Year: 2003

MR-T pointed out an interesting thread over at HaloMods – some fun MC renders, suitable for Wallpaper. Check ’em out!

Wow. Yesterday was spent at a Halo lanfest in New York, hosted by the gracious Miguel Chavez at the Selkirk Gallery in Manhattan. I’m sure there’ll be some writeups soon, and nukedude got some pretty good video… but there’s a game I want to point out: it was team oddball, rockets, on Hang em High,…

Captain Spark sent along what might be considered a sequel to a rather… interesting piece we posted last year. 975K, mp3 format. We take no responsibility for any side effects, including blindness.

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from 343GS, and might be considered to contain spoilers for the book Halo: First Strike. Of course, those considering that are… well, a bit overzealous. No novels were spoiled in the creation of this strip.

Just a quick update – about 500 people signed the Grunt Plushy petition since we posted a note yesterday… that’s good, but not good enough. If you haven’t signed, please do. Takes a few seconds, that’s all. If you’re worried about adding your email address because of fear of spam, their privacy policy clearly states…

13 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section: The Fallen: Halo 2- Chapter 6 Section 3: Claiming Territory, by Hikaru-119 Task Force 168: The Silent Justice-Chapter One, by Blue Jaguar Closing with the Enemy Chapter 7 The Convoy, by monitor101 A Conclusive History of the United Nations Space Command: Chapter One: Beginnings, by…

In violation of all normal release policies (yes, they think this is important), Gearbox has released a patch at 9 pm (their time) on a Friday night – which means they’re gonna be working through the weekend to be sure this is okay. This patch is an attempt to fix the crashes many users have…

The Cananimators are at it again. Just goes to show you… there’s no class requirement for employment at Bungie. They’ll let ANYONE in, provided they have useful skills.

Very cool. SketchFactor has posted scans of a couple of Holiday cards Bungie’s sent out in their Gallery. (The one labeled 2001 actually went out in BOTH 2000 and 2001, but who’s counting?) These are great fun… take a look.

Gossip sent in another IMG link – this time, they’ve reviewed Mac Halo. They gave it a 9.25/10 – higher than most sites have been reviewing Halo PC. The reviewer was playing on a Dual 2GHz G5, so it’s not gonna be of a lot of use to folks with computers closer to the minimum…

Halo gets a mention in today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del comic – pretty funny. Thanks to rendar for noticing.

You say you’re itchin’ for another contest? You say the last few didn’t challenge you? You say you want a REAL puzzle? Well, pardner, we got some forum regulars that would like to talk to you. c0ld vengeance, BOLL, MorningStar, and Skavenger have put their heads together to come up with the HBO Xmas Puzzle…

Inside Mac Games has posted a new Halo desktop, created by Brad Custer, in honor of Mac Halo’s release. It comes in an ASTOUNDING variety of sizes. Check it out! (Credit goes to Gossip for noticing it.)

ActionTrip is running a PC Game of the Year poll on their front page; Halo currently has 5% of the vote (putting it in 10th place). Methinks it might be hard to get a lot of votes at the moment… but if you think they’ll work through the 1.03 glitches, go bump up the numbers!

There’s a new EchoFourNineteen comic over at 343GS.com (downloads section) – I’d tell you about it, but I forgot. Thanks to Zergling_minor for the heads-up.

We received word from a few people last night that they’d gotten confirmation that their copies of Mac Halo were en route… and this morning, we received a press release confirming this from MacSoft. Woohoo!

Today’s One One Se7en wraps up the three-parter on the Old MC this week. No Grunts in this one… but you should still sign that petition.

You know, if you had a Grunt Plushy, you could ACT OUT today’s Halo: Resolution. Whoa.

Okay, in general, I think online petitions are silly. However, I’m willing to make an exception this time… because of the subject, and because of who’s putting it forth. SketchFactor jumped on our forum yesterday to suggest that the reason there’s never been a Grunt Plushy is because the marketing folks don’t believe there’s a…

Back in September, we pointed out a pretty cool film over at Video CD Productions; it was the final round of the Halo50K tournament, TDT vs DM, 3-cap CTF on Battle Creek. It showed the entire match from the Dream Team’s screen, complete with audio commentary by the players. The only problem was… it was…