Month: October 2002

Continuing with the banner theme, Warbow sends in one of his own. You’ll find it in our Banners section. Update: the image is considerably smaller now.

Pair of new desktops avaiable… in our Wallpaper section.

Justin Bernard turns in another piece of artwork promoting the squad Delta Force – this time it’s a banner. We’ve reduced the display size (so that it fits on the page), but the original is available as well.

FunkyCheesMunkey draws another Halo pic for our Miscellaneous Art section. (It’s really, really big, so if you load it and see only white in your browser window, realize you have to scroll a LOT to get to any content.)

Okay, I guess this is sort of Halo-related… Matthew Ramos created an Xbox Yahoo Messenger skin, and the MC has a prominent place in it. You can see a preview he sent of the skin in action (42K), or you can download the skin itself (172K). I’m not sure we’re the best place for Instant…

Heh – in an article from the Houston Chronicle’s Sports 2 section front page last Sunday, tossed into the middle of a pretty funny discussion of what happens when real-life football players run up against their electronic doppelgangers is a tidbit of Halo goodness.On the other side of the room, a group of offensive linemen…

Team Xbox has put up a preview of Halo 2, combining much of the info available elsewhere into one big easy-to-read story. Go take a look!

Early-week Fan Fiction:Super Six Four, by Sarge The New Reach Campaigns Chapter 7, by Gasmask A New Enemy, by Matthew Edwards Wings of Death, part 9, by el_halo_diablo The Story of Halo, by Spec Ops Elite HELLJUMPERS, part 10, by Havok The Shadows, part 8, by Glenny The Story of Halo is broken into two…

Live near Nashville, TN? Up for some Halo competition with $5,000 guaranteed on the line ($2200 for first place in the CTF competition, for example) at the end of November? Stop by the website of The Associates of Gaming Professionals, and read about their upcoming Halo tournament. $25 a head to enter; not bad for…

Pretty pictures…

Bandwidth might be a little tight… but we’ve tossed up the ‘Pyramid of Destruction’ film from the October 2002 OXM cover disc. It’s 5.3 mb, 1:20 long. Nothing spectacular, mostly vehicle antics on Sidewinder… but hey, if it’s good enough for OXM, it’s good enough for us. (The November issue hit the stands yesterday, which…

Another creation from the Reyes-McLees shipyards… first the Pillar of Autumn, now Egan. Congrats, Lorraine and Rob!

Issue 9 of the Official UK Xbox Magazine hit the stands yesterday. Because of that, we’re able to bring you two articles that were published in issue 8. You’ll find these in our Press Scans section. Thanks to Griffon for the scans.

Four new desktop images for you today – mostly dark, but otherwise without a unifying theme. Check ’em all out in our Wallpaper section.

Justin Bernard, of the Halo squad ‘Delta Force’, has submitted a logo promoting the squad. You can find it in our Logos section.

Another banner from Richard, aka t3ch – you’ll find it in our Banners section.

HNN Productions has created a new Halo gameplay vid; NewGun. 5.3 mb, .wmv format, 3:12 long. Video quality is low, but good enough to see what’s going on (and the tradeoff was made to keep filesize small, which is nice). Footage ranges from run-of-the-mill gameplay to pretty funny little clips; overall, there’s nothing really new…

Another desktop entry from Mattman, in our Wallpaper section.

Weekend Fan Fiction:After Halo pt. 3 Chapter 3, by Kyle Revolution, part 13, by Gruntkiller Shadows of Archon II, part 21, by Wado Death Dealers, by HavokOnce again, Havok (previously Helljumper, previously Andreas) has changed his posting name. Apparently, my polite request to maintain the name you post under was overlooked. Because of that, we’ve…

A couple of pretty cool banners were turned in recently; they’re HUGE, but they’re definitely worth looking at. I’ve put up smaller versions in our Banners section simply for page-loading convenience… but links to the originals are there as well. Check ’em out!