Author: Louis Wu

Ballistically Insane submits two new desktop pics to our Wallpaper page. Thanks, Eric!

DeathGuru submits another nice Halo scene to our Miscellaneous Art page. Thanks, DG!

Cortana missing in action from Bungie’s SETI team says Zach Stroum.

Congratulations to Clan Plaid #CP# for making the SETI Top 100 clubs list. Total CPU time = 14.31 years!

Bungie’s Tug of War Trophy stolen says Marathon’s Story. See the evidence for yourself.

Halo reference spotted in Marathon music tracks seven and ten says Marathon’s Story.

StrobeShock sends word that the Darkside is contemplating a new page devoted to multiplayer gaming strategy, if there’s enough interest. Hop over, take a look, and let him know if you think it’s a worthwhile endeavor!

A strange submission for our Miscellaneous Art page. You be the judge.

Our theories page returns. Thanks to the back-up Gods.

“When people play HALO, one of the first things they’ll notice is our insane attention to graphics detail.” says Bungie’s Jason Jones in a Sharkey Extreme article.

Forums are finally moved to a bigger machine. 250 posts on the main page, and the Archived Messages link works now. Enjoy! (Let us know about any bugs you find… there were a couple of glitches in the move.)

What’s going on? In the last 24 hours, the Halo SETI Team has submitted 39 units… but the Bungie team has dropped in 104! (Of course, someone new just joined their team… but that’s no excuse!) Come on, people… we won’t catch them that way…

Not too much going on, yet… enjoy the weekend.

Eek. Sometime since our last SETI update, the Bungie SETI Team pulled away from the Halo SETI Team… 1264 units to 878. (The Halo team picked up a bunch of new members, though… they’re up to 42 now, to Bungie’s 24, so things might happen soon.) Keep it going!

I’m really sorry… I updated this yesterday, but forgot to mention it here. Aaron Davies submitted new desktops for your perusal… Wallpaper page updated. Sorry, Aaron.

Lots of stuff happening while we were gone… Total Halo released a home-grown movie (pretty fun, actually)… The Darkside and Halocination together worked on a hoax that had people going about a new vehicle, halo.bungie.com was down, then up, then down, then up, and has two new screenshots for the masses… busy week. Sorry we…

One thing that continued on without our intervention was our forum. Traffic has picked up, though… and now posts are rolling off faster than most people can keep up with them. The current machine hosting the forum can’t handle more posts on the main page… and has choked completely on the 3000+ posts in the…

Wow… we take part of the weekend off, and look what happens! The Core has been going crazy with news and speculation, fueled by some scanned-in screenshots from the PC Gamer article… hop over and read about it!

Mark Levin turned in this pretty interesting analysis of those PC Gamer screenshots to our forum…

Bad news when the Core gets to our forum before we do… Alan Stott reports that HALO-NET should go live in a few days. Fun bit of javascript there now.