Year: 2004

A year ago today, one of the best members of the Bungie Fan Community passed away. Please raise a mug of Dwarven Ale in honor of our dear departed friend, Brian Morden aka *Ar-Isildur.

Today’s One One Se7en was supposed to be yesterday’s One One Se7en – after all, it’s a Holiday strip. Stuntmutt didn’t count on my overwhelming incompetence, however; I think MC’s rubbing off on me. Anyway, go read it. It’s nice when people look on the bright side.

Matt Grap sent along a few screenshots of some work a friend is doing; he’s in the process of porting the Halo weapons to Marathon. (Well, okay, Aleph One.) Right now, he’s working on adding melee attacks as secondary fire for each weapon. The love just doesn’t stop! Check these out:Flamethrower (139k)Assault Rifle (137k)Rocket Launcher…

Walshicus submitted a monster collection of work; a star chart of the Halo universe, along with an enormous amount of information about these and other stars. We’ve packaged the lot and (hopefully) made it easy to follow; you can find it in our Miscellaneous section. Fan Fiction writers… take note of his comments near the…

BOLL has done it again – check out the secrets revealed in this post. (If you can’t figure out where they are, try the banners at the top.)

Yesterday, we posted a note from MacSoft, that an updater for Mac Halo that would bring the application up to parity with its PC counterpart had been released. As many noticed, there was a problem with the updater; it introduced more glitches than it solved. Westlake has fixed the problems, though, and a new updater…

And AGAIN, he forgets. 🙁 Today’s Guest One One Se7en is from Chris Fraser, and warns of asking for things you might get…

Fourteen bits of Fan Fiction for you today: A Resurrection of Death, by Steve Ollett The Enemy Within-Chapter One: In the Shadows, by Mind_Affecting_Parasite Athenians-II Chapter 7: Mark Two, by ZackDark marines nightmare part 1, by crayola The Siege of Zion Base; Part One: Mission – Chapters 1 & 2, by Scimitarex The Siege of…

Marc Friedrichs, of Halo Universe, pointed out an item on the World of Games website (a Swiss site). He followed it up with an email, and learned that it is a special release, a cooperative effort of WoG and Microsoft Switzerland. The release date has obviously been bumped back… but the package itself might be…

An interesting article over on the BBC News website; entitled ‘Probing Halo’s enduring appeal’, it looks at why Halo is still getting as much attention as it is, 2 years down the road. This is the sort of article I’d expect from a fansite… it blows me away that it shows up in the mainstream…

Update on the CPL Extreme World Championships 2004: a couple of weeks ago, we noted that the president of the CPL had warned that the Halo Tournament might be cut from the event if more teams didn’t sign up for it. Last night, Tonya Welch, CPL Community Liason, posted on the CPL forums that Halo…

Valentine’s Day best wishes from gutupio and Devin Olsen.

The 13th episode of EchoFourNineteen was released yesterday (Friday the 13th) at 343GS.com. (Check the downloads section.) Seems corn is infectious… (Thanks to Spartan-39 for the heads-up.)

I feel really bad, because some of this info has been waiting on ME for over a week now… but sometimes, things just get away from you. We’ve got a double-armor update for you; Chris Bryan has sent along a bunch of progress pictures of his solo effort (pretty amazing work – works so well…

Eep – almost forgot; earlier today, SketchFactor posted a note over on Bungie.net discussing Toy Fair 2004, the big annual toy convention; JoyRide Studios was there with some pretty cool stuff! They’ve put up 10 shots in the Tru7h and Reconciliation Gallery of waves 4 and 5 prototypes… go check ’em out!

Jake ‘Evergreen98’ Billo writes to say that he’s mirrored the Geocities site mentioned in Frankie’s Weekly update this week; the original link is already down, victim of a small Geocities bandwidth allotment. If you were curious what Frankie had to say, go look at the Junkyard’s mirror!

I posted this to our forum earlier, because HBO wasn’t reachable. (It’s STILL not reachable, for the most part, but that’s not going to stop me from updating.) MacSoft has stepped up to the plate and released a 1.04 updater less than 2 days after the PC updater came out. The Press Release is brief…

Frankie’s Bungie Weekly Update for February 13 has been posted at Rampancy.net… it’s exactly what the older fans are expecting, in terms of Updates. Covers where the team stands, who’s doing what… and throws in some Frankie-specific humor, as well. Good stuff!

Today’s One One Se7en, as well, should be posted before the clock turns over. Don’t worry – U2 would be happy if you missed this one.

Before the day is gone, I’d like to put up today’s Halo: Resolution – it looks at a fear I had from the first time I played the level Halo. (Silent Cartographer, too.)