Author: Louis Wu

More mirrors for the music video (this one’s definitely worth watching):Aaron Suhr’s mac.com space Omnicon (thanks, B_Sharp!) *Ar-Isildur’s home hotline server (last resort; slow)I love you guys…

A few days ago, Cal sent in a number of pretty nifty shots taken on Sidewinder. Some of ’em just make you go ‘hmm…’ Well, they got lost in the shuffle… but we unburied them. Check ’em out! They’ve been added to the rapidly growing Tricks page… which is going to need a better navigation…

The first mirrors for Aaron Suhr’s music video are up – they’ll get swamped fast, due to their alone-ness, but there should be more coming. (If you can help, write us.) Thanks to Beorn, who provided two different mac.com download sites (Site 1 and Site 2). Enjoy!

Aaron Suhr has made a pretty amazing Halo music video – Bush’s ‘The People That We Love’ has been accompanied by a fantastic collection of clips of… well, you gotta see it. Unfortunately, it’s 15 megs, and we simply don’t have the bandwidth for it. Aaron doesn’t, either – so we’re begging for volunteers; anyone…

[HELL]-genohunter writes to point out a pair of Halo previews on two French sites; Nihon-fr and MaxoeGames.com. Both are quite positive. There’s also word of Halo stories in both the January 2002 Joypad (console gaming) and Joystick (PC Gaming) – scans of the Joypad article will be coming soon. Halo is taking over the world!

Tom Murphy sends in the first installment of his new series, ‘Casualties of War’. So far, it has nothing to do with Halo… but we’ll cut him a little slack. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

Fun stuff updates: We’ve added a small note about yesterday’s Gameplay Trick – a number of readers sent in a far simpler solution… yesterday’s Easter Egg has been updated with a nearly complete list of translations… and a new Gameplay Trick entry has been added: Mark Levin shows, in a video, how to visit that…

The January 2002 issue of PC Gamer UK (off the shelves as of yesterday) contained a Devil’s Advocate column (238K) in which Kieron Gillen, Deputy Editor of PCGUK, raves about how Halo will NOT come to the PC (because if it did, the Xbox would fail, apparently – and if the Xbox fails, FUTURE good…

poena.dare #CP#g has uploaded 7 new desktop images, extracted from the Halo Game Manual (available online at Xbox.com) – they really do make nice desktops. Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section! (And Matthew – who’s Howard Zimmerman, anyway?)

Mark Levin has created a 7 MB, 90 second video showing multiple locations for shooting down that first Banshee on Assault on the Control Room – getting hold of this will allow you to explore the level without having to deal with any enemies. Check it out in our Tips and Tricks section. Nice work!

To atone for the sin of bad imagery, we’ve added another easter egg to the page – this one can be found at the start of multiplay. Check it out on the Halo Easter Egg page! Thanks to Allenthar for this submission.

Apologies for the low image quality of the easter egg picture added yesterday – some of you let me know, in no uncertain terms, that it wasn’t particularly useful. It’s been changed – should be better now. (Still spoiler material, of course. 🙂 )

Though this rumor was (mostly) squashed by Matt Soell on November 25, on our forum, Xbox Gamers has asked for, and gotten a definitive answer about, the supposed ‘Halo 1.5’ add-on for Xbox Halo. It’s not gonna happen, folks.

Psyrixx, of the Psyjnir Complex, has posted pictures of the first LAN party of The Bay Area Halo Playing Group… nice equipment! Check it out.

Sometimes, it’s nice to just climb a tree and enjoy the scenery from 20 feet off the ground. Of course, it helps when there are leaves… and when you’re not dead. Check out Tom Wittman’s ‘up in a tree’ pics in our Gameplay Tricks section.

And another egg is added to the Halo Easter Egg page. As far as I know, nobody’s noticed this one yet – and I have to give credit to Bungie’s Mordia, who let it slip in casual conversation (he assumed it was common knowledge) – but it’s pretty funny nonetheless! It should go without saying…

The Halo SETI Marines take on on the chin with the loss of R3ality, who left with 870 units… but they remain in 61st position in the Battle of the Teams. More Marines submitted units in the past 2 weeks than is normal – nice going! Were you among the workers? Check the 14 day…

Electus Unum has created a fun little movie (30 seconds, about 5 megs) showing a neat trick – he puts a Ghost on top of a Blood Gulch Base with no outside help. No extra people, no rockets, no grenades, no nothing… except the Ghost. We’ve posted it to our overflow space at mac.com… 5…

At the end of December, Enzyver posted a series of pictures showing how to collect the first Banshee on Assault in the Control room. Well… they’ve now been submitted here, and added to our Gameplay Tricks section. (I’ve reduced the images to fit a more common browser size, but if anyone wants the original images,…

Goodness, even MORE wallpaper. Jean-Philippe Hamel submits a new desktop for an upcoming PC Halo clan, the Next Generation Troopers. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. (This stuff seems to come in waves.)