Month: April 2002

Whoa! I accidentally hit an old bookmark… and discovered that Rampancy.net is back online! (Okay, it’s BEEN online, at rampancy.synfibers.com, all this time… but the original name works again.) The domain hasn’t been renewed yet, so who knows how LONG it’ll be there… but hey, you should go visit, it was a great site that…

Eep – we missed this one. Xbox Xtreme [dot] Net has put up a new Halo review – they gave it a 10/10, and used a lot of exclamation points to describe it. We’ve added the review to the Reviews Database. (In fact, looking at their site, the original Halo review they posted – with…

PanZer is attempting to compile a database of all the human and grunt dialog lines in Halo. Never mind that Marty has told us there are over 5000… he’s trying it, and he needs your help. Stop by the database, and see what you can do!

Yesterday, Frogblast posted a series of movies chronicling his experiments with the Blue Beams of Death on the level Halo (the series will show up on the Tricks page soon)… not long after, Dark Helmet sent in a new movie to iBonk.com, showing what happens when you Warthog-Jump into one of the blue beams. That…

Appleicious, one of the participants at last week’s Battle of the Bay, has put up several Halo movies for download – both flavors of ‘Halo: The Movie’, the new Movie Teaser, and both flavors of the Rocket Dance vid (which he’s in). We’ve added relevant links to all mirror pages, so if you’re having trouble…

The One-Shots page finally got its update – 8 new images, submitted up to 3 weeks ago. (They’re all dated today, because it makes more sense to me that way.) Check ’em out! Next up – the 9 new tricks submitted since Friday’s major update… (look for it tomorrow, or the next day.) Note: If…

Eric Gandhi sent in a new desktop for our database – you’ll find it in the Wallpaper section. Nice and blue…

Three new fan fics this evening (though one is actually a concatenation of a pair of submissions; they both came before I got to this update, and the second was too short to stand alone, and they’re both part of the same story…)ODST Saga, Chapter 2, by Robo42786Well Enough Alone, Part III, by RyanHalo: Combat…

Macgamer.com has put up an interview with Peter Tamte, of Destineer Studios… and while this shouldn’t even need to be said, it does:One thing which Mac Halo naysayers tend to focus on is, even though Bungie has stated repeatedly that Halo will come to Mac, Microsoft pulls the financial strings (suggesting that it’s not for…

Xbox.com reports that according to NPDFunworld (the folks who keep track of video game sales), Halo has sold over one million copies to date… and has become the fastest million-unit seller ever for any next-gen console. (‘Next-gen console’ means PS2, GameCube, Xbox.)Statistically, this means that more than six copies of Halo: Combat Evolved have been…

Jeff Green, who wrote an editorial at Gamers.com yesterday, predicting that PC Halo would be cancelled after all, stopped by our forum to clarify his position. Seems he DOES want to see Halo on a PC – he’s just afraid that MS wants to milk the Xbox dollars as much as they can before allowing…

When Brian Josselyn, of Blackstar Productions, released ‘Halo: The Movie’, a ‘trailer’ of a ficticious Halo movie, Bungie employee Dave Candland asked, “Want a job at MS marketing? ;)” He was kidding… but Brian’s most recent production, ‘Halo: The Movie Teaser’, shows it wasn’t a fluke. If Bungie ever DOES make this movie, the advertising…

Purgatory has created some Master Chief artwork (both alone an as a poster) we’ve added all 5 variations to the Miscellaneous Art page.

A sizeable Fan Fiction collection for you tonight: ODST Saga, Chapter 1, by Robo42786 The Saga Continues: Halo 2, by Edward Parker Roughneck Two-Zero, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, by Anthony Coronado Damuis, by Mr Bill Jr V Effusion, Chapter 3, by Tursas In The Beginning, by Kellen Squire The Past, by SkyRyan1 The Long…

Florian writes to tell us about HalosHome.de (also reachable at HaloSource.de), a new German Halo site. Check it out!

Apologies for the news blackout of the last 36 hours – HBO HQ was host to a 15-player lanfest yesterday (guests started arriving at 9 am, we closed the last door around 11 pm), so updating took a second seat. 🙂 In that time, Computer Gaming World columnist Jeff Green put up an article at…

A month ago, Xbox Au posted a Halo review – they said it was derivative, but gave it a 9.4. They’ve now yanked that review, and written a new one – score has dropped to 8.8. (They were unhappy with the short replay value. Guess nobody told them about the exploration possibilities.) We’ve adjusted our…

New Wallpapers at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – six images, in four resolutions each. (Spoiler warning is necessary for the last one.) Check ’em out!

Heh – it’s not every day that fans find out something that BUNGIE didn’t know… three weeks ago, Matt Soell created the Rumor Control Database in an effort to debunk the most common (false) rumors concerning Halo that have been circulating the internet. One of the most persistent has been “If you beat the game…

Loren Judah has turned in another desktop image – this time Hunter-based. You’ll find it (in two resolutions) in our Wallpaper section.