Year: 2003

Some Halo 2 tidbits at SPOnG.com today – some information we knew about, some that might be new. (The ability to sprint was mentioned in a few print articles… but that the MC lowers his weapon (so firing is out of the question)? That’s new, I think. And the ‘Expect a hands-on opportunity at the…

Yee-haw! Mythica.org is back online (as some of you have already noticed), and we’re gonna stress-test it RIGHT NOW. Dan Chosich, who’s proven himself to be a pretty talented moviemaker, has created a full promo movie for the Halo50k event coming up in Atlanta in a couple of months. (Yes, there have been other movies…

Hehe – speaking of late notice… Jacob McCarthy writes to point out the 2003 Northwest Regional Festival and Tournament, sponsored by the International Video Gaming Federation. Online registration is closed… but On-Site registration will be available on Saturday morning. The event covers a bunch of games, but the Halo portion has a $50 entrance fee,…

Ouch – sorry for the short notice on this one, but it was submitted as an add-on to a movie readme in our uploads directory; since Mythica was down for so long, it’s simply been sitting in the ‘to be dealt with’ pile. MCheif-117 is holding an 8-hour Halo tournament in Vero Beach, FL, this…

Rams, the head honcho over at Battleground: Halo, writes to point out that BGH is opening their own Fan Fiction section. They’re willing to provide a home for ALL fiction, as long as it’s legible. This is great news for fiction writers – you can have your work shown on more than one site, if…

Heh – the PS2 is defined by its processor, the Xbox by Halo. At least according to THIS comic… (thanks, Cybrfrk)

Woohoo! A venerable name in the Halo community, Haloplayers, has woken up! New site design, the beginnings of a content flesh-out, and the promise of the return of the Squad Centre, a place for Halo clans to gather. Check ’em out!

The Fan Fiction section of this site has been closed to new submissions for two weeks. Several options for overhauling the submissions procedure have been considered – most were discarded due to time constraints. The new rules are about as simple as I can make them. The length requirement has been increased slightly. The types…

A window into Bungie Culture… ouch. (A little more detail can be found here.)

Spec Ops Elite came up with a pretty cool technique for taking screenshots that are similar to Bungie’s cursor-less shots. They require a modded Xbox, and it only works in the latter half of the game – but if you meet these requrements, the basic steps are described in this forum post. Examples of what…

Random Hero took BOLL’s recent tri-monitor desktop and created a single-monitor version with all the images. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. Update: oops, missed one – here’s another from Michael Jensen. Enjoy.

9 new pieces of non-wallpaper art, including two cool tributes to Brian Morden. There are a couple of other gems in the bunch, as well – check out the Miscellaneous Art section!

A number of Halo sites have come online, or dropped offline, or whatever. These are the ones who’ve asked for some coverage. Kyle Gallagher has put up Kyle’s Halo Website. Bullet, who started Halo World almost 2 months ago, has pulled it down and replaced it with a page about a band. Firestrike (now Shadowfox)…

Whoa. Back… and faced with thousands of emails. The nice part is, Count Zero has taken care of a large chunk of the Halo ones. One thing he left, though, was artwork – there are 8 new desktops submitted in the past week, and you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section. There are also 3…

Westlake Interactive, the folks doing the Macintosh port of Halo, have updated their progress page with the news that Halo has reached the Prototype stage, which they define as “far enough along to have some interface drawing and most data files loading, but not far enough to actually play.” (Westlake and Gearbox are mostly independent…

Looks like Mythica, our main movie bandwidth provider, will be up and running sometime this week – most likely late in the week. For all those who are jonesin’ for movies… fear not, we’ll have access again in a few days!

Quick update from the guy who doesn’t post… too often, on the Brian Morden Memorial Halo Lanfest, held last night at the Morden house. Sounds like it was the place to be.

iGames, the folks who sponsored the National Halo Winter Season Tournament, has set up the iGames National Halo Spring Season. This one is a doubles tourney – two-player teams. Entrance is $15/player for the local tournaments, $20/player for the regionals. More info can be found on the iGames site. Thanks to ninja on fire for…

The entire remaining staff of HBO is currently en route to Brian Morden’s memorial, so the news has slowed down a bit. Things should be back to normal by Sunday.

Bungie.net has posted an interview with Curt Chiarelli, Sculptor, the actual creator of the Halo toys spotted recently. Thanks to Red Loser for noticing this.