Month: August 2001

Tom Van Sinden points out an interesting post by Bungie d00d Ferrex to the Rampancy.net forum. I’ve been wanting that since day 1!

The Online Universe has posted the results of the latest Halo Question of the Week

From Bungie Sightings: Bungie is about to hold a series of semi-public Halo playtest days! More information, and instructions on how to get a piece o’ de action can be found on Bungie Sightings. In short: You must reserve a spot ahead of time, you must be in the Redmond, WA area, you must sign…

Hoo boy. Vector40 sends in more – a lot more – of his epic Hawk Chronicles. First, there’s Hawk Chronicles: Prologue, to set the scene. However, Hawk Chronicles: Chapter 1 took a bit of work to post: The database behind the scenes at Halo.bungie.org can only handle fan fiction in 32K chunks, so Chapter 1…

Charles Powell sends in a new wallpaper. Look at those two… You can cut the tension with a knife.

An interesting thread on the TeamXBox forums points out that Microsoft’s Halo page is now sporting a brand new logo. Combat Evolved? Sounds good! Thanks to Andrew Paul for pointing it out to us.

The Group on Elites were walking along the hillside, headed due east.There were about five of them, maybe 6. It was hard to tell from 1300 meters.Koontzy sends in a short, action-packed story entitled “Silent Assasians”.

“Hang on, sir, I’m moving a little closer,” said another voice. Louis heard the rustle of leaves and sticks cracking on the radio. Thirty seconds later, the voice returned. “Affirmative. Repeat, affirmative contact. I think it is the clearing, sir.”The crew of the Alcatraz investigates mysterious goings-on as Omniscient sends in another chapter of ‘Sea…

Your friendly neighborhood maintainer is off for a bit – gonna do some cycling in eastern Canada. Count Zero, who showed up briefly a few days ago, will be filling in for the next couple of weeks… so if anything gets badly screwed up, blame him. (Or blame Crux, who should be whipped soundly for…

Short and sweet – that’s this week’s Halo Update, to be found over at Battleground: Halo. Lots of improvements in weapons, AI, spit and polish… and “Vehicles blow up real good now.” Go read all the details over at BGH!

A week and a half ago, Young Gwasshoppah posted scans of a Halo spread in this month’s PC Gamer (they were later made more accessible by Andrew Roberts). They induced a flurry of discussion on our forum… and then they faded away. They popped up again in Rampancy.net’s forum yesterday… and this evening, Ferrex (Dead),…

It’s not clear to me whether this is a sign of the times in the gaming industry, or just an improbable alignment of the stars… but there have been an awful lot of instances recently of people wanting to help gaming companies realize what gamers want to see. The Online Universe is a site devoted…

“What’s happening?” yelled the leader. He looked behind him, to see the limp body of his sensor officer lying lifeless against the back wall.The action heats up in Part Four of Omniscient’s ‘Sea of Steel’ saga. You’ll find it (and the rest of the story) in our Fan Fiction section.

Razorback sends in a modified screenshot – we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section. The funny thing about this screen is, it’s possible to get into this sort of a position in a net game!

Whoa – a blast from our past. stan, who provided substantial entertainment on our forum (as well as digging up fascinating tidbits, like what Matt eats for breakfast), has resurfaced, with the beginnings of a piece of Fan Fiction. (‘Tis the season, apparently.) Death of a Hero even brings up an interesting philosophical point… take…

The loud speaker sounded, “All crew to your respective briefing rooms. Repeat, all crew to your respective briefing rooms.”Omniscient sends in Part Three of his ‘Sea of Steel’ story – and the action heats up. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

    // About twenty years before you were born, the powers that were decided to send probes into space in the hopes that they would be picked up by an intelligent alien race. These probes had the pictures of naked members of your species scrawled in gold on the side. They hoped that the other race…

Thanks to Haloplayers, who got word that a new Halo site has started up – Halo Zone, part of the Total Gamer Network. Nice layout (though the text is a bit small for Mac NS) – they’ve managed to leave us off their links page… but other than that, a good-looking site!

It will be my greatest offering, my finest work. When I return to Kholai and his shallow subordinates bearing the head of this machine being, the name Galkosh will no longer be spoken with contempt.Chris Cox submits his latest piece of Fan Fiction, ‘The Wanderers’, replete with title art from Jason O’Brien. (Future chapters should…

The Online Universe has a new poll up: ‘What version of Halo are you planning on buying?’ Go and make your opinion known!