Month: September 2000

Thanks to Elmo, who submitted the first of what should be 8 chapters for a new piece of Halo fan fiction.I really want to get some feedback from fans. I’ve taken a few creative liberties with the story before they arrive on the Halo but i want some feedback on how well this works. Read…

Interesting. Seems the Xbox is going to have a VChip-like parental controls, according to Alex Kotowitz (Xbox’s Senior Director of Sales), as reported by Game Informer. Parents will be able to restrict what games are played on the Xbox, based on game rating. This gives everybody (parents, regulators, adult gamers) what they want… except the…

Battleground: Halo puts up another episode of “Retaliation”, a fan fiction in parts by Patrick Palmer. Pax.

Wow. Seems the nVidia movie has caused some major problems… R.net has a story that every Halo fan should read. Cannibal Harry, a Bungie fan with a big heart, now has a big (whopping big) ISP bill to go with it. From the outside, it sounds like Earthlink (his ISP) was either astoundingly ignorant of…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who mailed us two pieces of artwork: a modified Halo logo for our Logos page, and a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Put a tiger in your Halo! Jesse Keenan sent us a modified Halo Marine, wearing camo stripes. Check him out on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Halo marine in early Oni movie? Some say yeah… some say nay. The Marathon’s Story page has a shortclip of a rare Oni movie seen briefly on the web in ’98. It shows what looks like a guy in aHalo marine helmet. It has been discussed before on the Oni forumsbut some Oni folk didn’t…

Interesting tidbit… the Marathon’s Story page notes that a letter written to Macworld 4 years ago, condemning Macworld’s judgement that violence in video games decreases the games’ worth, was authored by a Matt Segur… a name shared by a current Bungie programmer working on Halo. Coincidence? Or was Matt simply standing up for a company…

Two more mirrors for the nVidia movie have popped up: Halo Center now has a copy, and so does HaloCenter.de (no relation to the American site). In fact… it doesn’t look like we’ve ever seen HaloCenter.de before, so we’ll take this opportunity to announce it. Looks like it’s a GameszPlanet affiliate.

Thanks to Olaf, who sent in a pair of high-quality desktops for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Sokar writes to say that the nVidia movie is available on the HaloEmpire server, which is probably a good choice for European visitors. That makes 4 locations we know of… the one above, Stomped, VoodooExtreme, and here at HBO.

Took a whole day to get these onto the server, but they were calculated on time, Monday. The Halo SETI Marines hold steady at number 43 in the Battle of the Teams, pulling farther ahead of Team Slashdot. A couple of Marines went AWOL this week… maybe we’re not pushing the team enough. 🙂 DarthFlounder…

First seen at HaloCenter: looks like Halo HQ is coming back online. Nothing there yet… but it’s nice to see it’s not dead permanently!

AAARGHHHH!! For two months, we’ve been working on getting Bungie to release the nVidia promo movie that was shown at the Bungie fanfest at MacWorld NY 2000 in July. It finally came through last night… in the middle of the first network outage of merit we’ve experienced. Ah, well… and so it goes.Anyway, this film…

No internet browsing on Xbox!Gamecenter has posted aninterview with Seamus Blackley,manager of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft. Blackley explains in theinterview that there are no plans for internet browsing on Xbox. Here’s the quote:GC: There’s no browser on this still, right?S.B.: No! Nobody wants a browser on a game box. And I’m not…

Wow. That was the longest outage since we moved the servers here. Ouch. Anyway, we’re back up. (We think.) Sorry for the downtime! Look for more updates later today or early tomorrow.)

We want to apologize for the downtime today… an underground cable broke somewhere, and it took the Telco over 8 hours to find the problem. I’m still not 100% sure it’s solved… but we should be back up for good, soon.

Slow Halo day… so we’ll pass on some interesting Xbox tidbits. J Allard was interviewed over at GameSpot, and had some interesting things to say. Worth a read. (The bit on why they stuck with ‘Xbox’ is intriguing.) The Xbox specs have been finalized, and you can find them here, also at GameSpot. Sharky Extreme…

Budd Morris sends word that he’s starting up a new Halo clan, Halo Division. Currently, he’s not looking for standard recruits… he’s looking for staffers. If you’re insterested, stop by the site and read the job opening list.

Tempest in a Teapot, Part Deux: Okay, this has nothing to do with the other rumor discussed recently… but it sure is silly. Recently, Matt Soell went on an answering spree at Rampancy.net… and tossed out this comment, in response to a question about what operating system the bungie.net servers might move to: We’ve spoken…