Year: 2001

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!

In rapid succession, Koontzy sends us two installments of his latest story, ‘Death before Dishonor’. It looks like it could really benefit from a bit of proofreading… but the action’s pretty fast-paced. Check them out in our Fan Fiction section.

Joseph Staten shows off his poetry-writing skills (or should that be his future-channeling skills?) with this post on the R.net forum. It suggests some more parallels with the Marathon storyline – there, 10 Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs lived on Tau Ceti, but only one (through an accident of fate) was offplanet when disaster struck -…

More fire started coming from several directions and all we saw was the setting sun and a few clouds as the pilot traded speed for distance in what was becoming a desperate attempt to break contact. Newcomer John Oreskovich sends in a story apparently titled Halo, Random Musings. The Fan Fiction area continues to grow.

The Online Universe has put up the results of last week’s Question of the Week: ‘What weapons would you want to use in the game?’ Some answers were predictable, others less so. The next question is up, as well: ‘What features would you want in the Halo map editor?’ Navigation has been improved at the…

The Halo SETI Marines hold position this week – welcome to Timberwolf, who comes in bringing 113 units. Are YOU keeping up with the advancing Covenant horde? Check the 7 day stats to find out!

PlanetXbox has put up part three of its Halo Developer Diary series (part one and part two were mentioned earlier), an interview series with Jaime Griesemer about the process Halo is going through on its way to release. This installment is a fascinating look at interactive scripting, and shows how Bungie’s working on getting you…

Andreas den Hertog writes to say that HQ HALO has moved to a new host. We’ve updated our Links page accordingly.

What happens when it gets too hot to fight? Why, the tough pick up Super Soakers, of course! Steen Nielson sends in a doctored (no, really?) image showing just how cool the Halo inhabitants can be. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Johannes Gunnar Thorsteinsson sends in a new Wallpaper for our Wallpaper section. In his words, and what is the main colour in it, of course the fantastic and the great “b.org” color(I think he’s talking about the shirt.) Soothing… so soothing…

A message flashed across the computer screen in the EUD Roswell headquarters: IT IS SUCCESSFUL. NO FURTHER COM. Omniscient’s ‘Sea of Steel’ saga continues with Part Two in our Fan Fiction section.