Year: 2002

Vector40 passes along another Warthog Jump mirror – it might not last long, but Electric Fuzzball is up right now. We’ve added it to the Warthog Jump Mirrors list.

A plethora of pulchritudinous parables… the Fan Fiction coffers runneth over. Gasmask continues his Strange Tale with ‘Return to Halo’, Corbantis turns in the third segment of his Tides of War saga, and Vector40 sends us… something different. Go read up in the Fan Fiction section!

The Japanese Halo Release has been announced: April 25th is the big day. (It says that here, in the press release on the Xbox Japan site… but it’s in Japanese.) Cover art isn’t up yet… but word from Gothmog (Halo product planner) is that it’ll be different than the US/European box. Not quite in time…

DOH! SO enthralled was I by the McLees interview that I missed the OTHER new stuff – Rob’s artwork is on display in the Weapons Gallery, and a seventh page has been added to the Concept Art section (MAJOR story spoilers). Check ’em out! (There’s some serious Story Page fodder in there, actually…)

Took a bit longer than expected… but the Rob McLees interview is finally up at Bungie.net’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. There’s an interesting mix of material – gun stuff, mysticism, and getting set on fire – twice. Rob’s focus was on the guns of Halo, since he was responsible for most of them:Q: What was…

Frogblast, aka Metafire, in his continuing quest to go where no man has gone before, has touched the face of God. Wait… no, that’s not right – he’s touched the ceiling of the Truth and Reconciliation… from the inside of Keyes. (No, it’s not the same. Yes, it’s pretty cool anyway.) Check out the details…

Xerxes writes to say that Halo Orbit, a German Halo site, has put up a preview of Halo (out in just over a month in Germany). If you read German, check it out!

Confused about where you stand on Halo? poena.dare #CP#g created an updated version of his Ring Configuration graphic (originally posted here, a week ago), giving you some sense of perspective for the size of the ring, and your position on it. (The 300 km value at the bottom was chosen because that’s how far Cortana…

Warthog Jump movie update: heavy demand has cost two mirrors – maserati.ca and the Junkyard have both dropped out of the hosting ring. (Lots and lots of you grabbed files at those two places – we’re seriously indebted to both of them for the bandwidth!) Additionally, Bravehamster has moved his copy of the movie to…

Lophan has posted a Halo @ Tweeter Day postmortem on our forum, detailing the goings-on this past weekend of the Philly Halo Anonymous chapter of the Seventh Column… if you weren’t there, you missed up to 15 players fragging each other on huge bigscreen HDTVs for over 6 hours. (Freewill, another attendee, posted a couple…

Nemesis_007 posted a detailed description explaining how to get to the top of Keyes… and Frogblast took him up on it and got up there, taking pictures all the way. Together, they bring you a pictoral record of the first melee attack on the Truth and Reconciliation (from the outside, anyway). The Gameplay Tricks section…

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out that the International Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today – Bungie nominations are as follows: Halo for Game of the Year, Marty O’Donnell & team for Excellence in Audio, and Jason Jones & team for Excellence in Programming. Winners will be announced on March 21, during the…

The One-Shots page of the Gameplay Tricks section is finally open for business. Sorry for the delay! We’ve added a number of images which have popped up in the last couple of months… I’m sure there are more that we’ve missed. (We’ll pop ’em in when we find ’em.) Feel free to submit your own,…

Steve Campbell writes to let us know that both the Suicide Bobs vid and the Halobodies music vid have been mirrored at the Forerunners.org Hotline server. Thanks, Steve!

VoOdOo created a movie (under 5 mb, .avi format) showing how to get the Warthog back to the waterfall in Halo without getting on top of the level. Takes a few grenades, and a chunk of your health… but you’ll probably be doing this after everything’s already dead, so don’t worry too much.

Foxhound turns in Chapter 2 of his ‘Apollo’ series – someone better keep an eye on that Cortana… Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Movie mirrors at the Junkyard… They’ve put up copies of both Halobodies.mov (a music video) and BobSuicide (a snuff film). Thanks to Vector40 for the heads-up.

We’ve added Nemesis_007’s Sidewinder Sneak exploit to our Gameplay Tricks page – use this trick, and your multiplayer opponents won’t know what hit ’em! (As several forumgoers pointed out, this is a general glitch in the Halo physics engine, and can be exploited on several other levels… but none with such dramatic results in a…

Beam Timing Mystery – SOLVED! Jaime Griesemer (aka Flawless Cowboy, Halo level designer) stopped by our forum to explain why there seemed to be a link between the beam timing and motion freeze in areas of Halo you were never supposed to get to in the first place.Toward the end of the game’s development cycle…

There’s a new top dog on the Halo SETI Marines – Durandal turned in 207 units this week, beating out perennial top crunchers Int_21, *-=SHARkY=-*, and charleya. Nice going! Are you crunching your best? Check the 7 day stats to find out! (Admin note – there won’t be any SETI stats next week. 2 week…