Year: 2002

Your daily dose of Fan Fiction:Cry for a Hero, part 5, by el_halo_diablo The Petersburg Affair, part 1, chapter 2, by Saber Halo Battle Cry, part 1, by Daniel Johnson Rise To Honor, part 18, by Shadow Shadows of Archon II, part 3, by Wado Take a look…

hEx writes to let us know that Halo Network, a large German Halo fansite, is back updating. Check ’em out!

Funky desktop from FunkyJ… in our Wallpapers section

Another Halo Banner by Random Hero – check our Banners section.

Art submissions… Combo Melee animated gif, by Razorback Halo 2 box art, by Jack Smith Halo 2 box art, by Cheerio You’ll find ’em in our Miscellaneous Art section.

An interesting little discussion on our forum has led to the conclusion that the time it takes for a weapon to respawn in multiplayer is fixed – for a given weapon, on a given map. Skeletor compiled a listing for Blood Gulch – but doing this on each map is relatively tedious, so he stopped…

Interesting. If you visit the Jobs page at Bungie, you’ll find 5 listings at the moment: 3D Environment Artist Game Producer Lead Animator Character Animator Mission Designer However, Michael Hughes just pointed out that there’s a different one listed at Gamasutra: Studio Manager. Have they just not gotten around to posting it on their jobs…

Daily Fan Fiction flood:Short Story, part 8, by Jamie Into the Unknown, part 5, by Jean-Paul Allee Halo: The Return, part 7, by NeoX Titan, part 4, by Jaywhit10 Halo Side Story: Angel Squad, part 1, by Jordan Dotson Better go read ’em – there’ll be more tomorrow, I’m sure…

Jack Smith has whipped up a new banner for Halo 2 – you’ll find it in our Banners section.

Whoa – does this mean we have to start selling clothing?

The winners (and alternates) of the Regionals in the Halo National Tournament have been posted at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – check ’em out! Congrats to everyone who got this far… and good luck next week in LA!

Instant poll over at Gamespot – ‘Which upcoming console first-person shooter are you most excited about?’ Currently, Halo 2 holds the lead, with 40% of the more than 11,000 votes cast. Closest competitor? Doom 3, at 22%. Go vote! (Thanks to Trotskij for the heads-up.)

Woohoo! It took FOREVER, but the Miscellaneous section is FINALLY ONLINE! Browse through it, and find all the fun stuff we’ve collected over the past three years that doesn’t fit anywhere else. There are some tasty morsels in there… (Before anyone asks, there’s no fan-created music, because in the not-too-distant future, there’ll be a Fan…

Elite ‘taunts’? Skeletor mentioned that Marty O’Donnell had commented on some elite ‘taunts’ back in May, at the E3 fanfest… but had suggested that hearing them in-game would be pretty hard (too many variables to line up). Surreptitious recorded some stuff that he believes are some of those taunts – is this what Marty meant?…

Whoa. Stephen Hawking has made an ad for Xbox Live! (Okay, okay, not really – but dang, Blackstar did a fine job of it anyway.) 10 megs, 1 minute, QT 5 format; we’re not hosting it, but that’s because Blackstar said we didn’t need to. We would, though – it’s really funny. And we will…

Shaun Alphonso has put together a vision of the Halo 2 box. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Random Hero has submitted a Halo 2 Banner – we’ve added it to our Banners collection. (Lost in the mail for a day or so…)

Tuesday morning Fan Fiction:Short Story, part 6, by Jamie Halo: The Return, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6, by NeoX Cry for a Hero, part 4, by el_halo_diablo Rise To Honor, part 17, by Shadow Don’t forget, series can be read in a single shot by following the…

Hmm… interesting. BOLL noticed that the Halo 2 trailer countdown at xbox.com is gone. Glitch in their database system, or something more nefarious?

Big-time correction – the PC Gamer article next month will be on Halo PC, not Halo 2. (Nijhazer’s curiosity on why a PC gaming mag would be covering an Xbox-only title is well-founded.) Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for pointing out that I should read my email more closely…