Year: 2003

HomeLAN has a Q&A with Chris Huisman, product manager for Joyride Studios (the guys that are making the Halo collectibles) posted. They’re shooting for a July release for these products, and from the interview it sounds like there’ll be plenty of detail to the figurines… but I wanna know… who’s this guy? (The linked image…

Two new pieces at Bungie.net – A rundown of the Bungie Pentathlon 2003 (the Bungie Pentathlon is an annual beat-the-hell-out-of-your-coworkers event at Bungie), and a new Soapbox article from Matt Soell—the first in over a year—on what, exactly, the Bungie Way is all about. Both worth reading – nice to see Matt’s writing for the…

Steve Messinger writes to let us know of another Halo Team Championship tournament. (We mentioned their last event a few months ago.) This one is taking place on March 22nd, in East Lansing, MI. Entry fee is $10/person, and the field is limited to 50 teams. Microsoft is helping to sponsor the event, and there…

Self Righteous has picked up a couple more mirrors (and a thumbs-up from moviemaker Dan Chosich), so we’ve put together a full mirror list. If you haven’t grabbed it… it’s only 13.7 mb! Thanks to Dinky, of HaloJuggaloProductions, and That Weasel, of That Weasel Television, for the bandwidth.

We get an awful lot of mail from folks who seem to be confused about what constitutes an ‘easter egg’. So much, in fact, that it was finally worth my time to write an Easter Egg FAQ, of sorts. Check it out for what we consider eggs – and what we don’t. (Suggestions welcome, but…

The February issue of the Official Xbox Magazine (off the stands as of the 7th of this month) had a one-page quick look at Halo 2. nukedude was kind enough to scan this for us and send it in. (Normally, this wouldn’t be necessary – I subscribe to this mag, and usually scan it myself.…

On January 13, kapowaz bundled up an archive of images taken from the Bungie webcam over the span of a month – every 5 minutes, 8,000+ images in all. The zipped archive weighs in at 83 mb – and has been made available by Eclarap, of Halo-Game, for anyone who wants to use it.

Thanks to bandwidth provider That Weasel Television – three recent movies (HaloHackinFun, HaloHackinFun2, and Heffalumps and Woozles) now have mirrored versions served up by That Weasel. Get yer red-hot movies now!

Whatever problems mythica had recently seem to be cleared up. Therefore, we’re going to post the latest movie in the queue for you – it’s called ‘Self-Righteous’, and it was made by Mobius. (We’d planned to release it more than a week ago – and then the hacking craze hit, and suddenly we didn’t have…

Break Point writes to say that he’s started a profile for Team HBO at the Halo50K competition. There are still two positions open – if you’re interested in representing our site at this massive Halo competition at the end of April, stop by and sign up! (Break Point asked if there was another official ‘Team…

We have another movie for you – this one’s not a hacking film, but a gameplay one – but our main bandwidth provider, mythica.org, seems to to be having some nameserver troubles. As soon as we can get there, we’ll serve this puppy up!

Another Bryce-looking piece from gizella Varga – check our Miscellaneous Art section.

Been a few days since Fan Fiction was updated – here are 10 more: Sarges Platoon, FINAL CHAPTER, by Bobby Lucas Project Shadow Spartan: Chapter 2, by Shadow Spartan The Battle For Sigma Octanus Chapter 2, by moniter101 Forest of Black Epsilon, by janglurevil7 Freelance-Chapter 3, by Bloodcider Attack Plan, by Dispraiser A Fresh Start,…

Thanks To Ciarán Walsh, our Forum search features just became more useful. Before today, if you were looking for a specific snippet of text, you could search for that text, or you could search for the author of that text – but you couldn’t do both. If you knew you were looking for a post…

Rampancy.net posted links to two new Bungie jobs listed at Gamasutra (but not yet on the Bungie Jobs page). These new job openings (posted a week ago) are for a 3D Environment Artist and a Developer. (The developer job is for Halo 2 – the last bullet in the ‘Responsibilities’ list is “Work with the…

HUNTR-KILLR created a small (900K) movie showing the jumping ability of a floodified marine with the recent Halo hack. The library is 4 stories high… the marine has no trouble getting above the final platform in one huge leap. (For good measure, a second jump proves, once and for all, that there are no branches…

A pair of great sketches from Tina – originally done with coloring pencils (sorry, Tina, I’m American, can’t use the British spelling without twinging 🙂 ) and pen, with a little photoshop help. (Spoilers, for those still keeping track.) You’ll find ’em in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Wanna get a copy of the next Halo book (Halo: The Flood) for free? The MOSHPIT, a 7th Column chapter at Bungie.net, is giving one away – just drop by their website and add your name to the giveaway database. They’ll pick a winner at random on April 1, and ship a copy to that…

A bunch of mirrors have come online for both Halo Hackin’ Fun 2 (released a couple of days ago) and Heffalumps and Woozles (released last night). I’ve set up mirror pages for both – follow the links above to grab your copy. Thanks to all the bandwidth providers – you guys make all this possible!

More information about Halo Novel #2 at Ballantine:The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait. As the fortress world of Reach and…