Month: April 2003

Well, if you’re good at acronyms, this forum post from Red Dawg can help you figure out how the finals went at the Halo50K tournament… but the bottom line is, The Dream Team (which has won both AGP tournaments to date, as well as (in the person of one of its members) the Halo National…

Now HERE’S a weird one. Stefander dropped off a short movie he made, showing a small oversight on Bungie’s part. To reproduce it, you need a modded Xbox. Play the Maw right at the start – kill off the first wave of Flood that bust down the door. The second wave is just two guys…

9 stories for you in the Fan Fiction section for you: Dimes Up, by Blindside The Forgotten -Phobos (Part 1), by el_halo_diablo SPARTAN II: Stranded Chapter I: Crash Landing, by Vinny Data Entry: UNSC Warship 5-101, by Dan Mitteer Bloody War: Prologue, by Ishkabibbl Dark Halo (04): The Megg , by Wado Above and Beyond…

To the eight million and one people sending us info about the OXM scans… Yes, it’s true: the June issue of the Official Xbox Magazine has a massive Halo 2 article, with some pretty incredible pictures. Yes, they’re allowed to print those – they got their permission straight from Bungie. Yes, we know that there…

Another movie for ya – Fight or Flight, from Dancing Grunt Productions. 4:30 long, this movie is full of fun little snippets, mostly from single player or coop. From it, you can see stuff like coordinated marine rolls, cheating death by using vehicles, and some nicely timed warthog tosses (one into a blue beam -…

More art clearage, including a pretty amazing Maya render of the MC, and a tiny little icon… Check the Miscellaneous Art section for five new entries.

Beginning the clear-out of backlogged artwork – here are three desktop images for you, two of which come with variations. Check all five out in our Wallpaper section!

To the folks sending in Megg movies and screenshots – thanks, but you can stop now. We’ve got several pretty high quality movies… but Meg’s out of town until Tuesday, and plans to handle the PR when she gets back. We’re going to hold off until then to post stuff, but we certainly don’t need…

Roger Wilco rocks.

We’re a bit late… but Episode 4 of Red vs. Blue has been available for sponsors for about 10 hours now. The public version will be up Sunday at noon, as usual. This one starts slow… but it had me laughing at the end.

In an interesting turn of the tables, Bungie’s SketchFactor has interviewed Frank O’Connor, Executive Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine, about his life and job. OXM is running a pretty big Halo 2 spread in next month’s issue (on newsstands in a bit more than a week), so the timing is pretty good. Take a…

A sad, sad day in Bungie-land… Matt Soell has posted a farewell message on our forum – today is his last day as a Bungie employee. All I can say is… we’re gonna miss him. Hopefully, the Bungie Way will find a new Keeper, and not be lost.

Just a quick reminder, courtesy of Bungie.net – today is the deadline for entries to the America’s Biggest Halo Fan contest. Get that video to them NOW!

A monster update for the Halo Story page today; typos, disease, and Stephen King! More tidbits than you can shake a SPNKR at… and while you’re there, don’t forget to check out the new digs!

Due to server problems, the fan fiction section hasn’t been updated for almost a week. Here are the 15 stories submitted in that time. Legacy Part Three, by Havok Fallen Angel 13: Curse of the Gods, by Gruntkiller/Covert Halo: The Three Day War Chapter 01, by Cpt Crapper Halo: The Practice, by Howlin’ Jackal The…

A large number of videos were dropped off in recent days – we’re going to have to be careful about doling them out, since Mythica (our main bandwidth candyman) is already pushing 5 megabits/second out of its fat (but not infinite) pipe. The first one we have for you is a two and a half…

Oops – another one we missed during the outage. Bungie.net ran a request from emildux for you to submit your suggestions for gametypes for the upcoming iGames Summer Season. This is your chance to get your favorite game variant known!

HBO was down while this was going on… but BOLL started a thread a few days ago in which he posted a series of panoramic views of Halo. (These were created, as you’d find by reading the thread, by standing in one place and rotating slowly… then running the resulting movie through a homebrewed program…

And ANOTHER new Halo site – Black Ops HQ. This one is also still being fleshed out, but the main design seems finished, and the forum is up. The community continues to grow…

A week ago, we mentioned a Halo RPG that’s being worked on by a forum denizen. This week, a website for the project came online, and many more screenshots have gone up. Take another look, if you want to see a rapidly-evolving role-playing game being developed.