Fury Three discovered yet another Lego Warthog over at Brickshelf – check out the work of Jeremiah VanderMark. I love the dedication of Lego fanatics. The little painted Master Chief rocks!

To make up for the Metroid vs. Halo train wreck posted earlier, we’d like to present you with Halo-Wannabe’s Official Bungie Illustrated Swimsuit Video. 6.9 mb, 1.45 long, in QuickTime format. Thanks to Brian Towne of Mythica, as usual, for the hosting. Happy New Year!

Matt Purcell has turned in a new Halo banner – originally enormous (far too big for service as a banner, but attractive nonetheless). We’ve scaled it down a bit, but the original is still available from the Banners section.

If this weren’t half a meg, I’d have said forget it… but it’s so bad it’s funny. Check out Wisgary Torres’ Halo vs. Metroid flick – 572k in WMV format. Don’t get mad – we’ll be posting another film in the not-too-distant future.

Grant White sends word that a friend has put together a Warthog mod for Operation Flashpoint: Resistance. You can see a picture of it, and apparently can download the mod, as well – though the download server seems to be offline at the moment. (When it’s up, go to ‘Addons2’ and follow the link for a FAV.) The list of games affected by Halo grows…

Happy New Year, everyone!

Got some cleaning up to do – there might be updates later today. (Or maybe not until tomorrow…)

A simply MASSIVE new logo from X – in our Logos section.

Heh. We’re flattered. 🙂

Two months ago, forum regular Tarrsk set up a list of HBO forumgoers and their Xbox Live gamertags, so that people could find friends to play with. Recently, that list moved here, to HBO. Now, it’s become quite a bit more automated. The list keeps track of which XBL games you play, and you have full access to your own entry, so that you can add and remove games as you buy new ones or get tired of old ones. All existing entries have been moved to the new system, and assigned random passwords. None of these, of course, have games associated with them, because that information wasn’t collected the first time around. If you’d like to edit your existing entry, simply visit the list, and follow the ‘Edit your existing entry’ link at the top of the page. We found email addresses for most existing entries, so you can have your password mailed to you – once you’re in, you can change the password to something you can remember. There were about a dozen entries for which we have no email addresses – if you’re one of these, you’ll need to mail Tarrsk again with your address. (Follow the instructions on the page for details.) You’re welcome to set up a new entry, as well – but be advised that these will be screened; spam will be deleted, and spammers will be banned from the system. Hopefully, this new setup will give people more control over who they play games with! If you have any questions about the list itself, please contact Tarrsk. If you have a PROBLEM with the list (something isn’t working properly) contact me – I coded it, and any errors are certainly my fault.

Whoa. Nice find by mnemesis. After seeing all those hardcover copies of The Fall of Reach on the Bungie Webcam, he went looking at Del Rey’s online catalog… and the latest iteration of the entry for the next Halo novel is rather intriguing. It’s now listed in 3 categories, instead of just two. The older two (‘Fiction – Science Fiction’ and ‘Fiction – Science Fiction – Adventure’) have been there for months… but now it’s listed in ‘Fiction – Movie/TV Tie-In’ as well. After all those times Matt’s said that there’s no Halo movie in the works, it looks like SOMEONE thinks Halo’s gonna get SOME screen-time… I’m curious to see how this unfolds.

Back in September, we posted a piece of Halo fan art that showed an interesting composite submitted by macro werner. Well, its fame is spreading – you can find this picture (unattributed) on page 91 of the February 2003 issue of OXM. (Interestingly enough, the footer of that page says ‘February 2001’ – maybe they’re having some quality control issues.) Thanks to elect5 for the heads-up.

Griffon pointed out that he announced a piece of Halo fan music more than two years ago. (As far as I can tell, this is the FIRST piece of Halo fan music – I’m sorry it’s remained buried until now.) You can grab a copy (3.2 mb, mp3 format) from mythica.

Matt Purcell asks a momentous question, Katana_701 sketches some weapons based on the Halo assault rifle. You’ll find the results in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Fan Fiction from the last day or so:

• Fallen Angel, part 2, by Gruntkiller/Covert
• A Shield of Deception, by Jahan
• Rebirth – Shadow’s Prologue, part 1, by Shadow
• War on the Home Front, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, by Anthony Coronado

Go get ’em… Update: oops, missed one. Don’t forget to check out Ring Of The Forerunners Part II, by Locke.

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a new piece of Halo fan music. We’ve recently gotten permission from Spiderstyle (the creator) to host a copy here; we’ve placed it on Mythica’s HBO Mirror. It’s 3.9 mb, and nicely polished. We’ll add comments from the author about the piece as soon as we get them. Hopefully, this will take some of the pressure off Xboxworld.nl, the original host (they still have it available, we’re simply mirroring it). Enjoy!

Tarrsk’s HBO XBL Gamertag list was updated recently – but he’s in a place where he has no access to the website. To help out, we’re hosting it here at HBO. Find friends now! (For those who don’t know, this is a list of HBO forum regulars, correlating their Xbox Live gamertags to their HBO Forum profiles.)

dolbex writes to say that the new, improved Halo50k.com website is up and running. Check it out!

In the December issue of OXM UK, the top 10 plays included a few Halo pieces (as usual). Most were rehashes of standard stuff… but one was something that I haven’t really seen filmed before. (This might be because it is so mind-numbingly boring to actually film that nobody wanted to bother… or it might be because it’s pretty boring to actually WATCH. Either way, this was the first clip I’d seen like this.) 2 minutes of killing your coop partner, over and over and over again (lots of parts were skipped to keep it from being TOO boring), so that you could drop all the bodies at once. 10 megs to download from Mythica. (You can actually see the end result in a Frogblast movie from many months ago – but in a different context.) Thanks muchly to Griffon, who ripped this for us and sent it along.

7 months ago, David Karl created a Warthog out of legos. He’s at it again… check this out. David sez:

the ‘hog has almost been completely digitized, and instructions should be done within a couple weeks. in the mean time, you can try and scrounge up this piece, cuz you’ll need four of em. the only set I know of that has these is number 6933, that blacktron six-wheeled thing. either go find one or get ready to improvize with the smallest shocks you can find.

David also points out that the Moden HL server has moved to 68.115.32.145. Looking forward to seeing the final product!

Nadorst points out that there’s a Halo remix on the Dutch Xbox site Xboxworld.nl that we’ve never mentioned before. It’s pretty powerful – and rather nicely done. I don’t read Dutch, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to contact the creator of the piece… but you can download it from Xboxworld.nl either at the above link, or directly from the download page. It’s 3.9 mb, in zipped mp3 format. Check it out!