Month: June 2002

Two new job openings at Bungie – is one of them for you? Check out the listings for Lead Animator and Mission Designer. (Older listings, for 3D Environment Artist (posted in December) and Game Producer (posted in March) are still up…) Thanks to mnemesis for the heads-up.

And another movie… This one’s been in the queue for quite a while, though. Distributed with the Official Xbox Magazine is a DVD with game demos, music, and (among other things) a feature called ‘Top 10 Plays’. Each month they put together 10 of the top film clips users send them, of all Xbox games.…

Just a couple of entries for today’s Fan Fiction offering:Ascendant, Part 1, by Archangel’s Blade Another Pair of Poems, by Anthony CoronadoThe two poems were originally (accidentally) included at the end of the last Roughneck Two-Zero chapter… my fault. Update: DOH! Somehow, I missed the fact that three segments of ‘Ascendant’ came in recently, not…

Looks like this is turning out to be Movie day. We’ll start with a submission from Djoey154 – it’s called Scottish Hunter, and we’ll warn you now, the music is mature-rated. He originally submitted this as a Windows Media Player file (11.8 mb) – but with some coaxing, submitted an .avi which has been converted…

A couple of new links for you folks – StarWarsFanMan has started a new Halo photos site, called Halo Onslaught… and Team Overkill has pointed out their clan’s Halo section on our forum. Get to viewin’!

Talon turns in a sketch of the MC (with his helmet off) for our Miscellaneous Art section.

static KI sends in an image for our Wallpaper section… (Warning – spoilers, if you look closely)

Thanks to Nick, who pointed out a new review for Halo – on a site called Intensity Xbox. They gave it a 9.3, overall… it was penalized mostly for its lack of true online play. (It’s not clear if this was written back in November, and just POSTED recently… or if it was written after…

Another music video for you guys – this time from Black_Jackal. It’s called ‘Halo Hero’, and it’s a 3.2 mb, 1:22-long music video, with E3 and more recent footage set to Spider-Man’s ‘Hero’. Once again, you’ll find it at the bottomless pit of mythica.org. (Serving a steady 20 GB/day of Halo movies to you freaks……

Fan Fiction for a rainy Wednesday:The Long Ride Home, part 8, by Joshua Barreto A Pair of Poems and Roughneck Two-Zero, part 8, by Anthony Coronado Worlds Apart, Prologue, by Keelan Harris Not too many updates today – I’m on the road for the next 8 hours or so.

Otizz, unhappy with the feedback HBO forumgoers returned on his last video effort, has submitted another movie. It’s called ‘Is This One Better?’, and weighs in at 4 megs, in .wmv format. Once again, it’s over at mythica.org. (I’d have to say ‘yes’.)

Many, many uploaded bytes later, Otizz has finally gotten his movie across the ocean. We’ve dropped it on Brian Towne’s mythica.org server (option/right click to download) – but we’re always happy to list more mirrors. It’s a 5 mb .wmv file, showing basic gameplay on the first couple of levels and Blood Gulch, interspersed with…

This was posted (and noticed by Knight Premier) yesterday, but we neglected to mention it – Bungie.net is running a new poll: Would you watch a Halo World Championship tournament if it were broadcast on television? Results, early on, look pretty favorable… but go have your say!

Xcruiser has created a new desktop image, using some of the extra features of the Halo Font submitted recently. The shield and Font were created from scratch – and they look pretty nice! He’s said he’s happy to create other sizes of this, if there are requests – just send ’em to him. Meanwhile, check…

Thanks to Narcogen, who points out that the large QuickTime version of the Canadian Halo commercial has now been mirrored at Rampancy.net, and is available both on the web and via Hotline. Links can be found on the mirror list.

A couple of days ago, we reported that a new Halo commercial was airing on Canadian television. Well, Bill Maguire managed to tape this for us… and his brother Bob did some nice converting to a digital format. (We had to crunch down his original submission, because it was pretty big – but the resulting…

A couple of months ago, Draikin modified a mural found in the Official Xbox Magazine, and submitted it to our Wallpaper collection. Now, Djoey154 has modified that image again – it’s blue, rather than purple, and there’s been some image softening in places. Check the new version out in our Wallpaper collection!

Frogblast, a recognized master Halo trickster, has issued a challenge: Get to the bottom of the main shaft on Silent Cartographer, using NO VEHICLES. There are quite a number of other clarifications, so be sure to read his post on the subject – and good luck to all who enter! (We have nothing to do…

Today’s Fan Fiction offering has a rather unusual entry – the Halo writer’s guild known as Zenith has submitted its first compilation work. Due to the limitations of our database system, we have to present it to you in two segments, but it was intended to be read as a unit. You can see the…

We’ve worked hard and long, here at HBO, to earn a reputation as one of the top Halo sites – we’ve put together some pretty high-quality content over the years. The time may have come, however, to lay down our keyboards, put away our copies of Photoshop… a new site has sprung up, and their…