Year: 2003

A Halo review on Game Chronicles today… 8.8/10, with downgrades for the ‘staggering system requirements’. Not a bad read. Thanks, Blue’s News (via Ash).

We got word from mrsmiley that Halo Babies is offline until the 22nd; they went through too much bandwidth, too fast. He did want to assure everyone that they’ll be moving soon, and the bandwidth problems will go away!

Okay, so this one’s WEIRD. Late last week, we got mail from Billy Oliva, talking about a bizarre glitch in Truth and Reconciliation (the third campaign level). Right after entering the ship, he came across a stack (literally) of covenant, piled up against a door, waiting to attack. he sent screenshots… but they were small,…

XLNC once again rocks the Casbah with some spectacular screenshots; he got somewhat creative with the hacking, and the end results are simply stunning. Check ’em out. (Who needs dev tools, anyway?)

I missed this last week… but Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has written the first of a multipart series about the Halo community. Coming as it does from a longtime Bungie fan and community leader, it’s an interesting read; newer fans might find it interesting to see where the ‘old guard’ is coming from. I’m looking…

Sippan (who posts as Vid Boi on our forum) wrote to tell us of a review of Mac Halo (in Swedish) at the Swedish news site MacNytt.se. 9/10, for those who don’t read Swedish.

rapture created a series of Christmas ornaments using One One Se7en characters a couple of weeks ago. It took a little while to get around to ’em… but then, my Christmas lights and tree aren’t up at my home, either. You’ll find them prominently linked in the the One One Se7en section until Christmas; pick…

Whoa. After exactly 8 months of inactivity, Calvin and Halo comes alive again with a new strip. Thanks, Warbow!

Astounding as it may seem, Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en comic has made it to 100. That is – not including Sunday strips, Holiday strips, Archive strips, or Guest strips, there have now been 100 strips presented to you, the public, since April of this year. Wonga. To celebrate, MC gets a cake. (Be sure your…

Last Fan Fiction update was 48 hours ago – here are another 21 pieces. (Yes, that’s an absurd submission rate. And yes, that’s after deleting more than one entry.) Spartans, by Sergeant B A Path to Nowhere, by Mainevent First Strike, by CovieKilla The Last Battle: The Yaxans, by JOTD FanFiction Team The Trials of…

Gettin’ on in the day… but it’s still Wednesday, so there’s still time for Halo: Resolution. Looks like those grunts might be going a bit too far…

Feedback on Mac Halo’s gameplay: from the Maccommunity forum, there’s a report (thanks, Gary Smith) of good gameplay on a 900 MHz G3 iBook with a 32 mb Radeon 7500 (below the recommended minimum standards set by MacPlay), and from our own forum, a report of lousy play on a dual 2GHz G5 with a…

Dmack pointed out a Hoverhog – a remodeled human hovercraft – he built over at HaloSkins. (HaloSkins, btw, is back online, with a new design; we’ve been meaning to post one of those web roundups, but haven’t gotten to it yet.) I haven’t tried it… but it sure looks funky! Update: gwdpto posted a bunch…

Shacknews is giving away a boatload of games, including 5 copies of Halo PC. For a chance to win, you just need to sign up; winners will be announced on Christmas day. Thanks to Jamirus99 for the heads-up.

Blackstar continues the PR campaign on his Summer 2004 lanfest, Are You Big Enough II, with a spiffy movie poster. Whatever else you can say about the man, he definitely has a flair for movie stuff!

Whoa… mysterious. I got word from mnemesis that Bungie had added a new wallpaper to their Halo Wallpaper collection yesterday, with no fanfare – there’s no news post on b.net about it. (Though I saw mnem’s email first, it looks like Pico posted it on our forum a bit earlier…) ‘Ancient Halo’ (last paper on…

Quick update on the large movie we mentioned yesterday; looks like the ISP pulled it. The link we gave yields a 404 (file not found) error at the moment. Sorry…

Okay, I want to apologize. The Wallpaper backlog was getting ridiculous. In fact, it’s so big (in terms of number of images) that I can’t post them all at once. Every time I started to put together an update, I’d check the uploads folders and my email, and find another handful… and suddenly, I’d find…

Tobias Ivarsson has created a 25 minute long ode to Halo; the majority consists of Warthog Jumps and the like, but there are some interesting nuggets hidden away amongst the commonplace. It’s huge – a 156 mb MPEG, downloadable directly from Tobias’ server in Sweden… grab it if it sounds fun!

Last week, MacGamer gave away 5 copies of Halo in a Photoshop contest (Master Chief on vacation). Apparently, it was successful enough that they’re doing it again – this time, though, you need to put the Master Chief in a major Hollywood movie. Details (and last week’s winners) can be found on the Giveaway page.…