Year: 2002

It’s been said that Halo can inspire obsession. We recently received a pretty clear example of this. Zachary Hahn, armed with Halo and a stopwatch, managed to run some time trials and calculate various speeds and rates related to Halo vehicles and weapons. You’ll find the results in our Miscellaneous section, in a document called…

Since the announcement that Bungie’s secret project known as Phoenix has been shelved, the artwork has begun to pour in. We started by placing it in our Miscellaneous Art section… but it’s clear that it has the potential to crush that section, and it’s not particularly Halo-related. We’ve therefore added new additions (as well as…

Recently, Bungie posted the eighth chapter of their Legendary Walkthrough at the Tru7h and Reconciliation site. It included a whole passel of the now-legendary (hehe) Bungie-quality screenshots to illustrate the text. We’ve added these to our Screenshots database; you’ll find the 43 shots shown on that page, plus 9 others that didn’t make the cut.…

Ghôlsbane has submitted an .eps file containing a path of the Phoenix logo outline. To use this, open it in Photoshop (or anything that reads Photoshop paths) and select the Paths palette. It’s invisible until you select it. Quality is quite good; there’s a simple example of what you can do with it in the…

Last month’s mind-shaking magazine articles are no longer on the newsstands… so we can finally bring them to you in our Press Scans section. You’ll find ‘Apokalyps Nu’ from the September issue of Sweden’s Super Play, ‘X-Files’ from the October issue of France’s Official Xbox Magazine, and the gorgeous article from the September Edge Magazine.…

We’re swimming in Miscellaneous Art today…

Pair of new desktops for you… check our Wallpaper section.

—m0bus— has turned in a new banner, in use on his clan site, BOX Inc. Halo. You’ll find it in our Banners section.

There’s been plenty of Halo Story speculation on our forum recently… but now there’s even more; the Halo Story site has gotten a tasty update by our very own Finn. Go see what he thought was worth considering this time around!

Boatloads of new content at Bungie.net… on top of yesterday’s system upgrades, we now have a Legendary walkthrough for Two Betrayals (with almost 50 new screenshots – and more if you know where to look) and an article entitled ‘So You Want To Be a Programmer’, written by Michael Evans, a programmer on the Halo…

Three new images for our Miscellaneous art collection this time around. Folks: during the past few days, we’ve received a huge number of art submissions. Some of them we received more than once. Again – if you don’t see your image online in a day or so after submission, feel free to send us email…

Inverted can be fun. New desktop from Frank Machado in our Wallpaper section. Update: eep, forgot one. Bbow of Been Mawed dropped off a Halo50K desktop. Sorry about that.

Three new logo modifications from Justin Guizzo – check our Logos section.

A week’s catchup on Fan Fiction:Revolution, part 16 and part 17, by Gruntkiller A New Breed, Chapter1.final, by Geshtu Liberation, part 6, by Hoju Shadows of Archon II, part 23, by Wado The New Reach Campaigns, part 8, by Gasmask Forgotten Emotions, by Geo Drakis Have Design, Will Build, by hipboyscott Outlaw, part 2, by…

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Achronos has posted at b.net that some new features are being added to the site that will make your surfing experience better, but that will include a half-hour of downtime today. Since we were reamed for not notifying the public the LAST time b.net went offline for upgrades, consider this your notification.

Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade were at the Xbox Live Bootcamp (the MS event that took me out west this week), as well… and the comic that came out of it is Halo-related. (The actual writeup Tycho posted is far more interesting to read – even though I now feel I have to rewrite…

The Xbox was finally released in New Zealand at the beginning of October… and the Kiwi gaming site Gameplanet has posted their review of Halo. They loved it. We’ve added the review to the Reviews database.

It’s late, and I have to be up pretty early for the plane flight home… but I figured I’d drop off this preliminary report. I spent today in a conference room at Microsoft with a dozen other folks, testing a wide variety of soon-to-be-released games that will work with the Xbox Live online service. It…

David Karl, of Moden Studios, has mirrored a whole bunch of movies on his hotline server:The Evolution of Halo, Groove 117, High Speed Highway Halo, The Halo 2 Trailer, an extra small version of the H2 trailer for poor modem suckers, The Matrix (Halo Remix), Warthog Jump, and Warthog Revisited. Links have been added to…