Year: 2002

New content over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – there’s a pretty fun new ‘Caption This!’ section, wherein Bungie puts up great screenshots (warning: spoilers), and you write captions for them (and vote on other people’s attempts)… and in honor of tomorrow’s release of the Halo Soundtrack, there’s an interview with Marty O’Donnell. Thanks…

In Japan, Halo dog tags and a case were given out with very early copies of Halo. (You needed the dog tags to get in to the Halo Championship.) Now, thanks to Team Overkill, you’re being notified that a set of dog tags and the case are being sold on eBay – current bid is…

Cybrfrk, our friendly neighborhood Gameplay Tips section maintainer, sends word that The Tips database has just hit 100 entries He’s just hit 35 Go peruse the database… and wish him a happy birthday while you’re there!

The Press Scans database has been brought up to date again. Another Halo Ad added, along with some mad ravings in last month’s Xgamer, and a very interesting article from the last issue of Xbox Nation. (These last two were both mentioned some time ago – March 26th for the XBN piece and April 24th…

Coolaid sends word that he’s created a new Halo movie. It’s pretty big (55 mb, zipped), in QT format. 6 and a half minutes long – mostly jeep flipping, set to music. You can find it on his Power Rangers clan site, or his friend’s site.

Clint Wilkes sends in a new Mastercard ‘Priceless’ parody – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Nice nod to Foxx Wolf’s mom! And to Stormsinger, as well…)

Thanks to Kurt Bergeron, who prompted us to update our Interviews database with the latest Matt Soell interview. We took the opportunity to add a few missing ones from farther back. There’s still the issue of ‘Off the Net’ interviews… we’re working on it.

One of these days, a new section will come online here at HBO – it’ll house some of the cool mod-related artwork that’s sprung up in the past few months. Until then, though, new submissions will continue to go into the Miscellaneous Art section… like this rendering of a Scorpion motion-tracking missile (described in ‘The…

The oldest Halo convert? Foxx Wolf sends in an account of getting his mom hooked on Halo – she’s 63 years old. I spent a pleasant hour or so teaching her how to move around and play, what to do, the basic how’s and where’s of first-person games. She loved it! Despite her slower reaction…

Night of the Living Mirrors… Vector40 writes to say that he’s added The Repertory to the list of mirrors for the ‘Evolution of Halo’ vid. That Weasel writes to say that he’s converted that movie to Windows Media Player format (it’s now only 30 megs), and you can grab it from That Weasel Television. Brian…

Beware of… Team Overkill turns in a new desktop image for our Wallpaper section.

Another monster movie – Dan Chosich, who’s already turned in a number of movies for our Movies section, has created a new one. It’s available in both QuickTime 5 and Windows Media Player formats, in pretty high quality – the QT5 version is 36 mb, the WMV version is 47 mb. For the time being,…

Sunday afternoon Fan Fiction offerings…The Brethren of Saturn, part 1, by Lynnada Earth’s Last Hope, parts 1 and 2, by Dark_Elite Get to readin’!

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Some very, very insane Halo fans decided to test the limits of a system link game… they sent pictures. They’re still alive – if you try to copy this, you might not be. Enjoy the insanity, but don’t participate in it. I really don’t wanna be reading about you…

Gonna be anywhere near Boise, Idaho on July 7th? HALOID (a 7th Column Chapter) is planning a Northwest Halo Tournament. Details can be found in this forum post.

If you’re not all ‘movied-out’ already this weekend, Otizz has made another little one for you to watch. It’s more of a novelty item than anything else… well, just watch it. It’s a minute long, under 5 megs. It’s called ‘Sniper Shootout E3 2000’, and you’ll find it on Mythica’s mirror server. (QT5 format at…

Thanks to Bravehamster, who has added another mirror for the Evolution of Halo vid. Any respite for mythica.org, which has served 30 gigabytes of files in the past 12 hours, is a good thing! We’ve added the link to the Evolution mirrors list. Update: Narcogen sends word that Rampancy.net has mirrored this movie, both via…

At the Bungie Fanfest a couple of weeks ago, one of the highlights was a movie from Bungie called ‘The Evolution of Halo’. It showed how Halo developed from its obvious Myth roots (the opening sequence of somersaulting marines is hilarious) to something resembling what finally got released. (The newest versions shown are actually close…

The Halo Story site gets a much-awaited update today – grab a cup of coffee, cause this puppy is BIG. Lots to think about… will any of this discussion spark you to send in your own mad ravings? You’ll have to visit and see! (Happy birthday, btw, mnemesis!)

Thanks to Phreak, who noted on our forum that he’s started a compilation of the stars in the Halo (game) universe… there are some gaps in his chart, so if you can help out, drop him a line!