Month: January 2003

c0ld vengeance’s Halo 2 Cover Art challenge ended a few days ago – he’s now posted his results. For the Front Cover Only section, he gave the award to Ninjas on Fire. For the Front and Back Cover section, Ed Murphy took home the honors. (Check the forum post for more details and justification.) In…

Attempting to BEGIN to clear out the Artwork backlog… first up, Miscellaneous Art. We’ve got a new Halo mini-game, a very nice exchange medium, and a misplaced Halo Box Art entry. You’ll find ’em all in the Miscellaneous Art section.

Okay, so if you’re stripping your field piece and washing the bits in denatured alcohol, and you fall asleep and your head lands in the cleaning bowl, and lightning hits what you disgorge as it comes flying out of your mouth and torques it, by some freaky cosmic coincidence, into human-looking words… this is what…

After two disappointing attempts, Team Overkill makes the iGames Winter Season Regionals in the 3rd Qualifying round. Read the details on their website. Congrats, guys!

Ever wish you could get your hands on a set of those Spartan II dogtags that were being distributed in Japan? Well, thanks to Nekomusume, now you can. She’s got one extra set she’s auctioning off on eBay… starting bid is just under $36, and you’ve got almost a week to decide.

Athol Productions has put together a new gameplay movie for your viewing pleasure. 5:30 long, around 20 megs big, it’s gameplay on a number of levels… with a few oddities thrown in. Nice timing, and an interesting combination of musical styles. Folks offended by gay jokes probably shouldn’t download this. You can find it at…

Barring a few pieces that were too short, and one that never fully uploaded, the Fan Fiction backlog from this week has been cleared. The Long Ride Home 12, by Joshua Barreto Starship Daybreak Part 1 (revised) and Part 2, by Domitri Giovanni A New Year’s Day, Chapter 7, by Guilty Spark Starjacked Part 3,…

Shame, shame. Two pretty neat pieces of Bungie-related trivia occurred recently… and we have to read about them from bungie.org’s newest staffer, poena.dare. Scoopin’ the old-timers! The important one is that Alex and Laura Seropian (and their new baby girl, Amelia Eve), were featured in Parent magazine recently. The second one is actually more embarrassing,…

There were a couple of late entries in the Halo 2 Cover Art Contest – this contest is now officially closed, so please don’t send us any more entries. You can see the two new versions on the contest page, though – Mr. Yun’s is in the top row, second from the left, and Doggone’s…

Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation website has put up Chapter 9—Keyes—of its Legendary Walkthrough – spoiler goodness and 26 new screenshots! Go check it out… NOW! (The inclusion of shot 19 also means our Easter Egg page is going to be updated in the near future…)

A few days ago, we posted a note about a ‘Photo Story’ Microsoft had put together about Halo 2. Some of you could watch it, others couldn’t. Thanks to Stuntmutt and Djoey154, we now have pictures of all the slides… check ’em out in our Miscellaneous section.

A week ago, c0ld vengeance threw down a gauntlet: create a better cover for Halo 2 than, say, EB Games. We’ve received 9 entries for this competition; 7 show just the front cover, two show front and back. We’ve posted all 9 on a display page. c0ld vengeance will judge these and announce a winner…

Whoa. Grunts that THINK they have guns… but don’t. Spec Ops Elite managed to capture some bizarre activity on the level Keyes… a long thread, including an MPEG movie and an explanation of how this was induced can be found on our forum. It’s unclear how much bandwidth Spec Ops Elite is allowed for that…

After another hellish flying experience, I’m back and safely ensconced in the comfort of HBO Headquarters. There’s a boatload of stuff to get to… but it’s going to take a little while. In the meantime, Stosh has posted a new Blam comic – I think Stosh might have some… um, issues. But you should go…

Okay, this is a long story. Bear with me. It all started when Dulaman87 sent us a note pointing out that the Random House entry for the next Halo novel (Halo: The Flood) now has a picture to go along with the cover. The thing is… that picture’s been around for a while. It first…

Two new mugs have appeared on the Bungie Store, and to celebrate the occasion, Matt Soell interviewed Marty O’Donnell about the event. All I can say is, Miguel… you’ve been slammed. We hereby relinquish the title of Master of the Art of the Cheap Shot.

Started almost 12 hours ago, but incomplete as of right now – check out Round 3 of Warbow’s Halo Hide and Seek. New rules this time out, so read that first post carefully. Good luck!

Apologies to Fan Fiction writers – there’s no way I can format stories before I get home. Any submissions between Monday and Thursday won’t be posted before Friday. Please be patient!

David S. sent in a very nice HBO-themed banner for our Banners collection. Check it out!

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo… do the Hustle! (Thanks to Steener.)