Author: Louis Wu

A little while ago, we put up a page dedicated to BOLL’s cool panoramic Halo shots. Recently, he built a wicked-cool Flash interface for viewing these… so we’ve dumped it into the directory here. Use the plain-vanilla page we built… or BOLL’s much slicker viewer. (Benefit of ours, I guess, is that downloading the files…

synide has put together a website for tournaments in the Jonesboro, Arkansas area. If you’re interested, stop on by and sign up!

Ross Mills has created a Halo movie in which (I think) the Queen song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is acted out, using Halo characters. Ross wasn’t able to figure out how to convert his WMP9 movie into a format we could read, so he’s gone elsewhere for hosting; That Weasel Television has put it up… and given…

To show his appreciation for the astounding goodness that is the Halo 2 spread in the Official Xbox Magazine this month, bikeman704 triggered the Megg… and added a bit. Cool. (Hehe… he’s still got four bullets left…)

Gah! I forget to check the Fan Fiction section for a couple of days, and things go MAD! 18 new stories since Monday… Stowaway Part 2 (1 of 3), by Dispraiser Epic Poem I, by devilsNight The Road to Zaxheoa: Chapter 1: The Covenant Attack, by Nike True Purpose(2), by Frensa Geran Just Getting Started…

Nice find by aaron charles – a sizeable writeup about a bunch of (old) guys who get together regularly to play Halo – in LA Weekly. (It’s the second story down, titled ‘War Games: Playing the First Battle of the 26th Century’.) Beaten by Chinese children… but back for more.

The tireless grunts at the Halo Story Page have given you even MORE content to chew on. There’s now a HSP FAQ… and ‘Halothon’, an addendum to the Marathon Connections page. (It’s not really story-related, but it’s not really eggs, either; it was homeless, so Finn gave it a home.) Read and be wiser.

A new Halo-related comic at Subnova today – posted last night, but I couldn’t get to it right away. For what it’s worth, Deimos is a nicer guy than that. (Pallor, now… Pallor might have done that.)

Xerxes writes to let us know that Halo Orbit just got a new layout – it loads three times as fast as the old one, and includes a news search function, among other new tidbits. (Anyone paying attention knows how much I love news search functions, and realizes Halo Orbit just got 14 brownie points…

The boys at Battleground: Halo got a note from David Mertz, the lead level designer for Halo PC. Go read it on their front page (or at this more permanent location) for details on their preparations for E3.

gd points out that there’s a new poll over at Gamespot: ‘Which of these highly-anticipated first-person shooters are you most looking forward to?’ Halo 2 currently has 42% of nearly 8000 votes… but you can help make sure it doesn’t lose that edge.

Hehe… for another take on the OXM Halo 2 scan issue, check out Penny Arcade’s comic yesterday. (More info is available in the news, as well.) Thanks to Ross Mills for the heads-up.

A sad, sad story… go read the tale of the AAARDP. And let this be a lesson to you! (A lesson about what, I’m not sure.)

Whoa. Ceri Thomas has created a Halo card game – and at first blush, it’s pretty dang high quality. Rules (and cards) come in the form of a 2.2 mb PDF; download it, print it on cardstock, and cut it up. I haven’t actually played it… but the rules are pretty clear, and seem to…

Slothboy let us know about ‘Ash vs. The Covenant’, his tribute to the Halo WAST-M. Check it out – timing is QUITE good. (Format is mpeg-4; QuickTime 6 will open it, but I’m not sure about other programs.) 9.2 mb, 1:26 long. Two thumbs up. Minor spoilers, for anyone keeping track.

For those who don’t remember, we announced a major bungie.org contest, the Pillar of Art, a few months ago. We wanted to take this opportunity to remind you that the deadline for submissions is now less than three weeks away; we need to RECEIVE your submission by May 16, 2003. (If you mail it on…

Stuntmutt has begun work on a new comic strip – one that we’re hosting here. It’s called One One Se7en, and it stars your very own Master Chief, in all his MS Paint glory. We’ll be releasing new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, unless something comes up. To start with, go check out ‘Mission…

Well, they might be a little hard to see… but Dolbex has put up a couple of hundred pictures from the Halo50K event. Unfortunately, the server is somewhat overloaded, so you might run into trouble seeing some of the thumbnails, or loading some pages. Be patient, though – there’s some fun stuff in there!

Good lord – as if you didn’t have ENOUGH to read… mnemesis, afraid that his job was being usurped by the young upstart Finn, went on an all-night rummaging binge and pulled out ANOTHER dozen-and-a-half morsels from the enormous Story Page email archive to mull over. Mosey on over to the Halo Story Page news…

Another Battlefield 1942 mod team throws its hat in the Halo ring. Inner Circle Halo is working on a conversion for BF1942 to bring Halo weapons and vehicles into a multiplayer environment that supports up to 64 players. Check out their website for some early renders… and if you’re interested in helping out, they’re looking…