Author: Louis Wu

Major overhauls to the HBO FAQ, by Mark Levin – many pages have been worked on. Weapons and vehicles updated, and much info on game content has been updated. Check it out! (Thanks, Mark!)

More uploaded art from the fans – Matt (uh…#5?) sends in a rockin’ Covenant for our Miscellaneous Art section, and Joker continues his Marine modeling – this time we get the head and upper torso, both as a separate render, and blended into a nice desktop for our Wallpaper section. Good stuff!

In honor of those who fell on September 11, and those who are now fighting, Michael Maddox sends in a patriotic Halo desktop. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Wow. Go read Gordi’s latest story, ‘Departing Twilight’, the second chapter of his as-yet-untitled series. This one’s good. (Be sure to comment on it, and other Fan Fiction, so that authors can get a feel for how their work is percieved.)

Ouch! Rampancy.net, as some may have noticed, is mostly down right now. A hard drive died today… and the replacement won’t be there for at least a day, maybe two. In the meantime, news will be moved to http://synfibers.com/rampancy/. Folks are welcome to use the forums there, as well, though you should be warned that…

Goodness… we didn’t notice this last week, but it’s GREAT news: Evihcra.com, a large file archive site (they started as the Mill, for Myth files, and have expanded to Marathon, Unreal Tournament, and the Sims), has pledged the creation of a Halo archive site, to be opened the day Halo ships for the Mac/PC. If…

Matt passed this info along yesterday, but Jester pointed out that I hadn’t made it front page news yet… Seems that Halo has no in-game content control. (Myth had content control – you could set it to show stars instead of blood.) The reason for this is simple, and two-fold: 1) the Xbox already has…

The resurrection of Bob… Tursas sends in Chapter 12 of the Hermes Trismegistus saga. You’ll find it (and all previous parts) in our Fan Fiction section – don’t forget to let Tursas know how you like it, in the comments section!

Whoa… go to sleep for a couple of hours, and the mailbox fills up! Two new desktops came in last night, the collection continues to fill. You’ll find these new entries in our Wallpaper section. Back with Fan Fiction in a bit.

The Halo Launch Party is here! Bungie.net has the details… Saturday, November 10 at the Hotel Monaco, in Chicago, for those who HAVE TO KNOW NOW… the rest of you, head over to bungie.net and read Matt’s little parable. (And get even more details, like what you might win if you show up…) It’s 5…

Michael Maddux sends us a tasty desktop for our Wallpaper collection, in three flavors. Check it out!

Ask, and ye shall receive. In an unprecedented fifth Matt Soell-generated news post, we bring you… the cover of Halo: The Fall of Reach, available from Random House later this month. Blam!

Took much longer than they wanted… but Matt has announced that the venue for the Halo launch party has finally been secured. It’s in Chicago… on a weekend. More than that, and you’ll need to tune in to www.bungie.net over the next few hours.

A Halo movie? Matt says they’ve been approached, and though no deals have been struck yet, the possibility is there…

Shocker of the week – the rumors are true. Halo’s ESRB rating has been raised from Teen to Mature; apparently, ESRB changed their minds. (Maybe in the wake of the September 11 tragedy?) In any case, Matt Soell explains a bit in this post to our forum. Apologies to all who were counting on the…

Thanks to Razorback, who pointed out a Halo preview in Portuguese, at GameOver. Babelfish did a pretty nasty job with this… but it seems to be relatively accurate. If you speak Portuguese, go take a look!

Looks like we missed a new Halo preview at XboxWeb – showed up this weekend. Nothing mindboggling, but it sums up game features pretty nicely. Take a look!

Psyrixx wrote to let us know that the Psyjnir Complex is back online, sort of. The links aren’t working yet… but you can check out the basic page design. Be warned – IE 5+, Opera 5+, or NS 6+ REQUIRED. Take a look, and be sure to let him know if you’ve got suggestions!

The Pillar of Autumn desktops continue to pour in. Michael Maddux sends us a gorgeously hi-tech version in three resolutions. Grab it from our Wallpaper section.

Eric ‘Siva’ Salzman adds another entry to his ‘Curves’ collection – and this one has been left mostly open, so that someone could add a “stats” sidbar about the Pillar of Autumn to the image. (If you’re interested, contact Eric and he’ll get you a layered Photoshop file to work with.) The recent Wallpaper additions…