Month: March 2003

ICDedPpl is EXTREMELY worried you might have forgotten that his Seventh Column chapter is running a giveaway for Halo: The Flood. If you haven’t signed up yet, go do it. I’m learning what ‘flood’ means…

I hate doing this – but some of you give me zero choice. 🙁 Once again, there are items in our uploads folder that have no attribution (or worse, have SOME attribution, but not enough). If, for example, you’ve sent a movie that hasn’t been posted, and you haven’t received an email from us about…

Sunday’s Fan Fiction installment:Just Getting Started: Chapter One, by James Kinsella Halo: FotF , by Frensa Geran What Would Have Been- Part 1, by gwinnalex Halo Zero Part 9 and Part 10, by nicholas The Tour (part 1) and The Tour (part 2), by Traumatised Marine What if We Miss….(yes of course it’s a comedy),…

Blast from the Past: In early September, 1999, a now-defunct website called ‘Total Halo’ released a home-grown movie. I re-discovered that movie on my drive while looking for something this morning… and thought it was great. I’ve re-encoded it (to reduce its filesize from the original 6 mb to a more reasonable 1.4 mb), and…

th3gh05t writes to tell us of his new Halo website, Halo Source. Still under development, but always open to comments and suggestions.

Ertai23 has set up a Halo Multiplayer Gametype Compendium; basically, an archive for various multiplayer variations. Check it out, and send him your favorites!

Once again, scooped by Opie301 on my own dang site. Finn has updated the Halo Story page yet again, this time with some extensive fan speculation. Take a look!

We’ve mentioned recently that Cybrfrk has been archiving webcam images… he’s just posted a few short movies to our forum, giving us a fast-forward glimpse into the Bungie world. Take a look!

Today’s Fan Fiction:Halo Zero Part 8- A Bigger Halo, by nicholas Halo Zero Part 7- Old Enemies, New Friends, by nicholas The Battle for Rackma VI: Finale, by gwinnalex Halo: Law & Order Part 1, by el_halo_diablo Halo: Fall of the Forerunners (tie in), by Frensa Geran The monitor’s contest, part 3 or the end…

CobaltNova points out the iGames Spring Season site is now accepting registrations. (We’d noted the site before, but until very recently, you couldn’t actually register.) The two divisional tournaments are March 29 and April 19, with the regional championships on May 10, and the Divisional championships on May 31.

Team Overkill noticed a blurb on Xbox bundles over at Gamespy – this sounds like a deal… Halo, Amped, a DVD Remote, and a bunch of vouchers, for $59.95. Since this is being offered in Australia, that’s presumably Australian dollars… meaning that you can get all that stuff for less than $36 US. Not bad!…

Sadly, the Miscellaneous section of this site hadn’t been updated since the end of November. I spent a goodly chunk of time classifying what needs to go in there since then (a couple of dozen items) – but I didn’t get them all fully formatted. I got through about half of them, though – and…

Last week, SketchFactor put up the first part of his ‘Building a Better Chapter’ article at Bungie.net. He has now posted Part Two – and for this one, he’s interviewed five chapter founders for their ideas about what makes a good chapter. Get to readin’!

Hehe – Roger Wilco came across an owner’s manual for Halo. Pretty funny.

A month ago, a pair from Canada sent in times for speed runs through the various levels of Halo, performed on Easy. Yesterday, Åstro and his partner, Coreman (Team Poughkeepsie), sent word (and a pair of films) of their work on the first of 10 levels… performed on Legendary. Their run of Pillar of Autumn…

Not that he’s trying to get you to think, or anything… but Finn has updated the Halo Story page again with some intriguing speculation from our forum. Check it out!

Killer points out that you can vote for the best game in the UK – you won’t be able to SEE the results (you have to watch Game Stars on ITV1, in the UK, for that), but heck, you can vote for Halo in 5 or 6 categories.

Is the flood ebbing? Fan Fiction increases by only three stories today:Battle for Chippanicas Gorge Part 3, by Austin Peters Halo 2: Blade Squadron Part 1, by Andrew Golightly MARINES: Operation 2 (part 2), by Matt AndersonGo get ’em!

Interesting. Team Overkill points out a product available at various online sellers (a couple of links in the forum post) which contains the Halo National Championship on DVD. Price varies, but is below $10 at both links. It also comes with a bunch of Xbox demos.

Whoa – get it quick, while it lasts! ToysRUs, through Amazon.com, is currently offering Halo for $29.99 online. If the Best Buy promotion is anything to go on, this will only last a couple of days. If you need another copy of Halo (because you’re playing more LAN fests, or because yours is scratched), here’s…