Month: June 2000

Marathon’s Story scoops with a concept art pic of new Halo aliens. The pic comes from PCZone Benelux (Dutch gaming mag). D’n’A mentioned this mag on our forums last Thursday and we’re working on bringing you the official pics courtesy of PCZone themselves. The mag also features a Halo developer’s diary. Lots of meat for…

That Wirehead has sharp eyes. He noticed that the thumbnail included in last week’s PC Gamer buyout analysis was close, but not the same as, the thumbnail included in last month’s Newsweek article. Seems both groups had access to the base material (probably the E3 trailer). Here’s the two shots, for you to compare on…

John Scott of Raven Software commenting on John Carmack’s X-box comments atSlashdot said:Cross platform compatibility is exactly what MS do not want. They wantexclusivity to their console, or at the very least exclusivity to their OSes. They will make money from XBox game sales, and do not make any from PC game sales. MS could…

It’s not gonna happen… but it’s nice to know it COULD. In response to a question on our forum about what Microsoft would do if Bungie decided that Halo wouldn’t work as an XBox title, Matt Soell said this:This question actually came up when we were discussing the deal. According to Alex, we’d make no…

Seen at Blue’s News: Incite, the magazine that has brought us several of the juiciest Halo bits over the past few months, is closing its doors. Who’s next?

Spotted at Halo Vault: John Carmack commented on the X-box over at Slashdot. Here’s his first post, and his second. One interesting excerpt, which might explain how Microsoft hopes to compete against PC hardware one year out:The X-Box should be able to keep up for a while, because you can usually expect to get about…

Total Halo, once a source of unique Halo news and art, has gone offline. We’ll miss you, guys. In totally unrelated news, a new site, coincidentally namedTotal Halo, has come online… not much there yet, but growing.

HazardOpC has sent in a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Good to know the artwork continues unabated!

Double Blam! The Halo SETI Marines climb to position #46 in the Battle of the Teams. SETI techs final update the team rankings page. Team membership also rises to 429 recruits. Keep the pressure on marines! Help in the search for the Covenant!

Kudos to Yrro, at Halo Center, who noticed that PC Gamer had put up an article on the MS/Bungie issue. What is most interesting to me about this is the tone of betrayal expressed by Rob Smith, Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer:That’s right. The subject of an in-depth three page preview in the August issue of…

More than 22,000 have now signed the Halo petitionto urge the Bungie Halo team to continue and complete development of the PC and Mac versions of Halo. Please aid the cause.

The Halo SETI Marines keep crunchin’ away but the SETI team rankingshaven’t been updated since last Tuesday. What’s up with that? Team membership stands at 426 recruits and Banzif is heading for that magic 7777 unit number. Help in the search for the Covenant!

Mentioned on R.net yesterday, but we slipped until Douglas Long tweaked us… Viceland has put up their take on the MS/Bungie deal. Hmm. Warning: if you work at a puritanical company, don’t visit this site from there.

Man, that Crux… first he’s off by an order of magnitude on the petition (understandable, he’s using a 9″ screen, and has it set to 1600×1200), now he gets the Shirt Story wrong. Seems the Story page t-shirts aren’t sold out… they aren’t sold, period. Jon Chang isn’t allowed to sell them by mail, so…

Antares has posted part 2 of an ongoing story on our forum… you can also read it on our Fan Fiction page. And remember… the ‘More by this author’ link on that page will allow you to read all segments sequentially.

Thanks to Majid “X” Manzarpour who points out on our forums that there are now 20000+ signatures at http://www.game-over.net/halo/. We have to agree with Majid it’s a “landmark figure”. Go sign up if you haven’t already. Bungie are paying close attention to it. Let them know we want Halo for the PC and Mac.

“Story page t-shirts sold out” says Hamish. All 49 of the shirts for the Macworld New York Bungie Fanfest 2000have been pre-ordered. Let’s hope they do another print run. Go read the seven reasons why you should have a Marathon’s Story t-shirt.

Don’t miss out on the Halo fun over at Penny Arcade The last two strips have been Halo related. Check theJune 21th and June 23rd strips.

Should Halo be Xbox only? 82% presently say NO at PlanetXbox. Make your voice heard!

Should Halo be Xbox only? PlanetXbox are running a poll with the question “Should Halo be Xbox only?”. Time to vote with your finger. Make your voice heard. Thanks to MakeMineRed for the heads up.