Author: Louis Wu

fAt1 drops us a note to let us know that 1) MPZ Halo is back, with a brand-new makeover, and 2) MPZ as a whole is now open to the web – no login required. Check ’em out!

Interesting tidbit – as of now, the Xbox Halo app is not capable of using downloaded levels. This means that (unless Bungie supplies a patch that allows this) even IF the PC version ships with a level editor, the Xbox version won’t be able to take advantage of any created mods. (It also means that…

Hmm… this one’s a bit odd… Sikora sends in a new ‘combination’ image for our Miscellaneous Art section. Take a look…

The artwork continues to pour in. This morning, we received another desktop using the Pillar of Autumn shot (in 6 resolutions!), and a 3ds max-rendered marine helmet (made into a cool Halo desktop) – you’ll find both in our Wallpaper section. Keep ’em coming!

Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines climb a notch to number 52 in the Battle of the Teams. Int_21 pours on the steam, as 243 units crunched bring in la Crunch Honneur AND the Frogblast Award for this week’s top performer. How are YOU doing? Check the 7 day stats to see!

The final (?) Weekly Halo Update, capping a full year of updates, has been added to the Halo Update Database. A fine tradition… we’ll be sorry to see it end. Word of the week – ‘Chucky’. Known only as The Bear in weekly updates since June 29, he’s finally Chucky again… we missed you, Chuck.…

New screenshots, especially ones this cinematic, inspire new desktops. We got two today – check ’em out in our Wallpaper section.

I didn’t think this was anything that folks didn’t know, so I didn’t report it – but I want the mail to stop now. Various people in various forums posted information about the Marathon symbol on the side of the Pillar of Autumn in the latest screenshot – Harry Al-Shakarchi was one of the first…

Joseph E. Haake sends in an interesting modification of the Pillar of Autumn screenshot released last week. We’ve added it to the Miscellaneous Art section, though in retrospect, it would probably make a great desktop image…

Shaun Brookman sends in a Halo collage, in three sizes – see the range of where Halo has been, and how far it’s come! It’s available in our Wallpaper section.

MASSIVE Halo update, finally, at Haloplayers – GO NOW. Two gorgeous screenshots (in two resolutions each, to be nice to the bandwidth impaired and the broadband-enabled both), an entertaining tale giving you a bit of the backstory behind the halo updates, and, finally, a few tidbits that might be recognizable as a Halo Update (but…

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out a new poll over at VoodooExtreme – ‘What Xbox game are you most looking forward to?’ Let ’em know what you think of Halo… but remember, keep it clean and honest. Remember the LAST VE poll… (Halo is currently leading this one, with 43% ofr more than 800 votes.)

Putting the new ‘Commander’ shot to good use, Allenthar creates a new wallpaper for your desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section, in 4 sizes. Enjoy!

Joker111481@aol.com sends us a monochromatic desktop for our Wallpaper collection. Similar to, but different from, an older submission by genohunter… check it out!

Wonga – we’re probably too late, but you never know… Joseph Staten jumped onto our forum about an hour ago, and asked for requests for tonight’s screenshot subject. It’s likely that the job is done… but add to the thread if you’d like! (The update, if all goes according to plan, should be at Haloplayers…

Dorram posts on our forum that a new Halo spoof/rant has gone live – it’s two and a half minute long MPEG, available as a 44 meg, 320×240 format, or an 8.4 meg, 144×120 format. Footage from a number of different films has been spliced together, and put to a new soundtrack, with a very…

A tidbit of good news, in the face of the disappointments yesterday: Matt Soell, in defiance of Microsoft corporate policy to milk gamers of every possible dollar, points out that the ‘System Link Cable’ that Microsoft packages for the XBox (sold separately for, generally, $15) is, in reality, just a 20′ crossover cable. These are…

Details on gameplay continue to emerge – Rampancy.net gets confirmation from Matt Soell (via email) that cooperative mode is limited to two players, on a single XBox in splitscreen mode. This is the only multiplayer mode with this restriction – all others can handle up to 16 players with a maximum of 4 linked XBoxes,…

Lots of action on the Fan Fiction front today. Mr Bill Jr V has asked us to pull his story, ‘The Answers’, because he didn’t think it was up to snuff… but he’s submitted a new one, ‘Escape’, to replace it. Almost simultaneously, Jasper, whose last story came in back in May, dropped us another…

Aaauuggghhhh! No films. 🙁 Matt Soell dashed hopes for one of the most commonly desired features today – Halo will NOT have a method for saving films. A sad, sad day for Bungie fans…