Month: October 2001

Halo Center, a large Halo fansite that’s been dormant since August, is up and running again. Updated content, new newsie (Corven)… good to see ’em back, just in time for the Xbox version of Halo! (Kudos to Narcogen, of Rampancy.net, for picking up on the resurrection.)

I’d like to apologize – HBO (and the rest of bungie.org, for that matter) is experiencing some pretty funky network activity. Apparently, Lucent decided to perform software upgrades on all the routing equipment at our upstream provider… but they forgot to iron out the bugs first. They’re working on it. In the meantime, we thought…

You know, one of the coolest things about Bungie employees is that sometimes, they think like fans. 🙂 Yesterday, a forum visitor asked about IPX through IP tunneling, as a way to connect Xboxes across the net (while making them think they’re LAN-connected) – and the response of a Bungie network programmer?my thoughts are I’m…

‘Tis the evening for artwork submissions… Arch Angel sends us a greyscale Marine for our Miscellaneous Art section.

A couple of days ago, Hamish Sinclair wondered about the eBook version of Eric Nylund’s novel, Halo: The Fall of Reach. Well, today, Random House put up an excerpt from it – for those who were unsure of buying it, go read this; you can make up your own mind, instead of relying on the…

Glug… we’re DROWNING in desktops! Evilbum sends us not one, not two… FIVE new ones for our Wallpaper section. Go get ’em.

Gah! First it’s ascii art in html format… now it’s ascii art as… ART! Well, desktops, anyway. Blizzard turns in a pair of desktop images for our Wallpaper section, and for good measure throws in the Halo logo, in binary code. (You’ll find that last in our Logos section.)

Not satisfied with yesterday’s ascii logo, [SE]X-Com has submitted an even more elaborate image: the Halo marine. (427K) God help us…

The Sci-Tech section of CNN.com looked at consoles yesterday in the article, ‘Which new game console should you buy?’ Nine editors from Gamepro.com looked at the available options… recommendations for a Dreamcast came, disturbingly, from MORE THAN ONE OF THEM. Despite this, it was fun to read their views of the Xbox – most thought…

First up – it seems like the IGN Insider Multiplayer Guide mentioned yesterday has been opened to the public. Go check it out here – and don’t say they never gave you nuthin’. (Thanks to Erick Delgado for the heads-up.)

A couple of threads over on the TeamXbox forums suggest that Halo is beginning to show up in retail kiosks – one in Orlando, FL and another in Exton, PA (both in Babbages stores) have playable versions. Gameplay reports are always welcome. 🙂

Rampancy.net uncovered some more details about the Halo Strategy Guide, due soon from Prima Games. Prima has a listing for it now (they didn’t in August when we first noticed this)… the release date is unchanged (November 11), but the book’s gotten longer (160 vs the previously reported 144 pages). Bigger is better, right? It’s…

Hehe – [SE]X-Com, editor over at Socket Error, sent in a Halo logo… well, you just gotta see it. (136K) The time some people have…

Philip Palermo submits a pair of images he rendered with TrueSpace 5 (they took about an hour each). Pretty nice work… We’ve placed them in the Miscellaneous Art section, but these are more or less the right size for a small desktop (800×578 or so each).

W00t! Heads-up kudos to Cesar, from TeamXbox – Xbox.com has put up an information page about the Xbox Odyssey (which TeamXbox mentioned last week) – one of the photos shows an ENORMOUS plasma screen, running Halo… if you live in (or near) San Fransisco, LA, San Diego, or Phoenix, GET YOURSELF INTO THIS THING. (It’s…

IGN Insider has posted a Multiplayer Halo Guide (or at least the first part of one) – it’s only available to Insiders, those who pay the subscription fee for their premium service. (Insider access costs $10/3 months or $20/year, but there are several ways of getting it free.) 13 multiplayer maps are described, with a…

Thanks to Bob Blandeburgo, who pointed out a new Halo preview at Gamers.com – it’s a good read. The control scheme is described in detail, for those who have been curious, and there aren’t any spoilers, for those trying to avoid too much information. They complain about the standard thing PC gamers complain about -…

Speaking of new sites, Nartin Spitzenberg points out that Halomedia (also German) is now online. Nice design!

[lw]Reicheraltermann sends in a pair of desktops for our Wallpaper section – pretty nice to look at. One of them advertises a Halo site (German) we’ve never heard of: haLoXpEriEnCe.multipalyer.de (not fully online yet, it would appear). In any case, check out the images!

[SE]X-Com, from Socket Error, turns in another desktop image for our Wallpaper collection. Neon…