Author: Louis Wu

This came in a couple of days ago, but we missed it because we were all at MacWorld (except for Crux, who was burning incense and hoping for salvation). Jon Bonneau has created his view of what the box for ‘Halo Next’ (OXM’s unimaginative moniker for the next Halo game) will look like. Check it…

A Halo National Championship? Microsoft, EB, and iGames (a game center company) have teamed up to offer you a nationwide competition with prizes like a 50 inch flat screen TV, amazing audio systems, and lots of Xbox-related hardware. You can read Bungie’s description at Bungie.net, or visit Xbox.com for links and a movie with some…

It’s better to change the Man’s diapers, than to be the Man… or something. The founder of Bungie Studios, Alex Seropian, has announced that he’s leaving Bungie at the end of August to concentrate on… well, life. You can read the details at Bungie.net… but I’d like to say right here and now that we’re…

A couple of days ago, Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez, master of BS, cornered Peter Tamte at Macworld New York and asked him some interesting questions about the Mac and PC ports of Halo. Read the interview here – we’ll add it to our Interviews database in the near future. (And thanks to Peter for all the…

Want a serious fighter jet? Check out Storm Singer’s Skyhawk – Background in Bryce, plane in Lightwave. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Fly me to the moon, baby…

A full Fan Fiction series today (plus more):A Whacky Spartan, Parts 1-2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6, by Daniel Jackson Halo 2: Jupiter, Part 2, by Chi Zhang Gotta go now…

Whoa. Do you live anywhere near San Jose, California? Would you be willing to pay $30 for the chance to play Halo on a screen that is 40 feet by 60 feet (12×18 meters)? Swing by this page, then, and register forMax Games, at the Tech Museum of Innovation – on August 15, they’ll be…

Whew! The Gameplay Tips queue has finally been emptied – almost 30 tips added. (Some quite good, even.) Now we just need a reasonable way to sort them… For those myriad fans still waiting patiently (or maybe not so patiently any more – dang, Bungie got their PC Halo announcement out before we finished this),…

Bungie.net came back up from its downtime this morning… and you’re gonna like the reason. They were installing their new Forum system – eventually, every chapter will be able to ahve its own forum, but for now, there are just a pair of them, The Underground, and the Septagon. It’s completely custom-built – check it…

Pack up the lamps, Granny – HBO is moving. We’re setting up new digs on a nice fat pipe, so that folks who’ve had trouble connecting should find that things have improved. (It’s not, unfortunately, fat enough to handle all of the movies we mention… sorry.) We’ll keep both the old and the new sites…

The things people will do in their spare time…

Bungie.net has put up a notice that all Bungie web services will be down for several hours tomorrow, starting at 10:30 AM PDT. (Obviously, you won’t be able to read it THERE after that point, so we’re mentioning it here.) This means a couple of hours of webcam downtime…

Couple of new Fan Fiction stories for you:Halo: The True Warrior Part Two, by Mike ‘Halo Lord’ Galazka Halo 2: Jupiter, by Chi ZhangStill playin’ catch-up… Update: Within 7 minutes of posting those two, Shadow turned in his latest chapter of the Rise to honor series. Gotta love it!

Ever wanted to see what the Keyes Loop actually looked like? NthDegree256 modeled it for you. (Also available as a 139K .mov file, if the .avi is hard to see…) Pretty cool!

Want a free Xbox, and a copy of Halo? MyLocalBands.com is giving one away, autographed by Home Town Hero (a ‘postiviely valiant rock ‘n’ roll band’). You need to visit the contest page, and send the link to all your friends – each friend who visits the page from your link earns you a chance…

We’ve updated the Links section a bit – stripped out URLs that no longer lead anywhere (though we didn’t remove seemingly inactive links that actually still pointed to a Halo site), added a site or two… reorganized a bit. There is now a Fan Fiction section, a Movie Mirrors section, and all the known online…

Mythica.org still seems to be down – an ominous sign. Stepping to the plate are The Repertory and Project Mjolnir – two sites devoted to Halo movies – and That Weasel Television, another long-time bandwidth donator. Most movies released recently now have multiple mirrors at one or more of these sites. The Movies database has…

Just in time for mythica.org, our biggest movie bandwidth donor, to go down, the Movies Database has been updated – 21 movies created in the past month or so have been added to the database. Unfortunately, many of them are hosted only by the mythica server, so they’re not all available at the moment… but…

Mr Bill Jr V, a fan-fiction submitter in the past, has created a Halo movie entirely in Bryce. It’s 3:02 long, 13 megs big, and in QuickTime 5 format. Vector40, who is hosting the movie over at The Repertory, calls it ‘meditative.’ Seems to me it would have worked very nicely with a Tangerine Dream…

Sunday’s Fan Fiction (really, the last several days):The Lost Away Man, by redblooded Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 3, by Ian Barnes The Brethren of Saturn, part 5, by Lynnada Rise To Honor, part 8, by Shadow The Aftermath, part 4, by GasmaskCatchin’ up slowly…