Year: 2003

GURPS Halo material has been removed from Bungie Sightings. Details can be found here.

Okay, okay. It’s April 2 (UTC), and the jokes are done. I’m a bit too bushed to write up a full postmortem – tomorrow morning, maybe. Thanks to all who made today as fun as it was… and apologies to anyone who was offended by any of the trickstering. No more till next year -…

All the details are in the Fox press release put up in this post. Thanks to poena.dare for finding it.

Hal-O’s? When opie301 brought these up, I thought he meant this cereal… but he didn’t. He meant this one. Cool.

mnemesis, our stalwart Story Page anchor, has decided to call it quits; he can’t see the point in running a site based on speculation about a storyline when Bungie’s just giving away (okay, selling) the Halo Story Bible. We’ll miss you, mnemesis. 🙁

MacSoft’s Senior Product Manager Al Shilling says Mac Halo will run just fine on your first-generation iMac. Good news for people with lame computers! (Thanks to Madscientist for the heads-up.)

Cybrfrk’s tireless webcam archiver has hit paydirt again. Looks like there might be some unplanned-for denizens of the Bungie offices… check the webcam shots in this forum post. (You’re looking for the contents of that mug on the right…)

Hehe… The Search for the Megg has consumed our forum in the past few days… and resident kibitzer Shishka has his own take on the situation. Check out his latest comic at Subnova.

Octanus has pointed out that his Forerunners site, Sigma Octanus IV, has never been added to our Links section. Oversight rectified.

Lightweight Fan Fiction update, as they go these days:Wild Weasels, by Dirty Commie Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 2, by monitor101 Falling Stars From Heaven., by HALO MASTER DAWG Life of a UNSC Marine Part III, by TygpjGo for it…

Check this out. Bungie’s instituted a new pay-for-content service called Bungie.net Pro. For $7/month, you get access to boatloads of webcams, an online version of the Halo Story Bible, Developer diaries, daily Halo 2 screenshots… and MORE! Go read about it. Then sign up. (I got in early – I was subscriber 20. Not too…

Pimps at Sea goes Live! Check out the Pimps at Sea page over at Bungie for some pretty darn cool hardware to accompany this amazing almost-ready product. (Yeah, we know, it’s not Halo-related… but the more-than-half-dozen Halo-related items posted this morning at Bungie.net have fallen victim to a new build of their server software, and…

Wow. Yesterday, Eclarap pointed out a link to the PC Halo Strategy Guide. It’s not for sale yet, but that was the first we’d heard that it even existed. (I, personally, figured that the Prima guide would serve.) There was a bit of speculation on our forum about the comments that there would be new…

poena.dare has taken the cleaned-up covers of GURPS Halo and interpreted what can be found in the text. Keats and new taglines… go read about it at Bungie Sightings!

c0ld vengeance, back from a long absence, has found what might be a pretty cool easter egg – the letters ‘TR’ (for Truth and Reconciliation) written out in the lights of the ship of the same name on the level Keyes. Clever!

mnemesis has put up a nice review of Halo: The Flood, over at the Halo Story page. There are minor spoilers in there – but mostly for the Halo storyline, not for the book. Suffice it to say, this book will shake up what you thought you knew about Halo. And it’s available in stores…

After a long time with no submissions, the Logos section gets another entry. We’ve also put up a layered Combat Evolved document (photoshop format, 1.1 mb, zipped) that appeared on the web – in a much larger size – for a short time about 18 months ago. If you want to make your own Halo…

Next up in the ‘clearing the queue’ game… 6 art pieces for our Miscellaneous Art collection. Everything from Zelda/Halo crossovers to armed school invasions. Check ’em out!

Wow. I wonder if this really has a market? A company called CodeJunkies has created a product called ActionReplay, a $39.99 package (£19.99 in the UK) that uses a specially-modified 8 MB memory card to move saved games from your PC to your Xbox and back. (The package comes with ‘powersaves’ – saved games from…

Nice find by Eclarap – looks like the Official Strategy Guide for the PC version of Halo is being done by Sybex (the Xbox version was done by Prima), and it should be released on June 15, 2003. According to the Amazon.com listing for it, The PC product refines and improves upon the Xbox version…