Year: 2002

Klawria, of the Seventh Column Chapter Halo National, has begun work on a site called ‘Halo National’. The banner states that the site is ‘Coming June 2002’, but there’s a considerable amount of content right now. Stop by and take a look! Thanks to Vector40 for the heads-up.

Hmm… many people have said that Halo would be oh-so-much-better with a mouse and keyboard, instead of the standard Xbox controller… well, it looks like they might get a chance to test that assertion soon. Xbox 2k has a story on the Claw, a device that works in conjunction with a standard Microsoft USB mouse…

Saturday’s Fan Fiction:Effusion, part 9, by Tursas Fight for Her, by Omniscient The Aftermath part 1 and part 2, by Gasmask Last Hope part 6, by SSJBRK Rainy weekend here – good for reading. (News will probably slow down – lots of family stuff to attend to. Not to mention the service outages that have…

xbill has developed a new measuring technique – initiated here, a couple of days ago, he has now used the NavPointâ„¢ Warthog to measure the height of the cliff outside one of the blue beam structures – it’s about 438 meters, for those of you dying to know. Anyone with some serious patience can measure…

Bungie’s Seventh Column site has news of two new themes for use by chapters – a Master Chief theme created by Stosh, and a Tru7h theme created by Jonah Friedman. I picked a random pair of chapters sporting these themes – you can see the MC theme on The Elite Enforcers’ site (they’re a central…

cman writes to point out that the newest issue of Rolling Stone (the one with Kurt Cobain on the cover) contains an article about musicians and their favorite video games. Halo features prominently – Jack Black, of Tenacious D, says “Tonight we’re gonna rock a sold-out show, and then we’re going to play some Halo.…

Whoa – FINALLY! Way back on March 6, Bungie posted a series of closeup screenshots, and challenged fans to decipher them. Most were figured out within the first couple of days… but scrn_081 has baffled the community… until now. xbill gets the kewpie doll, according to Dave Candland, the devious creator of the challenge. W00t!

A pair of new desktop images have been submitted – you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section.

Thursday’s Fan Fiction offering:The Outer Limits, part 2, by agsbladerboy55 Taker of Life, Giver of Death – prologue, by Ian Barnes Love, by Halo-Wannabe The old, the new, and the short…

Alan Wu writes to point out that Project Mjolnir has changed servers – and there’s now a nice list of mirrored movies. We’ll be updating mirror lists HERE soon (for both this stuff, and the Repertory’s new links), but in the meantime you can grab what you need off the Project MJOLNIR mirror page.

Your Death Awaits – a Halo clan – points out that its website contains some interesting stunt pictures on multiplayer maps. (You can also find information on the clan itself, and contact them if you’re interested in joining.) Check it out!

Thursday’s Fan Fiction offerings:Last Hope, part 5, by SSJBRK The Hell Of War, part 11, by Jaywhit10 In addition, Nick has turned in a ‘proofread’ version of his recently submitted ‘Halo Aftermath Prologue’, which has now been updated. A request to Fan Fiction writers – please, proofread your stories BEFORE you submit them, or live…

Quick note about the search function here – it’s better now. Individual terms are separated (if you type in ‘pelican model’, it now searches for ‘pelican OR model’ instead of the phrase ‘pelican model’, as it did before), and if you go to the search page itself, you have the option to narrow searches by…

Movie news: Dan Chosich wrote recently to say that there were new mirrors of both his movies (Halo Montage and 2070) (and one copy of a version not yet seen) on his site – all movies can be reached from his main movie page. (Links have also been added to his movie mirror pages.) Also,…

|RaptoR| submitted a nice desktop image (in 4 sizes), showing off both Halo and Oni – and was followed up by a much more lighthearted entry from Dolbex. You’ll find both in our Wallpaper section.

A month and a half ago, bikeman704 submitted a rendering of the Halo pelican in a Counter-Strike format… today, he brings you two screens of a level based on the Pillar of Autumn. You’ll find ’em in our Miscellaneous Art section. Nice!

After a long hiatus, the Repertory is back in business. Thanks to Vector40, for this ‘all media, all the time’ site – his goal is to mirror everything worth mirroring in the Halo movie arena. The bandwidth is certainly appreciated!

The big news of the day? Yep, the Xbox is officially $199. Thanks to all the folks who dropped us notes to let us know. Buying Halo just got cheaper. (Yes, you’re still welcome to wait until the PC version comes out… but $100 of your excuse just flew out the window.)

Early-in-the-day Fan Fiction: The First Step Into A Long Fall Part 3, by JediKnight114 Warning: escaping convicts… (Part 2), by Cap’n Keyes Up sooner than expected…

Xbox.com has put up an announcement page for the Halo Soundtrack. There are three tracks listed… but they’re the same tracks released a couple of months ago by Team Xbox (and later Xbox.com, on the Easter Egg page for the WinAmp skin). Still, it’s nice to see the press coverage for what will undoubtedly be…