Year: 2002

Thanks to both Johnny Rotten, on our forum, and Adam Clark, via email, for the information that Gearbox will be showing Halo for PC at CPL’s Winter Event. On Saturday, December 21st (yes, that’s just 2 weeks from now), there will be a one-hour workshop on Halo, with a focus on development and ‘what’s new…

The elusive Yellow Banshee has finally been pinned down – Matt(Uh… #5?) found it in a buried directory on the Bungie servers. (Check out the Camo Banshee, too.) Random Hero claimed to have found it first… but his image proved to be a hoax. You’ll have to do some forum searching for directions on how…

Some fun stuff happening on the Bungie webcam recently… Opie captured a rare sighting of the Bungie Webmaster (you can never see him because he’s really a ghost), and Second Hand Plasma and Skeletor bring you news of Lego building.

Maj Hardon found some new suits for US Army soldiers that look to be Mjolnir precursors… check ’em out.

Music4Games.net has put up a discussion between Marty O’Donnell and Aaron Marks, a freelance composer/sound designer and author of ‘The Complete Guide to Game Audio’, about the use of audio in Halo and Halo 2. A snippet, Marty discussing how he managed the job for Halo:Part of my ability to manage the whole thing came…

Friday’s Fan Fiction: After Reach, parts 2-5 and parts 6-9, by Foyez Khader Death and Decay, by Gasmask The Shadows – The Conclusion, by Glenny A Halo Novelization, part 2, by MarioMTO Also, just 7 hours after a news post mentioning that we really, really aren’t happy with revisions, we received a revision of Bobby…

Merecatfish has turned in another HBO-styled banner. You’ll find it in the Banners section.

op_ivy found an interesting article about a new breed of gaming center… and though no games are mentioned by name, the mockup of what the place will look like has a huge (and I mean HUGE) wallscreen showing… Halo. Nice!

Snowy Fan Fiction:HALO: A New War of Old Enemies, part 1, by Jeff Graham The Encounter, part 1, by Harley THE CUBE, part one, by Hedgemony Christmas Halo Poem, by Diomedes RangueJeff Graham’s story was submitted about a month ago – this is an overhaul. We really, really, really frown on overhauls… but I’m gonna…

bikeman704 has finished up a Counter-Strike map that prominently features The Pillar of Autumn. Check out some screenshots, and download the map! (Comments should go in this forum thread.)

Last spring, Brian Josselyn created a spoof called ‘The Halo Boys Soundtrack’ – and today, Revolver_Ocelot has submitted an updated soundtrack for it. (It’s the same soundtrack, with a new background track.) Just for fun… (It’s 628k, in .mp3 format.)

A composite from the French MOX Halo 2 cover, a vision of what we’re happy isn’t, and a use for the UNSC flag… all in our Miscellaneous Art section!

Two new (well, one new and one not-so-new) job openings at Bungie – the recently filled Game Producer slot is available again, and there’s a need for a 2D/3D artist. Check out the details at Bungie.net!

Tru7h and Reconciliation’s Music Outtakes section has been updated with a song which was left off the Soundtrack. (Read the news story for details.) Thanks to Exogenesis for the heads-up… usually I get mail when b.net gets updated, but the system is temporarily fuxored.

The writers are working overtime… Fan Fiction for the day: Facing Death, by Gasmask The Hephaestus Equation, part 2 and part 3, by Dirty Commie After Reach, part 1, by Foyez Khader Wings of Death, part 14, by el_halo_diablo This is Suicide, part 4, by Neile Pederson Grunt Interview, by Gasmask Go read ’em before…

A veritable cornucopia of Miscellaneous Art, just a few days after Thanksgiving. Personally, I like the For Sale ad, though I must warn you about the spoilers…

Death and Patriotism… a pair of new desktops in our Wallpaper section!

Covenant has put together a Halo 2 map idea in 3D Studio Max; looks like it’d be fun to play! (I don’t see any good reason why this couldn’t be made for the PC version of Halo next summer…)

For folks who have trouble with Windows Media files (you know who you are), Bryan Bayley has kindly submitted a QuickTime version of the Hoedown video. (Any encoding problems can be blamed on me… I made it a bit smaller than its original 40 megs.) You’ll find the 14.3 mb file at mythica.org. Hopefully, it…

For all the folks who’ve complained over the last year or so about how difficult it is to find information on the Halo Story site… it now has a basic search function. Works a lot like the search function on the main news page. (Funny, that.) Hopefully, it’ll ease your pain. Please don’t use it…