Author: Louis Wu

Whew – the Fan Fiction is coming in fast and furious. Another chapter each from Velker, Shadow, and Gasmask… check ’em all out on the Fan Fiction page!

Bonk submits a fun pic showing what happens when you TRY and exploit Halo bugs (as opposed to stumbling across them accidentally). You’ll find it in our One-Shots collection. (The spoiler warning is incidental – the pic itself isn’t a spoiler, but investigating the stuff behind it might be.)

Gameplay weirdness: NthDegree256 was playing through the Maw, and when he blasted the engine vents, he saw what looked like a huge gout of red blood bursting from the opening. Ferrex stepped in to explain what was happening:This is a “feature” that was discovered a little too late to be documented. What you’re actually seeing…

Mad Dog lets us know that his Halo site has been updated. It’s pretty bare-bones, but if you want some Halo gameplay tips with a healthy dose of attitude on the side, you should check it out.

Registration for Bungie’s E3 Seventh Column Tournament is now closed – but registration for the Fanfest itself is open. If you’re interested in going, read this news post, then fill out this form. Spots are limited, so sign up now! (And if you’re looking for practice partners, check out the Seventh Column’s week in review…

More icons for everyone! Liquidex has redone his as a WIndows icon file – you can grab it here. For those among you for which .ico files are very hard to use (you can count me in that group), the .gif version at the start of this post is the same image. Also, Djoey.154 created…

Velker’s Halo 2 Chronicle continues, with Part IV. Thank goodness for snipers! The Fan Fiction collection grows.

Bonk points out that iBonk is back up! A new movie and some details of the folks behind the site are the latest additions. Check it out!

Thanks to Elvish Archer, who picked up (from a Japanese site, no less) that Halo won the AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Game of the Year! (We told you they’d been nominated… and that the ceremony was supposed to be yesterday, but AIAS hasn’t updated their website yet.) Congratulations, Bungie! Nice feather, that one. Update:…

Billy Ford stops by our forum to announce that TeamSlayer.com is hosting Halo tournaments that don’t cost anything to enter. They’re even working on prizes. Stop by their site for more details!

Freewill is looking for people interested in playing in the Halo tournament at the Bungie Fanfest Convocation on Friday, May 24, 2002 in LA. If you are planning on being there… drop him a note!

A new review has surfaced – XBM, a UK magazine, has put an online review up. Except for the repetitiveness near the end (a somewhat universal complaint), they loved it – 98% was the final rating. We’ve added it to our Reviews database. (The print version will be going up this weekend, thanks to Gimp.)

Liquidex, in answer to a forum request for Halo icons, has created a nice Master Chief version (and blown it up for detail):Except for the spelling error, it’s perfect (and if you’re using it on your desktop, you won’t want the words anyway). Thanks, Liquidex!

Three short fan fics submitted recently – two post-Halo speculations and one poem. Check out The Renegade Marines (minor spoilers), Halo 2: Hope for Mankind (bigger spoilers), and A Ringworld Far Away in our Fan Fiction section!

Another look at a post-Halo possibility, from drexx – Earth: Combat Evolved picks up where Halo leaves off, and the action starts right up. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Heh – over at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site, there’s word of a Seventh Column club-created Halo comic – the Slacker Pimps have a Halo illustrator in Slacker Tang. (You can see more of his Halo work here.) Thanks to craZy for the heads-up!

Think you’re a l33t Warthog driver? Can you do donuts on the back of a Pelican, while your gunner takes out the swarming Banshees? Do you love nothing more than the smell of engine grease on your armor? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, your Sarge wants you! (Your psychiatrist probably…

Gamespot is reporting that Halo’s lack of presence at Microsoft’s International Gaming Festival bodes ill for long-suffering PC fans: And while Microsoft recently admitted that the game is still scheduled for an eventual release on these platforms, the absence of Halo at Microsoft’s event–which featured some games that won’t be out for another year–suggests that…

Velker’s Halo 2 saga just got a chapter longer – you can find Part III in our Fan Fiction section. Don’t forget to leave him comments!

Three new tricks have been added to our Gameplay Tricks page – 2 of them collaborations. Bizarre physics, exploiting the zone freeze bug, and weapons theft… they’re all worth looking at!