Month: June 2002

Clint Wilkes sends in a new Mastercard ‘Priceless’ parody – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Nice nod to Foxx Wolf’s mom! And to Stormsinger, as well…)

Thanks to Kurt Bergeron, who prompted us to update our Interviews database with the latest Matt Soell interview. We took the opportunity to add a few missing ones from farther back. There’s still the issue of ‘Off the Net’ interviews… we’re working on it.

One of these days, a new section will come online here at HBO – it’ll house some of the cool mod-related artwork that’s sprung up in the past few months. Until then, though, new submissions will continue to go into the Miscellaneous Art section… like this rendering of a Scorpion motion-tracking missile (described in ‘The…

The oldest Halo convert? Foxx Wolf sends in an account of getting his mom hooked on Halo – she’s 63 years old. I spent a pleasant hour or so teaching her how to move around and play, what to do, the basic how’s and where’s of first-person games. She loved it! Despite her slower reaction…

Night of the Living Mirrors… Vector40 writes to say that he’s added The Repertory to the list of mirrors for the ‘Evolution of Halo’ vid. That Weasel writes to say that he’s converted that movie to Windows Media Player format (it’s now only 30 megs), and you can grab it from That Weasel Television. Brian…

Beware of… Team Overkill turns in a new desktop image for our Wallpaper section.

Another monster movie – Dan Chosich, who’s already turned in a number of movies for our Movies section, has created a new one. It’s available in both QuickTime 5 and Windows Media Player formats, in pretty high quality – the QT5 version is 36 mb, the WMV version is 47 mb. For the time being,…

Sunday afternoon Fan Fiction offerings…The Brethren of Saturn, part 1, by Lynnada Earth’s Last Hope, parts 1 and 2, by Dark_Elite Get to readin’!

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Some very, very insane Halo fans decided to test the limits of a system link game… they sent pictures. They’re still alive – if you try to copy this, you might not be. Enjoy the insanity, but don’t participate in it. I really don’t wanna be reading about you…

Gonna be anywhere near Boise, Idaho on July 7th? HALOID (a 7th Column Chapter) is planning a Northwest Halo Tournament. Details can be found in this forum post.

If you’re not all ‘movied-out’ already this weekend, Otizz has made another little one for you to watch. It’s more of a novelty item than anything else… well, just watch it. It’s a minute long, under 5 megs. It’s called ‘Sniper Shootout E3 2000’, and you’ll find it on Mythica’s mirror server. (QT5 format at…

Thanks to Bravehamster, who has added another mirror for the Evolution of Halo vid. Any respite for mythica.org, which has served 30 gigabytes of files in the past 12 hours, is a good thing! We’ve added the link to the Evolution mirrors list. Update: Narcogen sends word that Rampancy.net has mirrored this movie, both via…

At the Bungie Fanfest a couple of weeks ago, one of the highlights was a movie from Bungie called ‘The Evolution of Halo’. It showed how Halo developed from its obvious Myth roots (the opening sequence of somersaulting marines is hilarious) to something resembling what finally got released. (The newest versions shown are actually close…

The Halo Story site gets a much-awaited update today – grab a cup of coffee, cause this puppy is BIG. Lots to think about… will any of this discussion spark you to send in your own mad ravings? You’ll have to visit and see! (Happy birthday, btw, mnemesis!)

Thanks to Phreak, who noted on our forum that he’s started a compilation of the stars in the Halo (game) universe… there are some gaps in his chart, so if you can help out, drop him a line!

Thanks to 3Suns, who sent in this link from the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald (in Sydney, Australia) – they compiled what they think are the top 50 games of all time… and Halo made number 20 on the list. (Even cooler, but less relevant here, is that Marathon was 44th…)

A long, long time ago, Asmodeus (a longtime Bungie fan and HBO forumgoer) began to write up a series of Walkthroughs for the various levels in Halo, on Legendary. He had trouble getting Bungie to notice them, though, so he turned to us. We can be space cadets sometimes… so it wasn’t until he sent…

Just in time for Tuesday’s release of the Halo Soundtrack, Score Central has put up a full review of the disc, including 4 high-quality (though short) samples. If you’re curious about the Soundtrack, read this now! (As for the review itself – they loved the soundtrack.)

The last two batches of screenshots from Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site were added to our Screenshots database last night – apologies for neglecting to note that here. These include the 12 Closeup shots put up last week, as well as the 48 shots that accompany the Truth and Reconciliation Legendary walkthrough. (It should be…

Mnemesis is just full of it today… good info, that is. He spotted a couple of new entries at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – the next level of their Halo Legendary Walkthrough (this time done by Dave Candland), and a new desktop, based on the T-Shirt logo. (It’s the very bottom entry at the…