Month: May 2001

It’s fansite day. Xerxes writes to say that Halo Orbit, a German fansite, has been thoroughly redesigned, with many new features added. Go check ’em out!

Terror writes to let us know that Ozhalo is not a new Australian site (As we said yesterday)… it’s Halo-Australia, joining the CFGN. Same good coverage, same staff, new look! Thanks for the heads-up, Terror. (Word of warning to visitors – as good as this site looks in IE and Opera, it’s painful in NS,…

Thanks to Ferrex, who posted to his old stomping grounds at Rampancy.net, confirming that location-specific damage WILL be included in Halo. It’s long been speculated that this would be included… but this is the first confirmation of it by a Bungie employee.

Lee Timms writes to say that a new Halo site is coming soon rom CFGN (Cyber Forces Gaming Nation) – OzHalo. As he says, the new design is very nicely done. Looking forward to the site!

Thanks to Dan Rudolph, who pointed out three separate E3 wrapups (one from each editor) at Gamecritics.com. Bottom line – they hated Halo. Ben thought Halo was the “biggest joke of the show”… but then, he got a bunch of stuff wrong. (If you’re gonna name someone by name, get the name right… and if…

Thanks to Jan Louw, who noticed that the Game Critics Awards site has posted its nominations for its Best of E3 Awards. Halo is up for Best Action Game. Awards are announced on June 18. Good luck, Halo!

Thanks to Gothmog, who noticed a new poll over at MSXbox.com:Now that E3 is over, which of the following blockbuster games are you looking forward to the most?Only 125 votes so far, but Halo’s edging out Project Ego… make sure it stays that way!

Clarification: We’ve gotten a few emails about some pictures we posted last week… and people want to know how they relate to the bungie.org glyph puzzle (discussed here, here, and here). The waters were muddied by this post, written by Chelsea Bridge. Here’s the skinny: There is NO relation between the glyph puzzle and those…

The Corporation has its own take on the changes Halo has seen recently… thanks to Lophan for the link.

You gotta love it when you totally forget you’ve done something. Halo SETI Team stats were collected yesterday, as they usually are on Mondays… but due to the holiday, we forgot completely to mention them. Team output was up a bit this week – nice job, folks! The Marines are holding steady at 49th place…

Thanks to Ph.D., who pointed out that MSXbox has put up their ‘Best of E3 Awards’. Halo picked up only one mention – runner-up in the ‘Most Fun’ category. On the other hand, Halo managed to stay out of the ‘Most Disappointing’ category… so it’s not all bad. Go check out the details on the…

Gamespot has put up their ‘Top Games of E3 2001’… and Halo takes runner-up in the Xbox category to Gun Valkyrie, an action-shooter from Smilebit. Gamespot was clear:Halo’s one-player mission was engaging and challenging, but the slowdown in the four-player split-screen mode was unavoidably visible.They have not, however, lost hope:While the framerate in multiplayer was…

Last week’s Halo Update (originally at Rampancy.net) has been added to the Update Database – the word of the week is ‘Chris’. The ‘Chris clan’ has just increased to 5 (Barrett, Butcher, Carney, Hughes, and Lee) – the largest group on the Halo dev team (leading the Mat(t)s – Noguchi, Segur, and Soell) and the…

What do you get when you take a marine, you blow up all his planets, and you dump him on an alien artifact with no sleep? Griffon, of Halo Command Central, thinks he knows… and sent us a submission for the Miscellaneous Art section to show us. Check out Halo Dude!

Thanks to Joe Staten, of the Halo Cinematics team, who posted to R.net’s forum today, clarifying a bit about cutscenes in Halo. Nice info: All of Halo’s cinematics will be rendred in the engine. Some cinematics you’ll be able to move while they’re playing (non-interruptive) and some you’ll just have to sit back and watch…

fAt1, of MPZ Halo, let us know that we can probably expect PC Gamer UK to hammer Halo in their upcoming E3 article – he spoke briefly with editor Matt Pierce, and it seems they were very disappointed that Halo is currently showing only on the Xbox. (Not horribly surprising, for a magazine that focuses…

Johannes Gunnar sends along a desktop pointing out a connection that’s important to him. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Koontzy sends us part 5 of his ‘Land of the Unknown’ saga. It’s getting a little odd. You’ll find it, along with lots of other fan fiction, in our Fan Fiction section.

Took a while to find some slow time… but the Screenshots section has been updated – you’ll find the 15 official pics released by Microsoft last week on the Gaming Sites page, and a number of camera shots taken off the monitors at E3 on the Unofficial page. (Most, though not all, of these have…

Wow. You’d think that they’d take a break after E3… just to calm down. (I suppose since the actual programmers didn’t even GO to E3, it’s understandable that they didn’t… but it’s still surprising.) This week’s Halo Update is over at Rampancy.net… and it’s chock-full of goodies. New multiplayer options, a new team member, more…