Author: Louis Wu

We’ve added the latest batch of Bungie screenshots (from the Truth and Reconciliation site) to the Screenshots Database. Warning again: MAJOR STORY SPOILERS INSIDE.

Zapf Dingbats noticed a FAQ, of sorts, at GameSpot’s Portugal site; weapons, baddies, and a vehicle. (Unfortunately, the images for the baddies are copy-and-pasted from the previous page – but ‘grunts.jpg’ and ‘jackals.jpg’ work (if you simply replace the image link that’s there). I couldn’t figure out what they called the Covenant Elite pic. Interesting…

In a fit of devotion that borders on insanity, Etienne “Djof” Boucher has submitted 6 versions of a Marathon/Halo desktop image, in two color schemes, and in sizes ranging from a reasonable 1024×768 to a rather outrageous 3200×2400. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Prae drops off a pretty nice desktop – check it out on our Wallpaper page.

Amechwarrior took some fun shots of a Scorpion on its side… and NthDegree256 has posted them for him. Check out the details in this forum post.

Mastasnypa writes to say that GamingNoise.com has given Halo its Game of the Year title – we tried to verify this, but it’s actually in a 8.4 MB, 75 minute mp3, and after 6 or 7 minutes of… stuff (none of which had anything to do with the awards), I decided I couldn’t listen any…

Another chapter of ‘Halo: A Strange Tale’ has come in – Part 3 does some pretty heavy Marathon/Halo tying… check it out in our Fan Fiction section. (While it’s fantastic that authors have a universal feedback device in Vector40, it would be nice if others who read the stories dropped off their comments, as well…)

The EggMan Cometh… another (known) easter egg is added to the Halo Easter Eggs page; the Pillar of Autumn bulletin board makes its way into the light. More on the way!

Heh – Ben Bayes writes to say that badassbuddy.com has just put up a new AIM Buddy icon showing the Master Chief doin’ his thing. Amazing what you can fit in to 50×50 pixels…

The Halo Story page gets another update… more on the Ark of the Covenant, and plenty of speculation about Cortana, the Master Chief, and the Covs… Check out the news!

The Halo Easter Eggs page grows again… this time, it’s the Food Nipple Grunt. I’m not 100% sure of the discoverer… so if you think you found this before December 2, please, send in documentation (a forum post,either here or at another Halo forum, would probably be best) and we’ll change the source! We’ve also…

IGN has posted its Overall Game of the Year – and unfortunately, it’s an Insider article. We can’t bring you all the commentary and discussion… at least not until it gets moved to the free part of the site. The bottom line, though, is that Halo took the honors, beating out Grand Theft Auto 3…

Bungie’s Truth and Reconciliation website has been updated – a new page of screenshots (MASSIVE spoilers for those who haven’t played, amazing demo of Bungie’s way-cool screenshot-taking technology for those who have), and a new section on the Outtakes page – including a music-less version of the big grunty thirst speech. (If you don’t know…

Interesting… 3DActionPlanet, usually busy covering games, has written a review of ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’. They’re pretty impressed with the job the book does at explaining some of the backstory of the game:frankly, it should be included with every copy of Halo. Nice to see the book getting wider coverage! Thanks to Battleground: Halo…

IGN has put up their ‘Best Games of 2001′ feature, and Halo won both Editors’ and Readers’ Choice awards for Best Action Game. Nice! Thanks to Ruzhyo for the heads-up.

It’s been a long time coming… but we’ve begun to populate the Halo Easter Eggs page. At the moment, there’s just a single entry… but there are more coming. Be aware that ‘Easter Eggs’ will be pretty stringently defined – we’re not talking bugs, here, or weird behavior (they’ll go somewhere else in this same…

If you thought our speculation about the origins of the Carrier Form of the Flood were a bit off the wall, wait until you check the updated Flood Mechanics page – the REAL info is considerably stranger.

This came in a few days ago – I was out of town, on a slow connection, and I filed it. Then I forgot about it. Which is a shame… Team 7HR33 created a short (18 seconds, 2 mb) movie showing some VERY stylish hunter killin’. Coop play, one takes a hunter from the front,…

Curious about the Flood? Wondering what it is you’ve been shooting so much of? Thanks to the above-and-beyond help of Dave Candland, we’re able to bring you Flood Mechanics, a section devoted to the inner workings of the Halo’s most corrupted life forms. Obviously, this is chock-full of spoilers… but you wouldn’t even be reading…

Last week, Halo took GameFAQ’s Xbox Game of the Year daily poll, with 60% of the 16,000 votes cast. Currently, the poll of the day is ‘Overall Game of the Year’… and Halo is being trounced – a measly 5% of the 5500 votes cast so far puts it in 5th place (and only a…