Month: May 2004

24 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – some standalone, a poem, some continuing series, some comedy… a little something for everyone. Go read!

Yesterday, Achronos posted a note on Bungie.net explaining that the site would be down for maintenance for a short time today (10-12 Pacific, or 5-7 pm UTC). He clarified the need for the downtime on our own forum last night. he’s hoping it will be less than an hour – the two hour window is…

At 9:50 pm Central last night, Cysco announced that Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit were being released sooner than expected. There is a thread containing a list of mirrors for both items (they’re BIG), also on the Gearbox forums. First word here, both on our forum and via email, seems to be…

Sorry for the late entry, but way back early Sunday Daedalus alerted us to a new interview with Alex Seropian over at gamesindustry.biz.Good info and you get to see Alex wearing one of his funny hats. 🙂

So I’m lookin’ through the uploads folder, and there’s this huge movie, and the name rings a bell. Someone named Mike just sent an email about it. Half the guys I know are named Mike… could be anyone. So I grab it and I start watching it, right? And it’s a little slow… another black-and-white…

A quick note – in answer to the deluge of mail we’ve been getting about the Going Nowhere Fast contest; the reason there are no times listed is because nobody’s submitted any movies yet. However, that obviously wasn’t as clear to the world as it was to us… so I’ve added a Leaderboard to the…

Hehe – new Flash game from Z, of Xbox Ottawa; it’s called Banshee Chase, and it’s a top-down driving game (avoid the gravestones – yeah, I know they’re not gravestones). It’s tiny; we haven’t asked, but we’d be happy to host this. At the moment, though, you can find it at Newgrounds. Go play!

The Gimme Your Best Shot contest for best HUDless screenshot, over at Halo Zone, has been won – check their front page for the top dog and the runner-up. Thanks to XLNC for the heads-up.

A few weeks ago, Ducain posted a vid showing him getting up to the balcony in the Maw hangar, in coop, using a warthog for lift. Yesterday, Dark Helmet showed how to get up there in single player – using a shade turret. It’s 7.5 mb, in WMP9 format, and it’s been mirrored by Ducain…

Yesterday, Red Loser did a great job of summarizing the Enkidu saga to that point. Today, he updated to account for the newest terminal (first noticed, it seems, by anoncreativeguy). There’s plenty of Enkidu speculation spread throughout our forum, and other forums… but if you’re confused, this is a pretty good place to start.

Gearbox will be releasing Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit very soon. In preparation for that event, Gearbox and Bungie released the HEK tutorial to a couple of websites so that fans could get a look at what they were up against, and maybe get started on external stuff. Unfortunately, the HTML of…

The ‘Loot points out a new Exclusive action figure at EBGames – the Cobalt Master Chief. No pics yet, but it’s shipping on July 13. They’re also taking pre-orders for the Halo 2 Brute and the Halo 2 Green Master Chief, both shipping on October 11, according to EB. Is your collection complete?

Alerus of the One South Clan, has submitted info about an app called ‘Halo Timer’ – it keeps track of spawn timings for the various items on multiplayer maps. (It’s currently missing Boarding Action and Chiron.) It requires MacOSX 10.3 to run. If you’re always missing that Rocket Launcher by THAT MUCH, grab this!

Calvin and Halo hits a half-century today – and in fitting tribute to 6-year-old humor, we have a… oh, go read it.

Apologies for the lack of news; I’ve been hard at work. First up: the Junkyard has interviewed the Halo Babies team; swing on by to read some interesting facts about how they came to team up and teasers of what’s to come!

In preparation for the upcoming release of the Halo Editing Kit, Cortana.org has opened their HEK Tutorial section. Get a taste of what modders will be able to do once they have the official tools.

Whoa. Just before leaving on a 2-week vacation, mnemesis updated the Halo Story page. Just a single item – but it DOES give some nice stuff to chew on. And no, he didn’t remember to tell anyone he’d done this. And no, nobody noticed (no email, no forum posts) in the 4 days since it…

We’ve added last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update to our Archive; you can use it to learn that Frankie’s only mentioned Dave Candland twice since these started. Is this because Dave’s work is secret, or because Frankie doesn’t find User Interface progress very interesting, or because Dave spends most of his time surfing the net for…

Crispy Spartan points out another Weekly Update for First Strike. The majority of it discusses the new uncertainties introduced by the existence of Halo Custom Edition – more from the team when they know what they’re up against. There’s also a bit of infrmation about progress itself. Give it a read!

Today’s One One Se7en introduces that genuinely rare creature – the funny joke. Laugh at it – because you never know when you’re gonna see one of these again.