Month: February 2003

We have another movie for you – this one’s not a hacking film, but a gameplay one – but our main bandwidth provider, mythica.org, seems to to be having some nameserver troubles. As soon as we can get there, we’ll serve this puppy up!

Another Bryce-looking piece from gizella Varga – check our Miscellaneous Art section.

Been a few days since Fan Fiction was updated – here are 10 more: Sarges Platoon, FINAL CHAPTER, by Bobby Lucas Project Shadow Spartan: Chapter 2, by Shadow Spartan The Battle For Sigma Octanus Chapter 2, by moniter101 Forest of Black Epsilon, by janglurevil7 Freelance-Chapter 3, by Bloodcider Attack Plan, by Dispraiser A Fresh Start,…

Thanks To Ciarán Walsh, our Forum search features just became more useful. Before today, if you were looking for a specific snippet of text, you could search for that text, or you could search for the author of that text – but you couldn’t do both. If you knew you were looking for a post…

Rampancy.net posted links to two new Bungie jobs listed at Gamasutra (but not yet on the Bungie Jobs page). These new job openings (posted a week ago) are for a 3D Environment Artist and a Developer. (The developer job is for Halo 2 – the last bullet in the ‘Responsibilities’ list is “Work with the…

HUNTR-KILLR created a small (900K) movie showing the jumping ability of a floodified marine with the recent Halo hack. The library is 4 stories high… the marine has no trouble getting above the final platform in one huge leap. (For good measure, a second jump proves, once and for all, that there are no branches…

A pair of great sketches from Tina – originally done with coloring pencils (sorry, Tina, I’m American, can’t use the British spelling without twinging 🙂 ) and pen, with a little photoshop help. (Spoilers, for those still keeping track.) You’ll find ’em in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Wanna get a copy of the next Halo book (Halo: The Flood) for free? The MOSHPIT, a 7th Column chapter at Bungie.net, is giving one away – just drop by their website and add your name to the giveaway database. They’ll pick a winner at random on April 1, and ship a copy to that…

A bunch of mirrors have come online for both Halo Hackin’ Fun 2 (released a couple of days ago) and Heffalumps and Woozles (released last night). I’ve set up mirror pages for both – follow the links above to grab your copy. Thanks to all the bandwidth providers – you guys make all this possible!

More information about Halo Novel #2 at Ballantine:The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait. As the fortress world of Reach and…

Okay… we’ve got another Hacking vid for you. This one is called ‘Heffalumps and Woozles’, and was created by HUNTR-KILLR. (Okay, he shouldn’t be blamed for the name. That’s my fault – it’s full of such fancy that the name just seemed to fit.) This one’s a monster; 11 and a half minutes long, 33…

Mmm… pie. (Thanks, Razorback.)

Couple of updates on yesterday’s news… The guys running Sector.7 have bought a domain name, www.sector7-halo.com, and will be moving there shortly. (Currently, it’s just a placeholder page.) And the editorial by poena.dare on hacking and what it means to the Bungie community has generated a host of interesting comments, including several from Bungie employees.…

Three new Art tidbits – a nice satire piece, a boot logo for Win2K, and a cute exercise pic. Check ’em all out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

In the last couple of days, we’ve gotten a couple of banner submissions, from Andrew Austin and Fuzzy – you can find both of them in our Banners section.

poena.dare is putting together an interview of Brannon Boren, a consultant at Microsoft who’s been intricately involved in the creation of the ‘Halo Bible’, the collection of information about the Halo universe that all Halo content creators (official ones – book authors, folks writing the stories for the games) use to keep their facts straight.…

Here’s the first of several Hacking movies we have for your perusal. This is another one from Dozi, the guy who made the first one – again, sound is pretty rough. (Much rougher than the first one, as a matter of fact. There’s a static rumble throughout the entire movie.) You’re watching it for the…

To all the folks asking questions about modding your xbox, and hacking Halo: while we here at HBO think the results are pretty cool, this is a Halo site, not an Xbox modding site. We do not provide any information on how to mod your Xbox or how to hack Halo, nor will we in…

Famine to feast. Within a day of the release of the Halo mod information, we’ve received 4 NEW hack-related movies (and there’s still one non-hack related film in the queue). There’s well over half an hour of unreleased footage at this point… we’ll start releasing some of it in the morning, but please, please, please…

Today’s Fan Fiction:Two Betrayals, parts 1/2, by Raiyden Random, by Bloodcider Fallen Angel, part 6, by Gruntkiller/Covert The Battle For Sigma Octanus, part 1, by moniter101 ONI Black Operations, part 1, by Jaywhit10 Survival Grounds parts 1-2, by mattˆ Wrong or Right, part 2, by Harley Project Shadow Spartan, part 1, by Shadow Spartan If…