Author: Louis Wu

Final post from me, before leaving for the airport: today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from puma (now known as someone else on our forum). To get the context, you need to go back a couple of months…

Continuing the clearout trend (well, ending it for now), here are 7 desktops submitted to the Wallpaper section in the last few days. This is the last image update for a week or so. If you submit content in the next few days, it’ll get dealt with… but not until early January. Enjoy!

We cleared the Miscellaneous Art queue yesterday… but there was a new submission that is worth getting out there. Germain Couët submitted the second of his ‘Hiding Spartans’ images; it’s a shot with 5 hidden Spartans in it, and it’s up to you to find them. There aren’t any prizes, it’s just fun!

A small Fan Fiction update – but it’s my last for a while, so I figured that clearing the queue made sense. (There will continue to be updates in my absence… but maybe not as frequently.) Six pieces for you today: Spartan-X Chapters 2 &3, by SilentStrider Halo Zero 2 / p9 / Lost Cause?,…

Accelerate Your Mac has reviewed Mac Halo – the single-player part of it, anyway. Again, one of the biggest complaints is system requirements… but this reviewer was also unhappy about the speed with which he mastered the game. (I’d guess he ran through on Normal, and hasn’t figured out yet that Legendary is an entirely…

Cowled_Wolfe created a small, soundless stop-action movie with Halo action figures… he submitted it in WMV format (243K), but you can also grab a QuickTime version (256K) if you’d rather. He says a longer one (3 minutes, maybe), with sound and a better framerate, is in the works. Comments can go in this forum thread.

Hehe – yesterday, we posted a news article about a new poll being run by CobaltNova (the 7th Column chapter), looking for predictions about 2004. I wondered, at the time, if this was an interesting way to re-enter the Halo community after the sudden shutdown of operations last month – and an entry by CobaltNova…

Dispatcher has written up an interesting analysis of the Halo storyline, with an eye to explaining some of the repetition in level design as intentional, rather than practical necessity. An intriguing viewpoint…

It’s only been up a day.. but there are already two new entries (the last two) on the Halo Movie Spoofs page. These are the last two that will be added for a little bit… but never fear, if you submit a new one in the next week or so, we’ll get to it eventually!…

Halo Babies put up their second strip of the week last night… I dunno, I found it hilarious! (There’s also a pretty slick new Wallpaper known as ‘Defcon Zero’ in the Member Content section… worth signing up for, if you haven’t already!)

We’re way behind on mentioning Halo websites. One such site doesn’t even exist yet; Kyrceck posted a note to our forum a week ago, describing a website he’s trying to create, called The 7th Revolution. It sounds very ambitious… but ambition is good. The post lists the sections they’d like to have, eventually, and the…

Emildux has begun a forum thread (which links to a Seventh Column Chapter forum) to get feedback from the community on what we think 2004 will bring, with respect to Halo. Visit the thread(s), make a prediction, and a year from now, you can see how close you came!

Earlier this week, we reported that MacGamer had announced the winners of their ‘Put the Master Chief in a Hollywood Movie’ Photoshop contest. Some people were surprised by the winners… and after we received some submissions from folks who didn’t win, we were, too. We’ve set up a section to display these spoofs; if more…

In an effort to stave off overload when vacation ends, I’m attempting to clear out some of the queues right now. First up is the Miscellaneous Art queue; there were 16 items built up. They range from simple sketches to modified screenshots to very funny jokes. Check ’em out!

Rounding out the comic strip updates (for HBO, at least), One One Se7en finishes up the Tale begun on Monday… it’s a good thing lawyers in Dickens’ day aren’t like today’s sharks.

Calvin and Halo, as well, has a new strip out today. It’s number 13, but since the first one is numbered ‘0’, this is actually the fourteenth strip since the series began. Appropriate, no?

Halo: Resolution finishes out the week with its Christmas theme… and it takes a shot at Razors. Oh, yeah.

A passel of Fan Fiction pieces have been submitted in the past 48 hours – 21, to be precise: And now all hell will break loose Part 9, by metallicafan The Second War: Part 1, First Encounters, by FOrunnER Old Style: Memories, by Horror The Final War: Enemy Battleground[5:1], by Awacar The Final War: Enemy…

Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I’d like to point out that I’m headed out for vacation, beginning tomorrow… so although there will be others minding the store, a good chunk of what’s been submitted recently (as well as what GETS submitted in the next few days) will be held until early January to…

If you’re looking for things to do this Christmas Eve, go visit Homefront; the Battlefield 1942 mod has now been released! Boatloads of mirrors, so grabbing it shouldn’t be a problem. (Someone should send us a report of how it is. We won’t post it until Friday, but you should send it anyway. 🙂 )