Author: Louis Wu

Yesterday, the Eleet Ops Faction released an image which we added to our One-Shots section – within hours, folks wanted to know “how?” The team sent along a 7.1 mb MPEG showing how the descent happened… and Brian Towne, of mythica.org, has once again stepped into the breach and provided a home for this. (Of…

The cleanout of our backlogged submissions continues. 6 new shots have been added to the One-Shots page; everything from a smiling Jackal to a view from the top of… well, you’ll have to look for yourself. Check ’em all out right here! More stuff coming soon, hopefully.

Gholsbane has sent along a scan of a promotional insert for Edge Magazine, included in other magazines as a teaser. This one happens to contain Edge’s 10/10 Halo review from issue 104, 3 months back. We’ve added the insert to our Press Scans database – go see why Edge gave Halo a score shared by…

We don’t normally do this, but there doesn’t seem to be any other way to get to this person – if Casey, aka the Mad Valet, could drop us a line about the movie you uploaded a week or two ago, we’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

Two new desktop images for your perusing pleasure: ZMAN sends in a white-themed Halo image, and Germain Couët drops off another one of his very attractive Halo murals. (You’ll need a pretty massive monitor to appreciate this…) Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section!

Whew! 1600 forum posts and two extra-heavy titanium-alloy drillbits (needed to remove the lock from the command center here at HBO Central, since Count Zero wouldn’t open it voluntarily) later, I’m finally caught up with older material. We’ll start with the easy stuff; there are a couple of Halo websites to inform you of. Halo…

“Frag out!” Grenades whipped around the corner towards the Covenant squad. We ran out into the secondary corridor, backpedaling as we tried to lay down suppressing fire and retreat simultaneously. Elites roared as they saw us try to escape, lighting up the corridor with white plasma. Roger Lin turns in the first chapter of his…

In a quest for perfection, Team 7HR33 has kept their web page private until the last tweak has been given to the content, but each time they came close to finishing (and going public), they decided to add ONE more feature, or ONE more color change, or ONE more cool section. Well, Frogblast has blown…

The One-Shots submissions continue – pad_avox drops off a fun shot from Silent Cartographer for our collection. Oh, what we owe R.G. and his Warthog Jump…

What Count Zero said recently was true – I’m pretty much out of touch right now, and database updates are gonna be hard. However – I’ve found the time to add a couple of submissions to the One-Shots page, as well as a collection of images to the Tips and Tricks section. Yes, there are…

Just a heads-up… I’m headed out of town for a bit. Count Zero’s on the case… but please don’t get on him if things take a bit longer than usual. Good help is SO hard to find. I’d hate to lose him because you folks chased him off…

Some good stuff over at the Halo Story page… even the homework assignment. Eep!

The One-Shots page gets a shot in the arm… or 4. Check it out.

Vector40 passes along another Warthog Jump mirror – it might not last long, but Electric Fuzzball is up right now. We’ve added it to the Warthog Jump Mirrors list.

A plethora of pulchritudinous parables… the Fan Fiction coffers runneth over. Gasmask continues his Strange Tale with ‘Return to Halo’, Corbantis turns in the third segment of his Tides of War saga, and Vector40 sends us… something different. Go read up in the Fan Fiction section!

The Japanese Halo Release has been announced: April 25th is the big day. (It says that here, in the press release on the Xbox Japan site… but it’s in Japanese.) Cover art isn’t up yet… but word from Gothmog (Halo product planner) is that it’ll be different than the US/European box. Not quite in time…

DOH! SO enthralled was I by the McLees interview that I missed the OTHER new stuff – Rob’s artwork is on display in the Weapons Gallery, and a seventh page has been added to the Concept Art section (MAJOR story spoilers). Check ’em out! (There’s some serious Story Page fodder in there, actually…)

Took a bit longer than expected… but the Rob McLees interview is finally up at Bungie.net’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. There’s an interesting mix of material – gun stuff, mysticism, and getting set on fire – twice. Rob’s focus was on the guns of Halo, since he was responsible for most of them:Q: What was…

Frogblast, aka Metafire, in his continuing quest to go where no man has gone before, has touched the face of God. Wait… no, that’s not right – he’s touched the ceiling of the Truth and Reconciliation… from the inside of Keyes. (No, it’s not the same. Yes, it’s pretty cool anyway.) Check out the details…

Xerxes writes to say that Halo Orbit, a German Halo site, has put up a preview of Halo (out in just over a month in Germany). If you read German, check it out!