Month: August 2002

For Mac-owning Halo Online players – Aquaduct 1.0b3 has been released. Go grab it. (Thanks to Deimosâ„¢ for the heads-up.)

When Bungie released the Halo 2 screenshots last week, one of them sparked some debate – people wondered about a symbol visible on one of them. Some thought it was the men’s room… others thought maybe it signified who won the cellphone wars in the future. Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2’s lead designer, suggested that it…

d!s-CreTion (enraged on bungie.net, who’s gonna be kicking my butt at an HBO Junkies lanfest in a couple of weeks) has written up his Halo National Tournament experiences – he’s in the Regionals! Check out the details.

Another mirror for some of the more popular movies out there – check out Xbox4uweb.de:Rocket Dance Dreams of Masterchief Warthog revisted Warthog jump part1 Warthog jump 2k2 Hamlet Rocketrange Vehicle Fun These, too, have been added to the relevant mirror pages. Thanks, guys!

Thanks to Willy, who pointed out that hump-u.com is hosting a number of Halo vids:Warthog JumpWhat Goes UpBattle of the Bay Rocket Dance – Warthog RevisitedHurricane HaloBreaking the RulesHell Above WaterHalo Boys We’ve added individual links to all the mirror pages. The bandwdith is greatly appreciated!

There’s been a settings change in one of the Regionals games for the Halo National Championship – an issue was raised on our forum by PS-DragoNSpeaR that made it clear that the existing rules would be rather unfair. Details can be found at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. (If you’re playing in the regionals, READ…

In an effort to live up to their name, Games First has put up a ‘preview’ of Halo 2. There’s nothing in there that hasn’t been seen elsewhere… but it is the first ‘preview’ (named as such) we’ve seen. First mentioned at VoodooExtreme, but we snagged it off Rampancy.net.

Jester has written up his experiences at the Halo National Tournament – swing by the Psyjnir Complex for the details. 4 rounds, lots of deaths…

We received word that Mad Gamers reviewed Halo – they gave it a 10/10, downgrading it only for framerate drops at high action points. We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

HBO Babies – the Pilot! Check it out. (.wmv format, 1.7 mb.) Okay, okay, it’s fan-made… but check it out anyway! (And thanks to MasterOmok for sending it in!)

On April 12, This Side Up sent in some designs for proposed Halo maps. Today, a new batch has come in – this time, they’re textured. We’ve added them to his Map Designs page.

Warbow has created a nice little set of Halo cursors for Windows users. (These work in 9x, NT 4.0, Win2k and XP – Me’s not listed?) Directions are included – the download is tiny (8k), so what are you waiting for? (A static preview, not showing you the animation, can be seen here.)

This is really yesterday’s fan fiction – but life was busy…Cry for a Hero, part 3, by el_halo_diablo Shadows of Archon, part 5, by Wado The Discovery, part 8, by strategyfreakGo get ’em!

A pair of new desktop images for you – Ken Schreiber compares Halo and Halo 2, and Allenthar colors in a cool Bungie wallpaper (in a multitude of sizes). Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section! Update: We’ve added a third image for the morning – this one from Deimosâ„¢, over at Subnova.com… it utilizes…

Artwork for you this morning:Priceless MC, by WildebeestNZ (another MasterCard takeoff)Halo 2 Cover, by Jesper Nielsen (a projection of the future label for Halo 2)Enjoy – you’ll find these in the Miscellaneous Art section.

oldmano’theC has created a pretty amazing ‘Fan Fiction’ – it’s a video called HALO Genesis?1, and it shows one vision of how Halo might have been formed. It’s fully computer-generated footage – there’s nothing from the game itself (except the title, and maybe the planetary layout) – even the music is original. It’s available from…

This was noticed a week ago, by Bachus, first… but we’ve finally added the new Halo 2 banner from the main bungie.com web page to our Banners collection. It shows the MC before an open airlock, an interesting viewpoint not shown in the rest of the currently released media.

The Psyjnir Complex’s Shallow Throat tells all! (Well, tells SOMETHING.) Halo 2 storyline – revealed?

Smilebit has a theory about the delay of the Halo 2 trailer…

A few days ago, we posted a desktop image submitted by Chome, of Xbox Weekly. Turns out that pic used (without permission) the artwork of Greg Martin, specifically a picture called ‘Inevitable’. At the request of Mr. Martin, we’ve yanked this entry. (He does some pretty amazing work – you might want to browse through…