Author: Louis Wu

Christian Bender writes to say that his website, which used to be at halobase.here.de, has moved to either www.halobunker.de or www.halo-bunker.de. (I can’t get anything but the news to show up on either version… but maybe the rest is coming.)

“What about them new alien troops? The ones with the shields? And the invisible guys? Don’t they out number us, like, one million to one?” “Don’t you worry about that stuff son. All you need to know is that the Pillar got us here, and now its our job to make it worth while.”The end…

Yesterday’s events put a new perspective on this video game thing… but shutting this site down wouldn’t bring back any dead, so on we go. Our hearts go out to all who lost loved ones yesterday… and to all who awoke in a new world today. May we learn from any mistakes we made, so…

News from around the Halo world:Battleground: Halo has built a Windows program that sticks a dynamic view of the Bungie Webcam on your desktop – grab it if you want your view of the webcam without keeping your browser open.Rampancy.net found an interesting Wired article that suggests that if you don’t buy one of the…

Hmm. Drew points out an intriguing article at Xbox.ign.com, in which the developer of Dead or Alive 3 suggests that 1) the Japanese version of the game will have more features than the US version (they’ll continue developing it during the three months between US and Japanese Xbox launch dates), and 2) thatWhen asked about…

Arch Angel sends in a new desktop image, using the Halo Marine and the Xbox – nice combo. Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

A little OT, but fun anyway: Eric Meyer sends in a link to an interesting Sci-Tech article at CNN… what caught his eye was the image at the top, but the article’s interesting, too. 🙂

Thanks to Adam Daniel, who noticed this little tidbit at XboxAddict.com:Just wanted to let everyone know that my sources told me that the official halo site at http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo will be going up with new ingame footage, so keep a look out.Nothing there yet… but we’ll keep our eyes peeled!

Blam!… the Halo Seti Marines climb back up to 52nd in the Battle of the Teams… but don’t start resting on your laurels, soldiers! As the 7-day stats show, total crunchage hasn’t climbed very much… it’d be easy to fall again!

Joel Day writes to say that he’s recently added a Halo desktop to his site, Third Coil. While you’re there, select ‘Bungie Studios’ from the navigation popup on the left – you’ll get an image-sized view of the Bungie webcam.

Dead men tell tales… sometimes. Mr Bill Jr V sends in a look at life (and death) before Halo… read ‘Hell of all seasons’ in our Fan Fiction section.

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database. Search of the Week is ‘Hardy’… in a month and a half, the guy’s gone from the beginnings of multiplayer logistics to all-out war. Not bad… (Note: We’re hoping Matt can drag these out until the October 5 update; we agree with Narcogen…

As penance for missing the obvious signs of a Halo demo on the OXBM game disc, we’ve uploaded versions of the entire 4-page Halo preview to our server. They’re pretty much the same as the other versions you’ve seen floating around, but we’ve added the bottom tidbits (asides about Iain M. Banks’ novels, etc), and…

Uh, oh… In the preview edition of the Official Xbox Magazine (the one included with October’s PC Gamer and September’s NextGen magazines) is a page devoted to the disc that will be bundled with each issue. The wording of one section scares me…It only gets betterWhen you finally pick up that Xbox and a copy…

Mike Price submitted a new desktop using the latest screenshots… you can find ‘Halo Ice’ in our Wallpaper section.

We’ve updated the Screenshots section with the new shots from Xbox.ign.com. One of these days (soon!), we’ll add the remaining OXBM shots, as well…

It’s been in our Fan Fiction section for a month or so now, but we’ve finally gotten around to adding it to the Miscellaneous Art section (sorry, Jason!) – a piece of artwork created for the Fan Fiction story ‘The Wanderers’ can now be seen on its own in the Misc Art section. Take a…

Xodex sends in a minimalist desktop image for our Wallpaper section – very clean. Check it out!

Apparently, the Electric Playground segment shown last night on the Discovery Science Channel had no Halo information at all in it, despite what the online listings said. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and apologies to anyone who missed something else to watch it.

For those who want to be able to HOLD those Canadian Xbox commercials, and aren’t thrilled with the streaming .asf versions, you now have two download options: Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews has put them up at the Junkyard in .avi format (with DivX encoding) – they run about 20 megs each, and are 320×240. For Mac…