Month: June 2002

It’s always good to get behind-the-scenes commentary from developers; you can learn some cool stuff listening to them, when they’re willing to talk. 8 members of the Halo dev team talked last fall – they made 4 interviews for the ‘Making Of Halo’ DVD. Two of those 4 have since been released on the web…

Okay, this better not start a flood of cheesy compositing… but we’re putting this up because 1) it’s been a bit slow, newswise (mostly my fault – real life intrudes), and 2) Mourneblade was very polite. 🙂 Check our Miscellaneous Art section for some… miscellaneous art.

When you overload the Halo physics engine, sometimes you elicit bizarre behavior from the other characters…

Friday’s Fan Fiction offerings:A Second Last Chance, chapters 1 and 2, by Torch99 The Lost Spartan, chapter 5, by Spartan415 Rise To Honor, part 1, by Shadow The monitor’s contest, part 1, by Guy French Spartan 5 Project, by Tyler Sivertsen Check ’em out!

A pair of desktops dropped in recently – Justin put together something using the new shots in Bungie’s Captions section of Tru7h and Reconciliation, and HAZMOTO chose some other Bungie shots. You’ll find both images in our Wallpaper section.

Thomas Bottrill writes to say that he’s putting together an interview with Randall Glass, of Warthog antics fame, and is accepting fan questions at interviews@goweb.deep-ice.com. Got a burning need to know? Write!

As many, many people have pointed out, we’re way behind in processing submissions to the Gameplay Tricks page and the One-Shots section. Well, there are still almost 2 dozen tricks in the queue… but the One-Shots queue is now empty. 17 new images are available for your perusal. Because of the horribly long lead time…

XXL shirts, Halo soundtracks, and more stock of popular items… the Bungie Store has been upgraded! (Thanks to evenpar123 for the heads-up.)

Poll smash – Mac Gamer asks, “What would you like to see come to the Mac?” Halo is currently leading, with 7 of the 31 votes… see if you can keep it that way! (Thanks to Elbert Wall for the heads-up.)

Want to know a bit more about the the man behind the Halo Soundtrack (released yesterday, in stores everywhere)? Music 4 Games has put up a tribute page to Marty O’Donnell, with some bio information. (Most of this is already available elsewhere… but it’s nice to have it all in one place.)

Wednesday’s Fan Fiction: Rise To Honor – Background, by Shadow Apollo, chapter 3, by foxhound Haven, chapter1, by ~Ice~ foxhound suggests that, since so much time has passed between chapters 2 and 3 of Apollo, you read the entire series from the beginning. And don’t forget to leave feedback – ~Ice~, for one, suggests that…

A fun little movie came in recently from Halo-Wannabe, an HBO forum regular. 6 megs, just under 2 minutes, in QT5 format – it should definitely make you smile. You can find it at mythica.org. Check it out!

Foxx Wolf sends in an image which asks a question we’ve all wondered about, at some point… (admit it, you wanted to know, too) You can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Incidentally – Foxx was the person who asked ‘Who’s the oldest Halo player?’ Marty O’Donnell writesBy the way, my mother has played…

Light Fan Fiction offering this time around, just a couple of stories:Ascendant Part IV, by Archangel’s Blade The Lost Spartan (Chapters 1-4), by Spartan415 All the more reason to check ’em out…

3Suns points out a new poll at GameSpotting (about 3/4 of the way down the page) – ‘Which no-show did you want to make an appearance at this E3 the most?’ Among the 8 possible answers are both Halo 2 and Halo PC. Halo 2 follows Perfect Dark Zero, with Halo PC a distant 3rd.…

New content over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – there’s a pretty fun new ‘Caption This!’ section, wherein Bungie puts up great screenshots (warning: spoilers), and you write captions for them (and vote on other people’s attempts)… and in honor of tomorrow’s release of the Halo Soundtrack, there’s an interview with Marty O’Donnell. Thanks…

In Japan, Halo dog tags and a case were given out with very early copies of Halo. (You needed the dog tags to get in to the Halo Championship.) Now, thanks to Team Overkill, you’re being notified that a set of dog tags and the case are being sold on eBay – current bid is…

Cybrfrk, our friendly neighborhood Gameplay Tips section maintainer, sends word that The Tips database has just hit 100 entries He’s just hit 35 Go peruse the database… and wish him a happy birthday while you’re there!

The Press Scans database has been brought up to date again. Another Halo Ad added, along with some mad ravings in last month’s Xgamer, and a very interesting article from the last issue of Xbox Nation. (These last two were both mentioned some time ago – March 26th for the XBN piece and April 24th…

Coolaid sends word that he’s created a new Halo movie. It’s pretty big (55 mb, zipped), in QT format. 6 and a half minutes long – mostly jeep flipping, set to music. You can find it on his Power Rangers clan site, or his friend’s site.