Month: September 2003

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from the multifaceted BOLL, who looks at platform issues…

12 stories today in the Fan Fiction section: Spartan III’s, Part III, by FOrunnER A Series of Wierd Events, Part Six, by Hunter_Killer A Series of Wierd Events, Part Seven, by Hunter_Killer Survival, Chapter Four: Critical Alert, by Agent Shade The Fight for Bravo Base; pt. 4- Reunion, by ONI_operative_343 Derailed Part 5, by Dispraiser…

Inside Mac Games has interviewed Brad Oliver, a programmer over at Westlake Interactive (the folks responsible for the Mac port of Halo). There’s not that much Halo information in this interview, but it’s worth a read anyway for folks interested in the future of gaming on a Mac; looks like the G5s are gonna make…

SketchFactor points out that it’s only one week until the Killatacular Classic IGames Championship (a tourney with $5000 on the line for the top players). Go to it!

Noctarus, of the Battleground: Halo forums, has written up a full transcript of the X03 video that’s been the talk of the Halo community for a couple of days now. This is a much more complete and accurate transcript than the one IGN put up on Friday – absolutely worth a read, if you either…

One One Se7en looks at a tidbit that appeared due to modding not too long ago. I personally think it’s a nasty shot – but that might be because I have an engineering degree (of sorts).

MaverickJ dropped us a note to point out that Project Spartan, a popular site with lots of cool tricks vids, is coming back. Details will be available at the above web address as soon as they’re known.

18 Fan Fiction pieces, and a bit of bad news: you may have noticed that HBO was offline for a bit over 4 hours this evening. This was partly due to some rather unpleasant people out there, and partly due to my own carelessness. With some help from the datacenter, we got back up and…

Well, normally Sundays are reserved for Sunday One One Se7ens from Stuntmutt, or are left open… but there are a LOT of queued Guest strips, and no official one for today, so what the heck.This one’s another Iceman1330 strip – and it looks at the dangers of modding.

Red vs Blue is suing… everybody. Well, everybody who ever visited the Red vs Blue website. It’s all on behalf of their literally dozens of fans around the world. You can get the details from the Red vs Blue PSA #5, currently available on the Sponsors forum (but likely to the rest of the actionable…

Now this is just bizarre. Microsoft has their official Halo PC website – but they ALSO have an overview page on the same server… with unique information. Specifically, the overview page contains an official system requirements section that the Official website doesn’t have. OS can go as low as Windows 98SE. CD-ROM drive can go…

More on the 7-minute Halo segment from X03; as we mentioned recently, there are a couple of locations for the DivX version (the original source, Xboxyde.com, and a UK mirror). This versions weighs in at 50.7 mb. Blackstar has converted it to QuickTime (obviating the need for me to do it 🙂 ) – and…

Rico has submitted an introduction sequence for an upcoming video project entitled ‘Halo Vice’ – in his words:Originally I just wanted to use the footage to better understand my new editing system, but after suggestions from several friends and input from members of the RHOH chapter at Bungie.net I have decided to create a series…

The Wallpaper section, also languishing for far too long, gets a massive infusion today; 18 new desktops, some of which absolutely ROCK. They’re all worth looking at… but if I had to pick my favorite 3 of the lot, they’d be this one, this one, and this one. (That last one is amazing… and no…

Draikin points out a small (1.9 mb) divx-encoded AVI showing some of the Halo 2 footage from X03. (There’s no sound, and it’s 16 seconds of shakeycam footage, but you can see some cool stuff nonetheless.) He found it at Xboxyde. Update: There’s a much bigger version available now; it’s the full 7 minute section…

Another languishing piece of artwork – an entry for the Halo 2 cover art collection, from Snyper.

Four new banners have been added to the Banners section. A couple of them have been in the queue for almost 3 weeks. I’m really sorry.

It’s been far too long since we’ve cleared out the artwork queues – sorry. The Miscellaneous Art submissions recently include some cool sketches, a pair of Magic Eye pieces, and more. Check ’em out!

Once again, it’s 14 stories for the Fan Fiction section… Spartans meet their match, by Robert Reclaim Me . . . [H&R 7], by Jillybean Sparked and Guilty [H&R 8], by Jillybean I Fight For You [H&R 9], by Jillybean Stranded at Home Final Part, by Dispraiser The Virus Part 11 (Finale) , by monitor101…

Oh, heck, as long as we’re doing comics… today’s Guest One One Se7en was turned in by Geeoff – and don’t tell me you never tried that. Too bad it doesn’t work…