Author: Louis Wu

The NPD Group has released a report on video game sales for 2002 – and among other interesting facts, they’ve compiled a Top 10 Best Selling Game Titles list. On the list are seven PS2 games, one GameBoy Advance game, one GameCube game… and Halo. Booyah! Thanks to kareem ramos for the heads-up.

After a 2-week hiatus, the Bungie Webcam is back in action – and if you look now, you’ll get a glimpse of the Elite Halo t-shirt. (It’s archived here, in case the image changes.) Thanks to SketchFactor for the heads-up!

Took some work… but the Movies database has finally been brought up-to-date. 20 films released in the past 2 months are now listed (and searchable). Hopefully, this’ll help folks looking for that special film. The most recent addition hasn’t even been mentioned here in the news yet – so let me do that now. Athol…

Bringing the Interviews section up-to-date, we’ve added 4 recent interviews with Marty O’Donnell – the guy’s been talkative these past couple of months!

Three new desktops for you today – A Matrix-inspired one (well, Reloaded, at least) that’s wicked-cool, one that uses the recently-posted Helljumpers interpretation, and one that… well, I can’t really explain it. I suppose that’s because I don’t understand it. You’ll find all three in our Wallpaper section.

Joshua Pettigrew created a logo for the Helljumpers, Special Forces troops mentioned in the Fall of Reach. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Lots of new stories in the Fan Fiction offerings today: HALO: The Spartans, part 1, by S7N D-Day: The Beach, by Shadow Spartan 5 Way War, part 4, by Demosthenes Eye of the Storm: Sanity’s Reqiuem, by Ashur Wrong or Right, by Harley Halo Zero, part 1, by nicholas See what you can find…

10 tips have been added to the Tips Database, including a pretty exhaustive look at all the ways of dealing with Banshees on the Natural Bridge of AotCR. Sometimes internet worms can pay useful dividends for fansites…

Hehe… and the egg-like things continue. Yesterday, Argos noticed that ‘Rock Anthem for Saving the World’, a high-energy piece from the Halo Soundtrack, was exactly 1:17 long. Not only does that match up nicely with the Master Chief’s Spartan II designation… but expressed in seconds, it’s got a length of 77. Marty made it clear…

In the first all-from-existing-footage movie in a LONG time that seems worth passing along, Senator32 has combined the soundtrack from the StarCraft Ghost trailer with Halo footage spanning almost 3 years to create ‘Halo Warrior’. It’s 6.4 mb, in MPEG format. (The byte savings from converting to QuickTime format wasn’t worth the effort.) Mythica, as…

We got word of three new or revamped Halo sites over the weekend; John pointed out Halo Reamped (‘your source for every thing halo’), sk8er told us to check out Halo HQ (which has ZERO information except a couple of links to buy Halo and Halo 2 at EB Games, passing along a commission to…

Three new desktop images for you; a nice composite of the very old (one of the earliest wallpaper submissions we ever got) and the very new (a Halo 2 shot), a nice cleanup of some magazine art, and more playing cards. Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section!

MiNiTeK14 dropped off a drawing of a Covenant Elite – we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section.

A little earlier than usual, maybe, but the Bucs kicked some serious butt tonight, so what the heck. The new Screenshots posted at Bungie.net yesterday have been added to our Screenshots database – unreferenced shots and all.

Ferrex dropped in for a minute to pass along some tantalizing tidbits about the newest screenshot… and to update the community, in a roundabout way, on where the Halo engine is in lighting progress. Very, very nice to get new info…

Fan Fiction turned in in the last couple of days:Omega Red Chapter 4, by Kane172 This Battle, by Nike Wings of Death Part 19, by el_halo_diablo Sarge’s Story: Daux, by Jamirus99/Traumatized Marine HALO: The Spartans, by S7N This is the Series Finale of Wings of Death – and it’s a long one! Update: Oops, forgot…

He lives! *Ar-Isildur took time out of his busy schedule of bedrest and nasty treatments to pop into our forum with a quick update. He’s not out of the woods yet… but your emails and cards are definitely helping. Way to go, folks!

Thanks to Griffon, who points out that the latest OXM UK contains their 2002 Awards piece. Halo won 3 of them:Game of the year awardMost Nail-Biting end sequenceBest reason to get surround soundHe sent in some digicam shots of the article, but 1) they were REALLY hard to read, and 2) we couldn’t put them…

At long last, the Halo50K tournament has firm dates for play – clear your calendar for April 26th and 27th, 2003. Fifty Grand on the line… don’t miss it! Thanks to Dolbex for the heads-up.

Nice work by BOLL – he discovered a couple of unreferenced screens on Bungie.net in the newest batch of Halo 2 uploads; one of them has been seen before (in the recent Halo 2 Photo Story), but the other is brand-spankin’ new. And a gorgeous shot it is!