Author: Louis Wu

In addition to our overflowing Fiction coffers, we have a plethora of Miscellaneous Art submissions, as well. Steen Nielson sends in a pair of composite pics for your enjoyment. Check ’em out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Whoa… the content just flows in. We’ve got 2 new fanfics for you this evening – one is a second offering from Anonymous Coward, called ‘Rescue Mission’… the other is the debut of Koontzy, called ‘Land of the Unknown’. Read ’em, then go through the REST of the Fan Fiction section and see what you’ve…

It is astounding to me how much mail we receive from people who are ready to believe the worst, despite all evidence to the contrary. To wit: in the past few days, we’ve gotten an enormous number of notes from people who are sure the PC version has been scrapped. Matt Soell popped up last…

Thanks to carbon, who noticed an E3 report over at somethingawful.com. Lowtax didn’t like Halo very much:The climax-inducing title Halo, which has been causing gamers across three universes to collectively wet their Spider-Man underoos, looked like crud. Take a generic FPS, add the maps from Giants, subtract 80 frames a second, and you’ve got Halo.…

By Saturday, I was E3’d out – I’d seen all I wanted to see, and decided I’d spend most of the day getting in as much Halo playtime as possible. I wrote up some of my thoughts about the day, and posted them to our forum – there’s a lot more that can be said,…

“The private viewing chamber of the Celestial Palace can be found on the 292nd floor of the main building. It is almost the tallest point on the building: there are energy generators above it. Nevertheless, this building is the tallest on the planet.”New fiction by $erial-ki!!A – actually, an overhaul of last year’s work (pulled…

Man, I’m so far behind, it’s not even funny. Here’s a recap of Halo stuff from around the web that we’ve missed (thanks to Rampancy.net and Battleground: Halo for some of these): News/comic reports Firing Squad caught Joe Staten’s Halo presentation last Wednesday Penny Arcade comments on the size of the Xbox controller MSJolt loved…

Aardvark points out that xbox.ign.com has updated their Halo section with an E3 report (they’ve put all their notes, starting with the original 1999 Macworld look, on a single page)… but this one has an… um, interesting claim.Admittedly choppy when battling it out with four or more buddies, the frantic squad-level action still has a…

More streaming media – longer, this time, and more scripted – at xbox.com. Gorgeous – if only it could be saved to disk! Thanks to Cartack for pointing it out. (There’s also a lo-res version available.)

There are a whole series of gameplay videos (streaming format only, unfortunately) at Gamespot – thanks to Harry “kick-ass store minder” Al-Shakarchi for the heads-up.

Apologies for the downtime – I can’t explain it, since I’m 3000 miles away from the folks responsible for this connection, but I’ll get to the bottom of it as soon as I get back – in the meantime, we have two new mirrors for you on the fanfest videos posted recently:blam.psyjnir.comHaloEmpireEnjoy!

Loud, big, and… big. Really big. We did a LOT of walking today, and really only saw about 30% of the show. We did, however, manage to spend a bit of time in the Bungie area of the Microsoft enclave, and watch some pretty slick Halo gameplay. We noticed some fun driving hijinks in a…

Wow. Sometimes you just wanna see the game. Freewill filmed all the Xbox goodness last night at Bungie Fanfest V – we’ve been rendering the movies all night. There are three of ’em, and two should be up soon on both the Bungie Sightings page and the bungie.org E3 200l coverage page – but the…

I’m leavin’, on a jet plane… heh. I’m heading out to the airport in 20 minutes, to fly out to LA in time for tonight’s Bungie Fanfest… today’s news will be rather light, but we should make up for it over the next few days. Keep an eye on Wirehead – he’s been acting funny…

That Gothmog – he keeps on top of the polls, he does. He just pointed out a poll over at the Official Xbox Magazine site: With so many amazing Xbox games already announced, we can’t decide what to put on our first cover. Which of the following would make you buy our premiere issue?One of…

Thanks to Gothmog, who points out a new poll over at msxbox.com – WWhich Xbox game are you looking forward to the most from E3? Currently, Halo holds a nice lead – 37% of 300+ votes – but you never know. Go make your voice heard!

The Halo SETI Marines keep their position in the top 50 Club Teams, due in large part to the addition of several new members – welcome, jcampen, ducky sauce, and signum! DarthFlounder seems to have been unsuccessful at finding all the machines running clients for him, since he passed the mythical 7777 mark this week……

Thanks to Cartack, who noticed a feature in Time Magazine (by way of Xbox Campus) in which Halo gets a brief mention. The feature is called ‘The Battle of Seattle’, and compares the Xbox to the Nintendo GameCube. Halo gets touched upon when they discuss the realistic abilities of the Xbox: Just take a walk…

Friday’s Weekly Halo Update has been moved to the Halo Update Database… word of the week is ‘warthog’. Does it look like Bungie’s been focusing on this bad boy recently?

Zandog is getting ready for the online gaming switch… but his uncertainty is clear in this latest submission to our Wallpaper section. He probably has a bit more time to adjust… what do you think?