Category: HBO

Heh – take your lanfest to the Next Level. The Bay Area Halo Players Group have put together a pretty slick website for the Battle of the Bay, an upcoming lanfest in San Francisco. They’re looking for 48 Halo players to participate – they’ve got Bungie-supplied swag to give away, and the Official Xbox Magazine…

We’ve put our first image up on the One-Shots page… not so much because we were ready for it to go live yet, but because we received a submission of similar pics for the Gameplay Tricks section, and wanted to make sure that credit went where credit was due. You’ll find Roman’s Ostrich pic on…

Supreme War Master T’soll Vorskray grinned with delight as the last of the pathetic human battle ships was obliterated, the Gods surely smiled upon his forces on this glorious day.Corbantis revisits the Fall of Reach… from the point of view of those who DIDN’T make the jump to Halo. Check out ‘The Tides of War…

Yeroen put up a note about the World Championship Halo League (self-titled) – they’re trying to secure sponsorship so that they can offer cash prizes in their online Halo tournaments… but in the meantime, you can sign up for online play (via Gamespy Tunnel) at the W.C.H.L’s website. Good luck to these guys! (A small…

PTM dropped us a note to let us know that Halo Online now has their forum online. You can find it here.

Due to the overwhelming number of people who are complaining that they can’t view the movies on this site, we’ve added a QuickTime movie question to our FAQ. If someone asks this question on our forum, or on a different forum, feel free to point them to this entry. (And speaking of QuickTime movies, the…

The list of mirrors for the Warthog Jump video has been getting hard to follow, so we’ve made it a little easier to figure out what’s where. Here’s a full list, broken down by which version is mirrored and what protocol is needed to get it. For all those having trouble seeing it – this…

TeamXbox has an article about the cooperative agreement between Microsoft and Del Rey books – based on the success of ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’, Del Rey plans to put out 2-3 more books this fall, and 6 titles in 2003. Most interesting to readers of THIS site:Three new novels are tentatively planned for release…

Tom’s Hardware Guide has put up an article on the Xbox, and includes a 2-page overview of Halo, among other games. It’s not really a review… but it’s a nice read, written from a hardware junkie’s perspective. They liked it. (Thanks to XNOR for pointing it out, and DeAdLy_cOoKiE (whoa, twice in a week) for…

Even more mirrors! First, for Cal’s Blood Gulch Tower movie:Unsys.com (thanks, Doum) Mythica.org (thanks again, Brian) One more Warthog Jump mirror has surfaced, as well – Rampancy.net is serving up the hi-res version. (Thanks!) We’ll compile full mirror lists for both movies later today.

Heh – very cool. Deimosâ„¢, of Subnova, has managed to get the Warthog back to the very start of the level Halo – follow this link, then head to the bottom of his ‘Halo fun page’ for a pic. (We’ll be adding this to the One-Shots page in the near future.)

Another mirror for the Warthog Jump movies just surfaced – thanks to Steve Campbell, who put them both (hi and low-res) up via Hotline at hl.forerunners.org. Mmm… resumable downloads…

MaxThndr drops off Chapter 1 of his new ‘Halo II: The Ardan Landings’ series. (Warning – there ARE story spoilers in this one.) We’d like to make a request of Fan Fiction writers – we’d like to ask that if you decide to write chaptered stories (as a huge percentage of you do), that you…

Hmm… this is interesting. If you’ve ever headed back to the start of Silent Cartographer after activating the Cartographer (that is, rather than getting into the dropship that would end the level), you’ll find that all the Marines you’d left near the start were dead. (Presumably, they were slaughtered by random Covs you managed to…

More movie mirrors… Tim writes that he’s got the hi-res warthog jump movie up on maserati.ca, and Vector40 has put up a copy of Cal’s ‘Climbing Blood Gulch in a Ghost’ (in .rm format, same as Psyjnir’s mirror) at The Junkyard. (Cal has also – temporarily – put up a copy on his own server.)…

More video material – Cal, a frequent contributor to our Gameplay Tricks section, has made a low-resolution movie showing how he got a ghost up to the Tower in Blood Gulch. If you can help him with the hosting of this 3.5 mb movie, drop him a line!

Mirrors for the Warthog Jump movie: Psyjnir Complex Hotline (Hi-res – Files>Halo>Movies>halo_warthog_jump_.mov) Mythica.org (Hi-res – thanks, Brian!) bungie.org mirror (lo-res only) Original site (both, for now – low-res-only soon) More as we hear of ’em! (This one’s really worth seeing, if that wasn’t clear already. Check the praise in this forum thread.) Quick Update: Drew…

Okay, put your coffee down (and anything else nearby that might spill), and run, don’t walk, over to this directory. Randy Glass has made one of the funniest fan vids I’ve ever seen – a brilliant combination of Halo footage and miscellaneous sounds and music… it simply MUST be seen to be believed. (Remember, he…

A couple of Wallpapers came in recently – the SocketError Team dropped off another one (sort of hurts my eyes after a while), and the BlargMaster whipped up a nice image using Strykerwolf’s new Counter-Strike skin. You can find both of these in the Wallpaper section.

Tom Murphy turns in Part 3… hmm, half of Part 1… well, the next bit of the ‘Casualties of War’ series. You can read the latest piece alone, or the series as a whole – whatever’s easiest for you. Don’t forget to tell him what you think!