Author: Louis Wu

Bungie.net has been keeping track of the total number of registrants for the Halo National Championship… and tonight that number passed 6000. (Check the upper right-hand corner of their website for the current tally.) Will you be the 7,000th contestant?

Thirsty? (Thanks to Cap’n Keyes…)

Heh – for those who think there aren’t any tricks left to find in Halo, think again. Lennox noticed an interesting interaction yesterday… and after the forum settled down and stopped calling him a liar, Warbow actually FILMED a variant. It was intriguing enough to get the attention of a Halo Dev team member… which…

Wonga. Remember Chaos on the Ring? (Back when Warthog Jumping was relatively new, this flick pushed the limits.) Well, these guys are putting the finishing touches on Chaos II… and their website says it’ll be ready by Saturday! The hitch? It’s gonna be HUGE. (Like 400 megs huge, if I read their blurb right.) I’d…

Warbow has polished up two new Warthogs for your perusal – a Copper version, and a Winter Camo version. You can find both in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Personally, I’d LOVE one of those Camo models…)

Built-up Fan Fiction (including a fixed version of the Misadventures):The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 2 , by el_halo_diablo Halo 2: The End, by Eric Gunther The Return of the Archons, part 2, by Wado The Lost Spartan, part 9, by Spartan415 Halo 2: Jupiter, part 3, by Chi Zhang Warning: escaping convicts… part 6,…

Continuing to clear out the Incoming file queue – a couple of new desktop images for you. One composite, one original… check ’em out in our Wallpaper section. (Fan Fiction coming later this morning…)

Oh, and before we forget… Xbox Weekly has a story on Halo Babies. Be sure to read it carefully. Thanks to ChromeFX for the heads-up.

GameSpot interviewed David Hufford, Xbox product manager, and one question stood out with regard to the Halo community:GS: There was some confusion regarding the “Halo online” announcement made at E3 2002. Is Bungie developing an Xbox Live version of Halo, or did the announcement pertain to an entirely new product? DH: An entirely new product.…

Another entrant in the Xbox tunneling software category… Xbox Ladder comes onboard. It’s unclear how it works yet (the FAQ’s not up, and we have no reports from adopters), but if the other solutions aren’t working for you, give these guys a try! (Mentioned by zoe on our forum – part of the team?)

Thanks to Tirion, who pointed out a Reuters article at Yahoo which quotes John O’Rourke, MS’s director of worldwide Xbox marketing, as saying that”the company is committed to bringing out new versions of both “Halo” and “Project Gotham” in the next year, and taking advantage of Xbox Live, the new online gaming service Microsoft plans…

Man… it’s Warthog Week, or something.

It’s not really Halo-related… but the Phoenix site here doesn’t have a Wallpaper section yet. 🙂 Phoenixhunter has submitted a Phoenix-styled desktop image, which we’ve added to our Wallpaper collection. Nice job!

Team Overkill points out a Gamespotting article praising the power of Halo to convert even non-gameplayers to console gamers. A fun read.

Back from the wilds, and still in an off-road frame of mind… nice to see that in my absence, there’s been a bunch of Warthog-related action. Blackstar has created a pair of Warthog ads—I like the first better than the second, but they’re both worth watching—in QuickTime 5 format, at 6.9 mb and 7.4 mb…

Wonga – what are the chances? Two misc art submissions, from two different people, with the same general idea! Razorback sent in a very cool workup of the M-12 GT, a civilian version of the military ‘hog. I LOVE that hood ornament! Not quite in the same league, but still freakily coincidental, )hog sent in…

Team Overkill, a group of four sharpshooters from Staten Island, have put up the first writeup of the end-of-Macworld Lanfest sponsored by the NYC Bungie-holics. You can find it linked from their Clan site… or you can cut to the chase and visit the Events page directly. These guys kicked ass and took names. Go…

Speaking of movies, Brian Towne has checked in after a week-long vacation… and it sounds like his movie server was not the only bad news he faced. 🙁 The good news (for HBO visitors) is that mythica.org should be back up and running in the next day or two, depending on when Brian can get…

Hnn Productions sends word that they’ve put a new movie up for you to grab. It’s called ‘Halo-Trigger Happy’, and it’s a 4:15 long .wmv that weighs in at 6.9 mb. It mostly shows solo gameplay, set to ‘Click Click Boom’, by Saliva. We’ll list it soon in our Movies database.

The Fan Fiction just doesn’t stop – here’s the stuff that’s been building while we’ve been out of town at Macworld:Halo 2: Jupiter, chapter 1, by Chi Zhang Ascendant, part 7, by Archangel’s Blade The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 1, by el_halo_diablo The saviours of man, part 1, by Shadow_hunter117 Rise To Honor, part…