Year: 2004

HaloBabies is offline for a bit, while they work on bringing the new site online. The good news is, when they DO come back, there’ll be (in the words of Mr Smiley) “a massive amount of new content, which will hopefully make up for our downtime. That, and a brand spankin’ new site will be…

Wraith has been playing with a 3d modeler, and has come up with the beginnings of a Covenant Assault Boat. Interesting critiques in the thread, as well – good stuff all around!

Hehe – Mad Cow (and cohorts) created a huge 7th Column Snowman recently – check out the pics on our forum!

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from -Mopey-… I was waiting for this one.

Today’s Calvin and Halo is by Blackstar. Captain Spark came up with a pretty similar one… but this was already in the queue. (Besides, they’re not taking Guest strips.) It made me laugh.

Six pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section: HALO: Dark Aftermath, by Nick Kang Widowmaker: The Defence of Earth Part One, by LordofDestruction My poem before I die, by David Li A Series of Wierd Events – Sequel, Part Nine[H_K], by Hunter_Killer A Series of Wierd Events – Sequel, Part Ten[H_K], by Hunter_Killer…

Again – we’re behind. Lots of cool stuff has come in over the past few weeks. It’s all still here – and I hope I can get to it soon. DeWayne Muse sent in a few shots of a customized Stikfas Master Chief – he’s pretty slick! Check out the pics.

The Art submissions here at HBO have gotten way, way, WAY behind; there are backups in almost every section. I’m really sorry about that. I’ll be doing my best to clear as much of this as possible in the next few days. First up – a bunch of desktop images for the Wallpaper section, submitted…

Mothergoat of Clan Boomstick, dropped off a pretty cool piece of music he put together. Here’s what he says about it:This isn’t any sort of easy remix or anything, this tune was built with full instrumentation from the ground up. Matt Cox (me) of the band Windsor Medium wrote this new theme for Halo, inspired…

Finn digs deep into the Halo Story Page mailbag, and pulls out a healthy dose of speculation and analysis. He also sheds some light on one of the comments made recently in the mini-Interview with Eric Nylund we posted yesterday. Those of you whose copies of First Strike were NOT eaten by dogs… get to…

One One Se7en continues to bring in guest comedians. Improvement? You decide. (I’m waiting for Robin Williams to call.)

Halo: Resolution looks at a potential problem with a half-ton of armor…

Oops – another lost one. Last week, we mentioned a comic that had been started (but never finished) by elmatto. It was hosted on Freewebs, though, and bandwidth ran out soon after we mentioned it. We’ve put up a local copy of the strips themselves, with the permission of the artist – if you didn’t…

Looks like we managed to miss last week’s EchoFourNineteen at 343GS.com – it, too, is taking shots at multiplayer lag. (Check the Downloads section.)

This was noticed on our forum on Monday… and posted on Bungie.net yesterday, but I guess I just forgot to put it up. The Bungie Store is selling a new Grunt t-shirt; it’s a nice grey (though I’d LOVE to see it in a long-sleeved version).

CENOBITE has popped up in our news before – he’s released Halo-related Tribes skins, and submitted a pretty interesting piece to the Pillar of Art contest last year. He’s back – with a COMPLETE set of Halo skins for Tribes 2. You can see pieces of the skins in this forum thread at the Skinners…

3Suns points out a writeup of last week’s Halo 2 announcement and new screenshot over at Computer and Video Games – there’s no information there that hasn’t been covered on a few dozen sites by now, but the last paragraph is interesting:[…] Bungie has also dipped into its vault and pulled out the first ever…

The Junkyard has turned the Spotlight on Robert Sogomonian, better known as Psyrixx, of Psyjnir.org. Swing by to read what makes this guy tick. (Be aware that although it looks like psyjnir.org is finally coming back online, most of the internal links aren’t working at the moment.)

There wasn’t any Fan Fiction updating this weekend… so we’re back up to older numbers. 22 pieces for you today: Prophecy, by Daan Timmer( I’m Dutch) Too Close To Home Chapter 1, by phil451 The Second Ring (Part 4), by Jason Desecrating Providence (Chapter 1), by Marty Neu Haven: Chapter Two, by Blue Jaguar Super…

Blackstar points out that the March 2004 issue of MacAddict magazine contains a nice review of Mac Halo. It got 5 bullets (‘Awesome’ – I miss the Max days of ‘Freakin’ Awesome’, but what can you do?) and does something very few other reviews have done – it adds spoiler-laden pics and descriptions of the…