Month: September 2002

Dolbex, of Been Mawed (possibly soon to change to a different name), has sent in a pretty scary desktop for our Wallpaper section. (If you like it, drop him some email – there are others.)

The Halo Fan Fiction Project, an attempt to write the Halo story in novel form, has closed down. You can read an explanation by its leader, until it’s taken down… and you can chime in on their forum if you care to. Hopefully, the people involved will find other outlets for their creativity in the…

Monday’s Fan Fiction offerings:UNSC Long Range Rifle Group, part 4, by Blindside Relations, part 1, by Icebraker20 Taken From A Four Year Old, by Blindside Revolution, part 8, by Gruntkiller The New Reach Campaigns, part 5, by Gasmask That’s all for today…

Another desktop from Chaoz in our Wallpaper section…

One of the more enjoyable ‘mini-games’ in Halo multiplayer is Jousting; Warthogs square off, usually on Blood Gulch, and ram each other, head-on. The intention is to knock the opponent out of his hog (and then run him down, of course). Several films have incorporated footage from games like this… but they’ve always left me…

Just a heads-up – an upstream router is undergoing maintenance this evening; most of bungie.org (excluding HBO, but not its forum) will be offline from roughly midnight to 6 am. There’s nothing wrong, it’s just a hardware upgrade. We apologize for the downtime.

BOLL has created a nice Flash animation showing the cool bumpmapping of the Halo 2 Master Chief. We’ll add it to the Miscellaneous section soon.

Got a great note from Paul Teets today:I was watching CBS’s football coverage today and they were doing a special on Brian Griese for Denver. To my amazement I heard some interesting background music. “Under Cover of Night” from the Halo Soundtrack!!! Guess Halo is now mainstream. Soon everybody will know how special this game…

To the vast numbers of people sending us a direct link to a download directory containing the Edge scans: thanks, but we posted it yesterday. (Check this post.) The directory everyone’s sending us links to is listed at least twice in the thread mentioned in that post – and as we said there, we’re not…

Chaoz sent in a new desktop for our Wallpaper section. Take a look…

StarwarsFanMan has put together a new movie. It’s rather large – 35 megs, 7 and a half minutes long (QT format). Content is mostly glitches and tricks – some pretty funny stuff. (Personally, I’d say it goes on too long… but things have been quiet, so I’m willing to cut him some slack. 🙂 )…

Here’s the Fan Fiction that’s built up over the last 24 hours:Wings of Death, part 3, by el_halo_diablo UNSC Long Range Rifle Group, part 3, by Blindside Shadows of Archon II, part 13, by Wado Into the Ranks: Points of View Told, by David Beale Prince of Shadows, part 1, by Mercforhire Project-Halo, part 2,…

Team Overkill, a Staten Island Halo clan, is planning a Halo LAN fest on September 22nd. These guys are good; if you’re within driving distance, it’ll be worth the trip. You can read more about it on their Seventh Column chapter site. (We don’t normally post small lanfest notices like this… but this is one…

Microsoft is learning the hard way that coordinating data releases across multiple sources is nearly impossible these days. A few days ago, the cover of the French MOX (Official Xbox Magazine) was leaked on the internet… then pulled less than 24 hours later under MS pressure. The damage was done, though, and early versions of…

Matt Soell points out that the Halo Rumor Control database (linked prominently from our FAQ) has been updated. He was spefically talking about information about Halo on Xbox Live (it is not, and will not be, supported – though Halo 2 will contain Xbox Live support) – but there’s also information about the Halo 2…

As a followup to last week’s ‘Making of the Halo Trailer, Part 1’, Bungie has posted ‘Part 2’ at their Tru7h and Reconciliation site. It’s a pretty amazing read, if you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes, soundwise. Beyond the electronic magic, there were 35 live musicians involved in what you hear, including…

Friday’s Fan Fiction: Viper Squadron Chapter 1, by Havok The Shadows – Part 6, by Glenny UNSC Long Range Rifle Group – Base Camp, by Blindside Nice small batch, today…

Phil Howlett writes to point out that the OXM UK cover DVD number 8 (July? August?) contains some pretty interesting warthog jump footage – apparently, there’s a jump onto a pair of covenant dropships (sequentially, of course). Unfortunately, we have no access to this disc – if anyone reading this subscribes to OXM UK and…

Drunkgamers.com is getting ramped up for a series of gameplay videos known as ‘Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles’. To whet your appetite, they’ve created a 2-minute-long trailer for the upcoming films – it’s available as a 30 mb DivX-encoded .avi, or (with some compromises) as a 10 mb QuickTime 5 video. It’s pretty…

Seems Microsoft has requested that Halo Game remove the MOX October cover from their site. (Sort of silly, if you ask me – it’ll be on newsstands in 5 days.) If you missed it yesterday, there’s always next week… (Thanks to Roger Wilco for the heads-up.