Month: April 2001

Added Dinosurfer’s new Halowarriors pic to our Wallpaper section. Got Wallpaper?

“They had nine clips of the 12mm RunHard penetrators, only seven of them full.” New fan fiction from Vector40 on our Fan Fiction page.

Ok we’ve got a few more Wallpapers in our Uploads area. We’ll get them up later today but if you want to see them now why not take a look.

Dinosurfer informs us that he has uploaded a 1024×768 Wallpaper named halowarriors.jpg to our Uploads area. We’ll be adding this to our Wallpapers section just as soon as we get Crux off the dial-up.

First Polish HALO Site. Oliwier Ptak sends word about Fpp.pl, one of the biggest online gaming networks in Poland dedicated to First Person Perspective games. They now have a Halo site at http://halof.fpp.pl. Check it out.

Family obligations take me out of town this week – I’ll be heading to one of those parts of the US where the nearest dialup internet access is a long-distance call. (Betcha didn’t know those places still existed, eh?) Looks like Wirehead’s already on the ball, posting wallpaper this morning, and hopefully, Ding and Crux…

Thanks to Diogo “Razorback” Barbosa for sending us in another of his outstanding Wallpapers. This is the eleventh piece from Diogo. Use our Wallpaper search engine to find them all.

Okay, so it’s not Matt… but Marty O’Donnell is part of the Halo team, as well, and he’s kindly offered his own Halo Update in lieu of Matt’s, who had to go to Chicago for a wedding or something. (Now we REALLY know who’s devoted to Halo, and who just SAYS they are…) Oh, and…

Though Matt has already posted that there will be no Halo Update this week… you might want to check back in a bit anyway. You never know, sometimes odd things happen.

Speaking of new uploads, we received ANOTHER anonymous upload, this time of a modified screenshot – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Someone should claim this, as well.

A large collection of logos were upped to our ftp uploads directory a couple of weeks ago – I’ve been holding off on posting them, because there were so many (7, in fact), and were all so similar… but Zypper prodded us via email, and Crux told me it was time… I’ve put the two…

Thanks to Sun Pak, who dropped us a new desktop for our Wallpaper section. Bright…

Matt Soell dropped into our forum to announce that most of the Bungie crew would be heading back to Chicago in the next day or so to attend the wedding of Lorraine Reyes and Rob McLees… and therefore, he’d be unable to post a Halo update this week. We’ll take this opportunity to wish Lorraine…

Griffon, of Halo Command Center, writes to express his anger at Daily Radar, who put up a piece on the ‘Top 15 Xbox games we’ve seen so far’. Halo’s on the list… but at number 4. DR puts Munch’s Oddysee, DOA3, and Kakuto-X (‘Microsoft’s secret fighting game’) ahead of it. Why?Halo didn’t exactly overwhelm us…

The shiny floors of the shaft demonstrated how new the halo must have been, the small room was a flurry of activity with many builders encircling the symbol on the floor. One of them spoke, or at least its mouth moved and the machine translated its words into English for us.Time paradoxes… someone uploaded an…

Mark Levin, our friendly neighborhood FAQ maintainer, has given the Frequently Asked Questions section a much-needed facelift – lots of little stuff, here and there. Feel free to browse through – you might learn something!

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall another notch, to 50, in the Battle of the Teams – overall crunching was down this week (due to the holiday?). DarthFlounder takes over 3rd place, pushing his way to the top… how long until there’s a new top dog? See how YOUR stats measure up on the 7…

Gamecritics.com has put put up a Halo preview that’s worth reading. There’s one new screenshot (pretty nice, though unfortunately small), and a reasonbly good analysis of the current position of Halo. There a couple of notable problems with the review, however, which make you wonder… for example, on Page 4, there’s this passage:It’s also worth…

Last Friday’s Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – the word of the week is ‘pathfinding’; see the progress made in the past few months!

Blackfly dropped us a line to tell us that Jack of All Games is the bargain bin distributor (games under $25) for Take 2/GoD. They’re on their way out of business, though… I think PlayNOW was just confused. Me too, now…