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Legendary Ending Scene filmed
We shouldn’t even be telling you this… but hell, he made the films. If you haven’t yet beaten Halo on Legendary, but you’re still anxious to see the special cutscene at the end, John Kramlich has made it possible; the critical part is available on his site, in both Sorensen 3 and MPEG 1 formats. If you watch these without earning them, though, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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The Marines keep going
Hot pink plasma shot out of the enemy turret guns and flung through space barely missing one the fighter ships. Two more fighter ships appeared around the side of the Covenant War Cruiser and commenced firing at the guns.
Tom Murphy takes a look at life after Halo in the first part of his new Fan Fiction series, ‘Pride and Honor‘. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.
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More on Xbox names
Ruzhyo, working on the suggestion of Mr. Yun (that the Xbox name and the random names assigned to multiplayers choosing the default setup come from the same pool), has compiled a rather large list of possible names for your Xbox. (38 of ’em, to be exact.) There are some still missing (Quick Save, for example), but the list jibes well with the Xbox Names list we started (and abandoned) last month. (Some entries on our list are suspect; they were sent in by people who had already changed the name of their Xbox in another game.) Look for a definitive list (or something close) soon?!
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Halo FAQ/Walkthrough updated
Neogamer has released version 0.7 of his Halo FAQ/Walkthrough – you can find it on GameFAQs, or FunXbox, or one of a couple of dozen other sites. It runs up through level 7 at this point (if you can’t guess, the point release shows the completed levels). Thanks to draxes, who pointed it out today.
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Never let ’em see you sweat
he inimitable Freewill, unstoppable with that digital camera, has posted damning photo evidence of the Carnage on Deerfield Lane – stop by Bungie Sightings and check out the setup!
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Carnage can be beautiful
Eep – posted this yesterday, forgot to mention it here. The promised Carnage Report from the second HBO Junkies lan party can be found on our forum. Bottom line – it was a LOT of fun. Go read the details.
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FoR-based Fanfic
Kellen Squire sends in a Fanfic based on Jericho VII, a planet lost to the Covenant in 2535. Ground fighting from a jarhead’s point of view… check out ‘Jericho VII‘ in our Fan Fiction section.
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MacGamer says enough
The MacGamer crew has put up its Editor’s Choice Awards for 2001… and Halo wins ‘Game That Most Qualifies as “Not Worth The Wait”‘. Ouch… maybe they need to rent an Xbox for a weekend… Thanks to *Ar-Isildur for the heads-up. Update: Skeletor points out that we should also mention that Halo tied for the ‘Thing We Most Look Forward To‘ award, as well… schizophrenic bunch, that MacGamer crew…
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Halo Online joins the fray
Oops – this came in a couple of days ago, but I managed to pass over it – Halo Online has come… well, online. A nice looking, muted site – don’t bother with Netscape, you’ll get source code only. Check it out!
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Cutscene scripts at BGH
Battleground: Halo has put up a new feature: their Halo Script page. Currently, it contains the scripts for the first three levels of Halo, with more to come. Helpful, for anyone who missed some dialog along the way!
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Halocenter.com for sale
Got a new Halo site to put up, and need a good domain name? Halocentral.com is up for sale at eBay. Bidding starts at $9.99, with no reserve. souja gets the nod for the heads-up.
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More FF Bloating
Gasmask turns in another couple of incredibly short Fan Fictions – one ends the Journey of the Doomed series, the other starts the Training Day series. (They’re SO short, in fact, and they come so frequently, one wonders why he doesn’t just send them in when the series is complete – each of his completed series make a nice little 2-page or less fanfic… but every author is different, I guess.) You’ll find them in our Fan Fiction section, and if you’d like to read them all in one go, use this link.
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Fun with the Flood
How many places can you shoot a flood and knock parts off? Some thought it was just the arms and head… but Skeletor points out that the abdomen is another piece. (In fact, he took a picture.) We’ve made it local, to avoid loading problems with Geocities images…
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Halo SETI Team 14 day stats posted
Even with the additions of new members Donguido (3772 units) and beamanm (120 units), among others, the Halo SETI Marines can’t catch a break from the Berkeley boys. Total units crunched these past two weeks: 3333. Total units brought in by new team members: 3918. Total new units registered by the SETI server: 3510. OUCH! The team’s position at 62 remains constant (though less than 150 units separates the Marines from the next team up). Check all the ugly details on the 14 day stats page.
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Ooh, my blood pressure…
Whoa – a misstatement, or is something big coming? Jay Weinland (known on our forum as Jay the Younger) dropped off a clarification of what was recorded (and what was released – two different things, apparently) but what caught my eye was this sentence:ow if you want to hear some classic s**t just wait until we can get some of the outakes onto the halo.net site. Have some nice ones already edited just ‘a waitin for ya…
Halo.net? Last we checked, that was held by a mobile communications company – and it still is. Likely Jay means ‘the Bungie.net Halo site’. 🙂
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Low news means high carnage
Apologies for the low number of updates yesterday – the HBO Junkies had a LAN party yesterday, at HBO headquarters (here), and at its height, we had 11 marines on 4 Xboxes battling it out to the death (and what a lot of death it was). There were, in fact, 6 Xboxes (and 5 TVs) present… but multiplayer was just too much fun to break up into smaller groups, or play other games. Anyway, things will be getting back to normal soon, and of course, a report (or three) will be forthcoming.
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Halo wins the TXB Viewer’s Choice Award
Halo won the Team Xbox Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Game of the Year. Pax.
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Halo-World link adjustments
SpAder writes to say that Halo-World, which we’d listed as an English Halo page, is actually available in both English and German. (In fact, the English version isn’t even there yet – but the German version is.) We’ve adjusted our Links page to reflect reality.
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HQ Halo comes back
Andreas den Hertog AKA Pacey Dré writes to say that his FTP problems are over, and HQ Halo is back up and running, with an entirely new design. Check it out – soothing and easy to look at!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
