Year: 2002

A couple of days ago, we reported that a new Halo commercial was airing on Canadian television. Well, Bill Maguire managed to tape this for us… and his brother Bob did some nice converting to a digital format. (We had to crunch down his original submission, because it was pretty big – but the resulting…

A couple of months ago, Draikin modified a mural found in the Official Xbox Magazine, and submitted it to our Wallpaper collection. Now, Djoey154 has modified that image again – it’s blue, rather than purple, and there’s been some image softening in places. Check the new version out in our Wallpaper collection!

Frogblast, a recognized master Halo trickster, has issued a challenge: Get to the bottom of the main shaft on Silent Cartographer, using NO VEHICLES. There are quite a number of other clarifications, so be sure to read his post on the subject – and good luck to all who enter! (We have nothing to do…

Today’s Fan Fiction offering has a rather unusual entry – the Halo writer’s guild known as Zenith has submitted its first compilation work. Due to the limitations of our database system, we have to present it to you in two segments, but it was intended to be read as a unit. You can see the…

We’ve worked hard and long, here at HBO, to earn a reputation as one of the top Halo sites – we’ve put together some pretty high-quality content over the years. The time may have come, however, to lay down our keyboards, put away our copies of Photoshop… a new site has sprung up, and their…

Got a lot of legos? Make a Lego warthog! David Karl did…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews and Vector40 have both let us know that the Junkyard has gotten a facelift, complete with changeable themes. Check ’em out!

Jason Saker sends in a new rendition of the Halo Logo – we’ve added it to our Logos collection. (It’s for team t-shirts…)

Whoa – claimes from a forumgoer about modifications to saved games! So far, says Jason Horwath, he’s managed to give all guns infinite ammo, and he’s managed to make marines invincible anywhere. Proof is forthcoming. If this pans out, it’ll be the first evidence of hackable saves! Update: Apparently, all of the claims made so…

Will Turnbow has updated his Halo font – it now includes numbers, common symbols, and even some graphics. Go grab the new copy (in both TrueType and Type 1 flavors) in our Miscellaneous Art section!

Before I forget AGAIN – Grail, of CWB, saw a new Halo commercial on Canadian TV earlier this week – then TomeOne, back from the wilds of Austria, saw it as well yesterday. It contains a Marathon logo, a politician, some Halo footage, and talk of ‘whoop-ass’. If anyone manages to capture this on video,…

Friday night Fan Fiction: Titan – Prologue, by Jaywhit10 Present Horizon, part 3, by Spook Effusion – Epilogue, by Tursas Progect: MYST, part 1, by The Masta Don’t forget to let Tursas know what you thought of the whole Effusion series, now that it’s over!

Last time Bungie put up a set of ‘eyeball benders’, it took the community over two months to solve them all. This time, it took 16 hours. Well, that’s actually how long it took candyman to CONFIRM the guesses – but the final correct guess came less than 5 hours after Frogblast posted his observation…

Mirror sites have begun to come in for the Warthog Revisited movie – we’ve started a mirror list. Hopefully, the bandwidth will continue to hold up once the Oz.net servers drop off that list… but if you haven’t seen this, grab it now. it’s hilarious.

A couple of months ago, Stormsinger posted an interesting piece of concept art for a future Halo mod, if the opportunity to build one ever arises. Yesterday, he sent in a render of two of the final four versions of the vehicle. We’ve added the image to our Miscellaneous Art section, but there is enough…

Curious about the reach of Bungie’s Seventh Column? Take a gander at Matt Soell’s State of the Seventh Column address, posted last night. (You’ll also get a nice rundown of the E3 Fanfest, a tasty bonus.)

Woohoo! The long-awaited ‘Warthog Revisited’, Randy Glass’ followup to his ‘Warthog Jump’ film (first seen last week, in a slightly less finished form, and the Bungie Fanfest in LA), is now available! You can grab it for a VERY short time at Randy’s site – but he’s going to pull that down sometime today. Mirrors…

For those who think Halo’s tapped out, interest-wise… check this out. Razorback posts a note to our forum, explaining how he set up a situation where the standard auto-aim feature of Halo just stopped working – in his words, “it whould like, thorw away my vision from the hunter.” (Razorback is Portuguese – give him…

Whoa – thanks to Frogblast, who noticed a new set of screenshots over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation; another set of Eyeball Benders! This one’s tougher than the last set… add your guesses to Froggy’s thread!

Halo: Game of the Year Edition box acronym: revealed! Mnemesis, our research droid, has sent in both the acronym… and a pretty decent guess:ABTFIPAS05Yes, that’s the number ‘5’, not the letter ‘S’. Mnemesis’ guess? “Ask Bungie To Finally Introduce Pimps At Sea On Sega.” (Well, except for the 5…) Have an idea yourself? Post it…