Month: May 2006

Halo Babies has a new guest strip up – ‘Holiday Over?’ – from Turalim. Oh, the hassles of union labor! Thanks, PlasmaFire.

Omega has taken a stab at illustrating ships which appear only in the novels. He’s finished 5 of them so far – two are currently visible on our forum (here and here). Nice work – check it out!

Heroes & Heretics Episode 6 – Operation: Anxious Armadillo – has been made available to the public over at the Slacker Entertainment website. (It’s been up in high-res format for sponsors for a week.) The team does their best to make it to the power station before the Covenant take over; it doesn’t help that…

Tom “Eastbeast314” Eastman let us know about a research paper he’d written about narratology (story and character analysis), and its role in explaining the success of Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s a tad heavy on the jargon, but that’s probably helpful in snowing the professor… wait, no, that’s wrong. Give it a read; it looks at…

Captain Spark turned in another couple of dozen dialogue snippets – grab the batch from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones today!

Now that Halo 3 has been announced, people are beginning to submit cover art mockups. We’ve added them to our existing Cover Art section (on a separate Halo 3 page). Take a look!

Funkmon points out that JJ Ying, the guy who created the very nice dock icons we mentioned yesterday, has updated ALL of his desktop skins; swing by his blog for a look at the integrated set. Now THAT’S some Halo lovin’.

This showed up yesterday, and I found it interesting enough to mail to someone who’d had lots of questions about cheating… but it didn’t occur to me to post it on the front page – thanks to Phi Delta on our forum, and Fulcan via email, for convincing me I was wrong. GamesFirst has put…

The Weekly Update this week is available at Bungie.net (or in our Weekly Update Archive) – there are some bits about Halo 2 Vista, and some bits about changes to the XBL playlists… and then a bunch of random user-submitted questions (with answers that range from pretty cool to KP-quality). Go read.

Dweezle86 dropped by our forum to let us know that there’s a bunch of new content at Dead Man’s Hand; aside from the article we mentioned a couple of days ago, there are interviews with Damian Lacedaemion of THis Spartan Life and Mintz of Halo: Portable, along with a number of Halo-related (or not related)…

Wow, very cool. Oftenk pointed out some Halo Dock icons at customize.org – really nice work. Check ’em out!

More tourney stuff: Paulie Danger wanted to let people know about a series of events in the Philadelphia area, starting in August – details are at the Console Wars website… and tish mentioned a 4v4 tourney in Cincinnati on June 10 – more details in that forum post.

rapture sent word that recently the Hushed Casket held a LANfest – ‘Cookout! Grenades! 2’ – to celebrate one member’s house purchase and the anniversary of the first Cookout! Grenades! LAN (with a shout-out to Midnight, who couldn’t be there because he’s in Iraq)… and of course, they had a Halo-themed cake (pic 1 |…

The One One Se7en celebrity guests continue – today’s strip comes from Warbow, of Calvin and Halo fame. There’s even some color!

After an unfortunate delay that was all my fault, the winners of the halo.bungie.org poster raffle should be receiving their one-of-a-kind prizes in the next few days! From all of us here at HBO, our deepest thanks to the talented artists who donated their work and of course the fine folks at splodeswag for making…

Fifteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, reminds us that Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori will be at the PLAY! premiere tomorrow in Chicago – you can get more information at the PLAY! website.

At times, my online life seems to mirror my real life. Last year’s real-life birthday didn’t get missed – because it was a big one, and because my wife made sure that I’d remember it – but in general, I forget they’re coming until they’re here. Seems like that pattern continues online… we missed bungie.org’s…

If you live in Great Britain, Halo 2 is now officially ‘cheap’. Microsoft kicked off a new ‘Best of Classics’ label today, and Halo 2 is on it – for £9.99. Nice deal! (I saw this at both CVG and gamesindustry.biz.) For what it’s worth – EB Games is selling Halo 2 for $29.99 in…