Month: June 2001

Matt, in a blaze of speed (or maybe just an effort to get out of the office early), kicks out this week’s Halo Update in record time. The content, however, wasn’t skimped on. Lots of little stuff this week – working on the fine details. (Remember where God is…) And what’s this… the Shadow’s back?…

‘Tis the season to make wallpaper, it seem… Xboxman has sent in a new image to prettify your desktop. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

An upcoming Halo movie? Matt’s not talking… but he still says stuff. Hmm…

Thanks to CarthagTuek, who suggested a nifty little enhancement for the news page – the headlines section for older days on a page now contains links to the full days referenced; today, for example, whil you can still get to the individual posts in Wednesday’s news, if you want to read ALL of them, just…

A couple of days ago, a new desktop image was uploaded to our ftp space. Due to an unfortunate accident, the logs were lost – we have no idea who sent this. If it was you, let us know! (You can see the image in our Wallpaper section.) Update: The image has been claimed by…

Thanks to Ph.D., who pointed out an interesting article on The Elements of Gameplay, over at Gamasutra. It’s a good read, and hopefully gives the Halo dev team a few things to think about!

Jay Weinland, audio engineer on the Halo team, dropped into our forum to clarify his job description. The Elderly One will probably be thrilled to hear that Jay describes his job asSound Designer, Audio Engineer, and all-around Marty slave(That means he gets to carry around that huge horn that Marty holds up to his ear…

It was all over in a moment. The sharp pain he felt in his chest and neck turned to dull warmth as it tore him to the ground, ripping limb from limb, guzzling his intestines and other organs.Poor Bob. This guy needs a smiley-face sticker, don’t you think? Go read Chapter 3 of Hermes Trismegistus,…

Apparently, the ambient life seen in the E3 trailer is not currently in Halo. Matt Soell stopped into our forum to pass along this note in answer to the question about whether ambient life would be present in Halo:Ambient life is still on the To-Do list, and it’s not that far down either. I can’t…

Sometimes, people just lose it.

Ph.D. has taken it upon himself to put together a full list of Halo Development Team members, along with their job descriptions, where available. Pieces of this have been floating around the net for a couple of years now… but nobody’s ever put it all together in one place before. Once finalized, this information will…

As several people noted last week, the SETI servers finally started crunching stats again, so we’ve gotten to the Halo SETI Marines 7-day stats (this time out, 21 days) again as well. Looks like crunching went on as before – numbers are roughly three times the normal weekly output. (This is good – it means…

Last week’s update has been added to the Halo Update Database – and man, it’s getting big. Sounds like this week most stuff is unmentionable… but one thing has changed – the Mighty Chris Butcher is Mighty no more. The end of a 4-month era…

Over at Rampancy.net, there’s a very interesting post from Chris Butcher, currently working on AI in Halo, about the direction this field is going. Definitely worth a read.

Cody Ellis, one of the Flash directors at FunXbox.com, dropped us a note to let us know that he’s put together a little (okay, big) Halo teaser, in Flash. It’s a 3.8 MB file, but it’s a pretty nice presentation of some Halo images over the years. Check it out!

Andreas den Hertog writes to say that he’s started up a Halo fansite, called HQ HALO. Check it out!

This week’s Halo update is over at Rampancy.net… thanks to Acrappa for getting it up in the face of adversity. The Mighty Chris Butcher is mighty no longer… but Chucky just got Swarthy. (Yo-ho-ho…) A new name pops up – Eric Arroyo. And the shotgun gets bigger… go read all the groovy details for yourself.

More than two years after their original posting, Knight Premier sends in some thoughts about the first Cortana Letter (with ramblings about the rest, and a host of other topics, for good measure). Check it out in our Theories section.

Siva pointed out a poll at FunXbox, asking about the most-anticipated Xbox game… but by the time we went by, it was over. Seems there was a last-minute Halo push, though – because in the hour and a half between when Siva posted and when the poll closed, Halo went from ‘a few percentage points’…

Sikora drops off a new wallpaper, showing off the various environments the marine pops up in. You can find it in our Wallpaper section.