Year: 2003

Many, many thanks to Deimosâ„¢, of Subnova, who stepped in yesterday during HBO’s time of need and made sure you folks could still get the Halo content you’ve expected from us. (They’re currently supplying some of our bandwidth.) An added bonus: news searches are now MUCH faster (close to 20 times faster). If you need…

A new Halo site is up; nice design, focuses on gameplay. Check out Elite Guide.

Old-time Bungie fans are most likely not a huge portion of the current pool of Bungie fans; Bungie’s latest poll (‘Which multiplayer gametype do you enjoy the most?’) shows that the vast majority of respondents (90% of 1500 votes) enjoy playing either Slayer or Capture the Flag, gametypes made popular by FPSs like Quake and…

If you’re reading this, you’ve found the server’s new home. This is a backup of the existing site. Unfortunately, the death of the machine this morning wasn’t out of the blue; the box has been pretty unstable for a few weeks now. (It’s been unstable for longer than that, but the instability can only be…

poena.dare forgot to take his meds again…

Funky downtime… datacenter says it’s not them, but the server said it wasn’t down, either. Anyway, check out Bungie.net’s newest contest – if you can come up with the best three-player Halo gametype variant for Halo, you’ll win the accolades due a true master. Entries are only accepted from Seventh Column chapters, and there are…

Today’s Fan Fiction:Ishkabibbl’s Story Part 1, by Ishkabibbl And Raise Your Head With Pride! 5, by Arthur Wellesly A Forerunner Tale Part 1: And So The Flood, by nicholas The Battle For Sigma Octanus Chapter 7 No Way out, by monitor101 The Flood: Part One, by Justin Everett Simon The Tour (part 3), by Traumatised…

Three art pieces for you today, including a pretty dang impressive MC model made for a 3d animation class. Check ’em out in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Wallpaper coming later today.)

ICDedPpl writes to let us know that the MOSHPIT now has a page up for easy access to movie mirrors. Currently, there are just the new ones put up yesterday (and one made by one of their members), but that number will increase. We’re always grateful for movie mirroring bandwidth!

Eric writes to tell us of his Halo site, Halo Cave. Update: Both Eric and ToXiC have written to clarify that it’s ToXiC’s site, Eric is just helping.

Sometimes, the tenacity of Halo fans just has to be seen to be believed. (Before you blow that off as just another pic, look carefully at what’s behind the MC – and where it is.)

poena.dare uncovered an interesting tidbit related to last year’s Halo National Championships… if you like backstory, read this forum post.

The Movies database has finally been brought up-to-date; movies from the last 6 weeks have all been added. There’s a new movie there, too – it’s called ‘Hurt’, and it’s mostly Blood Gulch gameplay (with some cutscene footage added nicely for flavor), set to Johnny Cash’s remake of NiN’s ‘Hurt’. It’s available in both QuickTime…

Stuntmutt points out that Halo Hacking gets a mention in the latest issue of Edge magazine (number 122, April 2003) – and so does HBO. (They point to the mirror link for the very first hacking film. Hopefully, visitors reading that will explore and discover the OTHER hacking movies… they should be in the Movies…

In a surprising twist, the Halo Story Page is NOT updated today. (Finn actually has real life work tugging at his coattails, and mnemesis… well, mnemesis is mnemesis.) I must say, however, that it was a struggle to make this happen… so if you’re not watching carefully, there might be an update in the not-too-distant…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to let us know that the Junkyard is looking for help:We’re looking for anyone who has a passion for any of the games that we cover and has a basic understanding of HTML. All positions are open; from newshounds, interview / review / preview / article writers, site maintenance, file keepers…

ICDedPpl is EXTREMELY worried you might have forgotten that his Seventh Column chapter is running a giveaway for Halo: The Flood. If you haven’t signed up yet, go do it. I’m learning what ‘flood’ means…

I hate doing this – but some of you give me zero choice. 🙁 Once again, there are items in our uploads folder that have no attribution (or worse, have SOME attribution, but not enough). If, for example, you’ve sent a movie that hasn’t been posted, and you haven’t received an email from us about…

Sunday’s Fan Fiction installment:Just Getting Started: Chapter One, by James Kinsella Halo: FotF , by Frensa Geran What Would Have Been- Part 1, by gwinnalex Halo Zero Part 9 and Part 10, by nicholas The Tour (part 1) and The Tour (part 2), by Traumatised Marine What if We Miss….(yes of course it’s a comedy),…

Blast from the Past: In early September, 1999, a now-defunct website called ‘Total Halo’ released a home-grown movie. I re-discovered that movie on my drive while looking for something this morning… and thought it was great. I’ve re-encoded it (to reduce its filesize from the original 6 mb to a more reasonable 1.4 mb), and…