Year: 2001

And as she jumped, reality falling away into memory, Einstein’s laws vanishing as seeds of millet upon a fierce wind, the talons of a mad empire raked across her skin, and the gods of this empire were still not satisfied with the bloody massacres occuring on five worlds. Defensive cannonry fell from Pillar of Autumn…

“Who are you?!” “Destiny,” and shot him too.That’s all we got from vector, who says it’s the beginning of another Fan Fiction… and the end of a poem. It’s called Lineatemp. And when we get an actual story, you’ll be able to find it in our Fan Fiction section.

He walked to the table and ran a hand across the smooth surface, avoiding the plant that seemed to expand and contract, as though breathing, upon closer inspection. Putting his ear near to one particularly large creeper, he thought he could make out a barely perceptible rhythm of air sounding from pores too small for…

Mac Halo has put up a translation of the voiceover on the Gamestar E3 video – if you don’t speak German, this is a good way to find out what’s being said. Pax.

Tom Van Sinden noticed that the newest Bungie.net poll asks, “If Bungie were to support a FanFest in only one of these US cities, which would you choose?” Go check out the choices. Pax.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews lets us know that Day 3 of their Gaming Site Interviews series highlights Matt ‘Acrappa Martinez, newshound for Rampancy.net and maintainer of bungie.org’s own OniRes. Check it out! Pax.

Ph.D. writes to point out that the Xbox Japan calendar for July features Halo – it’s available in 800×600 or 1024×768. (Thanks, MSXbox.) There’s more Halo stuff listed here… but it’s hit and miss if you don’t read Japanese. Pax.

You guys are amazing. While we slept (okay, Crux wasn’t sleeping, he was zoning out), news of three more mirrors for the GameStar movie appeared in our inbox:Wireplay Australia andAusGamers (thanks, trog)CitrusV (thanks, Michigan) There are now enough mirrors out there that EVERYONE should have access to this movie, one way or another. What a…

Two more mirrors for the GameStar movie – Dan Kristiansen, of Xbox Movies, has added the file – when I tested it, I got VERY fast transfer rates… and Clayton Hernandez notes that Multiplayerzone.com has the movie up, though you need to log in to get it. Thanks, guys! (These have been added to the…

Oops – we missed this a few days ago. Mac Halo, an Inside Mac Games affiliate that has had on-again, off-again webmastering over the past several months, seems to have been revived. Welcome to Matt Malinowski, the ‘new guy who will be bringing you the news now, only several days later’. Let’s hope they’re back…

Pete Cooner, admin of the bungie.org Hotline server, dropped us a note to say that the GameStar movie is up on the BorgHL server, plus a couple of personal servers – folks should check the news and user list for details. He reminded us that Hotline might be a better choice for modem users, since…

Thanks to AcidBurn, for making two new mirrors for the GameStar movie (these both in Germany) available:http://www.bungie.de/files/E3HALO.MPGhttp://www.aquanox-forum.de/files/E3HALO.MPGAlso, thanks to Yosr, who made the movie available on his mac, using MacOS Web Sharing – a grand gesture, at the very least! Go get ’em!

Noctavis spun out one of his trademark-length posts, explaining in quite a bit more detail what’s going on with Rampancy.net – definitely worth a read.

More apologies, this time for actually going to sleep. In the last 5 hours, though, 4 mirrors have popped up for the GameStar movie – we’re supremely grateful to the folks who helped out here. Fileplanet mirror (2 download links – thanks, Bounty!) tornado.omnicon.net (thanks, B-Sharp!) ghalidrim.2y.net (Hotline server – thanks, ghalidrim!) Hopefully, one of…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to say that the Junkyard has put up the first of 13 interviews with fan site personnel, exploring why they do what they do and what it takes. This one is with Manveer ‘Eidolon’ Heir of VoodooExtreme. Check ’em out!

Apologies – our puny T1 just couldn’t handle it. The server hosting that GameStar movie died under the almost 600 simultaneous connections you folks threw at it – I’ve (regretfully) pulled it until we can get some mirrors going. If you can mirror this, let us know (preferably with a place we can upload it…

With great trepidation, we’re making the E3 Halo video included with last month’s GameStar magazine available. If the pipe fills up, we’re going to have to pull it down – ideally, others will mirror this quickly, and make our lives easier. You can find it here – it’s 32 MB, in MPG format. We’ll keep…

Lophan writes to say that PC Gamer has finally published their E3 impressions, in the August issue. Halo gets mentioned… in the Planetside blurb.The demo of this persistent-world first-person shooter had snipers picking off opponents from long distances, and duos taking lethal vehicles out for spins with one man at the wheel and the passenger…

Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall two notches in the Battle of the Teams this week. YOU’RE SLACKING, MARINES! Tharkhaad takes La Crunch Honneur, despite a 15% reduction in crunching… WereTiger continues to leapfrog teammates to take the Frogblast award again… but as a team, you’re slipping. Time to step up the crunching! Those…

Wonga. Buried deep in a thread about various data-delivery systems, Noctavis, of Rampancy.net, delivers his clearest (to date) description of the (near) future of Rampancy.net. This site, which has been around since the very beginning of the Halo fan scene, looks to be shifting to a community discussion area, without the news section they have…