Year: 2002

Woohoo! 5 more musical outtakes, courtesy of Marty O’Donnell and the Bungie Online team – read all about ’em (and download ’em) from Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation website. Thanks to Clefton Twain for the heads-up! (With a little work, the Halo Love Theme Sketch could have made it into a Godfather sequel… okay, maybe not.)

Movies, movies, and more movies… there’s no guarantee that the main server won’t simply melt, but we’ve put another massive film up at mythica.org – this time it’s Warbow’s ‘Tournament’. It’s… well, you should watch it, it’s sort of hard to explain. It’s 18 megs, in QT5 format, and if you can mirror it, we’d…

Xbox news: Pallor points out a new book by Dean Takahashi called ‘Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution’. She hasn’t read it yet, but has reason to believe that Bungie (and Jason Jones) might be discussed. Also – emildux points out an article at MSNBC.com that looks at Microsoft’s willingness…

Feel the love. Yesterday, we posted our new Movie Posting Guidelines, to (regretfully) explain why we couldn’t continue to find hosting for every single movie made by fans. Today, 3 new movies find non-HBO-related homes, and two movies get MORE homes. You guys rock. Okay, to business: Vector40, against his better judgement, risks tomorrow’s dinner…

Got Halo, but can’t find any prospects for local LAN games? Never fear, the 7th Column is always there to help! Shaq Diesel and Skip Weasel, two Bungie employees (and, from the sounds of it, lonely guys) offer you tips on how to make friends, in the hopes of building up a critical mass for…

The movie deluge has begun – and we’ve been forced to change our policies. 🙁 To the rather large number of people who submitted movies over the past few days – we’ve written up a set of guidelines for movie submission; they should help explain our position on this issue. For right now, though, we…

Monday Morning Fan Fiction: The Brethren of Saturn, part 2, by Lynnada …Must Carry You Out, by Knight Premier (extra points for knowing the significance of the title) Tides of War, by Reiyou (no relation to the other 2 series by this name) Go to it!

Weekend link roundup – a site for ‘X-Squad’ was pointed out to us; they’re a Halo clan that plays on Gamespy. Visit their site if you’re interested in joining, or would like to challenge ’em. (Thanks, Griffon.) Also, Ross Mills writes to say that his Halo Ideas site was far more popular than he expected,…

These things seem to go in cycles… and recently, there have been a lot of questions on our forum, asking how Bungie gets those incredibly beautiful screenshots. We’ve finally added the answer to our Most-Asked Questions list. Feel free to point others here.

A couple of pieces from Microsoft’s Xbox.com site which might be worth a read… Francesca Reyes, Senior Editor of the Official Xbox MagazineÊ·rote an article entitled ‘The Real “Halo” World’, describing how multiplayer fests affect the interactions between co-workers… and Martyn Rose penned an article called ‘Co-op Multiplayer Blast Fest!’, which looks at why Coop…

A new Fan Fiction story for you – KnightmareWolf’s Fafnir Chapter 1. (This was actually submitted before the last update, but we managed to miss it.) Also, Kyo has submitted revised versions of both of his chapters (we don’t encourage this – really) – you can read the new versions individually, or as a unit.…

Caught again… miles did some fancy footwork in order to leave a nav-pointed grunt alive at the start of Truth and Reconciliation… and hence was able to measure the distance from the arrival bay inside the Truth and Reconciliation (where you end up after going through the gravity lift) and the starting point of the…

CENOBITE has created a Master Chief skin (in three sizes; the ‘Light’ size looks most like the Halo Master Chief) for Tribes 2. You can see what it looks like here, and download it from the Skinner’s Guild. (You’ll need to registerÖ©t’s freeÖ´o download, so if there’s enough demand (and if it’s okay with CENOBITE),…

Wondering what Halo looks like, in the context of its astral neighbors? Roger Wilco created a little demo of how he thinks it might move around Threshold, Basis, and their sun… take a look.

Friday’s Fan Fiction collection:The Long Ride Home, part 9, by Joshua Barreto A Second Last Chance, chapter 4, by Torch99 Prince of Angels, part 2, by Kyo (This is actually yesterday’s fan fiction – they were ready to post then, except that one of the authors forgot a title. Rather than wait any longer, however,…

Heh – a few days ago, Halo 2 was just a rumor in the minds of the hopeful. Two days ago, the news of its existence (as stated by J. Allard) was all over the internet. Today… according to the Magic Box, it’ll be out in Japan by the end of this year. Don’t you…

Woohoo! Promised a LONG time ago, Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site now hosts a Musical Outtakes article! Check these out – anyone interested in how a game’s music evolves shouldn’t miss this!

Asmodeus has turned in another chapter of his Legendary Walkthrough of Halo – 343 Guilty Spark is laid out for you in all its glory. You’ll find it in the Legendary Walkthrough nook of our Tips and Tricks section.

PanZer has created a new Halo movie… entirely in Flash. It’s 744k, and it takes a few minutes to run, but watch it all the way through – you’ll find yourself grinning more than once.

What’s this? There are story-related tidbits we don’t know yet? Mnemesis titillates with a snippet from the recent OXM UK article… could this be the start of serious speculation? Head on over to the Halo Story page and find out!