Worth a read.

A new comic has been put up at Bungie.net – and it’s pretty funny. According to Dave Candland, this is an ‘actual embellished conversation’ that took place during the creation of the Halo 2 trailer. Makes you wonder how all those guys are still alive…

Inside Mac Games has posted their eleventh installment of “One on One with Glenda Adams” where one of the topics discussed is Halo:

Tuncer: Can you give us any details on Halo for the Mac? How will it be different than the X-Box [sic] version. Any details on networking you can talk about?

Glenda: There isn’t much I can talk about yet- the net play will be revamped and extended, and it should be very slick. Almost all of the gameplay design issues are taking place at Gearbox, we’re mainly involved in recommendations of low level technology to make the port simpler.

Needless to say, the revamping and extending of net play will apply to the PC version as well. Check out the rest of IMG’s feature here. Pax.

Having trouble on Two Betrayals? Never fear, our own Asmodeus is here to help you out. The latest section of HBO’s Legendary Walkthrough has gone up, and it should get you through those generators without a hitch. Get to readin’!

New screenshots at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – Coop! But not Coop like you see on YOUR TV… full-screen Coop. Whoa. Check ’em out.

Tuesday Fan Fiction:

• Halo Side Story Chapter Two, by Jordan Dotson
• The Shadows – Part 4, by Glenny
• Wings of Death Part 1, by el_halo_diablo
• It Begins…, by Geshtu

Go read…

The Master Chief without a helmet? Wow. The Miscellaneous Art section gets an impressive submission, thanks to Covenant. (It was all done in Photoshop.) Take a look!

Heh – the family edge wins out. A new video has been posted at Blackstar Productions – it’s called Work or Die, and is a highlight film of a lanfest held right here at HBO HQ a bit over a week ago. 40 megs, 640×480, 3:43 long… with a pretty funny soundtrack. (A few too many clips of me dying, but such is life. Or something.) If bandwidth gets tight over at BSP, we’ll find a mirror or two… but for now, check it out there (and enjoy the site’s new layout!). I learned about this from Rampancy.net.

Eep – we missed the opening of the Halo hub at Forerunners.org. There’s not much content on the main site yet (mostly stuff snagged off Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site), but there are two hosted Halo pages already; EvergreenHalo and Halo Elites. If you want to build a Halo site, check ’em out!

Yesterday, we mentioned a Windows screensaver created by a Halo fan that played QuickTime movies. PCDestroyer points out that something similar exists for MacOSX – the reviews are mixed, but it’s there if you want it. (24k, so it’s not even a painful download.)

Once again, the Movies database has been brought up-to-date… 17 movies released in the last month or so have been added. It’s a never-ending stream…

Last week, we mentioned a contest over at Psyjnir.com – guess the winner of the Halo National Tournament, win one of three Halo soundtracks. The contest ended a couple of days ago – but the announcement was made on the Psyjnir Complex 7th Column chapter, and was visible only to members of that chapter. This has been rectified – you can find the details on the main Psyjnir Complex website. Congrats to Forerunner01, masterchief1138, and Jerry H!

How many of us wouldn’t want to see this in Halo 2? (Thanks again to Warbow for the tweaking.)

Ciarán has created a Windows screensaver that uses the Halo 2 trailer (in QuickTime format) – or any other QuickTime movie – as its source. It’s been tested on Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows XP Home. It weighs in at 1.5 mb – you can find it here.

Monday morning Fan Fiction (it all came in yesterday, but yesterday was mostly an offline day):

• Shadows of Archon II, part 10, by Wado
• Revolution, part 6, by Gruntkiller
• Rogue Enemies, part 5 and part 6, by Spartan415
• The Lost Spartan, part 11, by Spartan415
• Banserki’s Journal, part 8, by Sarge
• Justification, part 1, by Rixor

These constitute the final chapters for Rogue Enemies and The Lost Spartans… and possibly for Banserki’s Journal, as well.

Khen Rigzin announced a new Halo vid he’s created – you can find a complete walkthrough of the video, as well as a download link, on this page. It’s 58 mb zipped, 5:22 long, in .mpg format.

T-Money dropped off a new desktop for your viewing pleasure – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Rixor did some digging, and turned up a bit more information about the next Halo novel – according to this page, the author will be William Dietz, and the title is listed as ‘Halo: The Flood’. Amazon lists 24 books by Mr. Dietz, including several Star Wars novels. Some of the listings offer excerpts, so you can get a sense for yourself of his writing style.

Heh – a trailer so yummy, it generates REVIEWS OF ITS OWN. Monsters At Play has written up a very nice account of this clip – worth a read. Check it out!

Adam Russin and Brian Rosenberg have created a film called ‘Oh Shit!’ I’m too tired to figure out if it meets our Movie Posting Guidelines – but I enjoyed it, so I’m posting it. So there. It’s only available in .wmv format, unfortunately – it’s 3:18 long, and 12.5 mb big. You can get it at Project Mjolnir, where it was posted first, or you can grab a copy from Mythica.org. Tomorrow, I promise, I’ll get cracking on the movies that need to be added to our Movie Database. (We have news of several other movies that have been made recently; it’s all been backburnered due to the obscenely high demand for the Halo 2 trailer, but we’re going to start letting you know about some of it in the near future.) In the meantime, go watch this film… it’s fun. 🙂