Year: 2002

Join us as we heave a collective sigh of relief: It’s been almost a whole day since our fearless leader left the premises, and there have been no problems bigger than perms that need tweaking, etc. All-in-all, things are great here! :: wonders if someone left the oven on ::

Eep… Louis forgot to give me access to HBO’s ftp so now I can’t upload new fan fiction or art. Count Zero isn’t able to do it either. So anything submitted between yesterday and Wednesday will not be posted. Sorry, all! Pax.

Wonga – what are the chances? Two misc art submissions, from two different people, with the same general idea! Razorback sent in a very cool workup of the M-12 GT, a civilian version of the military ‘hog. I LOVE that hood ornament! Not quite in the same league, but still freakily coincidental, )hog sent in…

Team Overkill, a group of four sharpshooters from Staten Island, have put up the first writeup of the end-of-Macworld Lanfest sponsored by the NYC Bungie-holics. You can find it linked from their Clan site… or you can cut to the chase and visit the Events page directly. These guys kicked ass and took names. Go…

Speaking of movies, Brian Towne has checked in after a week-long vacation… and it sounds like his movie server was not the only bad news he faced. 🙁 The good news (for HBO visitors) is that mythica.org should be back up and running in the next day or two, depending on when Brian can get…

Hnn Productions sends word that they’ve put a new movie up for you to grab. It’s called ‘Halo-Trigger Happy’, and it’s a 4:15 long .wmv that weighs in at 6.9 mb. It mostly shows solo gameplay, set to ‘Click Click Boom’, by Saliva. We’ll list it soon in our Movies database.

The Fan Fiction just doesn’t stop – here’s the stuff that’s been building while we’ve been out of town at Macworld:Halo 2: Jupiter, chapter 1, by Chi Zhang Ascendant, part 7, by Archangel’s Blade The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 1, by el_halo_diablo The saviours of man, part 1, by Shadow_hunter117 Rise To Honor, part…

This came in a couple of days ago, but we missed it because we were all at MacWorld (except for Crux, who was burning incense and hoping for salvation). Jon Bonneau has created his view of what the box for ‘Halo Next’ (OXM’s unimaginative moniker for the next Halo game) will look like. Check it…

A Halo National Championship? Microsoft, EB, and iGames (a game center company) have teamed up to offer you a nationwide competition with prizes like a 50 inch flat screen TV, amazing audio systems, and lots of Xbox-related hardware. You can read Bungie’s description at Bungie.net, or visit Xbox.com for links and a movie with some…

It’s better to change the Man’s diapers, than to be the Man… or something. The founder of Bungie Studios, Alex Seropian, has announced that he’s leaving Bungie at the end of August to concentrate on… well, life. You can read the details at Bungie.net… but I’d like to say right here and now that we’re…

A couple of days ago, Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez, master of BS, cornered Peter Tamte at Macworld New York and asked him some interesting questions about the Mac and PC ports of Halo. Read the interview here – we’ll add it to our Interviews database in the near future. (And thanks to Peter for all the…

MacGamer had a chance to catch up with Peter Tamte of Destineer to talk about Halo for Mac. When asked about system requirements, Tamte could only say:”Desktops you can buy today will be able to run Halo. We can’t make any promises about older machines, however.”Read the full article here. Pax.

Want a serious fighter jet? Check out Storm Singer’s Skyhawk – Background in Bryce, plane in Lightwave. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Fly me to the moon, baby…

A full Fan Fiction series today (plus more):A Whacky Spartan, Parts 1-2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6, by Daniel Jackson Halo 2: Jupiter, Part 2, by Chi Zhang Gotta go now…

Whoa. Do you live anywhere near San Jose, California? Would you be willing to pay $30 for the chance to play Halo on a screen that is 40 feet by 60 feet (12×18 meters)? Swing by this page, then, and register forMax Games, at the Tech Museum of Innovation – on August 15, they’ll be…

Whew! The Gameplay Tips queue has finally been emptied – almost 30 tips added. (Some quite good, even.) Now we just need a reasonable way to sort them… For those myriad fans still waiting patiently (or maybe not so patiently any more – dang, Bungie got their PC Halo announcement out before we finished this),…

Bungie.net came back up from its downtime this morning… and you’re gonna like the reason. They were installing their new Forum system – eventually, every chapter will be able to ahve its own forum, but for now, there are just a pair of them, The Underground, and the Septagon. It’s completely custom-built – check it…

Pack up the lamps, Granny – HBO is moving. We’re setting up new digs on a nice fat pipe, so that folks who’ve had trouble connecting should find that things have improved. (It’s not, unfortunately, fat enough to handle all of the movies we mention… sorry.) We’ll keep both the old and the new sites…

The things people will do in their spare time…

Bungie.net has put up a notice that all Bungie web services will be down for several hours tomorrow, starting at 10:30 AM PDT. (Obviously, you won’t be able to read it THERE after that point, so we’re mentioning it here.) This means a couple of hours of webcam downtime…