Year: 2003

We’d like to say goodbye to a strong member of the Halo community; CobaltNova has closed its doors, permanently. In the words of Emil, its founder, “we had a pleasant community, decent website, with nice plans for the future that had to be closed down for the foreseeable future because life interfered.” We’re gonna miss…

We’ve received another piece of Halo-inspired music. This one is the Halo 2 Trailer Music, with a hip hop beat. It’s 2:13 long, just under 2 mb in size, and the author, chaostheory, had this to say:I am an avid hip hop producer and I noticed the music in the background of the H2 preview…

In a suprise move, we’re clearing out the Wallpaper queue, as well, posting 8 new desktop images (11, if you count variants). Some pretty cool ones… check ’em out!

It’s been a couple of weeks since we updated the Miscellaneous Art section – we’ve got 16 pieces for you today, many of which are comics of one kind or another. Thanks to all the submitters for their patience!

Just in time to reinforce my assertion that someone messed up in the Best of the Best voting, c0ld vengeance’s take on the HBO Halo PC servers is there to make you smile. One One Se7en – social commentary with a grin.

Another Halo Story page update – this time, in response to a forum thread. (Okay, probably not. But the timing was pretty damn good.) Go read.

Back at the end of October, @ndrew submitted a new entry for a contest that we closed 18 months ago. Yes, his run for the Maw 700 is too late for prize contention… but it’s a pretty darn good run (he finished with 2:45.26, faster than any of the actual entries we got). Despite the…

The MC… losing it? You would, too, after 87 regular One One Se7en strips, and almost 50 guest ones…

The previously chinless Keyes assigns a new… helper to MC in today’s Halo: Resolution. Uh oh…

17 stories released in the past 48 hours for our Fan Fiction section… Eldar Counsels Log Part 2- Stories and more Questions, by Blue Angel Tactics: A New Way of Thinking (comedy), by Awacar Apocalypse-Sector 4, by FF Echo Shell Shock- chapter 3, by Myth Shell Shock -chapter 4, by Myth Operation:Thunder, by Raise A…

343GS.com has posted their second EchoFourNineteen comic – you’ll find it in the Downloads section. (It’s called ‘MMM Grunt Grape’.) Thanks to Madda Cheeb for the heads-up.

Anyone who’s spent any time on our forum knows the story of KORHAL, The Boy Who Cried Movie. Well, this weekend, he finally released some footage; there are four films, showing stuff like glitches, vehicle launches, and vehicle collections. They’ve been hosted by nukedude (vid one and vid two) c0ld vengeance (vids 3 and 4),…

Sector 7 has posted a Halo PC review. Well, really, it’s more of a ‘Halo PC Demo Impressions’ article – it was written by someone who played the demo a few times. Hmm…

(GT)Juggler has put up a bunch of photos and some low-res vids from the or Inerumnis Lannactionica fest yesterday on his website, HaloGT. Warning – first two vids are of a modded copy of DOA Beach volleyball; the girls are missing some items of clothing. Everything else is pretty clean.

Dave Mertz has posted an update on both the next Halo PC patch (1.03) and the Editing Tools package, over at the Gearbox forum. No definitive dates… but it looks like the tools package might still be a ways off, due to the volume of material that needs to go into it (and the changes…

Blade writes that halo.leetgamers.org has gotten a design overhaul, and tossed the Team Ice affiliation. Content coming at some point.

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of the release of the Xbox (and the first chance most people had to play Halo). In a recent article on Bungie.net, SketchFactor asked for fan reminiscences on what Halo’s been like for them; several folks posted their thoughts on our forum. The five I found were from Alexis, Gre’Thor117,…

British spelling aside, Stuntmutt’s commentary on the recent Halo-related rumors in today’s One One Se7en strip is… spot on.

Whoa. Just getting back in gear; got home around 2 am from yesterday’s lan festivities. 14 hours of Xbox Halo lan play… I’ve forgotten how much fun that is. Time to see what’s new in the online world, though… (Apologies to anyone annoyed by the usually idling (but sometimes playing) Inerumnis character on the GameDaemons…

Headed up to NoF’s place for Inerumnis Lannactionica (don’t even ask)… should be a goodly collection of Halo fans there for the day. Updates will resume tomorrow. (It’s possible, but not all that likely, that we’ll be able to get on to one of the Bungie servers hosting the Lanwerx celebration, so that we can…