Year: 2002

Before this gets out of hand… Korps sent in this link to a page at Gamer’s Logik, purporting to contain information about the upcoming Bungie game code-named Phoenix. Now, I don’t claim to be completely ‘in the know’, but I did get the chance to walk through the Phoenix development room back in January of…

Speaking of plots… the Halo Story Page got a MASSIVE update recently – the inbox has been cleared, for the first time in a long time. Mnemesis has retreated to his isolation tank to regenerate the brain cells lost in this endeavor – please read his work, so as to make the effort not in…

The Halo plot hole defined by this quote from Truth and Reconciliation:While the Covenant had us locked up in here, I overheard the guards talking about this ring world. They call it… “Halo.”has been discussed extensively on our forum. (Why could Keyes understand what the guards were saying when the super-duper translator in our own…

Three new tricks in our Gameplay Tricks section – a pair of Out of Map experiences from pete_the_duck, and some vehicle manipulation from Scott Kelly. Check ’em out!

And now, a word from our sponsors… in a manner of speaking. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the Halo community is the ability to see what insane – erm, intrepid people are doing to push the Halo engine. However, because Halo’s got no built-in film feature, stunts have to be recorded as video……

Drunken Elite? TitaniumPez found a pretty bizarre looping Banshee on Halo… nice perfect circles, but he doesn’t seem to notice the player. Hmm…

Alan Wu did the community a nice favor, and extracted all the interesting stuff off the Xbox Japan site we mentioned yesterday. Three music clips (in MP3 format), and a bunch of mini-screenshots… plus one bizarre grunt sound. All in a package only 260k! Grab it today.

Justin Gochanour, of gyeah.com, sent us pics of another LAN party – more heavy drinking, some RIDICULOUS stats (you have to check this pic out), and some fun with guns on walls. Hope these guys didn’t drive home…

Shadow dropped off Chapter 7 of his Renegade Marines saga – ‘The Return Home’. I want one of those 6-tube rocket launchers… man, I bet that’s heavy. Fan Fiction is fun.

A week ago, Team Xbox posted a package full of goodies, including a WMP Halo skin, a copy of the Halo trailer, and 3 never-before-released (on the net) Halo tracks… in WMP format. Total package size: 4.6 mb. It’s already gone off their servers. 🙁 Because the music tracks were so cool, I made room…

Review Roundup… we added reviews from Vision Gaming Online Network (19/20), Fragland.net (95%), Eurogamer (8/10), LoadedInc. (9.5/10), and Tilt TV (10/10) to our Reviews Database. Thanks to all who dropped off links! Total reviews to date: 88. Average score: 94.4%. Wonga.

Thanks to Paladin, who kindly sent in a translation for our most recent Danish Halo review – seems the original (random) quote I chose was pretty inappropriate. Oh, to speak more than 5 languages!

Some days, you open up your inbox and see some weird stuff.

Two years ago, Lynx deodorant made a huge splash in the Halo community due to their outright theft of the Halo font – but the furor has died down. However, today, we received a picture of a DIFFERENT Lynx deodorant – Gravity – which uses an interesting graphical logo… these guys don’t quit. 🙂 (Thanks…

Them titles is gettin’ outta hand… Ian Barnes turns in Chapter 6 of his Operation False Prophets series – check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Nice find by protexts… The Official Japanese Halo site is up, and it’s not simply a copy of the US site (as so many others are). Nice Flash layout, nice music, good screenies (if a bit too small). Now if only I could read Japanese…

Heh – TitaniumPez caught the Master Chief… um… well, watch the show (144k).

Stosh created a Halo comic which pays tribute to Matt Soell’s… um, unhealthy interests. Check it out!

pete_the_duck has gone a to a couple of places not yet documented – one on Halo, the other on Truth and Reconciliation. You can check his website for pictures from the locations… but as of right now, he’s not willing to share his techniques for reaching them, so don’t ask us. 🙂 Update: he’s explained……

A quick reply by Matt Soell to a request for clarification of the PAL/NTSC situation (‘Can they play nicely together?’) turned into a veritable firestorm on several forums, here and in Europe. (Most of the unhappiness can be explained by my lack of understanding of the answer I was acting as messenger for…) Matt stepped…