Year: 2003

BOLL has updated his HALOrama collection with 15 new images, from both campaign and multiplayer levels. We’ve split the page up a bit to decrease loading times, and also made a more obvious link to his own nifty rotating Flash viewer. Check out the new stuff!

Whoa. Randy Pitchford, of Gearbox, is looking for Halo PC testers. It might be a bit late; it was posted last night on Blue’s News – but you never know! If you’re in the Plano, TX area, read the rest of the requirements, and see what you can get in on! Thanks to The Night…

Okay, that’s it. My brain has officially exploded. Finn and mnemesis have tagteamed on the latest Story page update; in the past 24 hours, there have been ANOTHER 13 entries added into that rapidly growing database of knowledge. Read and be wiser.

Eep – life got too busy yesterday, and I forgot to mention that another episode of One One Se7en went live. Check it out – Master Chief learns a hard lesson from Sam Fisher.

Everybody and their brother has written to tell us that Entertainment Weekly has rated Halo #16 in the Top 100 Video Games of All Time in their May issue. Okay, it’s posted. Can I go home now?

Roger Wilco has updated his ‘Temporary and Miscellaneous’ collection of Halo-inspired vehicles/weapons/whatever to include .max format models of several of the most popular ones. If you want to do your own messing, go visit and grab the model you want! (He’s also said that amenable to releasing other formats, as time permits.)

In the midst of a horrendously stupid forum thread, Achronos dropped an intriguing little hint this evening… Looks like Bungie.net might be getting a facelift soon. Update: A news item on Bungie.net clarifies that the update has to do with Truth and Reconciliation moving to its own subdomain.

SketchFactor let us know that although the America’s Biggest Halo Fan Contest was supposed to have been decided today, they’re running a bit behind, and plan to make an announcement sometime in the next day or two. Be patient, folks!

Quick followup on a tidbit from last week: Eric Trautmann popped into our forum to clarify that ‘Halo: First Strike’ is a working title for the next Halo novel, and will most likely not be the final name of the book. Looks like someone at Del Rey was just trying to clear their inbox a…

10 new stories for you – the Fan Fiction section never stops: Halo, by Andrew The Entar Chronicles Part 3, by Locke ONI Black Operations Part 3, by Jaywhit10 Pax-the begaining Part 2, by Boa Battlefield 2552: Road to Redemption, by John Morris (Prologue) M31: First Blood, by Greg and Wes Foutch The Megg: The…

Just in time for E3 2003, Skeletor posts his pictures from E3 2002. Get psyched!

A pair of new banners, from a pair of fans; check out our Banners section.

Six stories, two poems in today’s Fan Fiction update: ONI Black Ops Chapter One, by Havok Forsaken Forefathers: The Beginning of the End?, by AlphaBravo343 and Havok Taking Halo: Chapter 3, Bullets, Missiles and Plasma , by Steele The Start of my Beginning, by Andrew Spartan II: Stranded Chapter 2: Infection, by Vinny Halo 2:…

Episode 5 of Red vs Blue was released yesterday to sponsors – it’ll be available to the public in the next 12-18 hours. This one’s a plotbuilder… but it’s still pretty darn funny. Check it out, as soon as you’re able! 15-35 mb, depending on which version you download. Update: Once again, Halo-Game in France…

They’re un-friggin’-stoppable. The team of mnemesis and Finn seem to be determined to clear the entire Story page email archive before the Armageddon – and at this rate, they’ll do it handily. A pretty sizeable update from mnemesis tonight covers a wide range of ideas – and bumps down a post from yesterday that we…

Dang. Yesterday, we posted a bunch of desktops – and it turns out that one of them used, as a backdrop, an image created by Greg Martin (the second time this has occurred here at HBO). You CANNOT use copyrighted work as the basis for submissions here – ESPECIALLY not Mr. Martin’s, who says clearly,…

And finally, a fan-produced banner. That should clear out the images queue. If you submitted a piece of artwork and we haven’t posted it or contacted you, please send an email naming the piece (do not resend it unless we ask you to!), and we’ll see what we can do.

We also received a couple of logos a little while back; they’re on our Logos page.

Non-desktop artwork – we’ve got three for you. A cool collaboration between Postman and Dogsounds (posted on our forum a while ago, but only approved by both recently), another bizarre comic from Hack Trio (this is the last one we’ll post in Misc Art – any more submissions will have to wait for the opening…

It’s been a little while since we cleared the images queues… first up, desktop images. After tossing out the non-attributed ones (how hard is it to upload a text file telling us you created a picture, folks?), we’ve got 6 images for you, from three different artists. Check ’em all out in the Wallpaper section.…