Month: January 2000

Nice new Desktop from Phillip Albanese, in three sizes. Check it out on our Wallpaper page! Thanks, Phillip!

luxor, from Halo Vault, sends word that the Halo footage from bTV Days 3 and 4 have another home. As he says, Halo Vault “has pipes the size of watermains”… make use of ’em! 😉

Magh Tuireadh posts another Halo Re-Mix… very different from the Tritin FIlms one (this one is set to Moby’s Bodyrock, and features Cortana text and strange Halo visuals), but quite good. Get the big one, if you can handle the 48 meg download. (The midsized one doesn’t have a home yet.)

Thanks to Nalgas D. Lemur, who’s added another mirror for the day 3 and day 4 Halo footage off of bTV. Anyone who hasn’t seen it… here’s another source!

Halo SETI team 24 hour stats posted. When the Covenant are contacted will you be ready?

New Official Release Dates? Kudos to Georg for the following heads-up from Take 2 Interactive in Europe: If you go to http://www.macnews.de/_macgames/ you’ll read at “Dienstag, den 25. Januar 2000 – 20.44 Uhr” this: Neue Erscheinungstermine Take 2 Interactive, Distributor für Bungie’s Halo und Oni hat die Erscheinungstermine beider Spiele “korrigiert”. Demnach soll Oni im…

Halo Movie Special Edition! Kudos to Courtney Evans (aka lustygoat) for pointing out that Tritin Films have added over 200 sound effects to the current Halo trailer for the ultimate Halo experience. Download their Halo Remake movie (30MBs).

Ben Kamprath has sent in another sketch… you’ll find it on the Miscellaneous Art page (Original, Page 9). Gettin’ crowded in there…

Oops. We set up an upload ftp site, then forget to look at it! Piper uploaded a new logo for our Logos page last Friday, but we forgot to check. Thanks, Piper!

Dang, and I bought a PS2, just for this! The Core reports that Matt Soell has torpedoed GameSpot’s claim that the Playstation 2 port of Halo is a done deal. Go read about it! Pax.

Myndreach has updated his personal data diary again… check our Fan Fiction page. Thanks, Myndreach!

Peter Ellis (aka warpig) sends us another marine sketch… page 9 of original art in the Miscellaneous Art section. Thanks, Peter!

Halo SETI marines gain a new recruit and climb to position 115 in the overall team rankings. Welcome aboard Pico. Check the crunching power of the Halo marines on the 24 hour stats page. They’re out there!

SETI Checker 2.1.6 is out. Analyze and display SETI@home team statistics without having to launch a web-browser. Draw charts containing statistical information about different teams. SETI Checker is PowerPC-only. Grab it now!

Harry “I wanna BE the news at HBO” Al-Shakarchi shows us he’s not willing to rest on his laurels… he’s taken a closer look at the patch on the sleeve of the marine. Here’s his rendition. Now no more news for at least 3 hours, Harry!

Ben Kamprath has sent us a fan sketch… you’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page. Thanks, Ben!

Kudos to Harry “IMG says I’m a maintainer” Al-Shakarchi, for pointing out that GameSpot News reports that a “source close to the project” has gone on record as saying that the Playstation 2 port of Halo “is definitely happening.” No more guessing!

Thanks to warpig, who sent us a cool Marine sketch for our Miscellaneous Art page. (It’s at the end of the Original section.) Thanks, warpig!

You can call me Husk! Think 640 x 512 is big screenshot size? Well we got news for you! The German GameStar magazine site has a Halo preview with two awesome Halo screenshots at 1279 x 1024. This is the real stuff folks. You can make out that luscious detail… such as player name tags!!!…

Say hello to Husk! Bungie’s latest Halo marine screenshot has been digitially enhanced using Jjaro(?) technology to reveal a Halo player name tag! The player sports the name “husk”. Could this be the way of identifying players in net games? No this isn’t a fake as will be revealed later today in a HBO exclusive.