Author: Louis Wu

Another site roundup… looks like the release of Halo has also released some massive creative juices.The Elite Operatives, a Halo PC clan, are currently recruiting.When Hogs Fly is a clan that organized itself from regulars on the Gearbox forums. It’s not clear if they’re recruiting or not, and be careful about using the ‘Home’ link…

As Halo PC grows in popularity, alternate ways for players to communicate need to be found. we got a note from adam at irc.PGPN.com, an irc network. Their #halo channel is becoming quite popular, and they’d like it to continue to grow; check ’em out.

Team Sexy Productions, the group behind movies like ‘The Hall of the Sidewinder King’ and ‘Red vs Who?’, has put up a website with their existing movies and (soon to come) a trailer on their upcoming miniseries. Check it out!

November’s MacAddict magazine contains an article on Mac Halo. Not a lot of info… but always nice to see in print! Thanks to Latent Node for the heads-up.

Halo Universe (in Germany) is giving away a free copy of Halo PC (German version). All you need to do is count the number of Halo screenshots at Amazon.de and then email your results (along with name, address and halouniverse.de username, if you have one) to a special email address. Check their main page for…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en finds MC and Cortana… well, a little bit outside the ring. She really needs to work on that coordinates thing. Thanks, Macegac.

Halo Bunker is running a contest; come up with the ‘sickest halo pc desktop image’. First and Second Prize winners will get copies of Halo PC, Third Prize will get Halo for Xbox. Deadline is October 10. Visit the site for more details. Thanks to [[[-X-]]] for the heads-up on our forum.

A bunch of new clans/websites to mention: Baptized by Fire is a clan involved in many games. Halo is now on its ‘Future Games’ list, and they’ll be adding it soon. Halo Center is a full fansite, with sections for Halo (PC and Mac) and Halo 2; it’s part of Ogre’s Network. And The Scorpion…

Sorry, folks. You may have noticed that your spoiler settings reverted recently to ‘No Spoilers’ – though you hadn’t done anything about them. This is due to the September 30th, 2003 expiration date that cookie held. Silly me. It’s been reset (to December 31, 2004 – we’ll figure out if things need to change before…

Today’s One One Se7en explores the better part of valor. Or something.

Gah. I thought I could get away with not posting this… but there seem to be a lot of Gamespy fans among you. The current Gamespy Grudge match (visible on the bottom left of their home page) is between Halo’s Master Chief and Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman. Go vote. At the moment, MC’s getting his butt…

Fuzzy has altered the release schedule of Halo: Resolution; it’s now going to come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Therefore, Episode 2 is up now – it’s called ‘A Strange, Strange World’, and it takes care of a problem I’d very much like to deal with in this manner…

The next round of reviews have come out: Games Domain, ActionTrip, Gaming Nexus, Homelan Fed, and PC Arena. Lots of screenies. Lots of ‘it’s fun’, lots of ‘it needs big iron’. Thanks to Blue’s News for the links.

17 new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section: Chapter Six: Rise of the Phoenix, by Blue Jaguar All Roads Lead To Sol…Despite What The Map Says: Chapter 11, by S7N Buried Treasure: The Finale, by Frensa Geran Temporal Rift PART II: SLAVER SLASHING – A GOOD PARTTIME JOB, by Alexander_Valient Halo: The MCconto…

Been a little while since we’ve updated the Wallpaper section… got 13 desktops for you, some real doozies. Check ’em out!

While I was over at WorthPlaying, I found a whole bunch of screenshots (54 of ’em) posted about a week and a half ago. They’re interesting, because they’ve got lots of graphic features turned off; you can see what the game looks like with no specular reflections, low textures, etc. Warning to those who haven’t…

Speed is everything. The Halo v1.01 patch is already available for download from WorthPlaying.com. It’s 3.6 mb, but WP doesn’t know what, exactly, it addresses. Thanks to Tocki, of Halo Orbit, who’s already put up a mirror. More details when we have them. Update: It’s mirrored at Halo Universe (in Germany), as well. Thanks, Marc!

The official Halo PC Press Release has hit the wires; get ready to start fragging.

More info from Neo Alucard X about the Bonus DVD coming from Bungie (Soonâ„¢). It’s going to have 5.1 versions of both Halo 2 trailers, plus a suite of music from the E3 demo (also in 5.1). Plus a new image. Info comes from the Marty Army chapter of the 7th Column. (If your response…

GamePro has put up their Halo review… and they were REALLY unhappy with the framerate issue. (They gave Halo a 3.5/5 on Graphics partly because it’s dated… but partly because (in their opinion) you have to turn everything off in order to play the game.) Thanks to KP for the heads-up.