Year: 2002

Jason Horwath managed to catch some bizarre Shade action on film recently… you can find the results in our Gameplay Tricks section. Removed at the author’s request.

The Psyjnir Complex is FINALLY back online – the crew has grown a bit, so poke around, you might find stuff worth hunting for. (Like an early draft of the Halo theme, in MIDI format… or something.)

Thomas Bottrill sends word that he’s put up a new interview of Marty O’Donnell at Xbox.zone (the site is framed, so hit the ‘Say Halo!’ link, then the ‘Marty O’Donnell Interview’). Some interesting stuff in there… though Marty’s a bit more reticent than usual (check out the answers to the Halo 2 questions). A sample:…

Tuesday Fan Fiction offerings – two eerily similar stories, at least at first:Warning: escaping convicts can be allies in disguise (Part 1), by Cap’n Keyes Halo: Aftermath – Prologue, by Nick The second story is the beginning of a complete rewrite – Nick (formerly known as GarlicJr11) was unhappy with the quality of the story,…

To everyone who wrote in, suggesting the use of Babel Fish as a translator for the Japanese Halo Championship news from yesterday… thanks. I was really looking for something more accurate than “the hay low/row”… but you’re all right, it’s better than nothing. 🙂 More to the point, there’s now official information on the Xbox…

Hot times for console buyers – as of yesterday, Sony has dropped the price of its PlayStation 2 console to $199 in the US, and the PS One to $49. Though they suggest that it’s always been their plan to bring the PS2 to the sub-$200 pricepoint, the rumors of an Xbox price drop at…

Eep – a new image was submitted on Sunday – we nearly missed it. Germain Couët dropped off a pretty cool view of the Halo under construction. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section – it’s a very different beast from the LAST visualization of this event…

Good (and bad) news for those waiting for the Halo Soundtrack – The Good: Microsoft Game Studios announced today that Sumthing Distribution has been contracted to market the disc. The Bad: release date is scheduled for June 11 “at music retailers nationwide”. For more details, check out Music4Games.net.

Firfin, of Halo-Game, sends word of a page on the Halo Championship in Japan. We can’t tell you what it says (no Japanese speakers here), but some of the pictures are intriguing…

New wallpaper uploaded to our Wallpaper section. Clearin’ out the inbox…

A new pattern is emerging – the Halo font released a few days ago has inspired several fan fiction authors to create cover art for their stories using it. The latest is Spook – you can find his work in the Miscellaneous Art section. Font + pic = cover

Weekend Fanfic:Last Hope part 4, by SSJBRK Bloodlust, by Jehkoh Rainy Sunday…

Thanks to Miguel Chavez, who scanned in an article from the New York Times today – it looks at today’s violent video games, and comments that ‘Men will be boys’. (It’s actually a decent read – it looks at older gamers, and why they’re being drawn back to video games.) You can find it in…

Thanks to Cybrfrk, who has added a welcome Search feature to the Gameplay Tips section. If you were having trouble finding that tip you needed, this just might make it easier! (Don’t forget to submit the tips you have for playing!

Heh – we missed this in February, but we can’t COMPLETELY cover it up…

A few people noticed that Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday feature was ‘Fake Games’ this week – and Halo fit in nicely. (Interestingly enough… Marathon got noticed, as well.) And then… there’s THIS one. Some people have too much time on their hands…

Four new entries in the Gameplay Tricks section – some really fun stuff. My favorite is Clipping… the possibilities are enormous. Comments, as always, are welcome on our forum. (The queue currently contains only tricks by Frogblast – and all of them can be seen at Utfoo. We’ll get to ’em, we promise… but they’re…

Saturday’s Fan Fiction offering:Roughneck Two-Zero, part 7, by Anthony Coronado Effusion, part 8, by Tursas Finishing what you started, Part 3, by LeAtHeRnEcK Get an early start…

DrunkGamers.com has put up part 9 of its Halo Tips movie series (whatever happened to part 8? I think they were drinking too much) – this one looks at Warthog Skeet Shooting. (It’s actually more like trap shooting… but who am I to quibble?) They’ve issued a challenge – send in a three-hit shot, and…

And the awards continue to pile up for Marty O’Donnell… Rolling Stone has given him ‘Best Original Soundtrack in a Game’ in their upcoming E3 issue. Gotta love it! (Thanks to Jay Weinland for the heads-up.)