Author: Louis Wu

On page 49 of this week’s London Sunday Times is an article on gaming consoles – and the picture they chose to use was the Master Chief… wielding a flamethrower! Rather odd, given that it’s been known that the flamethrower was pulled in development over 4 months ago… If there are any UK Halo fans…

A new magazine called Xgamer went onsale in the UK last month, and the first issue contained a 12-page Halo spread. (We’ll be posting scans, courtesy of Ghôlsbane, later this week, when issue 2 hits the stands.) In the meantime, though, Games Radar UK has put up a chunk of the text of the spread…

Divender writes to let us know that AreaHalo, a new German Halo site, has come online. Nice design (not NS4-friendly, but then, what is?), some GREAT wallpaper, high-quality content. Check ’em out!

Ran across another Halo review – this one from Xbox Au. They thought it was somewhat derivative… but that didn’t stop them from rating it a 9.4/10. We’ve added it to our Reviews database.

A reminder – The deadline for the first half of the Maw 700 Contest is this Friday night, at midnight UTC. Three more days to get those entries in! And by now you should be thinking seriously about submissions for the SECOND half of the contest – the movie submission. Rules, suggestions, and prizes can…

Fast and Furious, that’s what we call the Fan Fiction section around here. Shadow has dropped off another chapter of the Renegade Marines saga – you can read Chapter 4 by itself, or you can read the entire series. Don’t forget to leave some feedback!

Took longer than I expected, but our FTP Uploads folder is back up and running again. We’re happy to take submissions there. (The only real change – the directory is no longer world-readable. It’s a dropbox only… so be sure you let us know there’s something in there!)

Another new Halo review – this time, it’s the French site VoS JeUx. They loved it. They didn’t get a chance to play multiplayer… but the single player blew ’em away. You’ll find it in our Reviews database, as well. Thanks to Cyberpro54@aol.com for the heads-up.

The Master Chief and Cortana… back on Earth. Jehkoh drops off a new fanfic entitled ‘Order of the Seraphim’, which looks at battle on Earth, post-halo. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Manatee Bound has reviewed Halo – they saw the limited weapons-carrying ability and the limited enemy assortment as the biggest flaws. Final rating was 8.75/10 – we’ve added the review to our Reviews database.

Psyrixx dropped us a note to let us know that they’re working hard on bringing the Psyjnir Complex back online. In the meantime, he’s redrawing the comic series he started before the server melted – with more detail than the first time. Check back every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a new comic – until…

A couple of Fan Fiction submissions for you – both nearly free of punctuation. Luckily, one’s a poem. You’ll find Jaywhit10’s The Hell of War and Jehkoh’s Untitled Poem in the Fan Fiction section.

Got a Nokia cell phone? Want to make it ring with the Halo theme? Rage Reset has posted the codes necessary in Nokia Ring Tone Composer format on our forum… and it’s got Marty’s OK (though nobody checked with Microsoft, so be sure you don’t go to Redmond and get calls with this thing…). The…

A few new One-Shots have been added to our collection – check out the goodies! (No serious spoilers, even for those who haven’t played, I’d guess… minor stuff only.)

Naligun points out that the UK TV show Thumb Bandits finished its season on Friday, and announced that Halo was the best game of the entire series! It was, in their words, “Outrageously good. This game has everything. Utter, unmitigated genius.” High praise, indeed!

Freewill has put up a video comprised of over 1500 webcam snapshots taken over a 14 hour period… it’s 6 megs, and shows (mostly) the projection screen we used for the first 12 hours or so. However, there are people shots, as well… if you’ve got a fast connection, give it a look!

A literal flood of Fan Fiction – here’s what went up tonight: The Flood (a poem) by Gasmask Earth: Combat Evolved Chapter 2 by drexx Renegade Marines Part III – The Evac by Shadow What Legends May Fall by Vector40 (Untitled Poem) by Gi’Tbad’Eovad’Dvan There are at least 3 more which didn’t make the cutoff…

A rather strange size, but a pretty nice pic… Germain Couët drops off another fun desktop – you’ll find it on our Wallpaper page. Check it out!

Kudos to Freewill, who posted the text to a fun little blurb in Entertainment Weekly this week on our forum. Nice to see Halo lanfests getting recognized as ‘the Next New Thing’ by a mainstream magazine! (The scan will be posted next week, when this issue is off the shelves.)

Later today (or possibly tonight) there’ll be a large Fan Fiction update – there have been a number of submissions over the past day or two. However, I’d like to make a new policy – or at least codify a current, unofficial policy, so that submitters know what to expect.A Fan Fiction submission, unless it…