Month: August 2002

Bungie’s Number One Fan Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez competed in the first round of the Halo National Tournament… and has written up his experiences, complete with pics. Check it out at Bungie Sightings! Correction: Miguel competed in a warm-up event, not the actual tournament. Silly me – the tournament doesn’t even start until next week!

Apologies for the lack up updates – I spent the day at a music festival with my family. Too much sun, too much driving, lots of great music… and what do I come back to? MORE great music! dogsounds (recently in the news for his cartooning skills) has dropped off our first Fan Music submission……

Sunday morning Fan Fiction: The Marine, chapter 1, by Iceman Short Story, by Jamie The Return of the Archons, chapter 6 (final chapter), by Wado What are you waiting for? Update: Add Shadow’s Rise to Honor, chapter 13 to the list…

Art for the day: bikeman704 has cobbled together a ‘screenshot’ of a wished-for Half-Life mod… minor spoilers here. You’ll find this in our Miscellaneous Art section.

The Movies Database has finally been brought up-to-date… movies from the past 2 weeks or so have been added. Hopefully, we’ll have more mirrors for some of the bigger ones soon…

The Halo theme package released yesterday has found a pair of new hosts – there’s a copy at Psyjnir.com’s Hotline server (Halo ->Desktops/Wallpaper), and a copy at Pez Mohr’s ftp server. In addition, Pez has re-zipped the collection, so that the file structure is better after unzipping. (We’ll replace the original version with his as…

Continuing with the theme of camo-colored vehicles, Blackstar has retextured the Scorpion to work better in a snow environment… check out his Winter Camo Tank in the Miscellaneous Art section.

St. Joan, an old-time Bungie fan, has submitted a pretty comprehensive Halo theme for Windows-based machines. It’s rather large (9 megs), because it contains 5 separate themes, each with “multiple resolution wallpaper, original icons, cursors, and MP3 layer sound files.” The quality is quite high – so if you’re in the market for a Halo…

Lazy days of summer – today’s Fan Fiction offering is again one story – Titan – Chapter 2, by Jaywhit10. Give it a shot!

More random art submissions:Jon’s Rifle, by Checkova Forerunner Concept piece, by StarWarsFanManIn our Miscellaneous Art section, as usual…

Thanks to Pez Mohr, who’s added another mirror for the 120 mb version of the Matrix movie. All current mirrors can be found on the Matrix Mirrors page… and we’ll be adding this movie (and Dan Chosich’s Reminisance) to the Movie Database soon.

New material at Bungie.net… the big one is the Halo Tournament Strategy Guide, written by Yeroen. Lots of goodness here. However, don’t overlook the ubercool desktop (scroll to the very bottom) showing the Legendary Skull you get when you complete a level on Legendary difficulty – in hi-res goodness.

dogsounds sent in another Halo funny – we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section. To put it simply – this guy rocks. (Go visit the website, for more comic goodness… non-Halo-related, but good stuff.)

Fan Fiction submissions are once again light – just one… but it’s a good’un. Vector40 submits ‘The Old Man and the Warrior’. Check it out.

The Matrix movie went live this morning without the usual Psyjnir.com hotline link – apparently, Psyrixx is out of town. It wasn’t clear exactly where… but I think the Psyjnir Webmaster’s Mom is involved (and there was something about email porn links… it’s all rather fuzzy). Anyway, the Webmaster was kind enough to give me…

Whoa. Not too often that Marty O’Donnell is proven wrong in print – but eric has pulled it off. A couple of days ago, he stated that his favorite quote from the Halo dialog archives was ‘What kind of a**wipe are you?’ (a line from one of the underground Engineers on the level Halo). Marty…

In our Movies database, there are over 100 films listed. Almost 70 of them are fan-created… but only a handful of those truly stand out as groundbreakers; BungieLove, Warthog Jump, A**hole, a few others. Well, welcome the next entrant to that elite class: The Matrix (Halo Remix). Bill Paetzke has meticulously recreated the opening scene…

Thursday’s Miscellaneous Art:Checkov’s Elite Drawing – a sketchInfectus, by BOLL – a Half-Life model of a Halo character (minor spoilers here)You’ll find this stuff in our Miscellaneous Art section.