Author: Louis Wu

Blackstar continues the PR campaign on his Summer 2004 lanfest, Are You Big Enough II, with a spiffy movie poster. Whatever else you can say about the man, he definitely has a flair for movie stuff!

Whoa… mysterious. I got word from mnemesis that Bungie had added a new wallpaper to their Halo Wallpaper collection yesterday, with no fanfare – there’s no news post on b.net about it. (Though I saw mnem’s email first, it looks like Pico posted it on our forum a bit earlier…) ‘Ancient Halo’ (last paper on…

Quick update on the large movie we mentioned yesterday; looks like the ISP pulled it. The link we gave yields a 404 (file not found) error at the moment. Sorry…

Okay, I want to apologize. The Wallpaper backlog was getting ridiculous. In fact, it’s so big (in terms of number of images) that I can’t post them all at once. Every time I started to put together an update, I’d check the uploads folders and my email, and find another handful… and suddenly, I’d find…

Tobias Ivarsson has created a 25 minute long ode to Halo; the majority consists of Warthog Jumps and the like, but there are some interesting nuggets hidden away amongst the commonplace. It’s huge – a 156 mb MPEG, downloadable directly from Tobias’ server in Sweden… grab it if it sounds fun!

Last week, MacGamer gave away 5 copies of Halo in a Photoshop contest (Master Chief on vacation). Apparently, it was successful enough that they’re doing it again – this time, though, you need to put the Master Chief in a major Hollywood movie. Details (and last week’s winners) can be found on the Giveaway page.…

Major League Gaming has announced its next tournament; it’ll be held in Philadelphia, PA, on February 21-22, 2004. Halo is one of several titles that will be played, and there’ll be a minimum of $10,000 on the table for winners. Entry fee is $40 until December 27, $50 after that. Make it if you can!

The HBO Xmas Puzzle Carnage quiz has come to a close! c0ld vengeance posted the winners, and links to each quiz (for those who didn’t get far enough to see them all) in this forum post, though he’s not releasing solutions yet (because people are still playing).

Gamepro has reviewed the second wave of Halo action figures (to go with their review of the first wave); if you want to read about these puppies before you buy ’em, this is a good place. Thanks again to KP. Update: GAH! I feel terrible; we got word from Gamepro yesterday about this article, and…

The Grunt Plushy petition we mentioned a few days ago is now up to 1500 signatures. I think it’s clear that there’s some serious demand for this item… but just in case, if you haven’t signed it yet, GO DO SO! A grunt plushy, to have and to cuddle, to kick and and to pummel…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en is one I was pretty sure we’d added to the Archive during the last major update… but apparently not. c0ld vengeance looks at how long the Guest Queue really is…

One of the relevant snippets learned last night was that Westlake recently got hold of the 1.03 patch code for Halo, from Gearbox, and are busily at work creating the Mac patch. As soon as it’s finished, it’ll be available for download, allowing Mac users to connect to 1.03 servers. (Mac players can play online…

As we mentioned a couple of days ago, Peter Tamte and Marty O’Donnell were interviewed by The Gamesome Mac last night. If you missed it, though, don’t fret – the streaming webcast will be up all week (and even after that, it’ll be available in their archives). They were good talks, with lots of information;…

You might recognize the name Justin Durban. In the past year or so, he’s put together some pretty impressive Halo music… and now there’s more. Just posted this morning on his website is a piece called ‘Halo – Master and Chief’, and here’s what Justin has to say about it: Ahhh.. the sweet radar of…

Gah – missed stuff. We got word this morning from Rams, over at Battleground: Halo, that there were two more articles posted today; the first was a review of First Strike (FULL of spoilers), and the other is a rambling look at Xbox vs PS2 gamers. I blame the lateness on KP.

Little bit o’ Fanfic this Monday – 19 in all, actually: Out of Phase 2, by BlackValkyire A Spartan’s Path-chapter 6, by Myth MAROONED Chapter 7, by Steve Ollett A Marine’s Life part 1, by Shadowfox Eldar Counsels Log Part 4 Ode to Joy: the Heavens are singing, by Blue Angel Halo 2: The Forgotten-Part…

c0ld vengeance posted an update on the HBO Xmas Puzzle Carnage quiz today; there’ve been 2 winners, but there are still three prizes to be won. Will one of them be yours? (It’s been fun watching heads explode all weekend…)

There were no numbers, but we just received a press release from MacSoft that read, in part, December 15, 2003 FIRST-DAY HALO SALES ARE MACSOFT’S HIGHEST IN FOUR YEARS MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Destineer’s Macintosh unit MacSoft announces today that pre-orders and first-day sales of Bungie Studios’ Halo: Combat Evolved for Macintosh are higher than any…

Break Point has put up a new movie called ‘0ddb@lls 0wn!1!!’ at BP Halo. It’s 2 minutes long, in WMP9 format, and available in two resolutions (which weigh in at 7 and 2.1 mb, respectively). It involves some bizarre model swapping. Read his forum post for details (and to leave feedback).

In preparation for Tuesday’s opening of the CPL Winter Event, MFA Video Productions has released a new 47 mb video showing the basics of Halo (weapons, vehicles, basic strategy). It’s aimed at folks who’ve never played before. It’s 47 mb, in WMP9 format, with a screensize of 512×384. You can find it on CPL’s home…