Year: 2002

Justin snags a famous Swoosh and creates an action-oriented desktop for the masses – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

One new Fan Fiction entry for you today: Gordi’s Upon This Stage Final Prologue. If you’ve forgotten the storyline, you can read the series en masse. Don’t forget to leave feedback for fanfic authors… but please, try not to abuse the system (as some are doing now). Thanks.

Whoa – the Myth Total Soundtrack CD acronym has been solved! (Okay, okay, not really Halo news… but the search for acronyms has occupied our forum periodically recently, so maybe this’ll spur attacks on the two new ones – the Halo GotY one (ABTFIPAS05) and the Halo Soundtrack one (SABABWL).) In any case, drop by…

Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez points out that his review of the Halo Soundtrack is up at Amazon.com. Very nice read, and a fantastic overview if you haven’t bought it yet! Take a look.

Griffon writes to let us know of the massive Halo article in the July issue of OXM UK (yes, it’s been noted before), and to mention that the ‘Making Of’ videos can be found on the DVD with that mag (this is news, and good news for folks who can’t get their hands on the…

Eep – go a few days without looking at the other sites in the Bungie realm, and you miss stuff. 🙁 Stopped by Rampancy.net today, and discovered thatThe Making Of Halo vids (at least the two ‘new’ ones) are now mirrored there – we’ve added links to our Mirrors page Forerunners.org is much closer to…

Yet MORE new Bungie material at Tru7h and Reconciliation… this time it’s a walkthrough for Silent Cartographer. Zee peekturs… zey are awesome! Thanks once again to mnemesis (who pointed out this particular shot…)

Whoa. Xbox tunneling finally comes to the Mac – Pfhorslayer has written a new product, called ‘Aquaduct’, and he’s now interested in finding beta testers. If you have a mac running OSX, and an Xbox running Halo, and would like to try out online gameplay… drop him a note! (Read his forum post for more…

Ryan lets us know that the Halo Fan Fiction Project has gotten another facelift – the page looks pretty good! Go check ’em out, and join up if you’re interested in helping realize Halo in a printed form!

Woohoo! 8 new screenies over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliaton site, just ITCHING for your captions. This is just one amazing shot… Thanks to mnemesis for the heads-up.

Hehe – it’s the wrong color, but BOLL’s got the right idea… how many of you miss that rocket launcher?

BIGwooly popped into our forum to announce that the final date for the upcoming Northwest Regional Halo Tournament in Boise, ID has been set – carnage will occur on June 29, 2002. If you’re interested in joining in, check out HALOID’s 7th Column Chapter page.

Ross Mills has started up a site called ‘Halo Ideas’ – and as he says on our forum, he’s looking for content to fill it. If you have any speculations about either Halo 2 or Halo Online (neither of which have actually been announced, of course, and nothing says they won’t end up being the…

Last week, MacGamer put up a feature called ‘MacGamer’s Gaming “It” List’ – what’s cool and what’s lame in the world of Mac Gaming. Bungie made the list – twice. First, for the lameness involved with arguments about whether Halo’s coming to the Mac or not… and then, for the lameness of being bought by…

Justin drops off another desktop image for our Wallpaper section – this time, the focus is the Warthog. Take a look…

Due Q4 2002: The McLees Expansion Pack! Congrats, Lorraine and Rob… and thanks to Lorraine for the added info about Bungie’s inner machinations! (There was some speculation about how many teams are working at Bungie – Lorraine clarified that there are currently 2. Phoenix is obviously one… and the Halo team is probably the other…

lol – Why You Should Never Believe Game Sellers, Part 77: Greg noticed that GamePlay is willing to sell you Halo 2 right now, as a pre-order. The funny part?Please note that as this title was just officially announced at this years E3, the pricing has not been set and as such the price here…

Heh – Halo shows up in today’s Real LIfe Comics – go ahead, tell me this has never happened to you. Thanks to Uriel for the heads-up.

Roger Wilco, unwilling to wait for Halo tools to be released, has added another few designs to his ‘Halo Vehicles’ page – the ‘Warbow’, the ‘Lobster’, and my personal favorite, the ‘GNERD’… check ’em out. (Don’t forget to follow the little movie icons at the beginning of each entry – they lead to short quicktime…

Hmm. Taylor Helsper wants to know how long it takes to beat Halo – so he’s set up a basic site (‘Halo Times’) to compile this data. Simply mail him your time to finish a level (and the difficulty you played on), and he’ll build a list of the best times. In his words -…