Author: Louis Wu

Thanks to Eric Odegard, who found a european mirror for the hi-res Gamestock demo, at FragZone (in Sweden). Let’s hope this doesn’t crush them… 🙂

For those who would like to see the current form of the Halo backstory, we’ve transcribed the voiced-over commentary of Joseph Staten, as recorded during the Bungie demonstration at Gamestock. (This has also been sent to Hamish Sinclair for inclusion on the Official Halo Backstory page.) Quick update: Oops – seems Bachus included this entire…

Thanks to EKSalzman@dstsystems.com, for pointing out a UGO poll – ‘which Xbox game has you drooling?’ Halo is currently third, behind WWF Raw is War and Pro Skater 2x (does that tell you something about their audience?). You know what to do…

We’ve put up a list of all known mirrors for the low-res version of Bungie’s new Gamestock movie – currently, that’s 6 download sites in two countries. If/when mirrors for the hi-res version begin to appear, we’ll put them up. Thanks to Tomas Matuschek and Halo Network for some of these links.

The shield blocked out most of the noise around him, but he could still hear reverberations coming through the grating. It sounded like a jackhammer hitting a broken xylophone stuck on one note and amplified through a hundred sub-woofers.More Fan Fiction today – this one’s a little strange. When you get to the Pleenta, you…

While you’re waiting for some server to unclog enough to download the hi-res version of the new Gamestock footage, we’ve got some reading material for you.He was about to move the camera back when he noticed something that made his blood chill. A pair of Covenant elite were slowly moving through the woods about 150…

Well, as everyone this side of Katmandu probably already knows, bungie.com and Bungie’s Halo site were both updated this evening, and the highlight of the update is a nearly inaccessible new trailer, in two flavors. The big version is 182 MB, the smaller version is 35 MB. Bachus has kindly written up a synopsis for…

Gawd… the every-day-checking of the PlanetXbox site for their promised hands-on report has finally paid off! There’s some good discussion about the ease of transition to a console controller (they liked it), and a nice description of the mission itself… but the little tidbit that stood out for me was their description of the Halo…

Joel Stransky found this (124K) ‘in an old magazine’… that’s all the info we have. Oddness.

It’s not completely clear how we missed this… but we got notice a few weeks ago of a new French Halo site, Halo’s Universe. Apologies for the long annoucement delay… Take a look!

Every once in a while, we get an art submission that takes our breath away. We got one of those today. Jay Faircloth, who has in the past submitted impressive material to both our Miscellaneous Art and Wallpaper collections, has done it again – Check out ‘Hostilities’, on our Wallpaper page. It’s available in 5…

Last Friday’s Weekly Halo Update (originally at Rampancy.net) has been added to the Halo Update database. The database can show you fun things, like this is the fourth week in a row in which the ‘Mighty Chris Butcher’ has figured prominently. And is this the first time we’ve seen Chris Hughes’ name mentioned? (Hint: no.)…

Jay Faircloth (Anaphiel) points out that the US military has a lightweight tactical jeep as well, though not nearly as cool as the German one. Advantage – it can be dropped in via helicopter (a dropship of sorts…). There’s a hi-res shot linked from that page – but beware, it’s almost 2 megs.

Tilo Probst sent this to Hamish Sinclair, of the Marathon’s Story page, who forwarded it to us, with permission.I was reading the book: “Terry Gander: Moderne MGs – Eine internationale Übersicht” (German title, but a book about modern MGs). On page 97 I found an interesting picture, showing a jeep called “Light Strike Vehicle, Wessex…

“After taking out some aliens with the mounted gun and running over a few more…”The Action Vault Gamestock report should make some of our forum regulars happy – running over enemies has been high on the list of requested features. There was also an interesting quote from Jason Jones, that must have come from the…

Shielded Halo? Ryan Parsons thinks so. Check out his Unified Theory, over in our Theories section.

It was sitting awkwardly, crouched with one leg underneath, having somehow survived having most of its chest blown away. Up close and personal, with the latest installment of Chris Cox’s ‘The Prisoner’. You can find it (along with the first two chapters) in our Fan Fiction section.

Thanks to Lophan, who noted that in today’s GameSpy Daily, the Thought for the day was “What is YOUR killer app?” They suggested that Halo was impressive, “maybe worth buying a system for.” Guess they should talk to the Daily Radar folks…

Looks like a bunch of gaming sites finished the week off by putting up their Halo reviews. Gamesmania has a pretty positive take – sounds like the AI is really coming along:The AI of both your enemies and your allies is looking pretty good. Enemies will take cover during a fight, investigate noises and bodies…

DigitalGolem writes that he’s uploaded a new music video from Halo clips. It requires the divx codec to watch, which I haven’t had time to install yet… but at least one person on the forum liked it. 🙂 It can be found here, and links to all the necessary software are on the page. Be…