Author: Louis Wu

Lots of Fan Fiction in the past 24 hours: Rebirth – Shadow’s Prologue, part 3, by Shadow/Archangel’s Blade/KnightmareWolf/Spartan415 Covenant Theater, part 2, by Alex Ross Force 81, part 5, by NobleWard Stormbringers, part 5, by WildebeestNZ A New Year’s Day, part 9, by Guilty Spark Ring Of The Forerunners, part 3, by Locke Under the…

Followup on Brian Morden and a donation fund… Brian’s dad is in the process of setting up an account at their local credit union. As soon as we have an address, we’ll post it. (There will also be an email address you can use to send Paypal donations.) Nobody’s going to hound you to donate;…

Over the years, HBO has grown to house a pretty big collection of fan-created artwork (images, stories, movies, you name it). We’ve reached a point at which we can no longer accept pieces with no regard for quality. This is unfortunate, and we hate turning people away… but we need to draw a line. Our…

Almost forgot… there was another submission on our forum yesterday for the Halo 2 Cover Art collection – we’ve added lloyd’s entry to the database.

The screenshots that were posted along with Bungie’s recent addition to their Legendary Walkthrough (Keyes) have been added to our Screenshots database. This is especially timely, since bungie.net seems to be down this morning.

Clearing out the Fan Fiction: Stolen UNSC Technical Documents, by Neile Pederson A Fresh Start, part 3, by Simon James When Worlds Collide 2.5, Halo Songs, and Elite Interview, by Gasmask Force 81 Part IV, by NobleWard There are still some artwork pieces undealt with… but most of them don’t make the cut under the…

Early adopters of Apple’s new Safari browser have discovered that they can’t view spoiler-laden posts on this site, because Safari won’t save the cookie that allows access. Steve Rice, a kind reader, has sent in a fix. Check it out.

In early December, emildux posted some information about an effort to pick the top 50 chapters in the US (one per state). Today, he points out that this list has been overhauled… he’s keeping up on activity (the HBO Junkies lost our spot in Connecticut because we haven’t been doing anything), so if you’re looking…

Yesterday, we mentioned that *Ar-Isildur, a stalwart member of the community, was in a bad way and could use your get-well wishes. Ciarán discovered a link to the Hospital’s web site, where you can send a get-well email to a patient. Ar’s full name is Brian Morden, and he’s in Room 8. (You might want…

Whoa – blast from the past. Relevant to now, even.

About a month ago, Hedgemony, a forum regular (absent now for a few weeks), was in the middle of a project to catalog all the dialog in Halo. He wished out loud that he could ask Marty O’Donnell all sorts of questions about the sound in Halo… well, Marty’s a pretty good guy. Hedge wrote…

Hmm… got mail from The Elite Spartan, he’s interested in setting up a Halo tournament in or around Fayetteville, AR. He needs to know how much interest there’d be for a summer tournament, though… if you’re interested, drop him a line.

Well, you can’t say they don’t have spirit. Heliocentric has started up a forum with one purpose in mind: to find a new easter egg in Halo before Halo 2 is released. While I can’t say I understand how they plan to accomplish this with a forum, I can’t fault them for their passion… go…

Every once in a while, a new trick pops up that potentially changes the way Halo gets played among friends. (One that sticks in my mind is the Sidewinder Sneak – it forever changed CTF games on Sidewinder, and opened huge vistas for tricksters looking to explore the single-player game.) Now there’s a new one……

Warbow’s Hide and Seek game, Round 3, is finally over. (It started on January 8.) Watch the short movie referenced in his announcement, and you’ll understand why it took so long to solve the last image… (He’s tired, it’ll be a while before round 4.) Congrats, c0ld vengeance – a clean sweep of all five…

Tobias points out a new Swedish Halo site – Halo-Se. There’s nothing there yet (but forums)… but he wanted to help build a community.

Periodically, folks show up on our forum, or in other gaming forums, and claims to know someone who’s beta-testing Halo 2. Or they claim to be beta-testing it themselves. Dave Candland of Bungie made such a clear statement today explaining why these people couldn’t possibly be telling the truth that we’ve added his explanation to…

Not Halo-related… but it’s community-related, and pretty important. Check out SilverBrin’s post about forum regular *Ar-Isildur, and send along a card!

Fan Fiction backlog is now ALSO cleared out:Under the sergeant’s cap, part 2, by Traumatised Marine Fallen Angel, part 4, by Gruntkiller/Covert Covenant Theater, part 1, by Alex Ross Dark Halo, part 1, by Wado In the Beginning, by HaloFanMan When Worlds Collide 2, by Gasmask Interesting range of timbres today…

Homelan Fed interviewed Randy Pitchford, of Gearbox Software, yesterday. For the most part, it’s a discussion of Counter-Strike… but there are a few positive Halo tidbits, as well:HomeLAN – What can you tell us about the status and progress of Halo for the PC at this point? Randy Pitchford – Halo is going great. We’ll…