Month: June 2003

Darksage (aka Benjamin Jacobs on our forum) put together a little video for a contest over at the Red vs Blue forums. It was nicely done – enough so that we thought it would be worth the effort to reduce the filesize by about half. (It’s now 17 mb, zipped, in QuickTime format.) If you…

Thanks to Dan Chosich, who pointed out that UGO has put up a Halo PC preview with a set of ‘exclusive PC screenshots’ (there are three of them, but the third one has been out for a while), and a Halo 2 preview. He found this info over at the Junkyard. Good stuff!

Finn says he’s put up a little Halo Story Page update. Yeah… and the Hulk is a little bit green. Good stuff in this one…

And finally, last but not least… two new desktops for the day in the Wallpaper section. This clears out the art queue entirely. If you submitted something, and it hasn’t been posted yet, one of two things happened: we rejected it for not meeting our Image Posting Guidelines… or you submitted it with no attribution;…

And, while we’re clearing that art box, there were two Halo logos to be posted, as well… check the Logos section.

Four new banners posted, as well – one small, and three large (with a VERY large variant of one of them). Take a look! Update: whoa, just as that update went up, another one came in. This one should be at the bottom of our forum, or something…

The art backlog has been building; there’s finally been a free minute to clear it out. 10 pictures (plus a variation)… check ’em all out in the Miscellaneous Art section! Update: DRslamAlot’s Commander Jackal has been updated with a larger picture. (I really gotta check the uploads sites more often…)

c0ld vengeance has written up a basic guide for Halo moviemaking. It covers setting up your equipment (probably the most-asked-about subject we see in reference to moviemaking), and gives some general tips for making movies. Definitely worth a read if you’re interested in putting together a project for the Halo community! For the sake of…

dolbex has been hanging out over at the Gearbox forums, and today picked up some interesting Halo PC info from Dave Mertz, Lead Level Designer. Read about it in this forum post!

This morning, Visual posted a request on our forum, asking for some hi-res shots of the color-select screen at the beginning of Halo. (You know, where you pick your multiplayer color.) Evil Otto, ever the fan pleaser, dropped off a hi-res TIFF file with all 18 colors inside (along with a pretty dang useful alpha…

Mr. Smiley has been working on a full-blown Bungie documentary (it was mentioned in the recent Fanfest Flashback story at Bungie.net). Now, you can download Episode 0 from Bungie.net. 10.9 mb QuickTime, or 12.3 mb WMP9 – it’s not the documentary, but it’s a Red vs Blue-style intro to the documentary! Take a look.

Doug Radcliffe, a freelance writer, is working on Sybex’s Official Halo PC Strategy Guide (due out in September), and has posted a request on our forum for feedback on what you, the Halo player, would like to see in a Halo PC Guide. He said he’ll be checking the forum for responses… but email is…

Simpsons Rule created a pair of Simpsons-related Halo desktops. They’re being hosted by a couple of forumites; you can see a preview of one of them on Lion’s Truth and Reconciliation site (bottom of the page), and both are also hosted by guy who doesn’t post….too often.

The silver lining in the cloud that is my forgetfulness is that occasionally, you get three consecutive days of One One Se7en. (Okay, that’s really only gonna happen when I forget to post Fridays and there’s Sunday content… so it’ll probably never happen again. Enjoy it while you can.) Today’s strip finishes up the Unreal…

10 stories for you today over in Fan Fiction: Shadow Ops, Chapter 4: The Alliance, by Agent Shade Halo: Attack of the Banshees Part 1, by Super Beast Halo 2, by System Failure Covenant Invasion! Part Five, by Hunter_Killer Mercenary – Prolog, by HockeyPuck Death’s Angels: Chapter 2, by Space_Moose Human vs. Covenant War: Part…

Salon.com has a pretty funny article about Julia Roberts’ Halo obsession. Worth a read. (If you’re not a Salon.com subscriber, you can watch a 15-second commercial for a daypass, which will let you read the remainder of the article.) Thanks to Robert Reichle for the heads-up.

Z points out a pretty cool little movie on xboxottawa.ca (it’s the last thing on the page). 6.9 mb, DivX format (make sure you have an up-to-date version), 720×256. They’re working on more, but they’re all in school or working fulltime… so there’s no timeframe on the next product. You wanna see a slick multiplayer…

Took a little bit of finagling, but there’s a Sunday strip for One One Se7en today. This is a totally random feature; it will not happen every Sunday, or even every other Sunday; it’ll happen whenever Stuntmutt gets the inspiration for a Sunday strip. This one is just in time for the Red vs Blue…

Thanks again to BOLL – the Flash Pelican game is once again online, though now without a high-score option. Play it for fun. 🙂

Wow. We haven’t updated the Wallpaper section in almost a week… and now there are 21 new desktops for you. 10 come from kapowaz, and are just interesting renditions of opening screens on each campaign level. (Each one is available in 5 sizes, as well.) The other 11 (two of which come in multiple sizes)…