Month: July 2002

Woo – long weekends out of town can be GOOD things. 🙂 First up – The Junkyard is running a new competition – guess the release date of PC/Mac Halo (exactly), and win stuff! (There are several copies of Halo, and some multimedia cards on the line.) The news story is here, the Guess Contest…

Daniel Conway was inspired by the energy stations (the blue beams) in Halo… and whipped up a little something for our Miscellaneous Art section. Check it out!

Orlando Cortez has sent in a huge logo conversion for our Logos section – reversal of fortune, or maybe just colors…

Relatively light Fan Fiction update today – just Ascendant Part VIII, by Archangel’s Blade. Give it a read!

Another Halo review – this one at GameWatchers.net, and far more recent (just a few weeks old). Overall score? 99.5. We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

Joseph “Zef” Howells sent in a modified screenie for our Miscellaneous Art section… I like that logo.

A pair of Halo reviews have surfaced – from GamePartisan.com. These were posted in mid-March, but we just got word of them today. (Thanks, Creamyears.) We’ve added them to our Reviews Database – 122 reviews, average score of 94.9%. Whoa!

Friday’s Fiction Flood:The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 3, by el_halo_diablo Rise To Honor, part 11, by Shadow The Return of the Archons, part 3, by Wado Today, we’d also like to point out a link to a fan fiction piece over at Zenith – Uriel’s ‘Beyond the Paradise’. Worth a read – and when…

Woohoo! 7000… who was it? (We got word that the 7000 mark was passed from Grail, of cWB – but he didn’t say if he was the lucky contestant.) We’ll just have to wait for word from Bungie…

Oh, the fun you can have with cutscenes… (Thanks, Warbow.)

Subnova’s Deimosâ„¢ has posted a set of pictures from MacWorld NY 2002, including a collection from the after-show Halofest. No labels, and some of the lighting is questionable… but you can get a sense for the space and people. One of these days, one of us will actually write it up, too!

Bungie.net has been keeping track of the total number of registrants for the Halo National Championship… and tonight that number passed 6000. (Check the upper right-hand corner of their website for the current tally.) Will you be the 7,000th contestant?

Thirsty? (Thanks to Cap’n Keyes…)

Heh – for those who think there aren’t any tricks left to find in Halo, think again. Lennox noticed an interesting interaction yesterday… and after the forum settled down and stopped calling him a liar, Warbow actually FILMED a variant. It was intriguing enough to get the attention of a Halo Dev team member… which…

Wonga. Remember Chaos on the Ring? (Back when Warthog Jumping was relatively new, this flick pushed the limits.) Well, these guys are putting the finishing touches on Chaos II… and their website says it’ll be ready by Saturday! The hitch? It’s gonna be HUGE. (Like 400 megs huge, if I read their blurb right.) I’d…

Warbow has polished up two new Warthogs for your perusal – a Copper version, and a Winter Camo version. You can find both in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Personally, I’d LOVE one of those Camo models…)

Built-up Fan Fiction (including a fixed version of the Misadventures):The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 2 , by el_halo_diablo Halo 2: The End, by Eric Gunther The Return of the Archons, part 2, by Wado The Lost Spartan, part 9, by Spartan415 Halo 2: Jupiter, part 3, by Chi Zhang Warning: escaping convicts… part 6,…

Continuing to clear out the Incoming file queue – a couple of new desktop images for you. One composite, one original… check ’em out in our Wallpaper section. (Fan Fiction coming later this morning…)

Oh, and before we forget… Xbox Weekly has a story on Halo Babies. Be sure to read it carefully. Thanks to ChromeFX for the heads-up.

GameSpot interviewed David Hufford, Xbox product manager, and one question stood out with regard to the Halo community:GS: There was some confusion regarding the “Halo online” announcement made at E3 2002. Is Bungie developing an Xbox Live version of Halo, or did the announcement pertain to an entirely new product? DH: An entirely new product.…