ghost trailer with Halo footage spanning almost 3 years to create ‘Halo Warrior’. It’s 6.4 mb, in MPEG format. (The byte savings from converting to QuickTime format wasn’t worth the effort.) Mythica, as…

We got word of three new or revamped Halo sites over the weekend; John pointed out Halo Reamped (‘your source for every thing halo’), sk8er told us to check out Halo HQ (which has ZERO information except a couple of links to buy Halo and Halo 2 at EB Games, passing along a commission to…

Three new desktop images for you; a nice composite of the very old (one of the earliest wallpaper submissions we ever got) and the very new (a Halo 2 shot), a nice cleanup of some magazine art, and more playing cards. Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section!

MiNiTeK14 dropped off a drawing of a Covenant Elite – we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section.

A little earlier than usual, maybe, but the Bucs kicked some serious butt tonight, so what the heck. The new Screenshots posted at Bungie.net yesterday have been added to our Screenshots database – unreferenced shots and all.

Ferrex dropped in for a minute to pass along some tantalizing tidbits about the newest screenshot… and to update the community, in a roundabout way, on where the Halo engine is in lighting progress. Very, very nice to get new info…

Fan Fiction turned in in the last couple of days:Omega Red Chapter 4, by Kane172 This Battle, by Nike Wings of Death Part 19, by el_halo_diablo Sarge’s Story: Daux, by Jamirus99/Traumatized Marine HALO: The Spartans, by S7N This is the Series Finale of Wings of Death – and it’s a long one! Update: Oops, forgot…

He lives! *Ar-Isildur took time out of his busy schedule of bedrest and nasty treatments to pop into our forum with a quick update. He’s not out of the woods yet… but your emails and cards are definitely helping. Way to go, folks!

Thanks to Griffon, who points out that the latest OXM UK contains their 2002 Awards piece. Halo won 3 of them:Game of the year awardMost Nail-Biting end sequenceBest reason to get surround soundHe sent in some digicam shots of the article, but 1) they were REALLY hard to read, and 2) we couldn’t put them…

At long last, the Halo50K tournament has firm dates for play – clear your calendar for April 26th and 27th, 2003. Fifty Grand on the line… don’t miss it! Thanks to Dolbex for the heads-up.

Nice work by BOLL – he discovered a couple of unreferenced screens on Bungie.net in the newest batch of Halo 2 uploads; one of them has been seen before (in the recent Halo 2 Photo Story), but the other is brand-spankin’ new. And a gorgeous shot it is!

A couple of weeks ago, a Halo easter egg that had been discovered back in March was finally documented on Bungie’s website – so we’ve taken this to mean that we can finally include it in our Easter Egg collection. (Originally, Joe Staten asked that we not document it with a screenshot, so that future…

Wonga. I sleep, Bungie works. The Tru7h and Reconciliation website has gotten some serious updating… there’s boatloads of Halo 2 content now. All of it, as far as I can tell, has been seen before… but it’s never been on the official site, and some of it is in better digital form than ever before.…

Mac Gamer has another Westlake update – Glenda Adams, Westlake’s president, says the code they are getting is “light years different code-wise than anything that ever ran on the Mac.” There’s not much past Wednesday’s MacCentral comments… but it sounds pretty exciting! (Thanks to Rossco for the heads-up.)

Devastator, a member of Team Caucasians, sent us this picture of his team celebrating their win at the Qualifiers of the Halo Winter Season. I’m pretty amazed that they gave out trophies like that for the qualifying rounds – there were 100 iGames centers hosting qualifiers, and three rounds played… that’s a LOT of trophies.…

We’ve added a new subsection here at HBO – in the navbar, under ‘Press Coverage’, you’ll find Halo 2 Previews. It’s just a list of Halo 2 Previews posted on the net, with links to the original pages and the dates they were posted. Thanks to Proximity Zero for two that we didn’t have on…

Brian Hannan checked out the recently submitted weapons graphics extracted from the Halo manual, and decided that vector art should be available in vector format. He re-extracted the images, cleaned ’em up, and placed them all into a single EPS file. You can find this file (and a graphic showing what you can do with…