Month: July 2003

Man, only 15 new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. You guys are slacking! Battlefield 2552: Back to Hell, by John Morris Oblivion chapter 1, by Reclaimer On A Red Horse: Chapter 3, by Diamond Dog Its Just One of Those Days (Prologue: 1), by Elfster Battle for Norah: Part Three, by Sterfrye36 The…

Devin Olsen and Goatrope submitted three new maps to the Weapons Respawn Times chart in our Miscellaneous section. This leaves only Boarding Action and Chiron in the completely untested column. Nice going, guys!

Captain Spark turned in another 25 dialogue snippets – we’ve added them to the Dialogue Databank. I’ve also added some sorting functions – you can see new material by simply sorting the full page by date, reversed. Update: Jamirus99 has added 4 new Marines quotes – they’re listed at the bottom here. Update 2: Two…

Woohoo! Mythica.org, which has been down since June 19 (that’s just short of three weeks ago, for you movie-starved folks), is back up and running! We’re going to be attempting to clear the rather substantial movie backlog over the next week or so… we’ll start with the longest-waiting movies. First up: Too Many Vehicles, a…

The Bungie Jobs page has gotten another entry – they’re looking for a Contract Graphic Artist/Illustrator to help with the upcoming Bungie.net facelift. There are definitely some HBO community members with the skills for this one… Thanks to SketchFactor for the heads-up.

After a 4 month hiatus, the Bungie Comics page gets an update, thanks to mehve… I’m not sure I’d want to be in that bar after that last frame.

Thanks to dolbex and BOLL, who together got the forum back to 4BitterGuys.com, and a Halo drinking game (complete with artwork). I wonder if the RvB guys ever played this?

Captain Spark recently submitted over 125 dialogue samples, in mp3 format. We’ve decided to use these to start a dialogue databank. Check out what’s already there… and if you’ve got the equipment (and the interest), follow the instructions on the page for sending in NEW snippets! Suggestions are always welcome. Update: Wraith has submitted three…

Wolfy writes to point out that the Halo Quiz he’s been working on is now online at Sector 7. Try your skill!

Eight new desktops for you today – two of which come in multiple sizes. Apologies for not getting Shishka’s Bungie Day entry posted before the end of Bungie Day (7.7). Check ’em all out in the Wallpaper section.

Dark Helmet has started a new Halo movie series. It’s called Apocalypse: Halo, and the first installment can be downloaded from FilePlanet. It’s in WMP9 format (which means we don’t know anything more about it than what DH has said in this forum post – we can’t watch it here), and weighs in at 18.8…

Yesterday, we nearly forgot to post the second Sunday strip of One One Se7en. We’re not going to make that mistake today. Monday’s strip looks at some potential problems with the new dual SMGs the Master Chief will have access to in Halo 2.

SketchFactor has posted a request for feedback over on Bungie.net – they’re trying to find out what you like best (and least) about the Bungie.net services, and what new content you’d like to see. Feeback is required before July 14 – you’ve got a week! Read the whole article, then send them your well-thought-out responses.

HomeLan Federation spoke with Michel Bastien, producer (on the Bungie side) for Halo PC, and Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox, about progress in the development process. There’s even a tiny tidbit about the Mac version. Overall, a good read – it’ll lay out clearly what hurdles the teams faced, and how they overcame them. Thanks…

Five submissions today for the Miscellaneous Art section. I like the charcoal MC quite a lot. Update: oops, forgot a drawing of the MC by Shishka, posted this morning in honor of Bungie day. Update 2: Man, forgetfulness must be in the air. c0ld vengeance submitted an image a while back that we never added…

Anyone who’s played Oddball knows that if you release the ball when another player is standing in front of you, they will involuntarily pick it up. So what happens when there are a LOT of balls… and they’re all between a pair of players? Devin Olsen asked the question on our forum – and BOLL…

Merecatfish has put up a Flash ‘Hotel’ – apparently, you can send him a photo of your room (your bedroom, I guess) with Bungie stuff visible in it, and he’ll add it to a ‘room’ of the hotel. It’s in celebration of Bungie Day. The goal seems to be a collection of photographs of Bungie…

Dang. Well, I’d expected to get a full writeup of the Pillar of Art gallery showing and the subsequent lanfest up and posted today… but it WAS the end of a holiday weekend. Stuff will be coming… but for those who missed it, Miguel Chavez posted pictures almost in real time yesterday, over at Bungie…

Hehe – check out the Xbox Boys, a bunch of guys that get together to play Halo. They’ve even got stats.

Long weekend, no posting – so you’ve got 14 Fan Fiction pieces to get through: Operation Sunlight Part 3: Black, by Gruntkiller Divinity (Halo 2: Chapter 5), by Shadowrunner A World Apart Prologue, by Dark Spartan Favor the Bold (chapter 1), by Loki_25 Last Hope For Outpost Bravo: Part 1, by Spartan5000 Halo: The Scythe…