Month: February 2003

A user has just tracked down what had seemed to be a problem with the server here… and I thought it might be worth passing on the information. He’d recently found that images in some sections were disappearing. Further investigation showed that a single line of the navbar on the left of every page was…

Hehe – Cybrfrk has been capturing Bungie webcam images automatically, and this morning, it paid off. Apparently, someone put an MC action figure in the picture for ONE FRAME – Cybrfrk noticed it while reviewing recent captures. You can find details (and the frame) on his site, linked from his forum post.

A group of halo players that gets together every Saturday night is looking to recruit players for their lanfests. The only problem is… nowhere in the email I was sent, OR on their website, do they list where they are! The website mentions gatherings in both Ecourse and Plymouth – both towns in Michigan. However,…

Last chance to get into Bungie’s pants… contest closes tomorrow. How much money IS in there?

Six Fan Fiction submissions in the past 24 hours – and zero rejections due to the new rules. Nice!Project RAVEN Chapter 1, by Jerry Dark Halo: Chronicles of Fright Part 3, by Wado The Battle For Sigma Octanus Chapter 3, by moniter101 Halo: Reunion from Destruction Part 2, by Frensa Geran Chance, by Mr Bill…

Strato ran across a Master Chief model for UT2003 – you can find it at UT2003 HQ. The download is just over a meg, and there’s a screenshot (mirrored locally in case it vanishes) to show you what you’re getting.

Recently, there was an impromptu art contest on our forum. A couple of the contestants were Postman and Shishka – both have have their entries added to our Miscellaneous Art section. (There are a couple of OTHER images in today’s update, as well. Check ’em all out!)

A pair of desktop images were submitted recently – you’ll find ’em both in our Wallpaper section.

Thanks to Whoknew – his Halotics server is the newest mirror to grab the new Halo50K Framework movie from. (As one discerning viewer wrote, this movie “was so good it was scary.” He warn’t kiddin’, either.

Holy Paperbacks, Batman – Halo: The Flood is now available for pre-order at the Bungie Store! (Wallpaper from the cover coming soon. Read about it here.)

Some Halo 2 tidbits at SPOnG.com today – some information we knew about, some that might be new. (The ability to sprint was mentioned in a few print articles… but that the MC lowers his weapon (so firing is out of the question)? That’s new, I think. And the ‘Expect a hands-on opportunity at the…

Yee-haw! Mythica.org is back online (as some of you have already noticed), and we’re gonna stress-test it RIGHT NOW. Dan Chosich, who’s proven himself to be a pretty talented moviemaker, has created a full promo movie for the Halo50k event coming up in Atlanta in a couple of months. (Yes, there have been other movies…

Hehe – speaking of late notice… Jacob McCarthy writes to point out the 2003 Northwest Regional Festival and Tournament, sponsored by the International Video Gaming Federation. Online registration is closed… but On-Site registration will be available on Saturday morning. The event covers a bunch of games, but the Halo portion has a $50 entrance fee,…

Ouch – sorry for the short notice on this one, but it was submitted as an add-on to a movie readme in our uploads directory; since Mythica was down for so long, it’s simply been sitting in the ‘to be dealt with’ pile. MCheif-117 is holding an 8-hour Halo tournament in Vero Beach, FL, this…

Rams, the head honcho over at Battleground: Halo, writes to point out that BGH is opening their own Fan Fiction section. They’re willing to provide a home for ALL fiction, as long as it’s legible. This is great news for fiction writers – you can have your work shown on more than one site, if…

Heh – the PS2 is defined by its processor, the Xbox by Halo. At least according to THIS comic… (thanks, Cybrfrk)

Woohoo! A venerable name in the Halo community, Haloplayers, has woken up! New site design, the beginnings of a content flesh-out, and the promise of the return of the Squad Centre, a place for Halo clans to gather. Check ’em out!

The Fan Fiction section of this site has been closed to new submissions for two weeks. Several options for overhauling the submissions procedure have been considered – most were discarded due to time constraints. The new rules are about as simple as I can make them. The length requirement has been increased slightly. The types…

A window into Bungie Culture… ouch. (A little more detail can be found here.)

Spec Ops Elite came up with a pretty cool technique for taking screenshots that are similar to Bungie’s cursor-less shots. They require a modded Xbox, and it only works in the latter half of the game – but if you meet these requrements, the basic steps are described in this forum post. Examples of what…