Month: April 2002

Ian Barnes, aka PanZer, has been working on a Fan Fiction series for a couple of months now. (Operation: False Prophets just got its ninth installment posted today.) He’s planning on printing the whole thing once it’s finished… and in anticipation, has created cover art. You can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Another pair of desktop images have come in – if you’re tired of the monochrome, staid variety, check these out. You’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section.

Fan Fiction roundup – some fun stuff in here:The Long Ride Home, part 5, by Joshua Barreto GODS LOVE A TRYER, part 2, by Dee Pulled by author’s request Roughneck Two-Zero, part 6, by Anthony Coronado The Renegade Marines, part 14, by Shadow Operation False Prophets, part 9, by Ian Barnes Slowly but surely, working…

Heh – da5id noticed that the Bungie Store front page is up again (but requires a login to get past that screen) – shouldn’t be too long before this puppy is open!

We got word yesterday that Xbox Maniacs had put up a Halo review. (It was actually posted in early December, but we missed it.) It’s been added to the Reviews Database.

Subnova picked up an exclusive new desktop image with the help of Bungie – if you’ve finished the game, this is a great one. (If you haven’t, it’s rather spoileriffic.) It’s available in 1024×768 (160k) and 1920×1440 (308k) – and it’s pretty funny. (Visit the Easter Egg page if you don’t get the reference.) We’ll…

dogsounds sent us a note about an article on Halo at Bella Online, the website for Bella Magazine. Unusual for a women’s magazine, they’ve covered Halo, down to a (pretty basic) walkthrough. dogsounds had some problems with the language contained therein… but you can judge for yourself. His comment was:I get the feeling the reviewer…

Wow… a female marine concept sketch. (Okay, it’s more than a sketch.) Very nice work by Daniel.C. Check it out in our bulging Miscellaneous Art section.

Bob Henegar has created a replacement login screen for Windows XP, featuring the Master Chief. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section, for lack of a better place – a preview can be seen there. Enjoy!

ImmortalPain sends in three new sketches – one’s not as finished as he’d like, but they’re all still pretty impressive. Watch for spoilers. These can be found in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Germain Couët sends in another entertaining desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Two new mirrors for the Breaking the Rules vid released yesterday – thanks to Appleicious and Rampancy.net for their generous bandwidth donations! (The full mirror list is still here.)

That Weasel has added a pair of mirrors for the Breaking the Rules movie – you can grab it in the existing QT5 format, or in a re-encoded WMP 8 format (considerably smaller). We’ve set up a BtR mirror page for links. (We’d love to make it longer. 🙂 )

Today’s Fan Fiction chapters:The Hell Of War, part 7, by Jaywhit10 Effusion, part 5, by Tursas The Long Ride Home, part 4, by Joshua Barreto There was one more, but I couldn’t read it.

The April issue of Edge Magazine (a very high-quality gaming mag in the UK) has an interview with Jaime Griesemer, one of Halo’s Designers. It’s a good read (and got me wondering where the ‘weak spots’ on a tank are…) – you can find it, scanned in for those without access to the dead tree…

A new movie hits the streets – Team Overkill has created ‘Breaking the Rules’, a three and a half minute romp through Halo tricksterism. (Hey – he made that word up, didn’t he?) There are gameplay glitches, grenade tricks, weird sights… and at least two multiplayer tricks I’ve never seen before (both of which look…

More funny wallpaper from Germain Couët – grab it from our Wallpaper section.

A pair of pencil sketches came in tonight – the PoA sketch is pretty slick! Check ’em both out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Six months ago, Microsoft released a Halo Theme for Windows XP. The components were quickly extracted and made available… but now Windows 95/98/ME users have the option of a simple Theme install, thanks to Doomsdeath. He’s pulled out some of the pieces, and added a .theme file… easy install on older MS systems. 748k, zipped.…

DOH! Almost forgot to mention – there are also a whole passel of irregularly-sized images for dual-monitor setups on the Desktops page of Tru7h and Reconciliation- go get ’em! (Watch the spoilers.)