Year: 2003

Whoa – blast from the past. Relevant to now, even.

About a month ago, Hedgemony, a forum regular (absent now for a few weeks), was in the middle of a project to catalog all the dialog in Halo. He wished out loud that he could ask Marty O’Donnell all sorts of questions about the sound in Halo… well, Marty’s a pretty good guy. Hedge wrote…

Hmm… got mail from The Elite Spartan, he’s interested in setting up a Halo tournament in or around Fayetteville, AR. He needs to know how much interest there’d be for a summer tournament, though… if you’re interested, drop him a line.

Well, you can’t say they don’t have spirit. Heliocentric has started up a forum with one purpose in mind: to find a new easter egg in Halo before Halo 2 is released. While I can’t say I understand how they plan to accomplish this with a forum, I can’t fault them for their passion… go…

Every once in a while, a new trick pops up that potentially changes the way Halo gets played among friends. (One that sticks in my mind is the Sidewinder Sneak – it forever changed CTF games on Sidewinder, and opened huge vistas for tricksters looking to explore the single-player game.) Now there’s a new one……

Warbow’s Hide and Seek game, Round 3, is finally over. (It started on January 8.) Watch the short movie referenced in his announcement, and you’ll understand why it took so long to solve the last image… (He’s tired, it’ll be a while before round 4.) Congrats, c0ld vengeance – a clean sweep of all five…

Tobias points out a new Swedish Halo site – Halo-Se. There’s nothing there yet (but forums)… but he wanted to help build a community.

Periodically, folks show up on our forum, or in other gaming forums, and claims to know someone who’s beta-testing Halo 2. Or they claim to be beta-testing it themselves. Dave Candland of Bungie made such a clear statement today explaining why these people couldn’t possibly be telling the truth that we’ve added his explanation to…

Not Halo-related… but it’s community-related, and pretty important. Check out SilverBrin’s post about forum regular *Ar-Isildur, and send along a card!

Fan Fiction backlog is now ALSO cleared out:Under the sergeant’s cap, part 2, by Traumatised Marine Fallen Angel, part 4, by Gruntkiller/Covert Covenant Theater, part 1, by Alex Ross Dark Halo, part 1, by Wado In the Beginning, by HaloFanMan When Worlds Collide 2, by Gasmask Interesting range of timbres today…

Homelan Fed interviewed Randy Pitchford, of Gearbox Software, yesterday. For the most part, it’s a discussion of Counter-Strike… but there are a few positive Halo tidbits, as well:HomeLAN – What can you tell us about the status and progress of Halo for the PC at this point? Randy Pitchford – Halo is going great. We’ll…

Pistol Poppers has put together a little movie called ‘Valet Parking’ showing what not to do with your warthog. 3:41, 6.1 mb, wmv format. We’ve decided we don’t have the space for it, so if the link it’s on is unavailable, you’ll have to wait for the bandwidth restrictions to be lifted to grab it.

Eep – this should have gone up yesterday, I’m getting sloppy. Dispraiser writes that he’s created a site to host his fan fiction pieces – you can check out Dispraiser’s Fandom for stories, artwork, and rants. (The stories you can still get here, too, but the artwork is unique to that site.)

We’ve got six new desktops for you (some in multiple sizes), which finally clears out the artwork backlog. Go visit the Wallpaper section! It’s not posted yet, but in the next day or so, there’ll be a new Artwork Posting Guidelines page up to address the currently growing issue of flooding. There are lots and…

Yet another Halo 2 Box Art entry… this one from Mr. Lolly Pop Man.

Gah – sometimes, the updates get away from you. While you’re all waiting for me to clear out the art queues, the fiction queues, the screenshot queue… go watch this movie. Figh7erbo1 is a short (1:39) piece set to Avril Lavigne’s Sk8ter Boi… nice timing. 6 mb, in QT format, from chris_roc.

Roland Scarlett writes to say that Halo World (which we mentioned about a week ago) has been adding content at a rapid clip. Most sections are fleshed out now. There are a couple of games on the site – one is a variant of Bungie’s Extreme Closeups, and the other is called ‘Guess The Spot’,…

c0ld vengeance’s Halo 2 Cover Art challenge ended a few days ago – he’s now posted his results. For the Front Cover Only section, he gave the award to Ninjas on Fire. For the Front and Back Cover section, Ed Murphy took home the honors. (Check the forum post for more details and justification.) In…

Attempting to BEGIN to clear out the Artwork backlog… first up, Miscellaneous Art. We’ve got a new Halo mini-game, a very nice exchange medium, and a misplaced Halo Box Art entry. You’ll find ’em all in the Miscellaneous Art section.

Okay, so if you’re stripping your field piece and washing the bits in denatured alcohol, and you fall asleep and your head lands in the cleaning bowl, and lightning hits what you disgorge as it comes flying out of your mouth and torques it, by some freaky cosmic coincidence, into human-looking words… this is what…