Author: Louis Wu

Mock writes to let us know that airbornerangers.org are putting together a Myth tournament called ‘WWII: Risk Global Domination Tournament’. In Mock’s words, it is ‘by far the most ambitious Myth tournament to date’. Why are you reading this on a Halo page?If all goes well, we will run a Halo Risk tournament, with a…

Luke Varley submits a… different sort of Halo logo. You can find it on our Logos page.

Happy Belated Birthday, Chucky! (We almost let it slide, even though it was mentioned on bungie.net, but Matt took us to task in his (weekly?) Halo update, posted to our forum this time.) Indoor goodness, AI improvements, and Wall-Hugging Hippos… it’s all there! See? And you thought they were just trying to stick forks in…

Hamish Sinclair does his typically thorough analysis of an Island Four post we mentioned last week. Lots and lots of details about Pablo Neruda… more Blake tie-ins… even some Smashing Pumpkins. The details can be found in today’s Marathon Story update.

Peter Askam sends word that Halo Command UK has a new Halo skin for WinAmp, the Windows mp3 player. You can find it in their Media section, under Sounds. Take a look!

Battleground Halo is combating the no-news-induced boredom with Halo Libs, a new feature based on the parlor game ‘Mad Libs’ created in 1958 by Roger Price and Leonard Stern. You fill a form out with various parts of speech, and these words or phrases will be added to a story. BGH will print the funniest…

[GK]ByteEater sends word that his clan, the GrailKnights, have added Halo to their roster. Take a look!

Iden has submitted to our Theories section an interpretation of a line of one of the Cortana letters… could ‘a Demon folded in black clouds’ be a W’rkncacnter? You be be the judge. (You can find other speculations about this William Blake-inspired line on the Marathon’s Story page devoted to Cortana. Suffice it to say…

One back, one down: Battleground Halo returns with a new look, and Halo Central calls it quits. You win some, you lose some… (Thanks to R.net for the heads-up on Halo Central.)

Thanks to fire phoenix, of HC, who submitted another logo for our Logos page. Take a look!

Okay, we goofed. Turns out the bit about Halo being released simultaneously on the Mac and the Xbox is somewhat old (and since superceded)… apparently, it was posted to a Mac gaming site in August, and 8/10/2000 was interpreted (understandably) by a European as October 8, not August 10. The eNewsletter in question had this…

Wow! Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who noticed that the latest Apple monthly newsletter reminds readers that the Mac version of Halo will be out at the same time as the XBox version. (‘Reminds us’? Seems to me we never KNEW that in the first place!) This came from Microsoft’s Vice President of Games. Corroboration as…

They’re doing it again… the king of the Halo Makeovers, Battleground: Halo, has switched looks again. There’s nothing there yet (again), but the blue and white has given way to black and orange. Just in time for Halloween…

MICROSOFT TURNS BUNGIE INTO SWEATSHOP: Oh, wait… that’s not right. Matt Soell stopped by R.net’s forum this evening (yeah, we know, he’s not allowed to do that) and volunteered a bit of info about what’s going on behind the scenes. Promises of more info have been made… beware, Matt, your words have been recorded. Go…

Miguel Santiago has sent in a hand-drawn Halo Marine, as a cartoon. Pretty nice work… you’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.

MacNN has news of a new SETI@Home client… 3.0. Currently available for Windows98/95/NT, MacOS, MacOSX, and Unix, the new version adds pulse and triplet detection to signal analysis, faster FFT routines, and better multitasking. All versions are available from SETI@home’s Downloads page. Grab it today, and increase your searching abilities! Find the Covenant before they…

The second chapter of Role Reversal, a Halo fan fiction-in-progress, arrived this evening. The action’s heating up! Elmo warns that this will be the last chapter for a few weeks… life getting in the way, again. You’ll find it on our Fan Fiction page… enjoy!

Good to know that even when real life gets in the way of updates, fans keep on top of the good stuff. Island Four (otherwise known as Nathan Bitner, former Producer of Halo) is back on the forums, spouting Neruda, Blake, and his own feverish rantings. A line from an R.E.M. song comes to mind:This…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who submitted a fully hand-done version of the new Marine… you’ll find him in our Miscellaneous Art section. Diogo’s not happy with the arms… but he says he’ll get back to them. Take a look!

Thanks to Christian Ytterström, who sent in a newly colored version of the original Marine. You’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.