Year: 2002

Couple of new Fan Fiction stories for you:Halo: The True Warrior Part Two, by Mike ‘Halo Lord’ Galazka Halo 2: Jupiter, by Chi ZhangStill playin’ catch-up… Update: Within 7 minutes of posting those two, Shadow turned in his latest chapter of the Rise to honor series. Gotta love it!

Ever wanted to see what the Keyes Loop actually looked like? NthDegree256 modeled it for you. (Also available as a 139K .mov file, if the .avi is hard to see…) Pretty cool!

Want a free Xbox, and a copy of Halo? MyLocalBands.com is giving one away, autographed by Home Town Hero (a ‘postiviely valiant rock ‘n’ roll band’). You need to visit the contest page, and send the link to all your friends – each friend who visits the page from your link earns you a chance…

We’ve updated the Links section a bit – stripped out URLs that no longer lead anywhere (though we didn’t remove seemingly inactive links that actually still pointed to a Halo site), added a site or two… reorganized a bit. There is now a Fan Fiction section, a Movie Mirrors section, and all the known online…

Mythica.org still seems to be down – an ominous sign. Stepping to the plate are The Repertory and Project Mjolnir – two sites devoted to Halo movies – and That Weasel Television, another long-time bandwidth donator. Most movies released recently now have multiple mirrors at one or more of these sites. The Movies database has…

Just in time for mythica.org, our biggest movie bandwidth donor, to go down, the Movies Database has been updated – 21 movies created in the past month or so have been added to the database. Unfortunately, many of them are hosted only by the mythica server, so they’re not all available at the moment… but…

Mr Bill Jr V, a fan-fiction submitter in the past, has created a Halo movie entirely in Bryce. It’s 3:02 long, 13 megs big, and in QuickTime 5 format. Vector40, who is hosting the movie over at The Repertory, calls it ‘meditative.’ Seems to me it would have worked very nicely with a Tangerine Dream…

Sunday’s Fan Fiction (really, the last several days):The Lost Away Man, by redblooded Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 3, by Ian Barnes The Brethren of Saturn, part 5, by Lynnada Rise To Honor, part 8, by Shadow The Aftermath, part 4, by GasmaskCatchin’ up slowly…

Cowboy Leo recently dropped off a new Logo enhancement for us – we’ve added it to our Logos page.

A couple of Halo reviews have surfaced recently… JJBok spotted one over at Gamer Chickz, and Blue’s News noted one at Game Basement. We’ve added both to our Reviews Database.

Brian Josselyn, aka Blackstar, has put together a couple of movies for your viewing pleasure. The first is a trick with relatively far-reaching implications – what are the limits on projectile flight? (This has been added to the Tricks queue, as well.) You can find some interesting discussion about this movie on our forum. The…

A few days ago, Sno mentioned his Ultimate Tiporium on our forum. It’s not only Halo material, but there is a Halo page there. Some of the tips use techniques that Vidmasters might scorn… but sometimes, it’s whatever keeps you alive! Take a look.

Overshadowed just a little bit by the official MS PR announcement about PC Halo was an update to the Screenshot Captions section of Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. There are 4 new photos… and some of ’em just make you want to break in to Bungie Headquarters and steal that dev kit. First heads-up props…

Whoa… back. Sort of. First off, I’d like to thank Count Zero for the backup this week – he kept the site running while I was incommunicado (unexpectedly so – who’da thunk that I wouldn’t be able to find something faster than a 19200 connection in Bakersfield… or even any time to log in with…

OK folks, this is the big one: Real details on the computer version of Halo. Zaruthustran first broke the story on the forum, and then the press release hit Blue’s News. The important parts: PC version: Gearbox Software (Half-Life: Opposing Forces). Macintosh version: Westlake Interactive (Mac ports of Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, and more). Publisher:…

Thanks once again to Team Overkill, who provided copies of the Halo-related videos on the July OXM DVD – the top 3 Top Plays were Halo stunts, and they made a movie called ‘Dreams of Master Chief’ (a spoof on Warthog Jumping, with stunt footage by Randy Glass himself). The films are 2.2 mb and…

Apparently yesterday’s translation of the GameReactor interview left a bit to be desired (despite being endorsed by the man himself). So much that Christian H?jberg has sent in an alternate translation (as well as pointing out that GameReactor is a Danish site, not Scandinavian as was claimed yesterday). Since I have no way to verify…

If you’re in the southeast Michigan neighborhood and have a hankering for a SPNKRing, MOSHPIT is planning a big Halo bash “within the next month”. From the looks of this, it will be a major event, with food, organized tournaments with prizes, and laser tag(!). For more information, head over to the MOSHPIT Seventh Column…

Johannes Petersson has sent in a translation of the GameReactor interview posted earlier. Thanks from everyone on this side of the pond!

fAt1 informs us that the August issue of PC Gamer UK claims to have a little information on the computer version of Halo. Specifically, they predict that Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Max Payne, is doing the port. Remember, this information did NOT come from Bungie and has NOT been verified.