Month: August 2002

For those who can’t wait for the Halo 2 Trailer, GameSpot has put up a synopsis of what you’ll see. You also get a taste of the Halo 2 story – here’s a snippet of it:As the Master Chief enters the hangar, it is revealed that his spacecraft is orbiting Earth–and that Earth is under…

If you’ve stopped drooling over those Halo 2 shots, come back to some Fan Fiction:Shadows of Archon, part 1, by Wado The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 4, by el_halo_diablo The Angel of Death, by Jason Pridgen Perfect Opposition, part 2, by ~ski200~ Get to readin’! There ain’t gonna be any playable Halo 2 demos…

The word from Microsoft on Halo 2 (Note: that said Microsoft, not Bungie) is that the game “is expected to arrive on store shelves for the 2003 holiday season,” according to this press release. PC Halo in the summer, Xbox Halo 2 in the winter… gonna be a good year next year!

You knew it was coming, right? Halo 2 has been announced. Swing by Bungie.net, and read all about it… new screens, new desktops… and a new movie, coming soon. This is gonna Rock Your World.

Back in February, Eric Giese and Russell Ziegler, of ZiDigi Online, put out Chaos on the Ring, a nicely-made vid showing some cool stunts. 6 months later, we’ve got Chaos on the Ring II – and it’s lots of fun. You gotta love the image of four Hogs, flying overhead like some sort of wingless…

Art on a shoestring:Germain Couët made a pretty necklaceInky wants to feed youVisit the Miscellaneous Art section!

Eep – these came in a couple of days ago, but they were attached to a message about something else, and I missed them. StarWarsFanMan has sent in a pair of enhanced Halo logos – you’ll find ’em in our Logos section. (He also sent in a ‘clearer’ version of the Forerunner Concept sketch he…

A little while ago, we posted a small Halo game created by a fan – now we’ve got another one for you. This one was created by Drew and Taylor (Lion on our forums), and the object is to simply shoot (click on) the grunts and elites floating around the screen. Grunts are 2 points,…

We received word that Clan Underworld Revolution has reviewed Halo. The review itself is ambiguous (there’s a lot wrong, in the reviewer’s eyes, it seems), but the summary suggests differently. (They gave it a 9.5/10, and called it ‘the best console game I have ever played’.) We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

Not clear when this was posted – it was after June 22, which is the date of the LAST xbox.com roundup we did, but it’s not listed in their news archives at all – but xbox.com has put up an article entitled ‘Halo: Reality Held in Suspense’, discussing the way Halo draws you in. It…

Yesterday, we mentioned the Halo50K tournament… well, one of the barriers to entry has just been reduced for some lucky team. The website has news of a new contest – create a promotional vid for the competition, and win free plane tickets for your team. Thanks to dolbex for the heads-up! Major Correction: Seems I…

Tuesday/Wednesday Fan Fiction:The Discovery, chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3, by strategyfreak Perfect Opposition, part 1, by ~ski200~ The adventures of Mate-rik, by Leadbutt And now I really have to go to bed…

HNN Productions has put up their second film – this one’s called ‘Halo-Pay Back’ and is a 5.1 mb, 3 minute long .wmv file. It’s a music vid – Halo campaign gameplay set to P.O.D.’s ‘Boom’… but the timing’s quite good. (Using Sarge as the lead vocal’s pretty nice, too.)

GamerWeb Xbox claims to have ‘inside information’ that Halo 2 will be announced later this week, in New York. (Why New York? It’s not the home of Microsoft, or Bungie, or much of anything else related to Halo – well, okay, it’s the home of Freewill, Bungie’s number 1 fan – hmm…) Thanks to PCDestroyer…

Thanks to Griffon, who last month sent in scans from the July 2002 issue of the Official UK Xbox Magazine. There is a 10-page spread on Halo (lots of good info, and an interview with Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2’s Lead Designer), and a short teaser on Halo 2. Check ’em out in our Press Scans…

What is easily the most ambitious fan-run Halo Tournament to date kicks off its registration today. Halo50K.com (so named because they’re shooting to award a top prize of $50,000 – yes, you read that right) is now live. Prizes will actually be based on the number of entering teams – but they’d really like to…

Okay, we’ve had some mirror additions, and a new site coming online… That Weasel Television has added mirrors for the following movies:Medium size Matrix (Halo Remix) Halo-trigger happy Warthog tv ad 1 Warthog tv ad 2 Ralph and Sam We’ve also added Dan Chosich’s Reminisance to the Mythica.org repository (which has served out over 250…

Monday evening Fan Fiction:The Lost Spartan, part 10, by Spartan415 Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 6, by Ian Barnes Warning: escaping convicts, part 7, by Cap’n KeyesRead, my pretties…

Bungie.net is reporting that online preregistration for the Halo National Tournament ends tomorrow… you MIGHT still be able to register on the day of the event, but you certainly shouldn’t count on it.

If you ever find yourself Down Under, and you need something to do… look up Crocodile Bungie. They’re the Seventh Column Aussie contingent… and they’ve recently put together a pretty slick little video (2:29 long) showing what you’d be up against if you visited. There’s a high-quality version – 17.8 mb, 300×240, QT5, and a…