Month: September 2002

Once again, the Movies database has been brought up-to-date… 17 movies released in the last month or so have been added. It’s a never-ending stream…

Last week, we mentioned a contest over at Psyjnir.com – guess the winner of the Halo National Tournament, win one of three Halo soundtracks. The contest ended a couple of days ago – but the announcement was made on the Psyjnir Complex 7th Column chapter, and was visible only to members of that chapter. This…

How many of us wouldn’t want to see this in Halo 2? (Thanks again to Warbow for the tweaking.)

Ciarán has created a Windows screensaver that uses the Halo 2 trailer (in QuickTime format) – or any other QuickTime movie – as its source. It’s been tested on Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows XP Home. It weighs in at 1.5 mb – you can find it here.

Monday morning Fan Fiction (it all came in yesterday, but yesterday was mostly an offline day):Shadows of Archon II, part 10, by Wado Revolution, part 6, by Gruntkiller Rogue Enemies, part 5 and part 6, by Spartan415 The Lost Spartan, part 11, by Spartan415 Banserki’s Journal, part 8, by Sarge Justification, part 1, by RixorThese…

Khen Rigzin announced a new Halo vid he’s created – you can find a complete walkthrough of the video, as well as a download link, on this page. It’s 58 mb zipped, 5:22 long, in .mpg format.

T-Money dropped off a new desktop for your viewing pleasure – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Rixor did some digging, and turned up a bit more information about the next Halo novel – according to this page, the author will be William Dietz, and the title is listed as ‘Halo: The Flood’. Amazon lists 24 books by Mr. Dietz, including several Star Wars novels. Some of the listings offer excerpts, so…

Heh – a trailer so yummy, it generates REVIEWS OF ITS OWN. Monsters At Play has written up a very nice account of this clip – worth a read. Check it out!

Adam Russin and Brian Rosenberg have created a film called ‘Oh Shit!’ I’m too tired to figure out if it meets our Movie Posting Guidelines – but I enjoyed it, so I’m posting it. So there. It’s only available in .wmv format, unfortunately – it’s 3:18 long, and 12.5 mb big. You can get it…

Recently, Uriel posted a note on our forum pointing out a listing for the next Halo novel at Amazon. I wrote up a news post about it – I remember writing that the March 2003 release date was just in time to whet appetites for the release of PC Halo. Somehow, that post vanished into…

SpikeDaDragon points out Project-Halo, a new fansite. Not a lot of content yet… but he’s working on it. (Spike – and everyone else who sends mail to us thinking we’re Bungie Studios – we’re not Bungie Studios. We’re a fansite, run by fans. Bungie Studios can be found at bungie.net or bungie.com. It even says…

Dave Calotta has provided another home for Uriel’s ‘A Fall Too Far’ – check his Hotline server, AirDCServer. We’ve also uploaded a copy to Mythica.org, for those who have trouble with Hotline. (It seems there are many who don’t realize it’s a protocol not covered by any browser – you need a separate Hotline client…

Joseph Staten popped into our forum to provide a couple of alternatives Bungie considered for the last pair of lines in the trailer. All in all, I think they chose the correct pair.

For years now, folks have been begging for Halo action figures. Apparently, progress is being made in the field… when we know more, we’ll pass it along.

In direct response to a fan request, I’ve scanned in last month’s article on what the Official Xbox Magazine staff wants to see in Halo 2. You’ll find it (including the now-infamous Tiger Tank) in our Press Scans section. (The October issue hit the stands yesterday, so we’re clean.)

Uriel has created a new Halo 2 vid – it’s a bit over 4 megs, and currently it’s only hosted on the Psynjir Complex Hotline server. (You’ll find it in Files -> Halo2 -> Movies; it’s called ‘A Fall Too Far’.) Worth a look, though – and when demand for the Halo 2 trailer drops…

Wondering where the MC gets his confidence from? Marcellus King figured it out…

The September issue of PC Gamer UK contained an article on the upcoming PC version of Halo – Griffon was kind enough to scan it for us last month. We needed to wait until it was no longer on the newsstands… but we’ve now added it to our Press Scans section. Enjoy!

Wow. Folks have noticed Halo 2 for sale elsewhere before… but Djoey154 found it at Amazon.co.uk. What blew me away was not that it was listed… but that its sales rank was 812. That’s considerably higher than several RELEASED games! (Genma Onimusha, for example, is at 878.) Behold The Power Of Cheese. (Release date, for…