Year: 2002

Tuesday’s Fan Fiction offerings: Lunar 4 Campaigns, by Dispraiser Halo: The Final Fight, part 3, by Daniel Luiken Revolution 2 Return of the Forerunner, part 6, by Gruntkiller Shadows of Archon II, part 30, by Wado Wilkins, part 1, by Phat Bob This is Suicide, part 3, by Neile Pederson To warn you – Lunar…

ThetaDot sent in a rendering of the MC’s helmet. He never finished the rest of the body (or, indeed, the helmet), but what’s there is pretty nice! Check it out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned an effort to list the top 50 Seventh Column chapters (one per state) in the US. A couple of days ago, a story went up on Bungie.net that the effort had been finished… and now emildux has posted some more details to our forum. Beyond the top 50…

Bryan and Ross have created another gameplay movie – it’s in the vein of ‘Rocket Dance’, and it’s great. (These guys never heard of HBO before they finished the movie…) It’s 3:50 long, 10.6 mb big, and in .wmv format (yeah, yeah). You can find a copy on their own server, or a mirrored copy…

Hefty update for the Halo Story page this evening… and more exciting, it will soon be sporting a search function! For now, check out the latest speculation on all things Halo, and add your own two bits!

As you may or may not have noticed, the news search function (accessible at the top of this page) is now a bit more flexible. Searches now default to exact matches – if you type ‘Fall of Reach’ into the box, you’re looking for that phrase. If you don’t want an exact match, you have…

pete_the_duck is working on an interesting project. Without promising anything, let me say that if all goes according to plan, you might see more of this sort of stuff soon…

It was a pretty quiet weekend, as far as Fan Fiction goes; we received a comedic entry from Gasmask (which should have gone up days ago), and two stories that didn’t meet our length requirements… guess everyone was recovering from the tryptophan in their turkey.

What if Halo 2 used Pelicans in multiplayer? And what if they had cannons? Eric Redmond speculates in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Dinky, from HaloJuggaloProductions, sends word of a small (1 mb) video clip showing a pretty nice midair rocket shot. (400% health probably helps; usually, when you get a grenade stuck to your leg, you’re dead, not just flying. 🙂 ) It’s 24 seconds long; the fun stuff starts about halfway through. WMV format.

Browsing the Battleground: Halo forums, I ran across a mention of a new Halo 2 preview at bluegamers.com. There’s nothing really new in it (most of the info seems to have come from the EGM preview last month), and there’s some interesting stuff that might be a little too strongly worded (EGM says ‘the team…

bikeman704 went back to his old Halo stuff (built for Half-Life) and whipped up another pair of images; check ’em out here. Pretty slick!

Game Girl Advance has posted an article called ‘Halo: Original Game, or Sequel?’ While we strongly disagree with the conclusions drawn in the article (we – the staff of HBO, not just me), I’m quite pleased they were able to find the info they needed so easily. (The screenshot of Keyes was taken from a…

Whoa – someone got tired of waiting for Halo action figures! Check this little guy out. (Thanks to Physalis for the heads-up.)

According to Hedgemony, Halo is pushing Xbox sales in Australia STILL, more than a year after release. (Okay, it’s only been out for 8 months Down Under… but you know what I mean.) For more details and speculation, check his forum post!

The 2003 Game Developers Conference is coming up soon (March 4-8, just 4 months away), and there are already at least three Bungie talks scheduled:Marty O’Donnell will be part of a 6-person panel deciding Does Melody Matter? Jaime Griesemer, Tim Longo, and Randy Smith (of Ion Storm) will look at level design On All Levels…

Recently, someone going by the name of ArakniZ has been dropping movies off in our Uploads directory. They’re in WMP9 format, so we can’t watch them. (There is no player for WMP9 for Macs, and none of the front-page HBO staffers has a PC.) Normally, we’d email this information… but ArakniZ hasn’t given us an…

MereCatFish drops off a desktop for our Wallpaper collection.

While we Americans filled our bellies, Finn, the Tireless Canadian, updated the Halo Story page. More stuffing than you can shake a fork at!

Friday’s Fan Fiction: Stormbringers, part 3, by WildebeestNZ The Ones He Left Behind: Prologue, by Fallen Heros Sarges Platoon, part 2, by Bobby Lucas Order of the Seraphim, part 5, by Jehkoh Revolution 2 Return of the Forerunner, part 5, by Gruntkiller Kelly-087: Prologue, by Tristan WolfeThat clears out the most recent stuff…