Author: Louis Wu

A warm welcome to David Candland, the newest member of Bungie’s online team – he’s officially “Interface Designer”, so he’ll likely be working on making bungie.net more friendly to everyone. That doesn’t have IMMEDIATE relevance to Halo fans… but when Halo DOES get to the point where bungie.net is important, what’s in place will help…

$erial-ki!!A was going to release the next chapter of his ongoing Halo saga next month, as a Christmas offering to the community… but his plans changed. Here, then, in our Fan Fiction section, is De-Iced and Decapitated (Chapter 8) – think of it as an early Christmas present.

As seen on the Marathon’s Story page… the latest Inside Mac Games CD (volume 8 number 3 – IMG doesn’t seem to date their CDs, although file creation dates are all in August of this year) contains a tidbit on Peter Tamte’s publishing company. There’s been much speculation about who will be doing the Mac…

James MacGlashan sends in a new Halo Desktop for our Wallpaper page. Thanks, James!

Another gritty story from Musashi M., this time pre-Halo. SANE5, worth a read… in our Fan Fiction section.

Nice catch by Halo Center… looks like something’s up at Halo-Net (again). Hmm…

Seamus Blackley, that whacky engineer behind the Xbox, talked to Gamespot Australia about the Xbox recently… he’s really pushing the idea that this is a gaming machine ONLY. However, for folks who were afraid that they’d be limited to TV resolutions…But yeah, television is one we’re not too fond of either, in terms of standards.…

Wow. Three new Halo stories in one day. Neil Grattan has submitted part 2 of his Sniper story… with part 3 coming soon. Go check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

SOKAR of Halo Empire writes to say that his site has had a big redesign, and now has a weapons section, with a vehicles section to come. German speakers, stop by and take a look!

Another Halo news site on the scene… Inside Mac Games has launched Mac Halo, an ‘IMG affiliate dedicated to delivering the latest news on Bungie’s upcoming award-winning game.’ Currently light on content, but they’re promising ‘interviews and much more’ in the near future. Stop by and take a look.

The Halo SETI Marines continue to crunch over 350 units a day, but the SETI server is overloaded enough that there’s no easy way to see how they’re doing, relative to other teams. Regardless, they continue to hunt that Covenant horde… with luck, it’ll turn up soon! DarthFlounder takes la Crunch Honneur again (surprise!), and…

And they continue to pour in. A new story, ‘The Hunt’, arrived earlier today for our Fan Fiction section – stories beget stories, it seems. Interesting style… go take a look!

topgunn123 submits a new story for our Fan Fiction section… is this the renaissance? Whatever you want to call it, it’s great to see so much new work! Now go read it, and be inspired to write your own!

The last two questions of the Webmaster Interviews have been put up at Halo MultiPlayer Zone (and their mirror, Halo Command Central). Vosx, from Halo Vault, has been added to the mix for these two questions, giving a fourth perspective on the issues. Go take a look… and thanks to fAt1 and Blurb342 for putting…

Terror sends word that Halo-Australia has acquired Halo Heaven, combining the two biggest Australian Halo sites. Go check ’em out!

Shame on us for not posting this yesterday… Jim Ruiz has returned to man the (upcoming) Bungie Store, and has reactivated the Oni/Halo Alert List! If you want to get on the list, just send Jim mail. Very nice to see you back, Jim!

Who says they don’t listen to fans? Two subjects discussed recently on our forum have been new weapons, and limb-specific damage. In this week’s Halo update, Matt Soell mentions a new weapon that issuspiciously similar to a suggestion made on this very forum in days past.He also mentions ‘secret beasties’, and ‘limb-specific impact animations’. Oooh!…

Again, not totally Halo-related, but PlanetSide has been generating quite a bit of buzz recently on some of the Halo sites… Kevin McCann gave another interview yesterday, this time to PC IGN, and in it he does a much better job of describing the gameplay that folks can expect from PlanetSide. Very intriguing… but the…

Halo Tip Kaidu writes to let us know that another Halo site has come on the scene… Halo Tip, ‘Your portal to the planet Halo’. Pretty filled out for a new site… check ’em out!

Thanks to Neil Grattan, who submitted another piece of Halo fan fiction for our Fan Fiction page. Short and sweet…