Author: Louis Wu

Bonk, unfazed by the fact that his server is offline (because you guys have been downloading too much stuff from it), has created a 14.3 mb, 3 and a half minute long video showing off some fun Warthog driving (plus a bit more). Be warned, though – there are spoilers in here. (Thanks again to…

Three new Halo reviews have surfaced – Four Fat Chicks (4/4), Game Industry News (5/5), and a second review from MGON (9.5/10, compared to their first 9.8/10). All three have been added to the Reviews database. Thanks to Blue’s News for the heads-up on these.

Not sure how I missed this (my issue came several days ago), but Electronic Gaming Monthly listed its 2001 Gamers’ Choice Awards in the April 2002 issue… and Halo picked up Game of the Year.And on the first day the Xbox did launch with a Halo, and we looked upon it, and we saw that…

Operation: False Prophets gets another chapter, as Ian Barnes pays tribute to the mighty Hippo. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Brad ‘Stuy Parker’ Root sends in a new treed Warthog shot for our One-Shots page… there are a few more levels in which this can be done! Who will be the first?

For those who didn’t notice it, the Halo Story page got a massive speculation infusion yesterday – mnemesis processed a goodly number (though nowhere near all) of the backlogged ravings – erm, ideas you people have been sending in. Check it out! While you’re there… you might notice that the Level Transcripts section is nearly…

Heh – forum regular Frogblast gets a mention at Bungie.net – the Soffish theme for 7th Column fansites has gone live ahead of schedule, because of him. (Remember – if the link leads you to a message about a database wipe, first hit reload to see the REAL message, then send Yeroen a note to…

A great big shout-out to Vector40, who has created The Repertory (“because Bandwidth is Expensiveâ„¢”), a Halo movie site. Currently, it mirrors a few very popular films, as well as being the only source for the videos that go along with Doum and Pat’s AotCR trick (their server pulled the vids some time ago). We…

Velker turns in Part II of his Halo 2 tale… again, don’t read this if you haven’t played the game. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section (or you can read both parts together).

Three more cool feats for you – from two of the most productive teams around. Metafire (with able direction from Legolas) gets down to the bottom of the second Shaft on Silent Cartographer; Eleet Ops Faction rides a pelican to its final resting place, and Metafire (again) surfs a sentinel outside the crashed Pillar of…

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Slowly but surely… the Tricks backlog is clearing away. Two more go up for your perusal – Johnnycab & MuFF DaDDy investigate an interesting physics conundrum, and Metafire (aka Frogblast) checks out some energy beams. Take a look!

Scripts have been overhauled (again), and the latest stats for the Halo SETI Marines have been posted. The team continues to add new members… but the total number of CONTRIBUTING members stays roughly constant. Who’s slacking? (Not Int_21, that’s for sure…)

Another online enabler has come on the scene – the Xbox Connector is an alternative to the GameSpy Tunnel software or the XboxGateway software. Running on any Win32 platform, it requires no other software to operate. Initial reports suggest that with fast connections, 4-box games are quite playable – something not really true with the…

Several days ago, one of the more impressive feats of mass displacement was demonstrated on our forum. It’s now found a home on our Tricks page – a tribute to the power of the plasma grenade (and some simply astounding timing). More to come tomorrow…

Hehe – Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site has been updated – the Gallery contains clips from 6 different foreign-language builds of Halo (well, 5 plus English, for comparison), as well as new Storyboards of the final scene. (The quality of the translations seems to vary pretty widely – or maybe it’s the voice acting; some…

Velker submits the first part of his ‘Halo 2’ saga, picking up not too far after Halo leaves off. Spoilers, of course, abound – read this only if you’ve played the game. You’ll find it (and plenty of other fun stuff) in our Fan Fiction section.

Apologies for the delays in updating the Tricks page – there was some recoding necessary in order to allow multiple credit for specific tricks. That’s all finished, now, and the newest entry is up – it shows (with a series of films, from a collection of sources) a pretty interesting glitch in Halo, and maybe…

Apologies to those few of you waiting on Halo SETI Team stats this week – they were collected this morning, but the SETI@home team once again changed the page format, invalidating all the automatic processing scripts here. We’ll get ’em posted sometime, today, or maybe tomorrow; they’ll still be Monday morning’s stats, though.

Quick note – Rampancy.net, a long-time Bungie fansite, has not (as it might seem) died recently – they’re just having DNS troubles. The servers are fine, and can be reached directly via their IP addresses:Web: http://161.58.233.37/rampancy/drupal-cvs/ Hotline: hotline://161.58.233.37 They’re doing their best to fix the problems – good luck to them! (This message is being…