Month: May 2002

Last time Bungie put up a set of ‘eyeball benders’, it took the community over two months to solve them all. This time, it took 16 hours. Well, that’s actually how long it took candyman to CONFIRM the guesses – but the final correct guess came less than 5 hours after Frogblast posted his observation…

Mirror sites have begun to come in for the Warthog Revisited movie – we’ve started a mirror list. Hopefully, the bandwidth will continue to hold up once the Oz.net servers drop off that list… but if you haven’t seen this, grab it now. it’s hilarious.

A couple of months ago, Stormsinger posted an interesting piece of concept art for a future Halo mod, if the opportunity to build one ever arises. Yesterday, he sent in a render of two of the final four versions of the vehicle. We’ve added the image to our Miscellaneous Art section, but there is enough…

Curious about the reach of Bungie’s Seventh Column? Take a gander at Matt Soell’s State of the Seventh Column address, posted last night. (You’ll also get a nice rundown of the E3 Fanfest, a tasty bonus.)

Woohoo! The long-awaited ‘Warthog Revisited’, Randy Glass’ followup to his ‘Warthog Jump’ film (first seen last week, in a slightly less finished form, and the Bungie Fanfest in LA), is now available! You can grab it for a VERY short time at Randy’s site – but he’s going to pull that down sometime today. Mirrors…

For those who think Halo’s tapped out, interest-wise… check this out. Razorback posts a note to our forum, explaining how he set up a situation where the standard auto-aim feature of Halo just stopped working – in his words, “it whould like, thorw away my vision from the hunter.” (Razorback is Portuguese – give him…

Whoa – thanks to Frogblast, who noticed a new set of screenshots over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation; another set of Eyeball Benders! This one’s tougher than the last set… add your guesses to Froggy’s thread!

Halo: Game of the Year Edition box acronym: revealed! Mnemesis, our research droid, has sent in both the acronym… and a pretty decent guess:ABTFIPAS05Yes, that’s the number ‘5’, not the letter ‘S’. Mnemesis’ guess? “Ask Bungie To Finally Introduce Pimps At Sea On Sega.” (Well, except for the 5…) Have an idea yourself? Post it…

It had to happen… Scott Porter writes to let us know that work has begun on a Marathon Infinity conversion – Halo: Combat Unevolved. They’ve JUST started, so there’s not much there yet… but if you are interested in getting in on the ground floor of this project, send him mail!

It took much, much longer to put together than any of us expected… but I’m proud to announce the opening of a new section here at HBO – Keyes’ Corner. This will be a place where complicated aspects of Halo are examined in-depth; we won’t just look at a single piece, we’ll tear the puppy…

Heh – Daniel (Finn), of Team 7hr33, has put up a page of images commemorating his (and Rich’s (Shovelface’s)) visit to E3 – dinner with Bungie, Fanfest shenanigans, and a very freaky accident involving a man in a palm tree. Check it out! (Visit the Team 7hr33 website, and then hit the ‘Bungie Trip 2002’…

Goodness… passed right over this. 🙁 Robo42786, a frequent contributor to our Fan Fiction section, has created a music video for Halo – it’s called ‘When Worlds Collide’, and is set to the song of the same name by Powerman 5000. It’s in .wmv format, and weighs in at 4.9 mb, zipped. We’ve put it…

In the old days, Box Acronyms were a staple of Bungie’s offerings, and provided quite a bit of discussion fodder for fans. The practice fell by the wayside, unfortunately, with Oni… and the original Halo release has none, either. However, starting with the Game of the Year Edition, and continuing with the Halo Soundtrack, the…

Wednesday’s Fan Fiction input…Effusion, part 10, by Tursas Last Hope, part 8, by SSJBRKThis is the final chapter of Effusion (though an Epilogue should be coming)…

Read this. Thanks.

For those who had trouble yesterday seeing the mod designs created by Roger Wilco… he’s put up a local mirror here. Hopefully, this will work a bit better than Tripod did…

Thanks to Miguel Chavez, who sent in a nice pic of the close of the Fanfest last week. It was taken just before we broke everything down, and you can see the die-hard late-stayers, along with two of the 6 Xboxes we used (plus their screens). Only about half the people are labeled – this…

The movies released after the fanfest on Friday have been added to the Movies page – they should be easier to access from there. More coming soon!

Built-up fanfic over the weekend:Pillar of Autumn, by Nick Upon this Stage, prologue 2, by Gordi Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 1, by Ian Barnes Go to it!

A pair of desktops came in over the weekend – you’ll find them in our Wallpaper section.