Month: August 2000

Thanks to John Boscia, who submitted a new story, The Book of Halo, to our Fan Fiction page. Check it out!

Thanks to Mark Levin, who found another Bench comic relating to Halo. (Xian noticed one way back in early March, on our forum.) This one’s pretty old, too… it went up in early February. However, I couldn’t find any record of it either in our forum archives, or in the r.net forum archives, or on…

Woohoo! Bungie’s updated the Letters to the Webmaster section! Dog intestines, Tauntauns, and Joan Crawford, oh, my. (Halo’s even mentioned a couple of times, which makes this post (just barely) on topic.) Go read ’em! Thanks to Tursas for the heads-up on this one.

Psyrixx writes to tell us that the Psyjnir Complex will be relaunched on September 10th, in all its glory. Mark your calendars!

Halo news is at an all-time low right now… but that didn’t stop Halo Center from bringing on two new staffers, and welcoming back an old one. With a crowd like that, they should be able to make up news, when there isn’t any. 😉 Welcome (or welcome back), guys!

Xbox, Xbox über alles… Wagner James Au has written a long rationalization on why the Xbox will succeed next year over at Salon.com. Lots of tasty morsels here… Kevin Bachus points out the difference between the target Xbox gamer and other console targets:”We’re going after an 18-year-old guy away at college for the first time.…

“I can go in… I can go out. In… out. In… out.” xbox365 is reporting that “a good source” is claiming that Microsoft Developers have been informed that the Xbox spec has been upgraded to 128 megs of RAM. Who really knows, with a product still 12-18 months from release? Good news, though, if it’s…

Due to an infusion of new blood, the Halo SETI Marines have closed the gap with the TidBITS team to just over 500 units again. At this rate, they’ll pass them up by early October. The bad news is, the Austrian SETI Club has stepped up and passed the Marines! Can these new crunchers make…

More contradictions to the Daily Radar UK bit last week: xbox.ign.com interviewed Kevin Bacchus, Director of Third Party Relations, about how he sees outside publishers fitting into the Xbox scene. One unhappy thought:”For some publishers though, there’s a conversation we need to have about how you make use of a system that has no mouse…

More Xbox news… in contradiction to speculation by Daily Radar UK last week, MSXbox asked Michael Abrash, Microsoft programmer, about his statement that the Xbox will ship with 64 megs of RAM. Michael said”… I would have liked to have seen 128 Mb myself. […] Anyway, the decision is made, and it’ll be interesting to…

For those still confused as to why Bungie programmers (and many others) are so excited about the Xbox, when it seems it’s just a box with a bunch of PC parts that will be nowhere near cutting-edge by the time the Xbox is released, XboxFaction has put up a small feature on fixed-spec (console) vs.…

Thanks to Trask, who submitted a new background for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Halo Center is currently looking for newsies… if you’re interested, send Yrro some mail. Not that there’s a ton to do right now… but who knows, things change.

Yesterday, we posted a news item about an interview with Seamus Blackley, the Director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Team, and we got both email and a forum post lamenting the inclusion of Blackley on the Xbox team. He’s best known for his involvement in the development of Trespasser, a game released in October 1998…

Mojo reminded us that we’d forgotten his comic site, Bungie Jumping, in our links round-up yesterday. Heh… his latest comic pokes fun at a pillar of the fan community… stop by and take a look! (Bungie Jumping has been added to the Funnies section of our Links page, as well. Sorry, Mojo.)

Gamecenter.com interviewed Seamus Blackley, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Team, about where Microsoft sees themselves fitting into the console market.GC: How confident are you about Microsoft’s foray into console gaming? S. B.: We try to put 300 percent into everything we do. We’re here until 10 p.m. every night. I’m never home. We have…

Thanks to all the folks who’ve told us how broken our news archive is… it’s been fixed. Not only that, but searching has gotten easier. You can still use the search box on this front page… or you can jump over to the archive and grab a particular day, or a particular month. Finding old…

Woohoo! Shame on us for not noticing sooner. Battleground: Halo, dormant for a bit, is back in the saddle, with new updates, a comic, and a new bit of fan fic. We were getting nervous there… 😉

Thanks to Haloplayers, who noticed an article at Daily Radar UK detailing the (current) specs of the Xbox. On the plus side: a scaled-down, stable version of Windows 2000, (maybe) 128 MB RAM, and a keyboard and mouse standard… This is all speculation on DR’s part, but it’s backed up by some educated guessing, and…

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we missed our SETI update yesterday. We’ll do a 2-week update next week. In the meantime, however, the SETI Halo Marines need to realize that they’re falling behind the TidBITS team… after weeks of being 4-500 units behind, the gap has now grown to over 600 units, and continues…