Year: 2003

On the forum this morning, Lacsap posted a link to an article about the recent resurgent interest in movie tie-ins with video games. Obviously Halo is mentioned as being shopped around. But it’s not just some little title being bandied about, it’s actually, according to the article, backed by one of the largest agencies in…

A new artist has appeared on the forum, and despite rampant self-deprecation the drawings are very good (the post originally referred and linked to “Marine killing unspecified things”, Postman updated his page afterwards). My favorite is definitely this one.

Bungie.net has tracked down one of their own and interviewed Doug Zartman, who left Bungie around the time of the Microsoft acquisition. Lots of fun stuff in there about the upcoming toys and novel!

Yet another nugget of Halo trickery comes out of level 2, first partially described by The halo destroyer and then captured by Dark Helmet. This isn’t the first time the “drunk driver” dropship has been mentioned, but it’s the first time anyone has gotten close enough to see this bit.

An email from the raVen tipped us off to an interview with Bungie artist Shikai “Shiek” Wang. Woohoo, UIUC!

This came in a while ago, but got missed – vacation can do a number on concentration. Halo Command Central has overhauled the site design, and content is growing. Graphics work is stunning. (Check out the extracted characters and vehicles!)

BOLL sent us a collection of three images, created from Bungie.net shots and NASA images, that are designed to be used together on a 3-monitor array. If you’ve got the screen real estate, this is a pretty fine desktop collection to use on it! And because these came in to our FTP site, they’ve reminded…

A new composite desktop is now available in our Wallpapers section.

Came in yesterday… but we couldn’t post it. Xerxes, of Halo Orbit, writes to say that a translation of the Halo 2 FAQ posted recently on Bungie.net has now been translated into German. For non-english speakers, this might be a better choice…

Four new art pieces – two nice composites by gizella Varga, an all-too-true strip by dogsounds, and a gorgeous rendering of AotCR. Check ’em all out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Bungie.net comes back to life… and the updates are too numerous to mention. Go read about ’em. Short synopsis – Achronos rocks.

For those interested, the Brian Morden Fund page has been updated. Brian’s parents wrote an obituary for him on our forum – we’ve added it to the page.

Apologies for the 18 hours of downtime – HBO is back up and running again. I can’t guarantee it won’t go down again – but I CAN guarantee that the cause for this recent outage will never, ever happen again. And that’s all I’ll say about that.

THR8807 has found an interesting trick on a PC mod site: How to give an Xbox controller a standard USB connector. The process is not for the faint of heart, and requires completely disassembling the controller. But maybe now we can settle all the controller-vs-mouse arguments…

Back to Halo: a few days ago, SketchFactor, Bungie’s newest member of the Online Team, wrote a Halo 2 FAQ over on Bungie.net. It covers a substantial number of subjects, and contains lots of good info we can point to – always nice to have an official source on this sort of thing. Several people…

I, too, will miss Brian Morden – he epitomized, to me, the strength of human spirit and the power of faith. That a teenager could keep up the courage to fight so long, and so hard, against a disease that simply wouldn’t give up reminds me that we’re stronger than we look – and I’ll…

It is with a heavy heart that we here at BORG announce that Brian Morden, aka Ar-Isildur, died at 5:55AM. He was 19 years old. His younger brother, Jamin, posted a note on our forum telling us the sad news. Please reply with good thoughts. I and a few others have actually met Brian in…

As below, the American International Toy Fair started today, and pictures of the Halo figures on display are already hitting the web. There’s a nice collection at Figures.com, including several Halo figures on this and the next few pages (use the “2”, “3”, and “4” links at the bottom). Thanks to Spartan ][ for noticing…

According to Team Xbox, the upcoming Halo action figures will be shown at the 100th annual American International Toy Fair in New York, starting… tomorrow. (Anyone who actually makes it to the fair… TAKE PICTURES!) The fair runs through Wednesday, February 19. Thanks to Strato for the heads-up.

Upon request from the publisher, we’ve removed all Electronic Gaming Monthly articles from our Press Scans section. We apologize to EGM for violating their copyright (we were under the impression that we had at least a tacit okay for this, based on communications with EGM personnel), and we apologize to anyone inconvenienced by the removal…