Month: July 2000

As seen on the Marathon’s Story page Robert McLees (Halo artist) and Lorraine Reyes (Bungie artist) have got engaged. Congratulations to Rob and Lorraine from all staff here at HBO. Woot!

Whoa! The Halo SETI Marinesgain six new recruits over the last 24 hours bringing the total team count up to 472 marines. Looks like we’re heading for thatbig 5 double aught… soom(TM). Hopefully we should start to see some more climbing in the SETI team ranks. Put your computer’s idle time to good use join…

Rock the poll! Thanks to Tim Hansen for pointing us to a weekly poll at Gibchunks which asks “What game are you most looking forward to?” Metal Gear Solid 2 and Halo are presently tied for first place with 30% of votes. Oni has 7%. Go tell them Halo and Oni are coming.

What do you want to see in our FAQ? Mark “Mr FAQ” Levin wants your help in updating our Halo FAQ. He’s started a thread in our forums for your thoughts and ideas. Help Mark to help Halo fans. All additions will be fully credited.

Stuck in a rut? The Halo SETI Marinesare STILL some 500 units behind the TidBITS team and 1000 units ahead of team Seti Italia in the Battle of the Teams. Team membership now stands at 466 marines that three up since the last time we reported but we ain’t going anywhere soon. Put your computer’s…

InsideXbox Graphics. Want to know more about the Xbox specs? Dr. Dobb’s Journal has a detailed report by Microsoft programmer Michael Abrash. Here’s a quote: The best thing about Xbox is that it won’t change. Ever. Judging by other consoles, Xbox should have a four or five year run, and wonderful as the profusion of…

After a bit over two months of inactivity, the Theories page comes alive with two new entries, both of which should spur a bit of mail or comments on our forum… Mikkel Eriksen expounds on the seasons of Halo, and Jeff Smith discusses the atmosphere problem. Read ’em over… then tell us what you think!

PrisonGuy writes:Enclosed is a piece of fiction I made. (It isn’t finished, and never will be. I have lost heart in a former cool company, and never will touch a product from the great satan.) Enjoy.You can find it on our Fan Fiction Page. (It’s called “The Loss.”) Thanks, PG!

Thanks to Robert Chrzanowski, who sent in a new Desktop image for our Wallpaper page. It came in in TIFF format, but if that image is too big for you, you can snag a high-quality JPEG. Thanks, Robert!

Microsoft to Spend $500 Million on Xbox Marketing. According to a news report on PlanetXbox Microsoft will spend half a billion dollars in marketing their Xbox console system in an effort to out perform Sony, Nintendo, and Sega in sales. According to Robbie Bach, senior vice president of Microsoft’s games division, this will be Microsoft’s…

Don’t forget to check out our newly updated Halo movies page. There you’ll find Bungie’s parody of the Budweiser “Whazzup” commercial. This is the high quality version (18.5 MB). Thanks to ***cough*** ***cough*** for making this available to us. We had to edit it slightly for ***cough*** ***cough*** reasons.

The Halo SETI Marinesare still some 500 units behind the TidBITS team and 1000 units ahead of team Seti Italia in the Battle of the Teams. Team membership stands at 463 marines but only a third are actively crunching which explains our slow progress. Put your computer’s idle time to good use join the Halo…

Freewill’s Bungie Sightings is temporarily down. The Fanfest forum is still up though. Expect an update… soon(tm). Pax.

Battleground: Halo returns with a redesigned look. White and blue is in and they’ve started a new fanfiction series titled “Retaliation”by Patrick “Defcon” Palmer. Pax.

More pics from MacWorld… this time from the FanFest. Swing by and take a look!

Mojo announces that Halam is dead, long live Bungie Jumping. Bungie Jumping is a new site, devoted entirely to Bungie-related comics. We say: add this to your roster of daily-checked sites! Pax.

Heh. Nailed again. sarwat points out some of the replies to the original Slashdot post about the SETI accelerator board… specifically this one and this one. No confirmation yet… but it sure LOOKS like a hoax.

Another wallpaper from Private Meowman… still no halo. Where’s that halo?

Pallor has written an article for The Corporation about the reaction of Bungie fans when the MS news hit. It’s not particularly flattering to Macintosh gamers. It’s spawned a couple of monster threads at Rampancy.net (here and here), and one smaller one on our own forum… lots of meat to chew on here. Do we…

Wow, talk about hardcore… Benjamin Ellison points out this page (originally seen on slashdot), devoted to selling a PCI card with one use: to speed up your SETI@home processing. For $129, you get a board with 6 processors on it, each having been designed to help the terrain following radar in PR-964 Cruise Missiles. There…