Author: Louis Wu

Thanks to Vector40, who wrote to point out a new article at Bungie’s Support site about playing system link games over the internet. Bungie’s Stefan Sinclair has written up a nice overview of the available options and their pluses and minuses… worth a read if you’re interested in finding online carnage. (Thanks also to No7orious,…

Wow, that was fast… bsotizz submits a desktop image based on Razorback’s recent Miscellaneous Art. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Razorback submits a sketch of a Halo marine – there’s the before pencil sketch, and the after colored version. (They’ve been combined into a single image for our Miscellaneous Art collection.) Check it out!

More vehicle shenanigans – DraegonMage and IllusionGuy spent some time putting a bunch of vehicles INSIDE the base on the Blood Gulch map – DraegonMage sent a bunch of pictures, but image quality was very, very low. Here’s one of the best shots. It’s pretty clear that we’re talking Warthogs and Ghosts here… which means…

Oops, we missed it… but it’s all good. VoodooExtreme’s last poll, ‘What game released in 2001 had the best graphics?’, was won (narrowly) by Halo – 23 votes ahead of Return to Wolfenstein (with more than 8700 votes cast). The new poll asks your opinion on the best console system of the year… and yes,…

DT_Spike, a mod on the IGN forums, did some nice driving during a CTF game on Blood Gulch. He took some photos with a digital camera – check out the results here. Let’s see who’s the first to get a SCORPION up there…

XboxGate has reviewed Halo (don’t pay attention to the ‘Preview’ banner at the top – this is a full review), and they loved it.As you play the game it gets you saying to yourself, “Man, this is just like a movie.”With the exception of the 2-weapon-at-a-time limit (and the fact that “you seem to run…

You gotta wonder, sometimes, where our forum denizens get their free time… Matt Baker has submitted his interpretation of the Halo team for our Miscellaneous Art section. What I wanna know is, how did Marty get that scar?

Hmm. Momo writes to ask us to add the German site ‘PlanetHALO’ to our links list… seems we noted when they came online (a year and a half ago), but neglected to ever add them to the links page! Sorry… rectified, now.

Jack has put up the beginnings of a Halo Story page. In his words, It’s my own little attempt to give back to the halo community, and it’ll be there til’ someone puts up a REAL one :). I’m no hamish, so i don’t plan on updating this thing constantly, or really making it really…

Last year, the first images from the Bungie Research Center Photo Archives surfaced, and generated a bit of confusion. This died away when no further pictures were forthcoming. Today, the latest discovery has found its way into the light… when we know what’s going on, we’ll be sure to pass that information along.

Gaming Age has put up a Special article about Halo – ‘Hail Halo’ paints Halo as Microsoft’s ‘Trojan horse to move systems’ that will sell the Xbox to more than the Bungie faithful. A pretty good read – thanks to op_ivy for the heads-up.

Heh – Xbox365 has written a rather confused review of Halo: The Fall of Reach. While it’s nice to see the book get some press of its own, it would be nicer if the reviewer got the facts straight…Ever wondered where the cool storyline in Halo comes from? Did you really think that the dudes…

Wonga – looking for new WinAmp skins? Christian Bender, of halo24.de, just submitted 10 of ’em. Browse ’em (and download ’em) here.

A pretty gruesome new entry has been added to our Fan Fiction collection – Kyo has sent in Part One of ‘Prince of Angels’ for your reading pleasure (or horror, as the case may be). Don’t forget to let him know what you think!

Dink!… Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose three MORE positions (down to 60) in the Battle of the Teams… and we’ve just been challenged by an upcoming team! Doesn’t help when high-unit crunchers like SpudNYC jump ship… but that doesn’t explain how the SETI servers lost another 600 of our units. Hang on, Jim,…

The Reviews page just got a little easier to navigate – an alphabetical popup at the top of the page will bring you to the review you’re looking for. Seemed reasonable, since the review count hit 40 yesterday…

Ghost ramping… a new sport? From daedulus1187:To play you need a ghost and some stuff to ramp over. The scorpion tank works the best. All you do is just go over the ramp and hold a direction and you can do all kinds of tricks, like barrel rolls and back flips. And to get extra…

Lost Hours, a column on the Coming Attractions website, has reviewed Halo – loved the gameplay, hated the lack of a ‘boss’ (and didn’t like the fact that the main character had an ‘uncanny resemblance’ to the main character in Doom), and wished there was a level editor – the game got a 9/10. (It…

Feeling a little depressed at the end of Halo? Looks like Bungie did its job right – you cared about your Marine buddies. A thread on our forum about the weight of fighting completely without human help in the second half of the game elicited this response from Marty O’Donnell:I just want you to know…