Year: 2002

Johndoe102 did some rearranging of his desktop to bring you a Halo tribute – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

This came in a week ago, but it was sent to the Halotips address, so I missed it the first time ’round… Chris Swenson has kindly compiled our Legendary Walkthrough (written by Asmodeus) into a printable Word document; download this (196K, zipped) and print it out, and you can have our legendary tips sitting next…

Team HBO, a ragtag collection of disreputable folks who share membership in the HBO Junkies Seventh Column chapter, finished in the top two today in The Halo Winter Season Second Round Qualifiers, and move on to the Regionals, to be held February 2, 2003. Way to go, guys! (Read Miguel’s update on the event.)

Three new desktops for you today… you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section.

FunkDaddy has created a set of 26 Halo icons for use on your computer – there’s a set for OSX (128×128, 846K stuffed), and a set for Windows XP (48×48, 269K zipped). You can see a preview of the OSX versions here (968×820, 90K).

Early Weekend Fan Fiction:Have Design, Will Build Part 4, by hipboyscott Forgotten Soldiers part 1 , by cloud Halo: Standing Firm Part III, by Xzilen The Hephaestus Equation IV, by Dirty Commie Force 81 Prologue, by NobleWardGo to it…

Chris Solomon writes that he’s started up a new Halo site, called Bungie HALO – content is growing. Take a look!

Skeletor found a pretty funny comic from VG Cats that’s Halo-related. Someone doesn’t like Nintendo fanbois…

Ninjas On Fire, a Halo 2 fansite, officially launches today – full content sections and a forum… take a look!

A cornucopia of random art submissions for you today… bikeman and Kyle turn in Yellow Banshee-related pieces, Warbow shares a pretty funny postcard he received, and CYBRFRK passed along a pair of Master Chief sightings in major US cities. (Looks like this might be a rough winter for the MC…) You’ll find all the goodies…

A quick warning – if you’re working on a Seventh Column theme for the contest, today is the deadline; the winner walks away with a ‘hefty allowance at the Bungie Store’, and Evil Otto points out that new Halo goodies are coming soon.

Apologies for the downtime (both physical, and in terms of updates). Blame life. To start off with, here are a couple of desktops for you – the Wallpaper section gets bigger and bigger…

Heh – Inky, from Crocodile Bungie, has a dirty Halo disc. It still plays… but he gets some bizarre artifacts. Rather than gripe, though, he squeezed his lemons… and came up with Disco Halo, a 1:33, 9.4 mb film showing some bizarre texture problems. (The Glass MC at the end is AWESOME.) Aside from the…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews points out that the The Junkyard’s Halo Strategy Archive could use more content. If you have any strategies or tips that you’d like to share (whether or not you’ve already submitted them to the Halo Tips database here at HBO), head on over and hit the submit button!

Top o’ the mornin’ Fan Fiction:After the Fall – Prologue, by Glenny To Fight for Life and Freedom, by Gasmask Through Your Enemies Eyes, part 1, by Jahan Stormbringers, part 4, by WildebeestNZ What are you waiting for? Update: Eep, forgot one. Don’t forget A New Year’s Day, Chapter 2, by Guilty Spark!

In Germany, Microsoft has decided to sweeten their standard Xbox-plus-two-apps bundle with a free copy of Halo, for all bundles bought between December 11 and December 31. Nice! You can read about it at IGN Xbox. (Thanks to ragereset for the heads-up.)

Heh – Bungie’s showing off the newest additions to their merchandise line (hopefully to be available soon in the Bungie Store) – the webcam this afternoon is displaying a Grunt mug. (The black mug behind it is also relatively new – it’s the Seventh Column mug.) Thanks to Boss “Wart” Hogg, who first noticed it.

A pair of desktop images for you today; one is dedicated to us (unsolicited again – must be the holiday spirit), the other celebrates a more legendary beast. Check ’em both out in the Wallpaper section.

Our Miscellaneous Art collection grows by three items today; there’s a new Halo 2 cover mockup, a Halo-based holiday card, and a teaser for an upcoming Halo-based mod. Check ’em out!

Apologies to all the art submitters in the last few days – life here’s getting busy (holidays, and all), and stuff’s been piling up. Let’s see what I can get out right now. First up: another 4 banners touting the goodness of this very site, created by Tru7h. We’re honored! You’ll find ’em in the…