Author: Louis Wu

Saturday Morning Fan Fiction:The Jump, part 1, by Stefano Scalia The Discovery, part 6, by strategyfreak The adventures of Mate-rik, part 2, by Leadbutt Cry for a Hero, part 1, by el_halo_diablo Fafnir, part 3, by KnightmareWolf Titan, part 3, by Jaywhit10Go get ’em!

Whoa. Inbox is FULL of Halo 2 Wallpaper today… Check out these 8 new submissions!badday.jpg, by Vinny MacH2.The.battle.Begins.jpg, by Knight Premierhalo2.jpg, by Kaworu Nagisahalo2targetwall.jpg, by ApostleHalo2Wallpaper.jpg, by Alex ‘Whistler’ Samouridishalo2_desktop.jpg, by authorhope.jpg, by Dusty PattImprovement1024.jpg, by AllentharYou’ll find ’em all in our Wallpaper section.

There just never seems to be time to process the Gameplay Tricks queue – I’ve decided to put them up a few at a time, which has to be preferable to waiting until I can process a dozen or so at a stretch. There are only 4 for you right now – but that’s 4…

Pez Mohr has put up a web interface for his Halo Movie mirror site – and we’ve put an easier name to remember on it. Check it out! (The web part is pretty slow… but the ftp downloads are quite fast. In addition, he’s provided news/movie links from here, to help you decide what version…

Alex Cross submits our first Halo 2 Wallpaper. You’ll find it in the Wallpaper section.

Miscellaneous, indeed:Mr Bill Jr V pushes the limits of what can legitimately be called Halo misc. artTeam Overkill pushes some other limitsYou can find their work in the Miscellaneous Art section. (We may have to start cracking down.)

A whole passel of Fan Fiction entries this morning:The Discovery, chapter 4 and chapter 5, by strategyfreak Rise To Honor, part 14, by Shadow Falling, by Vector40 Shadows of Archon, part 2, by Wado In addition, we received this note – take it as you will. (It’s not fan fiction… but it pertains to it.)

Last night, we announced Chaos on the Ring II, a new movie from ZiDigi Online. Response has been positive… except for some material at the beginning and end of the movie. In response to critics, the team has released a second version – it’s identical to the first, except it’s missing the first 30 seconds,…

Asmodeus has turned in the next chapter of his Legendary Walkthrough – The Library, one of the longest levels on Legendary, has now been pinned down. Having trouble with those waves of enemies? Come on by, and snag a few key techniques!

Fan Art continues to pour in:Warbow speculates on state-of-the-art camouflage Germain Couët looks at localization optionsCheck our Miscellaneous Art section for details

Another Halo 2 Press Release – this one specifically about Halo 2 (instead of Halo 2 and Project Gotham 2 combined). You can find it at Team Xbox, among other places… more drool material:”‘Halo 2’ is a lot like ‘Halo’, only it’s ‘Halo’ on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being…

For those who can’t wait for the Halo 2 Trailer, GameSpot has put up a synopsis of what you’ll see. You also get a taste of the Halo 2 story – here’s a snippet of it:As the Master Chief enters the hangar, it is revealed that his spacecraft is orbiting Earth–and that Earth is under…

If you’ve stopped drooling over those Halo 2 shots, come back to some Fan Fiction:Shadows of Archon, part 1, by Wado The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 4, by el_halo_diablo The Angel of Death, by Jason Pridgen Perfect Opposition, part 2, by ~ski200~ Get to readin’! There ain’t gonna be any playable Halo 2 demos…

The word from Microsoft on Halo 2 (Note: that said Microsoft, not Bungie) is that the game “is expected to arrive on store shelves for the 2003 holiday season,” according to this press release. PC Halo in the summer, Xbox Halo 2 in the winter… gonna be a good year next year!

You knew it was coming, right? Halo 2 has been announced. Swing by Bungie.net, and read all about it… new screens, new desktops… and a new movie, coming soon. This is gonna Rock Your World.

Back in February, Eric Giese and Russell Ziegler, of ZiDigi Online, put out Chaos on the Ring, a nicely-made vid showing some cool stunts. 6 months later, we’ve got Chaos on the Ring II – and it’s lots of fun. You gotta love the image of four Hogs, flying overhead like some sort of wingless…

Art on a shoestring:Germain Couët made a pretty necklaceInky wants to feed youVisit the Miscellaneous Art section!

Eep – these came in a couple of days ago, but they were attached to a message about something else, and I missed them. StarWarsFanMan has sent in a pair of enhanced Halo logos – you’ll find ’em in our Logos section. (He also sent in a ‘clearer’ version of the Forerunner Concept sketch he…

A little while ago, we posted a small Halo game created by a fan – now we’ve got another one for you. This one was created by Drew and Taylor (Lion on our forums), and the object is to simply shoot (click on) the grunts and elites floating around the screen. Grunts are 2 points,…

We received word that Clan Underworld Revolution has reviewed Halo. The review itself is ambiguous (there’s a lot wrong, in the reviewer’s eyes, it seems), but the summary suggests differently. (They gave it a 9.5/10, and called it ‘the best console game I have ever played’.) We’ve added it to our Reviews database.