Year: 2003

A couple of months ago, we posted a note about a tournament sometime this summer in Arkansas. The Elite Spartan writes to say that due to lack of sponsors, the tourney is off.

SketchFactor has posted some information over at Bungie.net about the upcoming FanFest to take place at E3. The limit of 200 attendees has been reached, but a few of them haven’t provided valid contact information; these will be dropped from the list on Monday if this doesn’t change, making those spots available. Additionally, if plans…

Forerunners.org is holding another giveaway – this time it’s a halo T-shirt. Visit giveaways.forerunners.org and fill out the form – by early May, you could be wearing a free T. (Check out tBC’s always-entertaining writeup here.) Deadline is April 30th.

Whoa. Randy Glass, creator of the Warthog Jump, has posted a pretty detailed layout for a Halo level, complete with maps and (he says cheesy, I don’t agree) drawings. He built this as part of an application for a Bungie position as Mission Designer (sadly, he didn’t get the job). 3 MB PDF file. If…

That Weasel sends in not one, but two mirrors for Dead Rabbits – as well as mirrors for the cleaned-up versions of Blood Gulch Ballet, and MoreHackinFun (a modded-xbox movie). You’ll find them ALL on his HBO Mirror page. Very cool! (We’ll put together a mirror list for DR sometime today.)

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…