Year: 2003

Goodness. mnemesis updates the Halo Story page for the first time in over a month… and I manage to misinterpret his note informing me of this. (I thought it was just a ‘here I go, I’m gonna start updating again’ note. DOH.) Anyway, go visit the Story page. Forerunner origins, Covenant history, xenobiology, weapons theories……

Hehe – once again, Stuntmutt points out the danger of overestimating your weapon in today’s One One Se7en. Remember, folks… use the right tool for the job.

For those interested in the CPL Winter Event, registration opens next week – Tuesday, September 23 (one week before the game hits the shelves). Interest is high, and there’s a 32 team maximum… so you should think seriously about getting in gear. (CPL says, in the same thread, that there is no risk to signing…

A few days ago, Ninja On Fire posted a picture that had shown up on the Halo PC betanews list (a private newsgroup devoted to the PC beta). It (ostensibly) showed someone being arrested by a Plano police officer for the theft of the gold master of Halo PC. There was quite a bit of…

botman, a programmer over at Gearbox, dropped some pretty cool info in our forum this morning:I know that we plan to have the Halo PC editing tools download package available on the day the game is released (Sept 30), so you should be able to buy the game, download the kit and start creating new…

Whoa. op_ivy seems to have turned up the first new Halo 2 screen from X03, in France. (This is a big annual trade show.) Gorgeous! (Ross Mills found a larger version at Worthplaying.com… and BOLL found this one (4.8 mb – careful). Whoa. More later.

Picture of the day over at Gearbox is a shot of the Halo team. No names – but at least you’ve got faces! (The guy from the parking lot, in handcuffs, is not among them.)

The third Guest One One Se7en from Germain Couët – hehe, it made me laugh, anyway.

Whoa. Let Fan Fiction go for a couple of days, and you’ve got a nightmare on your hands. 25 new stories: Human Elite Ch 2, by Tinmad! Forgotten times (Halo 2: Chapter 11), by Shadowrunner Homeworlds VIII, by Mainevent The Covenant, by Alpha Lance Chimera, by Somebody323445 A Soul of Steel: Part 2, by The…

Hehe – you can put him in a starship, and give him control of the fate of the human race… but he’s still a burger flipper at heart. xbill (gone for oh so many months) comes back with some texture-injected PoA shots.

Jonah points out that this page for the Las Vegas Comic-Con, happening at the end of October, suggests that Bungie will be on hand with more Halo 2 info. If we find out more about this, we’ll let you know.

Weirdness – CPL is planning on an Assault mode that’s not in the shipping version of Halo PC for their Winter Tournament; apparently, there’ll be a new variation released in November. Hmm… More details can be found over at CobaltNova, the site that uncovered this oddity.

More Halo lego stuff at The Brickshelf Gallery… Steener started with this page, Fury Three summarized all the Brickshelf offerings here. A quick search of the HBO news archives shows that he’s picked out all the ones we’ve mentioned in the past (on Brickshelf, at least).

Wow. Adrenaline Vault seems to be first out of the gate with new screenies from Halo PC; I’m guessing this is a near-final or final version, since no recent betas that I know of included Assault on the Control Room. 28 shots (one is actually from 343 GS’s opening cutscene) at a gorgeous 1280×1024. Thanks…

Halo 2 information… coming soon? We’ll see…

Inside that last article, hidden at the very bottom, are links to lots of new content – new screenshots, new desktops, and a new picture at Gearbox… which, interestingly enough, matches the one in this forum thread pretty closely. Whoa.

To celebrate Halo PC’s Gold status, SketchFactor has posted the fan-generated interview with Michel Bastien that he collected questions for last week. Read this. Lots and lots of juicy info.

It’s FINALLY official! Halo is gold. You can read the full press release here. In stores September 30!

Very cool. Last week, MacGamer visited the home of Phil Sulak, the president of Westlake Interactive. They walked away with a lot of video. There’s 13 minute Halo-specific vid (available in a 70 mb version and a 10 mb version), with a TON of information about where the Mac port stands and what it’s gonna…

The gold MCs are back on the front of Gearbox’s site – this time for real, it seems. Woohoo! This would suggest that an announcement is imminent…