Author: Louis Wu

Beginning the clear-out of backlogged artwork – here are three desktop images for you, two of which come with variations. Check all five out in our Wallpaper section!

To the folks sending in Megg movies and screenshots – thanks, but you can stop now. We’ve got several pretty high quality movies… but Meg’s out of town until Tuesday, and plans to handle the PR when she gets back. We’re going to hold off until then to post stuff, but we certainly don’t need…

Roger Wilco rocks.

We’re a bit late… but Episode 4 of Red vs. Blue has been available for sponsors for about 10 hours now. The public version will be up Sunday at noon, as usual. This one starts slow… but it had me laughing at the end.

In an interesting turn of the tables, Bungie’s SketchFactor has interviewed Frank O’Connor, Executive Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine, about his life and job. OXM is running a pretty big Halo 2 spread in next month’s issue (on newsstands in a bit more than a week), so the timing is pretty good. Take a…

A sad, sad day in Bungie-land… Matt Soell has posted a farewell message on our forum – today is his last day as a Bungie employee. All I can say is… we’re gonna miss him. Hopefully, the Bungie Way will find a new Keeper, and not be lost.

Just a quick reminder, courtesy of Bungie.net – today is the deadline for entries to the America’s Biggest Halo Fan contest. Get that video to them NOW!

A monster update for the Halo Story page today; typos, disease, and Stephen King! More tidbits than you can shake a SPNKR at… and while you’re there, don’t forget to check out the new digs!

Due to server problems, the fan fiction section hasn’t been updated for almost a week. Here are the 15 stories submitted in that time. Legacy Part Three, by Havok Fallen Angel 13: Curse of the Gods, by Gruntkiller/Covert Halo: The Three Day War Chapter 01, by Cpt Crapper Halo: The Practice, by Howlin’ Jackal The…

A large number of videos were dropped off in recent days – we’re going to have to be careful about doling them out, since Mythica (our main bandwidth candyman) is already pushing 5 megabits/second out of its fat (but not infinite) pipe. The first one we have for you is a two and a half…

Oops – another one we missed during the outage. Bungie.net ran a request from emildux for you to submit your suggestions for gametypes for the upcoming iGames Summer Season. This is your chance to get your favorite game variant known!

HBO was down while this was going on… but BOLL started a thread a few days ago in which he posted a series of panoramic views of Halo. (These were created, as you’d find by reading the thread, by standing in one place and rotating slowly… then running the resulting movie through a homebrewed program…

And ANOTHER new Halo site – Black Ops HQ. This one is also still being fleshed out, but the main design seems finished, and the forum is up. The community continues to grow…

A week ago, we mentioned a Halo RPG that’s being worked on by a forum denizen. This week, a website for the project came online, and many more screenshots have gone up. Take another look, if you want to see a rapidly-evolving role-playing game being developed.

SketchFactor has posted a note to the Fanfest 2003 Chapter to let folks know that a special mystery guest will be appearing at the Fanfest. Want to join in the speculation on who this guest might be? Hop on by, and post to the fanfest forum! (You don’t need to be a chapter member to…

The Halo50K tournament is well on its way to becoming a truly monster hoedown. Current prize purse is hovering around $8000, with a bunch of TVs to be given away as well. They were planning to accept registrations at the door, but they’ve decided to limit the tourney to 56 teams total (they were at…

Thesomeone writes to say that Halo.CombatEvolved is now online. Still being worked on, but many of the sections are live. Take a look…

Last month, we posted a news article about a program called Game Stars, running on ITV1, in the UK – web surfers could cast their votes for the best games in the UK. Griffon let us know that the show aired on Sunday… and Halo didn’t do very well. It took the Games Radar.com Award……

PC Halo gets listed in the ‘Big Games of 2003’ article at IGN PC – you’ll find it on page 3, in the First Person Shooters category. They suggest that folks might not like it because it’s old, and its graphics are dated… and that the multiplayer aspect might be weak. But except for that,…

Whew. Back from a (very pleasant) 5 day trip to Belgium… and attempting to deal with some of the backlog here. I was very careful to make sure there were folks minding the store here, with access to almost all parts of the bungie.org infrastructure. The one part I left out was the HBO hardware…