As though called by the upcoming new ‘Tips and Tricks’ section, Ben Kane has updated his collection of odd places in Halo, including easy-to-follow visual directions for getting to the top of 343 Guilty Spark without jumping on the dropship. More to come, it seems… but start here!

Been a long time coming… but this old site finally got a solid shaking-up. Everything’s been reorganized to be easier to find… and new sections, for new content, have FINALLY been added. The chunk you want to be looking at is labeled ‘Game Fun’ over in the navbar to your left… the brand-spanking-new Halo Story Page finally sees the light of day, and the Tips and Tricks section (empty now, but to fill up soon) will provide a home for all manner of gameplay hijinks. Feel free to send along comments/complaints/suggestions – it’s new enough that we’re open to feedback. (The timing, btw, is propitious… three years ago yesterday, bungie.org was born. We’d have gone live then… but we figured waiting for the 7th made more sense…)

Uriel points out that GamePro has put up a pretty nice little Halo Guide (complete with a whopping 65 screenshots) for your playing pleasure. WARNING: There are major story spoilers here; do not read this unless you’ve finished the game (or are completely stuck somewhere). We’ll add the screenies to our database in the near future.

haloXperience has gone live, a bit ahead of schedule. It’s not all there yet… but they’re pretty enthusiastic; if you read German, go visit!

Tom Murphy sends in Part 2 of his ‘Pride and Honor’ series… strong hints of Steakley in there. A good read! You’ll find it, and lots more, in our Fan Fiction section.

getintothegame.com is holding a Halo chat with Chris Butcher on January 9th. All details on this page. Pax

Ben Kane and Greg Mouland have managed to get on top of Truth and Reconciliation… not much up there. You can find pics at Ben’s Geocities site. They’re still working on new stuff! (Oh, and for folks having trouble getting on top of the Dropship to jump to the top of 343 Guilty Spark – Ben writes that they did it a different way; they jumped off a rock. No grenades/partner boosting needed. Maybe they’ll put together a pictorial showing WHICH rock. 🙂 )

Razorback drops off a cool pic from the cover of a Portuguese magazine, BGamer – he wants to know where they found it. Me? I wanna know where I can get a bigger version.

David Candland admits to ignorance of Shakespeare (or maybe it’s just innocence… nah) with regard to one of the Outtakes posted yesterday at the Truth and Reconciliation site. And he acknowledges that lone marine on the hill… Dave, you’re supposed to stay tight-lipped, geez.

Got Apex has reviewed Halo, as part of an overall Xbox review; they gave it a 10/10. We’ve added the entry to our Reviews listing. Thanks to fate for the heads-up.

The 21 new shots posted recently at Bungie’s Truth and Reconciliation website have been added to our Screenshots Database. One-stop-shopping, and all that.

Noctavis, from Rampancy.net, has put together a list of Xbox-to-VGA adaptors that might be of interest to you, if you want to play Halo on your computer monitor. Check it out here.

Halo: Truth & Reconciliation gets some more content, including alien vehicle concept art, multiplayer screenshots and some funny outtakes. Pax.

Wow. TheDarkRaven13 went to the trouble of transcribing the entire EGM interview with Jason Jones, and posting it to the IGN forums. Some good stuff in there! (You finally get the other half of the ‘I would have been your daddy’ quote…) Thanks to gdnt for pointing it out.

Well, I was hoping to hold off on this for a few days… but due to a mail problem, it’s already a couple of weeks late. Knight Premier sent in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ theory of the history of Halo way back on December 20… it’s interesting to see the same sorts of speculation flying around our forum right now. You’ll find this (and other speculations) for a short time on our Theories page… but it’ll be moving next week. WARNING – there are major story spoilers inside.

Thanks to Nate, who points out that the latest Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine contains an interview with Jason Jones. As soon as we can get our hands on this, we’ll try and get you more details.

Deimosâ„¢ writes to say that he put sleep ahead of honor and chose to wait until this morning to point out this page at Subnova, a collection of Halo bugs and oddities. Silly man… you can sleep when you’re dead. Included are shots from the top of ‘Halo’, weird rendering bugs, and another picture of the infamous ‘secret marine’ on 343 GS. (If you don’t know what this means, don’t follow the link – he’s more fun to find on your own.)

Mattgyver has put up a very nice tutorial for stealing yet another Banshee on level 5. This one has been mentioned, but never laid out so prettily before. Some of the nicest shots were made possible by an earlier Banshee-stealing tutorial… (Small warning – there ARE spoilers here, if you’re trying to stay pure.) Time for me to get back to coding.

Ben Kane and Greg Mouland have managed to take the first pics atop the cliff on 343 Guilty Spark (the one you can get to by jumping on top of the initial dropship, then jumping across as it leaves), and have also taken some nice shots atop the Silent Cartographer level. You can find these pics on Ben’s Geocities site. (Hopefully, by this time next week, we’ll have a home for this sort of thing, for those interested in contributing.)