Year: 2002

Germain Couët sends in another entertaining desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Two new mirrors for the Breaking the Rules vid released yesterday – thanks to Appleicious and Rampancy.net for their generous bandwidth donations! (The full mirror list is still here.)

That Weasel has added a pair of mirrors for the Breaking the Rules movie – you can grab it in the existing QT5 format, or in a re-encoded WMP 8 format (considerably smaller). We’ve set up a BtR mirror page for links. (We’d love to make it longer. 🙂 )

Today’s Fan Fiction chapters:The Hell Of War, part 7, by Jaywhit10 Effusion, part 5, by Tursas The Long Ride Home, part 4, by Joshua Barreto There was one more, but I couldn’t read it.

The April issue of Edge Magazine (a very high-quality gaming mag in the UK) has an interview with Jaime Griesemer, one of Halo’s Designers. It’s a good read (and got me wondering where the ‘weak spots’ on a tank are…) – you can find it, scanned in for those without access to the dead tree…

A new movie hits the streets – Team Overkill has created ‘Breaking the Rules’, a three and a half minute romp through Halo tricksterism. (Hey – he made that word up, didn’t he?) There are gameplay glitches, grenade tricks, weird sights… and at least two multiplayer tricks I’ve never seen before (both of which look…

More funny wallpaper from Germain Couët – grab it from our Wallpaper section.

A pair of pencil sketches came in tonight – the PoA sketch is pretty slick! Check ’em both out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Six months ago, Microsoft released a Halo Theme for Windows XP. The components were quickly extracted and made available… but now Windows 95/98/ME users have the option of a simple Theme install, thanks to Doomsdeath. He’s pulled out some of the pieces, and added a .theme file… easy install on older MS systems. 748k, zipped.…

DOH! Almost forgot to mention – there are also a whole passel of irregularly-sized images for dual-monitor setups on the Desktops page of Tru7h and Reconciliation- go get ’em! (Watch the spoilers.)

There’s a new article over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site today, which focuses on the ties between Marathon and Halo. Are any questions answered? No, not really. It’s a good overview for those who don’t know much about Marathon… but the Bungie skill of saying a lot without saying anything is very much in…

A dent has been made on the Gameplay Tricks queue – 9 new tricks have been added today. They range from funny little glitches to major thought-provoking engine explorations… look through ALL of ’em! (There are still half-a-dozen in the queue – including one or two that have been in the documentation phase for a…

New fan art – one from wetslayer, three from Germain Couët. You’ll find all four in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Splat’s pretty funny. 😉 ) Update: Germain CouÔ´ has sent in ANOTHER image – you can find it here, or see all five with this link.

Today’s batch of Fan Fiction for you:Halo Beyond, part 1, by Joey21488 Banserki’s Journal, part 5, by Sarge Gods Love a Tryer, part 1, by Dee Pulled by author’s request The Long Ride Home, part 3, by Joshua Barreto Lessee if I can get these posted before more come in…

Sometimes, I just want to cry. For months and months (and months on end), Matt Soell, spokesperson for Bungie Studios, has been yelling at the top of his lungs that Halo is coming to PCs/Macs – but judging from the mail we get (and posts on our forum), nobody hears him. Yesterday, Adrenaline Vault put…

New Halo commercials at Xbox.jp – 4 of ’em, ranging from hilarious to… um, confusing. All in .asx streaming format. There are also two larger files on that page – the new trailer mentioned yesterday, and the one posted back in February. Thanks to op_ivy for the heads-up. Update: These commercials have been added to…

Whoa – nice design! Haloplayers, one of the old guard Halo sites, lost its domain name a little while back… but they’ve taken a new one – RealHaloplayers.com – and are back and better than ever! (If you can’t see ’em yet, the DNS changes haven’t propagated – be patient.) Classy new design, a serious…

It’s nowhere near as finished as I’d like… but it’s functional, and it’s MUCH more finished than the old version. For those people looking for Halo Movies, we’d like to announce our newly-overhauled Halo Movies Section. More features will be coming soon (sorting, searching, and so on) – but for now, hopefully you’ll find an…

A rather well-documented entry has been added to the Gameplay Tricks section – there is now quite a bit of documentation on getting through the locked door on Silent Cartographer. In addition, there are a pair of bonus movies – both are from xbill; one shows how to get through that door in a jeep…

Fan Fiction offering – lighter than usual:Halo (in a nutshell), by JenovaODST Saga, Chapter 3 , by Robo42786The Renegade Marines, part 13, by ShadowDon’t forget that script!