Month: November 2003

16 stories for the Fan Fiction section in the 48 hours since the last update… Merick’s Journal’s: Episode 3: Return to Blood Gulch, and The Broken Bagboy, by John Kitchen Lan Battle Chapter 3 Chris’ Manuevers According to Jesse and his Men, by Blue Angel Galaxy 07 – Part Four – Boot, by Jillybean Fear…

Geez – almost forgot. Today’s One One Se7en guest strip is yet another Red vs… Who parody from Devilmingy – and no, it’s not the last one. A sweating MC… interesting.

001 has put together a new film showing some of the recent advances in Xbox modding. (Many of these have already been shown in individual movies, but this one gives you a nice overview.) It’s being hosted by BPHalo, and weighs in at 10 mb. It’s called ‘Random Hacking in 2 Random Levels’, and is…

gwdpto pointed out that the HBO-COERCE Halo PC server has gotten 9 new games in its map rotation, and lost one, as well as having existing games tweaked a bit. Check out the new carnage!

Whoa. Mark discovered a note about the rebuilding of Project Phoenix, over at GameDreamZ – if this is accurate, Phoenix will appear for the Xbox Next console (the second-generation Xbox), being reworked by FASA and the old Oni team. (They used the obligatory ‘rising from the ashes’ line in the writeup…)

Bravehamster writes about a major lanfest being set up for New Year’s Eve in Santa Maria, CA (about 3 hours north of LA on the California coast). They’re shooting for 90 players, and want the thing to run from noon on December 31 through noon on January 1. Admission is $25, and all the pizza…

halo.leetgamers.org is offline for a bit; read this forum post for details why. Thanks, Blade.

Battleground: Halo newsman Tankramp has been Spotlighted over at the Junkyard; go read about what makes him tick. Thanks to Mhaddy for the heads-up.

So here’s the thing. A few months back, we started receiving Guest strips for One One Se7en, created by fans of the Stuntmutt creation. We filled in the days of the week not covered by the main strip – but they were coming in faster than we could post them. Today, the wait time for…

Unsanity, a company devoted to tweaking the user interface of Mac OSX, has announced ShapeShifter, a product that will allow you to add ‘themes’ to your interface. One of the first themes released (in fact, installed with the program) is called Eylo (rhymes with Halo) – and a quick look at the theme shows why.…

Bizarre… there’s a site out there devoted to stories about stupid things people do online. Halo PC is one of the covered games, which is what makes this Halo news… There’s no really easy way to search for Halo PC stories (or at least I didn’t find one), but I gotta say, the few I…

Stuntmutt uses today’s One One Se7en to point out one reason Gearbox might have left the new weapons out of Campaign in Halo PC… Marathon fans are probably thinking “Smells like Napalm” right about now.

Tweakfactor.com has posted a Halo Tweak Guide, designed to help you get the most out of your video hardware. Check it out for that extra framerate boost! Thanks to Blue’s News (via Ash) for the heads-up.

For the second day in a row, Finn has taken a healthy bite out of the Halo Story page mailbag; there’s a sizeable update today. (He also addresses concerns that Story page submissions might be used for purposes other than the edification of Story page readers…)

Halo: Resolution takes a shot (hehe) at the needler as a weapon; check out today’s strip.

15 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction update: Athenienses-II: Chapter 2: Plasma Tanks, by ZackDark Appocalypse-Sector4, by FF Echo Closing with the Enemy Chapter 2 Covenant Attack, by monitor101 Closing with the Enemy Chapter 3 Death on the Front, by monitor101 Neverland: A New Home, by SOS.Odin Merick’s Journal’s, Episode II: Streaker’s Annonomous,…

Mafioso writes to point out that l337 Guide has gotten an entirely new look. Check ’em out.

We’d like to say goodbye to a strong member of the Halo community; CobaltNova has closed its doors, permanently. In the words of Emil, its founder, “we had a pleasant community, decent website, with nice plans for the future that had to be closed down for the foreseeable future because life interfered.” We’re gonna miss…

We’ve received another piece of Halo-inspired music. This one is the Halo 2 Trailer Music, with a hip hop beat. It’s 2:13 long, just under 2 mb in size, and the author, chaostheory, had this to say:I am an avid hip hop producer and I noticed the music in the background of the H2 preview…

In a suprise move, we’re clearing out the Wallpaper queue, as well, posting 8 new desktop images (11, if you count variants). Some pretty cool ones… check ’em out!