Year: 2002

Woohoo! Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site is updated again – this time with human concept art (bittersweet to see a female engineer) and more wallpapers (though the Longswords are mislabeled as Longbows – which, in retrospect, might be a more appropriate name for them anyway). Last, but certainly not least, Marty has kindly made the…

A pair of new releases for the Fan Fiction section – Jehkoh turns in a very meaty second chapter to his Order of the Seraphim series, and Ryan drops off the first chapter to a new series, ‘Well Enough Alone’. Get to readin’!

Ooh, very nice. Not that anyone will actually read it… Matt Soell has set up the Rumor Control Database over at Bungie.net. It does its part to debunk the worst of the internet rumors about Halo – the infamous Halo 1.5 rumor, misconceptions about cheats, and (of course) the “Halo isn’t coming to the PC”…

Because of the outage we experienced last night, at least one submission that MIGHT have been repeated wasn’t – to compensate, we’re extending the submissions deadline for Maw 700 contest entries (the first half) until 12 noon UTC on March 15, 2002. (This is 7 am EST, or 4 am PST.)

Ferrago.co.uk, a UK gaming site, kicked off its full Xbox coverage today… and Halo got a nice review. They weren’t thrilled with the plot… but they liked the rest. They gave it a solid 92%. We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

The Renegade Marines gets a fifth chapter today – ‘The Assault’ looks at some hard action. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

Yesterday, we posted a cool Gameplay Trick that uses the ‘force field’ around the tops of trees to create a bridge of bodies. Frogblast had made a movie, as well as the still shots we showed you… but his server was having some trouble. The server’s fixed, and the movie has been posted. Check it…

Psyrixx, of the Psyjnir Complex, dropped off an interesting bit of speculation, packaged deceptively as Fan Fiction. (Or was it an interesting fan fiction, deceptively packaged as story speculation?) In either case, you can read it (and comment on it) in our Fan Fiction section.

Sorry for the downtime, folks – the telco people are doing their best to fix a long-standing problem with our internet connection. I took advantage of the lull to put up another pair of tricks in our Gameplay Tricks section. No real spoilers here – one is multiplayer, the other is just fun. Check ’em…

Well, the first issue of the UK’s XGamer magazine is officially off the shelves – so (thanks to Ghôlsbane), we bring you the 12-page Halo spread that graced its pages. It’s part of our Press Scans database. It’s an interesting read!

Four new inclusions for our Gameplay Tricks page – some pretty cool stuff. Frogblast/Metafire does some serious Library exploration, brad discovers a bizarre little bug related to spawning, and Gabe Harris shows us how to build body bridges. (Oh, man, what people are gonna do with that…) Check ’em all out!

Dave Riley, of Fan-service.com, has added another mirror for the Montage Video. You can grab the movie here. (20 megs, remember…)

Three months ago, it was discovered that a piece of music written for the Bungie game Myth could be heard from a difficult-to-get-to spot at the end of Assault on the Control Room. Recently, it was learned that the same piece of music could be found in another, also-difficult-to-get-to spot at the start of the…

Akira has actually translated the Nokia ringtones discussed yesterday into a .WAV file, so even folks WITHOUT Nokia phones can hear it. (He also provided step-by-step instructions on creating this tone for your Nokia phone that’s easier than the manual way.) And to think, my phone just rings…

Frogblast was exploring (the net, not Halo) and stumbled across this forum post – the image leads back to this nicely done page at a NASA site. If you’re still confused about Lagrange points (Halo occupies one around Basis), take a look!

Firfin, of Halo-Game.com, has translated the Nokia ringtone information submitted by Rage Reset into standard tones – I tried it, and didn’t hear the Halo theme… but my meter was probably off. Take a look!

Heh – the digging has started. Someone hacked around with their Halo disc, and found some interesting strings buried deep in the code – check ’em out. Evidence that cheats ONCE existed, at least… and some pretty funny (if colorful) error language. Definitely PG-rated for strong language. Thanks to Ray Rose for the heads-up on…

Not long ago, we added an interesting One-Shot from Bonk, showing a rather unusual pose for a marine. Recently, he’s added an article to his site, iBonk.com, showing the full experiment – this is another example of the Frozen Stuff bug, but there’s a movie, and a step-by-step reproduction guide. Check it out!

It’s Launch Day in Australia… thanks to that International Dateline, they’re a few hours ahead of Europe. Stores should open in 7 or 8 hours… and then I’d guess we won’t see our Australian friends for a few days. Wish ’em luck!

Ask and ye shall receive. Three kind bandwidth mavens have proffered up connections for the newest Halo vid – we can call it the Montage Video. You can grab it at:Mythica.org (Thanks, Brian!) – HTTP The Repertory (thanks, Vector40!) – HTTP Psyjnir.com (Thanks, Psyrixx and *Ar!) – Hotline More when we hear about ’em! (Remember,…