Month: February 2003

Early this morning, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry for a scheduled 9:16 EST landing, within four days of the 17th anniversary of the loss of the shuttle Challenger. With it were lost its crew of seven. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them.

That Weasel Television, a staunch bandwidth provider in the past for Halo movies, has put up a few of the most popular films released recently – all three Halo National Championship segments, both versions of Blair Halo Project, and In Too Deep. Swing on by and check ’em out!

A bunch of new desktops for you today, including one (from Germain Couët) that was submitted a couple of months ago, but got lost in the shuffle… and a pair of pretty cool ones from kL!p. There are 6 in all – check ’em out in our Wallpaper section! Update: Whoops, missed one. You can…

Steve Hatch turns in a sketch of a Brute – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

A week ago, Bungie artist Shikai Wang was interviewed by the Australian official Xbox site – it’s got some nice background info on Bungie’s interviewing process, and a look at what was needed, artwise, to get Halo out the door. Check it out! (Thanks to Benjamin Swinbanks for the heads-up on this one.) We’ve added…

Wow – this one’s cool. We got mail from Brandon Jones, Director of Media and HomeGrown Content at GameTrailers.com – they’ve put together a pretty cool Halo trailer. It’s available in both QuickTime 5 and WMP9 formats (23.1 and 17.9 mb, respectively), and covers most of the game in 2:40. There are spoilers in here……

Heh – disappointed with the ‘NSync-related Halo sighting we posted a month ago, Brandon Thomas pointed out that Dave Grohl, guitarist for the Foo Fighters, puts Halo on the shortlist of hobbies (up there with skeet shooting and speeding in residential areas). That’s a pretty wide swath of the popular music spectrum playin’ Halo! Update:…