Month: November 2000

Hmm… Joe asks (on our forum) “What’s up with bungie.org?” What’s up, indeed?

According to a news report over at PlanetXbox Microsoft is planningto put $500 million towards marketing the Xbox. The plan is to literally take over entireretail floor areas. For next year’s E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center in MayMicrosoft have asked for at least twice as much floor space as Sony. According to…

Lupus sends word that he’s got a new German Halo site up – Halo Headquarters. Check it out… quite a bit of work has been put into it!

Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose two spots in their climb to the top (maybe more, the SETI server is a week behind compiling team stats). Didn’t help much that we lost braeden and his 788 units… All the damage can be seen on the 7 day stats page. Without better crunching, those Covenant…

Thanks to Iden, who submitted Chapter 2 of his ongoing Firestarter Squad saga today. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Another redesigned Halo site: Kaidu writes to tell us that Halo Tip has been overhauled – stop by and take a look! Pax.

Man, they’ve done it again. Battleground: Halo, the Halo site voted Most Likely to Overhaul Their Graphics, have once again overhauled their graphics… and this time, have joined the ranks of Sites That Are Nasty In Netscape 4.x. Minimum requirements to view the site: IE 4, Netscape 6 (yeah, it sucks, but it uses bigger…

Okay, we couldn’t let this pass… it’s just too convoluted. 🙂 On Thursday, Matt Soell posted a short message to our forum confirming that Bungie wouldn’t have a booth at MacWorld SF this year. Rampancy.net picked up on this post yesterday, and included a front-page news post about it. Less than an hour later, MacLedge…

Kudos to Finch, who pointed out (on our forum and by email) that Bungie has updated its Letters to the Webmaster section. Even Doug Zartman gets in on the act. (Sort of.) Bork Bork Bork. (And the winners to the poetry contest.)

Matt’s weekly Halo update (over at R.net this week) contains some juicy gameplay details:The AI is already good enough to kill Jason and Chucky, no easy task.Vehicles are almost done, buildings are huge… and soon you’ll be able to buy G.I. Joe in his ReachMobile? Check all the details for yourself.

Wow… and another one. Chris Cox has sent in a story told from the Covenant side… a refreshing change. (Nicely written, too.) As Chris said,Later entries might be decyphered and uploaded in the future, assuming this doesn’t suck :)We think there should be more… how about you folks? Check our Fan Fiction section for ‘The…

Neil Grattan submits part 3 of his story, The Sniper, to our Fan Fiction section. It’s short, but it ain’t over yet…

Kudos to Dan Rudolph, who went to a Microsoft talk on the Xbox last night, and posted some highlights on our forum. Mostly hardware stuff… but this line popped out at me:While the Xbox won’t ship with a keyboard, there may be one at some point.Seems Brian Schmidtt (Audio and Media Director for the Xbox,…

Jay Swartzfeger, maintainer of the new Mac Halo site, writes to let us know that they have a new survey up for you to vote on – ‘What platform will you purchase Halo for?’ (Given that this is a Mac-centric site, we’re not sure how scientific the poll is… but hey. 🙂 ) Swing by…

A warm welcome to David Candland, the newest member of Bungie’s online team – he’s officially “Interface Designer”, so he’ll likely be working on making bungie.net more friendly to everyone. That doesn’t have IMMEDIATE relevance to Halo fans… but when Halo DOES get to the point where bungie.net is important, what’s in place will help…

$erial-ki!!A was going to release the next chapter of his ongoing Halo saga next month, as a Christmas offering to the community… but his plans changed. Here, then, in our Fan Fiction section, is De-Iced and Decapitated (Chapter 8) – think of it as an early Christmas present.

As seen on the Marathon’s Story page… the latest Inside Mac Games CD (volume 8 number 3 – IMG doesn’t seem to date their CDs, although file creation dates are all in August of this year) contains a tidbit on Peter Tamte’s publishing company. There’s been much speculation about who will be doing the Mac…

Bungie to show at next year’s E3 Expo? According to Matt Soell in a forum post it’s very likely. Matt said: At the absolute least we should show up at E3. E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo)

James MacGlashan sends in a new Halo Desktop for our Wallpaper page. Thanks, James!

Another gritty story from Musashi M., this time pre-Halo. SANE5, worth a read… in our Fan Fiction section.