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!

A cornucopia of random art submissions for you today… bikeman and Kyle turn in Yellow Banshee-related pieces, Warbow shares a pretty funny postcard he received, and CYBRFRK passed along a pair of Master Chief sightings in major US cities. (Looks like this might be a rough winter for the MC…) You’ll find all the goodies in our Miscellaneous Art section.

A quick warning – if you’re working on a Seventh Column theme for the contest, today is the deadline; the winner walks away with a ‘hefty allowance at the Bungie Store’, and Evil Otto points out that new Halo goodies are coming soon.

Apologies for the downtime (both physical, and in terms of updates). Blame life. To start off with, here are a couple of desktops for you – the Wallpaper section gets bigger and bigger…

Heh – Inky, from Crocodile Bungie, has a dirty Halo disc. It still plays… but he gets some bizarre artifacts. Rather than gripe, though, he squeezed his lemons… and came up with Disco Halo, a 1:33, 9.4 mb film showing some bizarre texture problems. (The Glass MC at the end is AWESOME.) Aside from the flashbacks the music induced, this film is a lot of fun. We’ve mirrored this at mythica.org, just in case. Update: thanks to Pez, for allowing us to add one more mirror of this flick.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews points out that the The Junkyard’s Halo Strategy Archive could use more content. If you have any strategies or tips that you’d like to share (whether or not you’ve already submitted them to the Halo Tips database here at HBO), head on over and hit the submit button!