Author: Count Zero

A few days ago, The Invisable O posted a challenge on the forum: Has anyone ever mapped the entire inner surface of Halo? BOLL took him up on it, and managed to capture some great images of the ring, which he posted in the original thread, along with additional images and explanation. Every time someone…

Subnova, one of our primary movie mirrors, and who also shoulder some of our server-side processing, has run into trouble with their SQL server. The shared news search feature should still be working, but all movies hosted there are down. Unfortunately it looks like this will be a long downtime, as the message says. (If…

As a number of people have pointed out, the Truth and Reconciliation site has been updated with Part 2 of the E3 demo behind-the-scenes series, as well as additional storyboards from the demo itself.

GameFAQs has posted a new poll: Which FPS sequel are you looking forward to? I think we all know the answer to that.

People are STILL sending us E3 demo movie links of varying legality, so let me repeat what was posted last week: There will, very soon, be an official version of the movie released by Bungie. This will be a direct-feed video (unlike all the existing ones, which were done with camcorders), it will be higher…

Several people (first here) have pointed out on the forum that this page at Xbox.com has Halo 2 listed as “Halo 2: Truth and Reconciliation”. However, according to Lorraine “mehve” Reyes-McLees, we have not discovered a subtitle for Halo 2. This wouldn’t be the first miscommunication between Bungie and Microsoft’s PR department. So please stop…

The lucky few are staggering home from E3 right now (it’s 10PM PST), and they’re bringing Halo-related goodness with them. First up are reports from Microsoft’s press conference, by GamerFeed (thanks Zeegs) and Gamespot (thanks Darkstar). Secondly, KookyBastard discovered that Microsoft’s Halo PC page has gone live, with a ton of new stuff (beyond what…

Tom Clifford points out that the Valley Branch Retreat, in Indiana, is planning a Halo-themed paintball scenario on May 17th. There’s a sign-up form on that page, including details on the registration fees. If you’re tired of only getting hit by virtual bullets, check it out!

The newest episode of Red vs. Blue has been released to the public. The video has also been mirrored at Halo-Game.com. Those wacky marines…

Another review of Halo: The Flood has surfaced, this time on Subnova.

Pallor reminds us that some of the Bungie guys will be attending the Game Developers Conference this week: Lead designer Jaime “Flawless Cowboy” Griesemer will be on the On All Levels panel, discussing level design. Jaime, tools/AI programmer Mat “MSN” Noguchi, and audio director Marty O’Donnell will present Halo: Development Evolved, discussing Halo’s design and…

Westlake Interactive, the folks doing the Macintosh port of Halo, have updated their progress page with the news that Halo has reached the Prototype stage, which they define as “far enough along to have some interface drawing and most data files loading, but not far enough to actually play.” (Westlake and Gearbox are mostly independent…

The entire remaining staff of HBO is currently en route to Brian Morden’s memorial, so the news has slowed down a bit. Things should be back to normal by Sunday.

Bungie.net has posted an interview with Curt Chiarelli, Sculptor, the actual creator of the Halo toys spotted recently. Thanks to Red Loser for noticing this.

A new artist has appeared on the forum, and despite rampant self-deprecation the drawings are very good (the post originally referred and linked to “Marine killing unspecified things”, Postman updated his page afterwards). My favorite is definitely this one.

Bungie.net has tracked down one of their own and interviewed Doug Zartman, who left Bungie around the time of the Microsoft acquisition. Lots of fun stuff in there about the upcoming toys and novel!

Yet another nugget of Halo trickery comes out of level 2, first partially described by The halo destroyer and then captured by Dark Helmet. This isn’t the first time the “drunk driver” dropship has been mentioned, but it’s the first time anyone has gotten close enough to see this bit.

An email from the raVen tipped us off to an interview with Bungie artist Shikai “Shiek” Wang. Woohoo, UIUC!

THR8807 has found an interesting trick on a PC mod site: How to give an Xbox controller a standard USB connector. The process is not for the faint of heart, and requires completely disassembling the controller. But maybe now we can settle all the controller-vs-mouse arguments…

As below, the American International Toy Fair started today, and pictures of the Halo figures on display are already hitting the web. There’s a nice collection at Figures.com, including several Halo figures on this and the next few pages (use the “2”, “3”, and “4” links at the bottom). Thanks to Spartan ][ for noticing…