Author: Louis Wu

Roger Wilco found some 3dsmax models and meshes of Halo Vehicles and Characters and Guns over at Turbosquid; they’re not textured, but if you want to work with the models, there they are. (Deeper down in the thread is an example of what you can do with these.)

So if you were following the Gamespy Title Fight between Halo and Half-Life earlier, you probably noticed that Halo racked up over 20,000 votes in a couple of hours – twice the number of votes it had received in any other Title Fight during the entire 24 hour run. GameSpy noticed, too… and the rules…

Okay, the foolishness has ended… we’re back to normal. It was fun, and there’ll probably be a postmortem in the next few days, detailing the various pranks pulled over the course of this April Fools Day, 2004… but for now, rest easy, knowing that nothing major changed yesterday.

Really bad news over at Halo Babies… psycho fans have taken Gruntsbane out of commission. No more strips until he’s healed. Ouch!

Forerunners.org has some fun stuff they’re giving away for the month of April; A non-US version of Halo (the winner’s choice of English, German, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Italian, and maybe others), and a large Halo poster. There are some bonuses, as well – check the giveaway page for details. Go sign up for free schwag!

This one we didn’t even WANT – but it was left on our doorstep, like a bedraggled kitten, and we simply didn’t have the heart to turn it away. Ross Mills’ Halo Ideas site is now a bungie.org subsidiary. We’re going to use it for waste management.

Halo is out to an early lead over Half-Life in the latest Gamespy Title Match – but it’s only been running for a few minutes, and there are almost 24 hours to go. Vote!

And the march continues. BOLL has turned halo.7708.net (home of HHHT, a powerful Halo hacking tool, and some sweet media), over to the HBO conglomerate. We are Halo of b.org – you will be assimilated.

Shiska, sister of forum regular Shishka, has posted a link to a number of screenshots of a work in progress over at The Silent Cartographers – and she may have made a mistake. Let’s see how long it takes them to notice (go quick!).

Psyrixx has agreed, rather than shutting down the Psyjnir Complex altogether, to sell to HBO; we’ve now added it to the HBO stable of Halo sites. We hope to continue to bring you some of the best Halo coverage out there – in fact, the plan is to bring you the ONLY Halo coverage out…

We knew it was coming… here it is! Bungie.net has finally put up a sneak peek of the new site it’s been slaving over for the past 9 months. Go read SketchFactor’s explanation… and look at the new site!

It’s a good thing that files.bungie.org came back online today… because as anyone who tried to download a movie from mythica.org has found, Brian Towne has given up. He’ll be hosting files for the Infinium Labs’ Phantom, an up-and-coming console, rather than Halo movies. And it all stems from bitterness over a long-promised, but undelivered,…

After years of trying to make a go of the full website, and failing, Psyrixx has finally admitted defeat; the Psyjnir Complex will heretofore be represented on the web only by its music subsite, music.psyjnir.org. (This site is managed by Jester, not Psyrixx, and so has a CHANCE of not being run into the ground.)…

Red vs Blue has put up Episode 28.5 for sponsors – and I gotta say, this is the funniest episode of the season, so far. You’ll find it in the Season 2 Sponsors forum (not the normal place). Go watch it. Now. Update: Oops – it’s not just for sponsors… it’s for EVERYONE. GO!

The HBO Weekly Review is revived… literally. I’d say there were 777 reasons to read this… but I think he miscounted; I get 776.

Bungie.net has posted a news item about the new lengths to which the product placement model is being taken in Halo 2; Keds, Arby’s and Starbucks are all among the companies that will be showcased in-game. (Product placement in games is nothing new; the sports games franchises have been doing it for years. This marks…

We bought Subnova today, as well. Next on the chopping block… eBay.

Calvin and Halo makes a mess today.

BOLL has created a new utility – it gives ANYONE the ability to create One One Se7en strips with Stuntmutt-quality artwork (mostly because it IS Stuntmutt’s artwork). It’s primary purpose, right now, is to provide our forumgoers with a way to communicate via pictures. A more complete explanation of how to use it (especially ON…

Ducain continues his pretty awesome experimentation with Warthog-assisted flying; the latest movie is just under 10 mb, 2:48 long, in WMP9 format. The forum post contains a pair of links to find it at. I’m amazed that there are STILL ways to blow things up that produce results I’ve never seen before… Update: Ducain added…