Year: 2002

Heh – Roger Wilco did a little digging at the US Patent Office; it seems Microsoft was thinking ahead about Halo merchandising. Check out his post for the things covered by their trademarks on the word Halo!

Couple of bits of artwork for you… [OX] turns in a more NBA-ish image than the last NBA-ish image we got, and StarWarsFanMan give the MC what he really needs. You’ll find both in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Warbow went dumpster diving outside the Bungie offices again. We won’t show you the mutilated Elmo dolls he found… but there was also this snippet of what appears to be a rejected Halo 2 trailer option. 2.5 mb, QT format. Crap, now we have to clean the carpets again…

A couple of days ago, we posted the beginnings of a novelization of the Halo story. We’ve got a new one today – strategyfreak, who had been working on the Halo Fan Fiction project, has turned in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of his effort to this end. The Fan Fiction section continues to grow…

A recent episode of G4 TV’s Filter program rated the Halo Soundtrack at #3 in the top 10 videogame soundtracks of all time. (Final Fantasy VII and GTA3 beat it out.) Personally, I think they misjudged… but hey, I’m biased. Check out the details at Bungie.net.

Thanks to the eagle eyes of Jerry, who noticed the cool new link at the top of the bungie.net main page (right corner). It contains quick links to all the useful info so far published on Halo 2 – press releases, links to the trailer, goodies like screens and desktops… keep it handy!

A couple of weeks ago, Frogblast posted a pretty interesting movie showing some truly bizarre behavior on 343 Guilty Spark. (Spoilers, for anyone who is still keeping track of this stuff.) Today, Warbow put this clip to music – and it’s a nice enough piece of work that we’ve upped it to mythica. (6.1 mb,…

New desktop from The Elite Halo Gang – check our Wallpaper section.

Thursday’s Fan Fiction:Revolution, part 9, by Gruntkiller Chance Guards, by Loopframe Shadows of Archon II, part 15, by WadoYou know what to do…

Hamish Sinclair is on vacation, but a Bungie Community staple turns 7 today… the Marathon’s Story Page reaches mythical age-status. (Yeah, yeah, not really Halo news… but 7th birthdays for Bungie fansites don’t come around very often.) Visit the Story page forum and help blow out the candles!

Total Games is speculating that there will be a playable build of Halo 2 at X02 in Spain next week. The details are sketchy, but the idea is intriguing. (That a playable build exists, I have no doubt. That Total Games—or anyone else outside Microsoft—will see it any time soon is far less certain.) Thanks…

You want to watch a cool movie? Watch this. (I read about it here.)

Jeff Lofland created an NBA-inspired Halo desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpapers section.

Fan Fiction for the last day or so:Wings of Death, part 4, by el_halo_diablo The monitor’s contest, part 2, by Guy French HALO: Combat Evolved, part 1, by Cameron Eades Shadows of Archon II, part 14, by Wado Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 10, by Ian Barnes HELLJUMPERS, part 9, by Havok Spartan…

Computer and Video Games has written up a Halo 2 preview. The information contained within it is a subset of what was seen in the Edge preview leaked last week – it’s unclear whether the author got the material for the story from the Edge scans, or from Bungie directly. However, since the Edge scans…

The Halo Story Page gets its first update from the newest member of the updating team… Finn, of Team 7hr33! Now, if you’ve submitted 437 items for consideration in the past 12 days, don’t expect that they’ll suddenly all be posted; they’re still human, and a lot of what you guys send in is actually…

Gah. Sometimes life just kicks you in the – oh, never mind. HBO was down for a couple of hours this evening, but not because it changed IP addresses. It died because of user error (with me as the user). We got it up and running again – but the IP change has to wait…

Thanks to Ghôlsbane, who pointed out an article at MacGamer, summarizing the day’s events at Apple expo 2002 in Paris. They spoke to Peter Tamte, head of Bold Games and Destineer Studios (the publishers behind the Mac version of Halo).Peter told us that Halo is meeting every internal schedule and should be released simultaneously for…

Strykerwolf, once and for all, proves the veracity of the infamous ‘locked weapons’ story floating around the internet. See his proof here. (Originally posted to our forum.)

We’re a little ambiguous about posting info from the Edge scans leaked this weekend… but this picture was so cool, we decided we couldn’t hold it back. Warbow has taken the new Halo 2 ATV and stuck it out in the American west… wow. You can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Update: seems…