Author: Louis Wu

Continued Fan Fiction submissions – Jehkoh sends in another poem (‘Death of a Soldier’), and Tursas ramps up again with a new series – ‘Effusion’. (This one’s a bit… odd. Has me wondering where it’s going. 🙂 Spoilers, though, for anyone who hasn’t finished Halo.) Check ’em out!

f·p·p · h·a·l·o, a Polish Halo page which had existed at some time in the past but had made it onto our Dead Links page for being, well, dead, has been resurrected, and once again has current Halo news. We’ve moved it to our regular Links page. (Vector40 noted this about a week ago, but I was…

The poetry continues – Jehkoh sends in ‘Legion’, to be found in our Fan Fiction section.

Danish Madness: Yesterday, we posted a note about a Danish Halo review. Otizz offered to translate it… I told him it wasn’t really necessary. Sippan decided to send in a translation anyway – so we thought, we might as well post it. (It comes with commentary.) Then, Paladin sent word of ANOTHER Danish review -…

This week’s Weekly HBO Review is longer than usual – thanks in large part to a lot of Bungie employee contributions. If you missed any posts this week, or just want the short version, check it out!

Short on ammo? Got a big gun, but don’t know what to use your limited shots on? brad has discovered a pretty cool exploit – in a coop game, if one player is reloading at the time that the other player passes a checkpoint, the gun that is being reloaded will have infinite ammo. Don’t…

At 12 noon UTC today (six and a half hours ago), Contest 1 of the Maw 700 closed – and our crack team of Halo experts huddled together over the final entries. After some rigorous debate (and not a few fisticuffs) a winner emerged. Our congratulations go out to ALL contestants… but especially to Frogblast,…

Drunkgamers.com has started a new feature – It’s a section with multiplayer pointers, accompanied by movies. The first one shows a nice flag recovery in a game of CTF Pro – and some damn good pistol shooting. guS, of drunkgamers, says to expect regular updates with more movies and pointers in the coming days. Worth…

Otizz sends word of a Danish Halo review at the Danish MSN site. It’s in Danish, so I have ZERO idea of what it says – but they rated it 6/6 butterflies. We’ve added it to our Reviews database, even though we don’t know how to translate the quote we used. (Hopefully, it’s clean.)

Jaywhit10 drops off part 2 of his absurdly-long-titled fanfic – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. Enjoy!

More fun with frozen stuff – Bonk has an interesting movie showing what happens when a Banshee crosses a loading zone without you… and Frogblast discovers a CLOSED (but flyable) Banshee. Wonga!

Heh – a Halo lan fest with some heavy drinkin’ goin’ on…

A pair of One-Shots from NeGat1vEzEr0 – dead guys and high spots. Check ’em out!

Woohoo! Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site is updated again – this time with human concept art (bittersweet to see a female engineer) and more wallpapers (though the Longswords are mislabeled as Longbows – which, in retrospect, might be a more appropriate name for them anyway). Last, but certainly not least, Marty has kindly made the…

A pair of new releases for the Fan Fiction section – Jehkoh turns in a very meaty second chapter to his Order of the Seraphim series, and Ryan drops off the first chapter to a new series, ‘Well Enough Alone’. Get to readin’!

Ooh, very nice. Not that anyone will actually read it… Matt Soell has set up the Rumor Control Database over at Bungie.net. It does its part to debunk the worst of the internet rumors about Halo – the infamous Halo 1.5 rumor, misconceptions about cheats, and (of course) the “Halo isn’t coming to the PC”…

Because of the outage we experienced last night, at least one submission that MIGHT have been repeated wasn’t – to compensate, we’re extending the submissions deadline for Maw 700 contest entries (the first half) until 12 noon UTC on March 15, 2002. (This is 7 am EST, or 4 am PST.)

Ferrago.co.uk, a UK gaming site, kicked off its full Xbox coverage today… and Halo got a nice review. They weren’t thrilled with the plot… but they liked the rest. They gave it a solid 92%. We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

The Renegade Marines gets a fifth chapter today – ‘The Assault’ looks at some hard action. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

Yesterday, we posted a cool Gameplay Trick that uses the ‘force field’ around the tops of trees to create a bridge of bodies. Frogblast had made a movie, as well as the still shots we showed you… but his server was having some trouble. The server’s fixed, and the movie has been posted. Check it…