Addam Weirich, showing up out of nowhere, has submitted a hilarious one-minute-long film that all Halo fans should watch. It’s really, really funny. Extra points (lots of ’em) for using a soundtrack voiced by Pete Stacker, the voice of Captain Keyes (and Sargeant Stacker) in the game. It was originally submitted as a DivX-encoded .avi, but we know some of our visitors have trouble with that format. We’ve reencoded it as a QuickTime movie, in two sizes; all three versions (the original, and the two QT encodings) are available from the Parking Attendant Mirrors page. Unfortunately, Mythica.org is unavailable at the moment for hosting (the web server is running, mostly, but the ftp server is not, so I can’t upload files), so we’ve spread this out over a bunch of different mirrors. If the first link you try is too slow, try a different one. We’d be thrilled to add more links to this page – just let us know if you can mirror any of the versions. Luckily, it’s not very large – depending on the version you grab, it’s only 4 to 7 mb worth of downloading. Go get it!

Local problems (Sprint lost another New York router last night at 10 pm) and the need to get up early kept me from hearing the Marty O’Donnell interview at X-treme Gaming Radio last night… but you can hear the stream even now. According to Major Tom, Marty danced around the Halo 2 questions… but was pretty forthcoming on the Halo: CE info. Go listen!

Heh – the Penny Arcade boys played a bunch of Halo last night… and their attitudes are definitely changing. (Even Gabe – though he hastened to point out that even though he really had fun playing multiplayer, he still thinks the solo campaign is 3 times too long.) Thanks to Skeletor for the heads-up.

Wanna hear Marty O’Donnell wax poetic? Tune in to X-treme Gaming Radio tonight at 9:30 pm EST; he’ll be interviewed. Thanks to Matt Soell for the heads-up.

Rough weekend – missed some of the fan-submitted content. This Side Up dropped off a couple of banners – we’ve added ’em to our Banners section. (That, too, needs an overhaul. It never ends…)

Yesterday, we posted a Microsoft Word document containing the Legendary Walkthrough housed here on this site. (This, btw, made Asmodeus happy.) Moloch was kind enough to save yet ANOTHER version – this one in PDF format for those without access to Microsoft Word. It’s 553K, and it’s pretty much identical to the Word doc – so grab it only if you don’t have the other one. I’ve linked both on the Legendary Walkthrough page, for convenience. Enjoy!

Nukedude has re-encoded Brian Josselyn’s Halo Movie trailer in DivX5.01 format; it’s as big, screen-wise, as the original, but 10 megs smaller. (You’ll need DivX Doctor II to play this on a Mac.) You can download this from Nukedude’s server, but if demand is great enough (and I’m sure Nukedude will let us know 😉 ), we’ll mirror this one, too. (He’s also added a mirror for the original Halo 2 trailer, in WMP9 format… we’ve added it to the mirrors list.)

Astounding quantities of Fan Fiction from this weekend:

• The Forerunners, by Jamie Perrie
• Forgotten Soldiers part 2, by cloud
• HALO: Missing In Action, Prologue to chapter 3 and chapters 4 to 8, by Hikaru-119
• A New Year’s Day, Chapter 3, by Guilty Spark
• Taking Tritus Part One, by Dispraiser
• The Hephaestus Equation V, by Dirty Commie
• Wings of Death Part 16, by el_halo_diablo
• Shadows of Archon II, part 32, by Wado

It’s going to be time to reorganize the section pretty soon…

Theo Arjona dropped us a line to let us know about SprigganHalo, a website devoted to a series of tournaments based in the San Francisco area. The first one is on January 18, and they’ll continue on the third Saturday of each month for the rest of 2003. Details and rules can be found at the website.

Tarrsk, maintainer of the HBO XBL Gamertag list, asked that we point out that the lack of updates on that list is due to finals. He’ll be done with ’em in a week or so, and will begin updating then. Please be patient!

Family day, no updates… been out. Last night, though, we received a bunch of desktops… you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section. Enjoy!

Johndoe102 did some rearranging of his desktop to bring you a Halo tribute – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

This came in a week ago, but it was sent to the Halotips address, so I missed it the first time ’round… Chris Swenson has kindly compiled our Legendary Walkthrough (written by Asmodeus) into a printable Word document; download this (196K, zipped) and print it out, and you can have our legendary tips sitting next to you on paper as you work your way through. Thanks, Chris!

Team HBO, a ragtag collection of disreputable folks who share membership in the HBO Junkies Seventh Column chapter, finished in the top two today in The Halo Winter Season Second Round Qualifiers, and move on to the Regionals, to be held February 2, 2003. Way to go, guys! (Read Miguel’s update on the event.)

Three new desktops for you today… you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section.

FunkDaddy has created a set of 26 Halo icons for use on your computer – there’s a set for OSX (128×128, 846K stuffed), and a set for Windows XP (48×48, 269K zipped). You can see a preview of the OSX versions here (968×820, 90K).

Early Weekend Fan Fiction:

• Have Design, Will Build Part 4, by hipboyscott
• Forgotten Soldiers part 1 , by cloud
• Halo: Standing Firm Part III, by Xzilen
• The Hephaestus Equation IV, by Dirty Commie
• Force 81 Prologue, by NobleWard

Go to it…

Chris Solomon writes that he’s started up a new Halo site, called Bungie HALO – content is growing. Take a look!

Skeletor found a pretty funny comic from VG Cats that’s Halo-related. Someone doesn’t like Nintendo fanbois…

Ninjas On Fire, a Halo 2 fansite, officially launches today – full content sections and a forum… take a look!