We've mirrored two new Halo movies here at Rampancy: the first is the third Halo Movie trailer from Blackstar Productions. It's available here, at the Blackstar Productions website, and from Mythica.org.

Does Lisa Shea know something about Halo we don't?

That's what you might conclude, based on the review of Halo she wrote for Bella Online (thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up).

There's an interview with Max Yeroen Hoberman over at xbox.com, according to Deimos Fawkes over at Subnova.

We now have a local copy of the Breaking The Rules video (18Mb) by Team Overkill in our movies area. Enjoy!

Deimos Fawkes has posted at Subnova that they've got four pages of scans from Edge magazine, which recently interviewed Jaime Case Griesemer of Halo and Myth fame. They pass on special thanks to Pallor for acquiring the scans.

Peter Marks of Bungie has interviewed Juan Ramirez, sculptor of the Covenant Elite statue, for Truth & Reconciliation. Check out One On One With Juan Ramirez (although the title is misleading; Ramirez's roommate Bob Standlee was there, too) for the full interview as well as several neat pictures showing his work.

Word on bungie.net is that a gathering will be held amongs its Seventh Column chapters in Santa Monica, CA on May 24, 2002. There's lots of information about the tournament your chapter can participate in as well as registration details, which, by the way, will open on Thursday, February 21.

We missed this one awhile back... on February 14 xbox.ign.com posted a story confirming that Halo will finally be available to Xbox gamers in Japan on April 25, about two months after the console launches.

7HR33 has opened its site to the public, and it has a good amount of high quality content already; in particular, the Antics page has several screenshots and movies that constituted their contributions to HBO's tips and tricks section.

Count Zero over at HBO has posted about two Halo-related events at the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2002. The first is a Halo post-mortem with Case (Jaime Griesemer) and Chris Butcher.

Shacknews jokes that perhaps this modification might improve the less-than-stellar framerates during a few rare moments of Halo ; but in all honesty they've only watercooled the Xbox, not overclocked it. Too bad.

ShackNews noticed a Reuters story on Yahoo following up on Microsoft's recent non-denial denial of the HomeStation rumors.

Xbox.com has put up an interview with Bungie's resident audio expert, Marty O'Donnell, about his role in making Halo:

UnknownPlayer.com has posted an interview with Randall Glass, the author of the extremely popular Warthog Jump movie created with Apple's iMovie software and Bungie's Halo:

Rumor has been spreading over the past several months that Microsoft is building an expansion device called HomeStation for the Xbox. Microsoft has now denied the product's existance and claims it is nothing short of fiction. TeamXbox writes: