Month: May 2002

A couple of links for you… StarWarsFanMan sent in a link to his Halo Pictures site a bit ago, but the message got buried in my inbox. 🙁 The site contains collections of Halo pictures – including a glitch scene showing TWO Guilty Sparks. We also received word of a clan site, the 67th Raptors.…

That Weasel writes to say that he’s mirrored the large and the small versions of yesterday’s new Halo ‘ad’. You can find the links on our Mirror page – and thanks again to That Weasel Television!

Ever been playing multiplayer and received the message ‘killed by the Guardians’? Ever wondered what it meant? Well, the Seventh Column Chapter HALO National is offering $100 (in a gift certificate to EBWorld) to the best explanation for their existence. Details of this bounty hunt can be found on Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. (Thanks…

A new Halo ‘commercial’ has hit the scene – created by Micro295, it blends footage from the E3 2000 vid, the first Halo commercial, and some other sources, and puts them all to ‘Hero’, by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback and Josey Scott of Saliva (off the Spider-Man movie soundtrack). There are 3 sizes – a…

Yesterday, it was Japan… today, the UK. ELSPA has released their latest figures… and for the week ending April 27th (thanks to the Xbox price drop), Halo has shot up from 18th best-selling game (any platform) to 5th. Amazing what a little discount can do for you…

Whoa! Thanks to Team Overkill, who sent in a scan from the latest issue of ToyFare Magazine. It’s a Wish List article… about Halo action figures! And they’ve done a custom mockup! Very cool.

Update on the Collaborative Halo Fan Fiction project mentioned yesterday – Bonk has kindly set up a forum for discussion of this topic. If you’d like to join, be sure to send your name to Ryan, first…

At long last, HBO is proud to announce… the opening of the Gameplay Tips section! Great thanks go out to CYBRFRK, who coded the whole mess… there’s not a lot of content there yet, but we’re counting on you to change that. Have a gameplay tip? Submit it! We’ll clean it up a bit, and…

Ryan dropped us a note with a rather ambitious proposal – he hopes to get as many fan fiction writers together as possible, and as a group, tell the story of the game. Skill level of the writer is not important – everyone is welcome. All writers will have a chance to help with the…

Japanese economics… Dengeki Online has published sales rankings for last week; Halo placed 9th in Japan – the only Xbox game in the top 10 (indeed, the only one in the top 50). The On24 network is reporting that Xbox sales surged 70% in Japan for the week ending the 28th… the week Halo was…

Eep – Drunkgamers.com stopped notifying us when new installments of their multiplayer tips series come out (we might have pissed them off by forgetting to post about a Drunkathon they held a little while back), and we forgot to go back and look. In the past month, they’ve posted parts five (how NOT to win…

Lot’s of 6’s:Well Enough Alone, part 6, by Ryan Capture of the Bounty, part 4, by SkyRyan1 Last Hope, part 1, by SSJBRK ODST Saga, part 6, by Robo42786 Aftermath, part 6, by Alex Cross Go check ’em out in the Fan Fiction section!

The Psyjnir Complex, which has been down for a long time now, is slated to come back on May 14. Visit the site for an explanation of how that date was picked… and mark your calendars; they’re having a Hotline party to celebrate!

Thanks to That Weasel and Alan Wu, who have provided two new homes for the Demo Promo movie – links can be found on our mirror list.

Getchyer red-hot fan fiction here…Well Enough Alone, part 5, by Ryan Present Horizon, part 1, by Spook Halo: Aftermath (gj), chapter 1, by GarlicJr11 Operation False Prophets, part 11, by Ian Barnes The First Step Into A Long Fall, part 2, by JediKnight114 In addition, GarlicJr11 has created a logo to go with his writing…

A couple of weeks ago, Bungie released some cool dual-monitor desktops. Did you decide they were nice to look at, but that you didn’t have the screen real estate to show ’em off? Never fear – Allenthar has combined them into nice single-monitor desktops – you can find them, in a whole slew of resolutions,…

Thanks to Reaper7 (of Battleground: Halo) and Allenthar, who have both provided mirrors for the Demo Promo movie – you’ll find the links on our Demo Promo Mirrors page. Update: Oops, forgot Cybrfrk! He’s put it up, as well (with a .wmv on the way). Update 2: Brian Josselyn writes to say that it’s mirrored…

A couple of days ago, Team Overkill was kind enough to upload a copy of the ‘special ending’ that follows the single-level demo you can find on the June 2002 Official Xbox Magazine cover disc – we were going to release it, but Bungie came through with a direct version. (We’re THRILLED to get submissions…