Author: Louis Wu

A couple of weeks ago, a Halo easter egg that had been discovered back in March was finally documented on Bungie’s website – so we’ve taken this to mean that we can finally include it in our Easter Egg collection. (Originally, Joe Staten asked that we not document it with a screenshot, so that future…

Wonga. I sleep, Bungie works. The Tru7h and Reconciliation website has gotten some serious updating… there’s boatloads of Halo 2 content now. All of it, as far as I can tell, has been seen before… but it’s never been on the official site, and some of it is in better digital form than ever before.…

Mac Gamer has another Westlake update – Glenda Adams, Westlake’s president, says the code they are getting is “light years different code-wise than anything that ever ran on the Mac.” There’s not much past Wednesday’s MacCentral comments… but it sounds pretty exciting! (Thanks to Rossco for the heads-up.)

Devastator, a member of Team Caucasians, sent us this picture of his team celebrating their win at the Qualifiers of the Halo Winter Season. I’m pretty amazed that they gave out trophies like that for the qualifying rounds – there were 100 iGames centers hosting qualifiers, and three rounds played… that’s a LOT of trophies.…

We’ve added a new subsection here at HBO – in the navbar, under ‘Press Coverage’, you’ll find Halo 2 Previews. It’s just a list of Halo 2 Previews posted on the net, with links to the original pages and the dates they were posted. Thanks to Proximity Zero for two that we didn’t have on…

Brian Hannan checked out the recently submitted weapons graphics extracted from the Halo manual, and decided that vector art should be available in vector format. He re-extracted the images, cleaned ’em up, and placed them all into a single EPS file. You can find this file (and a graphic showing what you can do with…

In response to a slew of questions sent to us (and asked on our forum) about the Pillar of Art contest, we’ve added a Frequently Asked Questions section. Check it out, and don’t hesitate to send us mail if your question isn’t answered. We’ve also reduced the maximum size of paintings to 5′ x 6’…

A very cool concept sketch of the Master Chief – check our Miscellaneous Art section.

Three new desktops from fans today – check ’em out in our Wallpaper section.

Fan Fiction in the last day or two: Legend Hunting, part 2 and Stranded at Home, part 2, by Dispraiser ROUND-THINGIE 2, by Matt Anderson Fallen Angel, part 5, by Gruntkiller/Covert Rebirth, part 1, by KnightmareWolf Get to readin’…

D.J. Clich has created an electronica Halo-sample song called ‘Get Up (Halo Mix)’. It’s a 5.6 mb mp3, composed of outtakes clips from b.net set to a beat. Won’t appeal to everyone (I found it a bit repetitive myself), but it’s pretty well done. We’ve dropped it on our Mythica mirror – if there’s a…

Yesterday, we mentioned a couple of posts by Dark Helmet, showing some cool vids of high-jumping on Halo. We got mail from a couple of people who couldn’t watch them, for whatever reason… so DH was kind enough to send along mpegs, which we converted to QuickTime movies. The High Jump vid (1.3 mb) and…

Tarrsk and FatWalker both write to point out that PC Halo is #4 in Gamespy’s Most Wanted Games of 2003 list. Tarrsk also reminds us to keep an eye peeled for the Top 10 Console Games list coming later this week. (That link won’t work until tomorrow…)

A month and a half ago, we mentioned a tournament at Central Michigan University, in Mt. Pleasant. Jake McCarthy writes to remind folks that this is happening this weekend, on January 25. You can call him at (989) 774-6367 for details.

bungie.org is proud to announce its first-ever Art Contest. The Pillar of Art will reward artists who work in traditional media – no digital art allowed! Prizes include cold, hard cash and some super-cool stuff from Bungie. Read the details on the Pillar of Art page! (Before going in, don’t forget to admire the front…

Mike Miller has created a movie called ‘In Too Deep (Things to Do in Halo When You’re Bored)’ – it’s 6:22 long, 20.7 mb large, and pretty much covers everything in our Tips and Tricks section in one easy lesson. (Okay, not everything. But an awful lot of it.) Mix in some humor, nice timing,…

MacCentral has posted a project status update from Westlake Interactive, the folks that are working on the Mac port of Halo. Westlake said that’s in “Prototype” stage, an important development milestone that precedes the game’s playable status. Bold hopes to ship the game almost concurrently with its PC counterpart’s release, expected later in 2003. So…

Dark Helmet is back. After a spell away from Halo moviemaking, he’s submitted a slew of films in recent days. Two new ones today; a 250+ meter jump on the level Halo (measured with a Navpoint), and a truly high-flying banshee. Both posts lead to WMV vids.

RevolutionSF reviewed Halo about a year ago – dr_saius discovered it today. We’ve added it to our Reviews database. They also reviewed The Fall of Reach, at about the same time. (They liked it.)

What’s this? Two Halo Story Page updates in two days? What’s the world coming to?