Author: Louis Wu

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.)

Singh Commando posted a 16-part comic this morning on our forum. He wasnt’ sure how long the bandwidth would last, so we put up a mirror of it for him; it’s quite good. (I even stole his Slideshow code to display it, though I cleaned it up a little.) Check out Master Chief vs Darth…

No Red vs Blue episode this week – there was a note on the Sponsors forum from Burnie Burns; he’s not well, and the audio recording couldn’t get done. They’ll be back next week. Thanks to Cybrfrk, who noticed the post.

SESpider has released another Miniature Halo; this one is more of a Thank You to those who have helped along the way, and an apology for the delay in the storyline. The Official Storyline will be continued in Episode 17 – thanks to the help of PsYcHoDaN, who’s also designing a new website. Be on…

MarkHawk has posted a set of desktops to promote his upcoming Halo: Ice Fields movie, due out next month. They’re HUDless shots of Halo in snowy environments; you can find ’em in two sizes on this page.

Bungie.net has an update on the Halo PC Worldwide Championships; the finals take place next Tuesday, in Gardena, CA. Details can be found in this news post… we want reports from anyone there! Update: The official press release for this event got sent to us this morning.

You may have noticed that HBO was offline this evening. We made some major changes – hopefully, they’ll help alleviate the frequent outages we’ve been experiencing recently. (If this DOES work, everyone owes Deimos Fawkes, of Subnova, a HUGE thank-you.)

Halo.Fropco has interviewed the Project Halo: Webwar Evolved team about their work in progress. The interview itself is beefier than the one put up at the Junkyard last week; more info, pretty pictures. If you’re curious about where these guys are going, and how they plan to get there… go read this!

Battleground: Halo has posted the second installment of Viper’s Halo 2: Precognition article (the first installment was posted a couple of weeks ago). This one uses the novels and the game as its basis for speculation, as opposed to the print articles the first part used. Again – it’s speculation, not fact. Read it, think…