Month: April 2003

After a three-week hiatus, Warbow has added another installment to his Calvin and Halo series. Timing is quite good; I’ve been missing the subject.

Over on the MacAddict Forums, a thread started over an April Fools prank we tried here. It didn’t take long for the prank itself to be exposed… but over the past week, the exposer, Brad Oliver, has made it definitely worthwhile reading. Brad Oliver works for Westlake, and is the programmer currently assigned to the…

Dontcha love it when there are 7 entries for the Fan Fiction section? Brutus, the Spartans, two AIs and the Pirate Fleet (Part 1), by Traumatised Marine The Defense of Earth 4: Ghost Ship, by Steele Fire Team Zulu: Futile Resistance, by Spartan-13 Life of a UNSC Marine Part IV, by Tygpj A Single Motion:…

In November, 2002, we posted an announcement of a movie called ‘Heaven and Hell’. In it, we stated that it showed, for the first time, the bottom of the Silent Cartographer main shaft. What we forgot was that in December, 2001, barely a month after the Xbox was released, we had put up an announcement…

Whoa. Massive film by Blackstar – it’s a loving reconstruction of ‘Dead Rabbits’, a LANfest held here at HBO HQ a week and a half ago. It’s nearly 7 minutes long, and 63 megs big. We’ll work on mirrors (I’ll put a copy up at Mythica this morning) – if you have bandwdidth to spare,…

Matt Soell put up a note on bungie.net mentioning the voice actors that were traipsing through Bungie’s studios today… and pointing out that one of them, David Scully (Sergeant Johnson, to all you greenhorns), has a comedy album out. It’s only $10, and there are 3 2-minute samples on the CD’s website – go listen,…

A long-time member of the Halo community, The Junkyard, has a poll up to determine if visitors would be willing to donate to offset the cost of their server. Swing on by and cast your vote!

A million years ago (okay, last month), dogsounds finished up a pair of art contests on our forum. We’ve finally put up a page to display the entries to these; any future contests will be added to this page. Check out Dogsounds’ Art Contests in our Miscellaneous section.

For those who didn’t register at the Red vs. Blue site yesterday, your wait is over; the Public Service Announcement is now available to the general public. Go grab it… it’s pretty funny. In DivX or QT, high or lo-res. Thanks to Buzby for the heads-up. Update: we got word from Eclarap that Halo-Game, in…

Three new banners have been added to our Banners section – two from Michael Frank and one from GT500E. Check ’em out! (Remember – if you decide you like these banners, and want to use them in your signature on a non b.org forum, you’ll have to find your own hosting for them.)

A few weeks ago, we announced a movie called ‘Blood Gulch Ballet’, by Rory Hartley and Bill Copeland. It was fun to watch, but the quality left something to be desired. Well, Rory got us both a much-smaller DivX-encoded .avi, and a nearly uncompressed version we were able to use to make a very nice…

H. Shield has submitted another entry for our Halo 2 Cover Art Contest. (The contest has been over for some time, but we still add new entries to the section when they come in, rather than mix them in with the Miscellaneous Art.)

A gigantic logo has been added to the Logos section.

Three new desktop images for you this morning… you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section.

Dinky writes to say that HaloJuggaloProductions has mirrored the Halo50K Framework movie (the large version). If you haven’t seen this, you should definitely download it. (We’ve added the link to our mirrors list.) He also wanted to point out that they’re getting a new camera – so upcoming movies from HJP should be of a…

8 tidbits of random artwork, ranging from concept art for vehicles to personal hygiene items. Check ’em out in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Remember – if you upload files to our ftp or http directories, we can’t post them if you don’t identify them… there are some great pieces with no attributions there right now.)

Dang, this came in Sunday night, but I forgot to post it. Front Range Company 7 (a Seventh Column Chapter) and Colorado Fusion, based in (you guessed it) Colorado, would like to announce ‘Se7en’, a no-elimination, 4-man team Halo tournament. The competition will be near Denver, CO on May 17, 2003. Registration is $120/team, and…

Thanks to Pez, who pointed out an episode of TechTV’s Extended Play that focuses on first-person shooters. Halo, of course, is covered. The first airing was yesterday… but it’ll be showing today at 3:30 am (past) and 7:30 am, as well as Saturday and Sunday of this upcoming weekend. Check the page for details.

PMFLEX Productions has put together another hacking video. It’s nicely designed, but we’ve already said we don’t have the bandwidth for more videos showing what you can do with a modded Xbox. Luckily for PMFLEX, That Weasel Television has no such limitation. Hop on by their Halo mirror and grab a copy of Hackin Hog…

IGN Xbox has put up an Insiders-only article about what Halo 2 would look like if they were in charge. Well… if you read our forum, you’ve seen a few dozen Halo 2 wishlists such as they end up with, and if you read the Psyjnir Complex, you’ve seen scenarios as outlandish as IGN’s. If…