Author: Louis Wu

PCDestroyer has come up with some League Play rules/guidelines that might be useful if you’re organizing large groups for Halo. It’s available as a 56k Word document, and covers everything from game types to schedules. Check it out!

Mirror, mirror, on the net… halo-game.com (in France) and That Weasel Television (in the US) have both stepped up to provide Hogball mirrors – and That Weasel also created a much smaller version, for those on slower connections – screensize is 160×120, but filesize is only 6 megs. Grab ’em while they’re hot! Update: Two…

Play Ball!… Hogball, that is. javacool and benjammin’ have created a new multiplayer gametype… and the 20 mb, 3 and a half minute movie they created to show it off is simply hilarious. Check it out! (Sympathy goes out to banjammin’… who seemed to die a LOT.) The website link contains both the movie and…

Dug up another 17 Halo reviews around the net, and have added them to the Reviews database. Total is now 107 – the average score still hovers around 95%.

Draikin sends in a nice desktop image based on the OXM mural in the January issue (with a few additions…). Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

Whoa.

Thanks to Nick Rolfe, who sent along this link from the European Leisure Software Publishers Association – for the week ending 16th March 2002, Halo was second in total software sales of ALL games, in ALL formats; this is astounding, given that it was released 2 days before the week ended. Not too shabby!

Mr. Zarquon points out that his Halo Movie Mirror page has been updated with much of the new Halo material out there – if you’re having trouble with some of these movies, spread the download weath!

[WD]Machine drops us a line about his Halo clan site – World Domination. Check it out!

First Blood Gulch, then Sidewinder, now Battle Creek – Alan Wu sends along another Halo-inspired Starcraft map. 95k – check it out!

We’ve added the 33 screenshots that go along with the Legendary Walkthrough posted a couple of days ago at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site to our Screenshots Database. Needless to say, some of these contain spoilers. (However, some are simply astounding.)

Doh! I hate busy weekends, in terms of what they do to this site’s timeliness. On Friday, we got word that Drunkgamers.com had put up the second part of their Multiplayer Pointers series, which contained a nice, short, insanely busy (for 2v2) 1-minute clip… and before we had time to post about it, Part 3…

Yesterday, we told you that Halo HQ was offline for a bit – today, Pacey Dre tells us it’s back up.

More weekend reading – 3 more pieces of Fan Fiction have come in. Sarge turns in the second chapter of Banserki’s Journal, The Wraven drops off Chapter 1 of Halo: Siege of the Rings, and Steven Crowley gives us Chapter 1 of Halo: Protect the Homestead. Whew! More updates (not ff, but other stuff) coming…

PmanC sketches a Grunt… and sends it to us. It’s in the Miscellaneous Art section.

The guys at Socket Error have turned in another desktop image – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Pacey Dre writes to let us know that HQ Halo isn’t down for good… just offline until the bandwidth excession has passed. (He’s guessing 2 or 3 days.)

Bonk has put up a very nice little QuickTime VR movie (200k) of the top of Silent Cartographer… makes me want to build a house up there. (I wonder how much that island land is going for…?)

Updates can be hard on family days… but here are three new Fan Fiction items for you – the first part of Banserki’s Journal (A View From the Grunt), Chapter 5 of The Tides of War, and Chapter 1 of Effusion. Go to it!

Major updates at Bungie’s websites: Truth and Reconciliation’s Legendary Walkthrough has gotten a second chapter (with some GORGEOUS screenshots, thanks to Mordia), and the Seventh Column has a monster interview with bungie.org’s own Miguel Chavez, Bungie’s Number One Fan. Check ’em out!