Year: 2002

Now this is just plain cool. Some Halo fanatics recreated some Halo wallpaper at a Sidewalk Arts festival in Georgia… in chalk. Lots of chalk. Check out the results in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Explanation included.)

Yesterday, Matthew Brady found this Japanese Halo review, but didn’t know what it said. A quick question on our forum elicited two translations – interesting reading!

Small change in the Gameplay Tricks section – you now have the option to search by Trick Type. (If you don’t care about Exploration, but want to see all the weird glitches people have found… this is for you.) As soon as I can figure out a clean way to do it, you’ll be able…

Red hunter at night, take flight. To the Wallpaper section with you!

Today’s Fan Fiction batch: Capture of the Bounty, by SkyRyan1 Effusion, part 6, by Tursas The Hell Of War, part 8, by Jaywhit10 Operation False Prophets, part 10, by Ian Barnes Went nicely with Barenaked Ladies…

Another half-dozen tricks have been uploaded to the Gameplay Tricks section – keep an eye out for easier navigation, coming soon. In the meantime, check these babies out – they range from elegant to seriously useful, with fun stuff thrown in just for kicks. And what’s this? The queue is almost empty! W00t!

Nice article over at Gamespot – this issue of Gamespotting has ‘Halo’s 10 Commandments’, a well-written list explaining why Greg Kasavin says he “wouldn’t hesitate to name Halo as my single favorite system launch game of all time.” The only thing that bugged me was the pic he chose to illustrate The Co-op Mode’… Thanks…

Robert Whitaker has kindly translated (or explained) the speech and captions of the four Japanese Halo commercials released last week – visit his translations page and see if you can decipher the inscrutable Japanese advertising mindset…

Wondering why the number of grenades in ammo caches on multiplayer maps isn’t constant? Read this.

The Gameplay Tricks database has gotten rather large – currently, there are 114 entries in it (plus another collection of tricks illustrated by some of the One-Shots entries; there are almost 50 of those). It’s becoming difficult to tell what tricks have been done, how they’ve been done, and what still needs to be done.…

A new Halo review – this time at X-Boxed. 9/10 – ‘the best console game [he] ever played’. Not too shabby! We’ve added it to our Reviews database. Thanks to Subnova.com for the heads-up.

Over at The Seventh Column, Bungie’s community site, you’ll find a chapter that’s compiling a database of the funniest deaths – visit Hunterz to see what’s already up, and add your own! (Don’t forget – you can create databases to store any info you think might be valuable; a few weeks ago, we pointed out…

A few months ago, Edge Magazine gave Halo a 10/10 rating – a score shared by only 3 other games in Edge’s history. Yesterday, Edge Awards 2002 went on sale in the UK… and Halo took a whole slew of honors:Game of the year, Halo :- “Halo works on so many levels and is simply…

Half-a-dozen new tricks have gone up in the Gameplay Tricks section – some pretty cool stuff there, take a look. (And keep your eyes peeled – the next batch won’t be a week away; in fact hopefully it’ll be done before the end of the week.)

Xerxes, of Halo Orbit, writes to point out that they’ve mirrored the Warthog2k2 video from Nico D., posted a few weeks ago. Warthog jumping can be fun! (They’re also hosting the latest release of Counter-Strike, so the server might be a bit hard to reach at times…)

That Weasel has mirrored 2 new movies, in 2 flavors each: The Halo Movie Teaser 3 is up in QT5 and WMP formats, and you’ll find a new encoding of the Pillar of Autumn with No Weapons there, as well. (The new WMP8 version there is 4.8 mb.) More mirrors, less waiting!

Thanks to John Kronk, who points out a pic of the Halo Championship t-shirts currently being raffled off in Japan. As John says,I want one just for the Engrish.Me too.

Laughing… out loud.

The daily dose of Fan Fiction reading material:The Lone Survivor, part 1, by The Iceman A Comedy of Peace, part 2, by Jason Pridgen Strange Bedfellows, part 1, by Robo42786 and JayWhit10 The Long Ride Home, part 6, by Joshua BarretoOff you go…

Trey Ikon has created a series of pistol concept sketches – the AR sketch isn’t quite finished yet (according to him), but the rest are ready for prime time. You can find them in our Miscellaneous Art section.