Year: 2003

7 new Fan Fiction pieces for you today: The Battle for Rackma VI: Part 3, by gwinnalex Fallen Angel 8: The Final Jihad, by Gruntkiller/Covert Halo Zero part 6- Return of 343, by nicholas Escaping the Autumn, by Glenny Chapter 4.5-Hunt for the Index (The Real one.), by Ultra Sonic 007 MARINES: Operation 2, by…

For the second time in three days, the Halo Story page has been updated. Finn AND mnemesis working? What is the world coming to? Go read.

Break Point points out another site – his Halo Amateur League, set up for XboxConnect tournaments. Take a look if you’re into online gaming!

John Yates points out a pretty funny little film over at G4Tv. It’s called Happy Halo Days, and was obviously made for the Christmas season – but this is the first we’ve heard of it. It’s in streaming Windows Media format; I couldn’t find any tools that actually saved this puppy. Check it out!

th3gh05t points out that MTV is going to be showing an episode of ‘True Life’ called ‘I am a gamer’. It looks at the life of videogame players. Showtime is 10pm. If there are Halo sightings, we’ll let you know.

stoopkid90 writes to let us know of two new Halo sites, Halo4u and Halo Reamped. We’ve added ’em to our Links page.

Pretty hefty-sized Fan Fiction update this evening:Chapter 4-Hunt for the Index, by Ultra Sonic 007 Halo: Reunion from Destruction Part 5 of 5, by Frensa Geran The Traumatised Marine (bitesize part 1), (bitesize part 2), and (final bitesize part 3), by Traumatised Marine Chapter 3.5-The REAL Incursion, by Ultra Sonic 007 The Battle for Rackma…

Cybrfrk captured a fleeting glimpse of an Elite action figure in progress that showed up on the Bungie webcam today. (More pictures in this forum thread.)

Yesterday, Slashdot posted an interview with Larry Niven (creator of Ringworld, and this pseudonym I use). Halo gets a tiny mention, and there’s a small subthread leading off from it related to the game. Thanks to Ghôlsbane for the heads-up on this one – although he sent word yesterday, it took a forum post by…

Okay, I’m probably gonna get some flak for this one, because of all the movies we’ve declined to host recently… but hear me out. Rory Hartley and Bill Copeland put together a movie they called ‘Blood Gulch Ballet.’ It’s three and a half minutes of Blood Gulch gameplay, set to classical music. (I recognize the…

Six new desktops for you, too, in our Wallpaper section. Some rockin’ good stuff in there…

Once again, the art queue has built, a little bit. Here are five pictures submitted to the Miscellaneous Art section over the past few days… Update: Gah, missed one. It’s from almost 2 weeks ago, even.

Following up on yesterday’s news glut on the Halo 2 ‘delay’, JPSartre points out that CNN Headline News is currently running a piece on how Halo is being pushed back. (It’s titled ‘Hello Halo’.) Let’s hope the coverage of the actual GAME is this big…

The Halo50K Tournament is fast approaching (less than seven weeks away now), and in an attempt to clarify who’s coming and who’s just talking, the deadline on the $75/person ($300/team) entry fee is March 22 – after that date, the fee goes up to $360/team. Get your money in soon!

æ­µsic.ign.com has put up an article about a panel of musicians that convened to discuss the importance of melody in video game music. Apparently, there were some major audio/video problems – but some interesting discussion was still reported. Marty O’Donnell was among the group (which is why it’s getting a writeup here), and he had…

Pretty cool – TechTV has an article (and an associated video) about videogame playing on US military submarines. The funny thing about the video – though everyone talks generally about ‘videogames’, and ‘playing games’, the 5 or 6 clips of actual gameplay are all…yup, you guessed it, Halo. Not another game in sight. Thanks to…

The Swedish Halo site Halo-Se is being taken down (lack of staff, it seems). We’ll yank it from our Links page soon. (Thanks to BOLL for the heads-up.)

Red Loser, who seems to want his own day (but started WAY too late to succeed, sorry pal), has written up a History of Halo: Combat Evolved which brings to light some heretofore little-known tidbits. Or maybe just the type of mushrooms he’s been eating lately.

Red Loser has put together an interesting page of speculation linking Halo to the Bible. He let us know about this yesterday, but time constraints kept it from getting posted; for the masses, he referenced it on our forum. It’s worth a read, if you’re at all interested in what RL calls ‘The Persecution Parallel.’

Red Loser, a forum regular, has written up a Guide to Recognizing Spam. (No, not the luncheon meat… the annoying blather that sometimes fills our forum.) The aim is to give people guidelines on what does, and doesn’t, constitute spam on the forum, in order to improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio. Worth a read, if…