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  • One One Se7en Ornaments

    rapture created a series of Christmas ornaments using One One Se7en characters a couple of weeks ago. It took a little while to get around to ’em… but then, my Christmas lights and tree aren’t up at my home, either. You’ll find them prominently linked in the the One One Se7en section until Christmas; pick…

  • Calvin’s learning…

    Whoa. After exactly 8 months of inactivity, Calvin and Halo comes alive again with a new strip. Thanks, Warbow!

  • One Hundred

    Astounding as it may seem, Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en comic has made it to 100. That is – not including Sunday strips, Holiday strips, Archive strips, or Guest strips, there have now been 100 strips presented to you, the public, since April of this year. Wonga. To celebrate, MC gets a cake. (Be sure your…

  • You guys write too much.

    Last Fan Fiction update was 48 hours ago – here are another 21 pieces. (Yes, that’s an absurd submission rate. And yes, that’s after deleting more than one entry.) Spartans, by Sergeant B A Path to Nowhere, by Mainevent First Strike, by CovieKilla The Last Battle: The Yaxans, by JOTD FanFiction Team The Trials of…

  • Power In Numbers

    Gettin’ on in the day… but it’s still Wednesday, so there’s still time for Halo: Resolution. Looks like those grunts might be going a bit too far…

  • It’s great! It’s terrible!

    Feedback on Mac Halo’s gameplay: from the Maccommunity forum, there’s a report (thanks, Gary Smith) of good gameplay on a 900 MHz G3 iBook with a 32 mb Radeon 7500 (below the recommended minimum standards set by MacPlay), and from our own forum, a report of lousy play on a dual 2GHz G5 with a…

  • HoverHog 1.0

    Dmack pointed out a Hoverhog – a remodeled human hovercraft – he built over at HaloSkins. (HaloSkins, btw, is back online, with a new design; we’ve been meaning to post one of those web roundups, but haven’t gotten to it yet.) I haven’t tried it… but it sure looks funky! Update: gwdpto posted a bunch…

  • Game giveaway at Shacknews

    Shacknews is giving away a boatload of games, including 5 copies of Halo PC. For a chance to win, you just need to sign up; winners will be announced on Christmas day. Thanks to Jamirus99 for the heads-up.

  • AYBE II – gettin’ ready

    Blackstar continues the PR campaign on his Summer 2004 lanfest, Are You Big Enough II, with a spiffy movie poster. Whatever else you can say about the man, he definitely has a flair for movie stuff!

  • Ancient Halo

    Whoa… mysterious. I got word from mnemesis that Bungie had added a new wallpaper to their Halo Wallpaper collection yesterday, with no fanfare – there’s no news post on b.net about it. (Though I saw mnem’s email first, it looks like Pico posted it on our forum a bit earlier…) ‘Ancient Halo’ (last paper on…

  • Halo Metal – stripped

    Quick update on the large movie we mentioned yesterday; looks like the ISP pulled it. The link we gave yields a 404 (file not found) error at the moment. Sorry…

  • Massive Wallpaper update, part 1

    Okay, I want to apologize. The Wallpaper backlog was getting ridiculous. In fact, it’s so big (in terms of number of images) that I can’t post them all at once. Every time I started to put together an update, I’d check the uploads folders and my email, and find another handful… and suddenly, I’d find…

  • Halo Metal

    Tobias Ivarsson has created a 25 minute long ode to Halo; the majority consists of Warthog Jumps and the like, but there are some interesting nuggets hidden away amongst the commonplace. It’s huge – a 156 mb MPEG, downloadable directly from Tobias’ server in Sweden… grab it if it sounds fun!

  • More Photoshop madness at MacGamer

    Last week, MacGamer gave away 5 copies of Halo in a Photoshop contest (Master Chief on vacation). Apparently, it was successful enough that they’re doing it again – this time, though, you need to put the Master Chief in a major Hollywood movie. Details (and last week’s winners) can be found on the Giveaway page.…

  • MLG Tourney in Philly soon

    Major League Gaming has announced its next tournament; it’ll be held in Philadelphia, PA, on February 21-22, 2004. Halo is one of several titles that will be played, and there’ll be a minimum of $10,000 on the table for winners. Entry fee is $40 until December 27, $50 after that. Make it if you can!

  • And the winner is…

    The HBO Xmas Puzzle Carnage quiz has come to a close! c0ld vengeance posted the winners, and links to each quiz (for those who didn’t get far enough to see them all) in this forum post, though he’s not releasing solutions yet (because people are still playing).

  • Figuring the odds

    Gamepro has reviewed the second wave of Halo action figures (to go with their review of the first wave); if you want to read about these puppies before you buy ’em, this is a good place. Thanks again to KP. Update: GAH! I feel terrible; we got word from Gamepro yesterday about this article, and…

  • Plush with success

    The Grunt Plushy petition we mentioned a few days ago is now up to 1500 signatures. I think it’s clear that there’s some serious demand for this item… but just in case, if you haven’t signed it yet, GO DO SO! A grunt plushy, to have and to cuddle, to kick and and to pummel…

  • The Waiting Game

    Today’s Guest One One Se7en is one I was pretty sure we’d added to the Archive during the last major update… but apparently not. c0ld vengeance looks at how long the Guest Queue really is…

  • Mac 1.03 details

    One of the relevant snippets learned last night was that Westlake recently got hold of the 1.03 patch code for Halo, from Gearbox, and are busily at work creating the Mac patch. As soon as it’s finished, it’ll be available for download, allowing Mac users to connect to 1.03 servers. (Mac players can play online…