Author: Louis Wu

Just in time for E3 2003, Skeletor posts his pictures from E3 2002. Get psyched!

A pair of new banners, from a pair of fans; check out our Banners section.

Six stories, two poems in today’s Fan Fiction update: ONI Black Ops Chapter One, by Havok Forsaken Forefathers: The Beginning of the End?, by AlphaBravo343 and Havok Taking Halo: Chapter 3, Bullets, Missiles and Plasma , by Steele The Start of my Beginning, by Andrew Spartan II: Stranded Chapter 2: Infection, by Vinny Halo 2:…

Episode 5 of Red vs Blue was released yesterday to sponsors – it’ll be available to the public in the next 12-18 hours. This one’s a plotbuilder… but it’s still pretty darn funny. Check it out, as soon as you’re able! 15-35 mb, depending on which version you download. Update: Once again, Halo-Game in France…

They’re un-friggin’-stoppable. The team of mnemesis and Finn seem to be determined to clear the entire Story page email archive before the Armageddon – and at this rate, they’ll do it handily. A pretty sizeable update from mnemesis tonight covers a wide range of ideas – and bumps down a post from yesterday that we…

Dang. Yesterday, we posted a bunch of desktops – and it turns out that one of them used, as a backdrop, an image created by Greg Martin (the second time this has occurred here at HBO). You CANNOT use copyrighted work as the basis for submissions here – ESPECIALLY not Mr. Martin’s, who says clearly,…

And finally, a fan-produced banner. That should clear out the images queue. If you submitted a piece of artwork and we haven’t posted it or contacted you, please send an email naming the piece (do not resend it unless we ask you to!), and we’ll see what we can do.

We also received a couple of logos a little while back; they’re on our Logos page.

Non-desktop artwork – we’ve got three for you. A cool collaboration between Postman and Dogsounds (posted on our forum a while ago, but only approved by both recently), another bizarre comic from Hack Trio (this is the last one we’ll post in Misc Art – any more submissions will have to wait for the opening…

It’s been a little while since we cleared the images queues… first up, desktop images. After tossing out the non-attributed ones (how hard is it to upload a text file telling us you created a picture, folks?), we’ve got 6 images for you, from three different artists. Check ’em all out in the Wallpaper section.…

Got a TI 83 (or better) calculator? Then check out this game in the TI games archives – hehbo2k3, who pointed it out on our forum, says it’s a pretty fun game. (Unfortunately, it won’t run on my trusty HP 28S, so I can’t tell you what it looks like.) Update: Griffon points out a…

Once again, Opie301 gently reminds us that he’s better at keeping track of when the Halo Story Page is updated than I am. (As a matter of fact, mnemesis told me that this would be going up – but he didn’t tell me when it was UP, so my bad for not checking.) It’s just…

Konrad9 found a ‘new’ screenshot at Gamespot. (It’s not really new; it was seen in print before, in an OXM article (that for some reason isn’t scanned here) – but it’s never been seen online, in this resolution.) Very nice bumpmapping! We’ve added it to our Screenshots Database.

…but it wasn’t in Halo. Skeletor isolated a marine underground in 343 GS – and he doesn’t look like any other Halo marines I know about. (Well, that’s not totally true – I think it’s the guy on the left in this pic – but I can’t say as I’ve ever seen him myself in…

Eric Rickards made a pretty intriguing discovery; on Del Rey’s website, you can find preliminary information about a third Halo novel, entitled ‘Halo: First Strike’. The author is (once again) Eric Nylund… and the release date is scheduled for December 2003. Could this be (as Eric postulates) a Fall of Reach prequel… or will it…

Sometimes, we get movie submissions that don’t meet our guidelines… because they’re so far out there they can’t even be HELD UP to the guidelines. Halo War is one of those. 215K of MC-rockin’ insanity. So if you watch that, and say to yourself, “self, where can I get more of that MC-rockin’ insanity?” -…

kiro69 sends word of a Wichita, KS Halo tourney to be held on May 24 – $5 entrance fee, to be pooled and paid out to the 3 top finishers. More details can be found at the 7th Column chapter Midwest Assassins.

MSNBC has an article asking whether Half-Life 2 and Doom III can revive game sales. Halo (and Halo 2) are mentioned at the end of the article, in a section entitled ‘Don’t forget the consoles’ – and there’s a poll attached to the article asking which game you’d like to have delivered to your door…

We said he’d be adding one every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday… and he is. Stuntmutt’s second comic (‘Splinter Sell’) goes live today. It’s likely that we’ll be adding a Comics subsection to HBO to house this, Warbow’s Calvin and Halo, Hack Trio’s… thing, and a new one by Mathjis Buster (and anything else that comes…

Earlier today (okay, last night, local time), we posted a note about a movie we couldn’t watch, hosted by That Weasel Television. Thanks to the kindness of our forumites, we had a couple of flavors submitted that we COULD watch; we’ve tossed Lion’s MPEG version up to Mythica – it’s 27.2 mb (as opposed to…