Month: March 2002

Goodness. Alan Wu sent in a map, created by friend Jonathon Cairns, of Blood Gulch in Starcraft format. If you play Starcraft, snag this! (There are a few easter eggs, so hunt around.) It’s 80k, zipped.

Black_Jackal sends in Chapter 1 of his ‘After Halo’ story – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Before this gets out of hand… Korps sent in this link to a page at Gamer’s Logik, purporting to contain information about the upcoming Bungie game code-named Phoenix. Now, I don’t claim to be completely ‘in the know’, but I did get the chance to walk through the Phoenix development room back in January of…

Speaking of plots… the Halo Story Page got a MASSIVE update recently – the inbox has been cleared, for the first time in a long time. Mnemesis has retreated to his isolation tank to regenerate the brain cells lost in this endeavor – please read his work, so as to make the effort not in…

The Halo plot hole defined by this quote from Truth and Reconciliation:While the Covenant had us locked up in here, I overheard the guards talking about this ring world. They call it… “Halo.”has been discussed extensively on our forum. (Why could Keyes understand what the guards were saying when the super-duper translator in our own…

Three new tricks in our Gameplay Tricks section – a pair of Out of Map experiences from pete_the_duck, and some vehicle manipulation from Scott Kelly. Check ’em out!

And now, a word from our sponsors… in a manner of speaking. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the Halo community is the ability to see what insane – erm, intrepid people are doing to push the Halo engine. However, because Halo’s got no built-in film feature, stunts have to be recorded as video……

Drunken Elite? TitaniumPez found a pretty bizarre looping Banshee on Halo… nice perfect circles, but he doesn’t seem to notice the player. Hmm…

Alan Wu did the community a nice favor, and extracted all the interesting stuff off the Xbox Japan site we mentioned yesterday. Three music clips (in MP3 format), and a bunch of mini-screenshots… plus one bizarre grunt sound. All in a package only 260k! Grab it today.

Justin Gochanour, of gyeah.com, sent us pics of another LAN party – more heavy drinking, some RIDICULOUS stats (you have to check this pic out), and some fun with guns on walls. Hope these guys didn’t drive home…

Shadow dropped off Chapter 7 of his Renegade Marines saga – ‘The Return Home’. I want one of those 6-tube rocket launchers… man, I bet that’s heavy. Fan Fiction is fun.

A week ago, Team Xbox posted a package full of goodies, including a WMP Halo skin, a copy of the Halo trailer, and 3 never-before-released (on the net) Halo tracks… in WMP format. Total package size: 4.6 mb. It’s already gone off their servers. 🙁 Because the music tracks were so cool, I made room…

Review Roundup… we added reviews from Vision Gaming Online Network (19/20), Fragland.net (95%), Eurogamer (8/10), LoadedInc. (9.5/10), and Tilt TV (10/10) to our Reviews Database. Thanks to all who dropped off links! Total reviews to date: 88. Average score: 94.4%. Wonga.

Thanks to Paladin, who kindly sent in a translation for our most recent Danish Halo review – seems the original (random) quote I chose was pretty inappropriate. Oh, to speak more than 5 languages!

Some days, you open up your inbox and see some weird stuff.

Two years ago, Lynx deodorant made a huge splash in the Halo community due to their outright theft of the Halo font – but the furor has died down. However, today, we received a picture of a DIFFERENT Lynx deodorant – Gravity – which uses an interesting graphical logo… these guys don’t quit. 🙂 (Thanks…

Them titles is gettin’ outta hand… Ian Barnes turns in Chapter 6 of his Operation False Prophets series – check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Nice find by protexts… The Official Japanese Halo site is up, and it’s not simply a copy of the US site (as so many others are). Nice Flash layout, nice music, good screenies (if a bit too small). Now if only I could read Japanese…

Heh – TitaniumPez caught the Master Chief… um… well, watch the show (144k).

Stosh created a Halo comic which pays tribute to Matt Soell’s… um, unhealthy interests. Check it out!