Year: 2003

Bungie’s superstar intern Skip Weasel gets into the holiday spirit with a guide to love on Bungie.net. Neither Bungie Studios nor Bungie.org are responsible for the consequences if you choose to take his advice.

A few days ago, Åstro dropped into our forum to suggest that he was trying to speed-run Halo again. He was shooting for a 90 minute full runthrough, on Legendary. Yesterday, we got mail from Rory Hartley and Bill Copeland, a pair in Calgary, Canada that have done a full run-through on Easy: Pillar of…

In what is clearly one of the most bizarre interviews Bungie.net has yet published, Matt Soell interviews the Disembodied Soul. The beauty of this one is, you can reproduce it yourself! (Ask Matt’s questions, you’ll get the same answers.) For long-time Bungie fans, learning about some of the Soul’s girlfriends might be the highlight of…

In an attempt to show up Lorraine R. McLees, Stosh has put up a Valentines-themed comic of his own. (Give it up, Stosh.) Don’t forget the site itself… I think he’s just bitter cause he got beat by a girl. (Two, if you count Lorraine.) Update: DOH! Wrong comic. (No wonder I had troubles with…

Another Brian Morden update from SilverBrin – the news isn’t great, but the power of positive thinking is astounding. We have nothing but love for you, Isi…

Last fall, a dozen or so website maintainers in the Xbox community were invited to Microsoft’s headquarters for XBL Bootcamp, a two-day infofest on Xbox Live (then a month or so from release). Yesterday, the marketing team that organized that event, AEG, sent out some pretty nice Valentine’s Day boxes… you can see a couple…

Whoknew writes to let us know he’s added a mirror for Valet Parking, a movie we mentioned about a month ago. In these days of tight bandwidth (mythica is still down), it’s good to know there are volunteers out there!

Whoa – he’s right. opie301 noticed that the Halo Story page was updated at the beginning of this week – I missed it entirely. It’s not a big one, but it’s another piece of the puzzle…

A serious collection of artwork for you, finally – 10 images, ranging from pen sketches of battle scenes to a visual apology for a fan fiction joke. The highlight, for me, I think, is the Silent Cartographer render. Check ’em all out in the Miscellaneous Art section.

Finally clearing out some of the backlogged artwork – first up, two desktops in our Wallpaper section.

Proving once again that ingenuity and perseverance will eventually solve most problems, Frogblast performs a Halo trick shown to be possible only yesterday – and this time, there are no hacks involved. This trick contains spoilers, for the 6 of you who are still avoiding them. For the rest of you, watch this and giggle…

There’s an interesting article over at Publisher’s Weekly about the emerging market for video game tie-in books. They’re more than a gimmick (as the article makes clear), and they’re a reasonable source of income, as well:Sales for Halo and Resident Evil sell about a third of what the biggest science fiction titles, like those by…

mnemesis and cybrfrk both sent in links to articles about the Xbox Greatest Hits program (one at Yahoo, one at CNN) – the gist is that MS is slashing prices on some Xbox games. The reason it’s Halo news, however, is because Halo is NOT being included in the ‘Platinum Hits’ program – according to…

…Wow. I mean… wow. Update: upon consideration, I feel I should point out that at least two of these movies have pretty serious spoilers for REAL tricksters – they show things that might ruin one of the last remaining ‘big’ tricks left to do. Don’t watch them if you’re intent on doing this trick on…

The last Fan Fiction update for a couple of weeks:The Awakening, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, by Bloodcider Survival Grounds Part 3, by mattˆ And Raise Your Head With Pride! Part 2 , by Arthur Wellesly HALO: The Marine Chronicles, by Gunnery Sergeant HALO: Missing In Action – Chapter 9 and HALO: The…

Holy Magillicutty! Valentines goodies at B.net. Woohoo! (This one rocks.)

First Fan Fiction… now movies. Brian Towne writes to say that the mythica.org server is having disk troubles… it might be a few days before it’s up and running again. The movie queue has just been delayed again… Please be patient.

ATTENTION – ALL FAN FIC WRITERS: Effective immediately, and for the period of two weeks, the Fan Fiction section is closed for submissions. (There are 16 stories in the queue right now – those will be posted in the near future.) Any stories that arrive between now and 00:00 UTC, February 26, 2003, will be…

Lorraine Reyes-McLees illustrates the recent Pentathlon article as only she can… poor Jason.

A long time ago, vector40 wrote a guide for Fan Fiction authors on filetypes, and what you should think about when submitting fiction here. It was hosted at Zenith, a site devoted to Fan Fiction authors that has since gone under – but vec has dredged up the piece for the edification of current writers.…