Year: 2003

Dispatcher has written up an interesting analysis of the Halo storyline, with an eye to explaining some of the repetition in level design as intentional, rather than practical necessity. An intriguing viewpoint…

It’s only been up a day.. but there are already two new entries (the last two) on the Halo Movie Spoofs page. These are the last two that will be added for a little bit… but never fear, if you submit a new one in the next week or so, we’ll get to it eventually!…

Halo Babies put up their second strip of the week last night… I dunno, I found it hilarious! (There’s also a pretty slick new Wallpaper known as ‘Defcon Zero’ in the Member Content section… worth signing up for, if you haven’t already!)

We’re way behind on mentioning Halo websites. One such site doesn’t even exist yet; Kyrceck posted a note to our forum a week ago, describing a website he’s trying to create, called The 7th Revolution. It sounds very ambitious… but ambition is good. The post lists the sections they’d like to have, eventually, and the…

Emildux has begun a forum thread (which links to a Seventh Column Chapter forum) to get feedback from the community on what we think 2004 will bring, with respect to Halo. Visit the thread(s), make a prediction, and a year from now, you can see how close you came!

Earlier this week, we reported that MacGamer had announced the winners of their ‘Put the Master Chief in a Hollywood Movie’ Photoshop contest. Some people were surprised by the winners… and after we received some submissions from folks who didn’t win, we were, too. We’ve set up a section to display these spoofs; if more…

In an effort to stave off overload when vacation ends, I’m attempting to clear out some of the queues right now. First up is the Miscellaneous Art queue; there were 16 items built up. They range from simple sketches to modified screenshots to very funny jokes. Check ’em out!

Rounding out the comic strip updates (for HBO, at least), One One Se7en finishes up the Tale begun on Monday… it’s a good thing lawyers in Dickens’ day aren’t like today’s sharks.

Calvin and Halo, as well, has a new strip out today. It’s number 13, but since the first one is numbered ‘0’, this is actually the fourteenth strip since the series began. Appropriate, no?

Halo: Resolution finishes out the week with its Christmas theme… and it takes a shot at Razors. Oh, yeah.

A passel of Fan Fiction pieces have been submitted in the past 48 hours – 21, to be precise: And now all hell will break loose Part 9, by metallicafan The Second War: Part 1, First Encounters, by FOrunnER Old Style: Memories, by Horror The Final War: Enemy Battleground[5:1], by Awacar The Final War: Enemy…

Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I’d like to point out that I’m headed out for vacation, beginning tomorrow… so although there will be others minding the store, a good chunk of what’s been submitted recently (as well as what GETS submitted in the next few days) will be held until early January to…

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S !From the HBO crew and our families, to you and yours, we wish you the merriest of holiday seasons. Pax.Our tradition for Christmas is to take the entire day completely off… but this year, we’re going to break the rules a little;…

If you’re looking for things to do this Christmas Eve, go visit Homefront; the Battlefield 1942 mod has now been released! Boatloads of mirrors, so grabbing it shouldn’t be a problem. (Someone should send us a report of how it is. We won’t post it until Friday, but you should send it anyway. 🙂 )

Very, very cool – Rafi Chavez, otherwise known as Superman, created a rockin’ Christmas wish for the HBO community – jump in and say hi! (For those who don’t keep up on these things, Rafi is the son of Miguel Chavez, Bungie’s Number One Fan – and Master of BS.)

Merry Christmas, from Jonah – he found a copy of Halo at EBGames.com for $20. Can’t beat that!

Finally. rapture completed the absurdly long-threaded contest started by Gutupio a week ago… I’m guessing the answer’s gonna tick off some of the contestants. Reasoning coming later today (keep an eye on the thread, if you’re curious). Company arrives in an hour; I’m offline for a while.

Holy missed opportunities, Batman! Somehow, I managed to overlook a massive review of Mac Halo over at MacGamer about a week ago. Corey Tamas gave it a 99% when all was said and done. PC reviewers have almost universally complained about performance, and have downgraded the PC version accordingly. MacGamer claims that the Mac version…

We got an update from Webshift, of Nightmare Armor; the full suit of armor (unpainted) is now available to be ordered. Check their front page for a picture of the entire suit (in pieces), and the Store page for order info. They have 8 suits in the works right now, and all 8 will be…

vector40, once a prominent member of the Halo community, has returned with a vengeance because of the release of the Mac version, and re-entrance is marked with an article on Banshee flight tactics. It’s been posted to the Junkyard, Subnova, and Rampancy.net – but only the Subnova version isn’t actually visible yet. Worth a read;…