Year: 2001

A new wallpaper from Bongo, of Onishots – check it out in our Wallpaper section. Blam.

Okay, it didn’t take so long – the new screenshots from the GamePro May 2001 Halo article are now in our Screenshots section, in higher resolution than you’ll find in the scanned article mentioned below. NextGen coming soon. 🙂

Speaking of adding dead tree articles, we’ve also scanned in last month’s GamePro article (it’s only one page, but weighs in at a hefty 382K) – short, but again, there are new shots, and the info is mostly on target. If only they hadn’t used that nasty ‘X’ background… Higher-res versions of the new shots…

Don’t take this as a shot at Free… but we rescanned the May NextGen article, in a size that’s intermediate to the two he offers on Bungie Sightings, and at a higher image quality level. You’ll find it on our Press page. (We’ll be adding hi-res versions of the actual new screens to the Screenshots…

Well, almost buried in the 100-odd posts of the most amusing flamewar to happen on our forum in a long time, Anonymous Coward has posted the first four paragraphs of what he calls ‘Work in progress…’. I’m gonna hold off adding it immediately to the Fan Fiction section, in the hopes that he’ll add to…

Seems there’s a new Halo site out there – The Coalition of the Ring. Check ’em out.

Woohoo! Our first mention in a fan’s wallpaper (I think). Dinosurfer has sent along ‘Joyride’ for your perusement – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. Nice and clean…

arcarsenal dropped us a line to let us know that Halo made Rolling Stone magazine – it’s just a tiny blurb, describing Halo as a ‘long-awaited 3d shooter’ on the Xbox, and displaying the flying jeep screenshot recently released… but hey, mainstream press is mainstream press!

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to say the Junkyard is finally back up – and will be posting one new exclusive item per day for the next two weeks. Dunno how many of those will be Halo-related… but stop by and take a look!

Thanks to Iden, who pointed out to us that Xbox.com has an article describing a team meeting a couple of months ago in which the first prototypes of a real, working Xbox were demoed… and the statement thatProgress has been great since then and we’re poised to deliver the first kits to game developers before…

Early last week, we got a Fan Fiction submission with a subject line of ‘stupid fanfic I wrote’. Wirehead figured, if the AUTHOR thinks it’s stupid, how good could it be? It got resubmitted a couple of days ago, with an altered subject line, and I found it this morning. Moral of the story -…

We’ve added a couple of new wallpapers that have been sitting for a bit in our uploads directory – there’s one from Scythe, and one from B-Sharp. Check ’em out!

Picky informs us that he’s put a couple of Halo WinAmp skins up for grabs here – to get them, you’ll have to log in to the MSN network, but they should be up at WinAmp.com as soon as they’re reviewed.

Thanks to Ph.D., who pointed out a new Halo preview at Gamespot – there’s not really any new info there, it seems to be a pre-E3 prep piece, but press is press, right? (Well, don’t tell that to Daily Radar, who went under yesterday…)

Dink!… despite the infusion of 16 new members, the Halo SETI Marines lost a position in the Battle of the Teams, dropping out of the top 50 for the first time in almost a year. Ouch! Part of the blame can be placed on the four deserters, who, between them, pulled almost 2000 units out…

Woohoo – the mail guy’s back! For all those who wrote in the past week and a half, and expected a reply, I’ll be getting to them in the next day or two. Meanwhile, I’ve added Friday’s Weekly Halo Update to the Halo Update Database; the word of the week is Cortana. How long did…

Fan art, fan fiction, and now fan music. Bjorn sent us a link to an MP3 he created for Halo. The name of the song is “After the Storm” and you can find it at: http://www.mp3.com/Sleepwalker. Go take a listen. Pax.

blam.psyjnir.com goes live according to Sapwood. Take a look. Pax.

Halo “Sci-Fi epic with all the right moves”. Menalaus Khan lets us know that Gamespot have a High-Tech Games article in which Halo is mentioned. Go check it out. Pax.

Bungie Sightings puts up the hi-res Halo scans from Next Generation magazine. Go get them before they are pulled again. BS also has info on next month’s Bungie Fanfest V.