Month: May 2002

Thanks to Miguel Chavez, who scanned in an article from the New York Times today – it looks at today’s violent video games, and comments that ‘Men will be boys’. (It’s actually a decent read – it looks at older gamers, and why they’re being drawn back to video games.) You can find it in…

Thanks to Cybrfrk, who has added a welcome Search feature to the Gameplay Tips section. If you were having trouble finding that tip you needed, this just might make it easier! (Don’t forget to submit the tips you have for playing!

Heh – we missed this in February, but we can’t COMPLETELY cover it up…

A few people noticed that Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday feature was ‘Fake Games’ this week – and Halo fit in nicely. (Interestingly enough… Marathon got noticed, as well.) And then… there’s THIS one. Some people have too much time on their hands…

Four new entries in the Gameplay Tricks section – some really fun stuff. My favorite is Clipping… the possibilities are enormous. Comments, as always, are welcome on our forum. (The queue currently contains only tricks by Frogblast – and all of them can be seen at Utfoo. We’ll get to ’em, we promise… but they’re…

Saturday’s Fan Fiction offering:Roughneck Two-Zero, part 7, by Anthony Coronado Effusion, part 8, by Tursas Finishing what you started, Part 3, by LeAtHeRnEcK Get an early start…

DrunkGamers.com has put up part 9 of its Halo Tips movie series (whatever happened to part 8? I think they were drinking too much) – this one looks at Warthog Skeet Shooting. (It’s actually more like trap shooting… but who am I to quibble?) They’ve issued a challenge – send in a three-hit shot, and…

And the awards continue to pile up for Marty O’Donnell… Rolling Stone has given him ‘Best Original Soundtrack in a Game’ in their upcoming E3 issue. Gotta love it! (Thanks to Jay Weinland for the heads-up.)

Bungie has put up some details about the upcoming Fanfest and the Halo Tournament to be held during E3 – you can find them on the Seventh Column site. Thanks to Vector40 for the heads-up.

MaxThndr has created some cover art for his Fan Fiction series The Ardan Landings, using the Halo font created by Will Turnbow. You can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

A pair of desktops came in last night – you’ll find both of them in our Wallpaper collection.

Thanks to 3Suns, who scanned in a flyer distributed in Japan, advertising an upcoming Halo Championship and some schwag given away with the first copies of Halo. We’ve added it to our Press Scans section.

Now this is just plain cool. Will Turnbow went looking for a Halo font, as many others before him have done – but when he didn’t find one, he created it. Currently, it’s just the letters, but he’s said that if there’s demand, and people approve of the work so far, he’d be willing to…

Thursday’s Fan Fic:The Hell Of War, part 10, by Jaywhit10 Last Hope, part 3, by SSJBRK Operation: False Prophets- Afterward, by Ian Barnes Don’t forget to leave feedback on the stories you read!

Whoa – the first Logo upload since December! Check it out…

Sometimes, the art’s pretty strange. What can I say?

Heh – funny poll at MacGamer.com: “Which signs of the Apocalypse would happen before Halo comes to Macintosh?” I sorta like the last option… seems that nearly 60% of the other voters do, too. (Weird polling stuff going on.)

Wednesday’s Fan Fic:Last Hope, part 2, by SSJBRK The Long Ride Home, part 7, by Joshua Barreto Operation False Prophets, part 14, by Ian Barnes Go get ’em…

Micro295 has turned in a Halo bookmark, for your reading pleasure – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

The Halo Movies section is still not as navigable as I’d like… but it’s a little better. You can now sort searches by Name, or date, or (maximum) filesize – and that includes restricted searches. (That is, if you’re looking for music videos, you can resort the results in more productive ways.) Hope this helps!…