Author: Louis Wu

The Halo PC 1.03 patch is now available at Bungie.net (bottom of the Files list). My in-game updater isn’t working (yet)… but the patch is only 4.4 mb, so grab it! (Thanks to progamerz for pointing it out.) Looks like a mirror list will be going up soon.

The Halo PC 1.03 patch is now available for the Halo Dedicated Server; grab it from Bungie.net. (That article also contains links to the full 1.02 server, if you don’t already have it (this patch is not standalone; it requires 1.02), and the mapfiles, if you don’t have those.) The client patch will be available…

MacGamer is giving away 5 copies of Mac Halo in this week’s MacGamer Giveaway; submit your best photoshopped image of the Master Chief on vacation, and if your entry is among the 5 funniest, you’ll walk away with a free copy of Halo. Details (including submission rules) can be found at MacGamer. Thanks to RavenEA…

Team Sexy has released Sidewinder King 2 – a followup to their popular Hall of the Sidewinder King video. It takes the fight to (where else?) Blood Gulch, and introduces dialogue. Mostly, it works pretty well. (Great camera footage in the second half…) It weighs in at roughly 20 mb (18.5 for the QT version,…

A couple of months ago, Edge Magazine published an article in their Equip Xbox issue called ‘The making of… Halo’; it was a fascinating look inside the development process. It was released online, in truncated form, at Gamesradar.uk, in late October. Not long after that, we received a scanned copy of the full article, from…

Shacknews is running their own Game of the Year poll; Halo is up for PC Action. Go vote! (Thanks to Jamirus99 for the heads-up.)

Today’s Guest One One Se7en was sent in by Chaos Ferret, and looks at the better part of valo(u)r… or maybe it’s something else. Hmm…

Lightweight Fan Fiction update today… The Rise of Humanity: Part 1 (Revised!), by [ridiculous combination of non-printable characters deleted] Fight or Flight: Chapter 6 (The Big Boom), by teemus Fight or Flight: Part Seven (Final Finish), by teemus MSOG: Chapter 6: Pilot and Escape, by Sprtn117John MSOG: Chapter 7: Violence begets violence, by Sprtn117John Shadow…

Two new movies over at HaloGT today; Rocketopia is mostly just a warthog jump vid, but near the end there’s some cool weapons-crossing-glitching going on. The other one… well, you gotta watch it. Maybe you’ll get it. Forum thread for comments is here.

Awful timing indeed, on my carelessness… Monday’s One One Se7en introduced yet ANOTHER new character. Keep an eye on this one – they say that old ones can be wiley.

Eep – for the first time in a very long time, I forgot about the comic updates yesterday. First up – Halo: Resolution, which continues to have n00b problems.

Wondering where the Halo PC 1.03 patch is? Cysco posted a note on the Gearbox forums stating that it was delayed a day, and will be out Tuesday, December9; the Dedicated Server will be released in the morning, and the client patch will go live in the afternoon. Thanks to -BERZERKER-, on our forum, and…

Stuntmutt sent along a sort of visual FAQ about what ‘on the subject of art’ might be interpreted as, for those confused about the Plinth of Art. If you’re stuck, check it out. (Remember, there’s over a month before your entries are due; don’t panic if you’ve already sent something you’re not happy with. There…

Whoa. The Battlefield 1942 mod ‘Homefront’ (mentioned a few times in our news) is almost ready for release… and it’s looking pretty good! There’s a 36 mb movie (encoded with XVid) available for download, and some hi-res screenshots, all over at the Homefront site. (Thanks to Ross Mills for pointing it out on our forum.)

Press release is right here… but the bottom line is, the Macintosh version of Halo went into duplication late Friday night, December 5th. It’ll be hitting store shelves soon! Mac owners… it’s time to see if you can keep up with your PC brethren.

Massive Halo Story update last night – apologies for overlooking it before now. Some serious information in this one – there’s more tying-together of disparate posts happening these days. Thanks, Finn!

Thanks to PC, who pointed out that gfunk, of Red vs Blue, has put up a note on the main page that he’ll be interviewed on a Santa Cruz radio station this morning at 10 am PST. (That’s 1 pm Eastern, or 6 pm UTC – 2.5 hours from now.) There’s a link to an…

SeeMePlayMe is hosting another online Halo tournament tonight; 2v2 team play, with a SMPM Gold Account in store for the winners. Be in the Halo lobby by 7 pm Central to join in!

sir_zyn posted a note on our forum this weekend about a 2d Halo project he and some friends have started. A screenshot is linked at the bottom of the post. Take a look, leave them input!

Rams, from Battleground: Halo, writes to say that they’ll be adding two new feature articles each week, on Mondays and Thursdays. They start off with Two Betrayals, dealing with the team-killing problem in Halo PC. They’ve also organized the existing collection of articles already on the site. Finally, they’re accepting guest articles if anyone would…