Month: October 2001

The Halo SETI Marines take a hit from the loss of Luke Brannon… but charleya and Int_21 continue their astounding crunching rates, nearly making up for the slackage in the rest of the team. Total crunching is down significantly – are YOU helping find the Covenant, before they find us? Check the 7 day stats…

Thanks to CubanB, who noticed more Halo commentary at VoodooExtreme; seems Apache finished it this weekend, and he’s sticking with my “best first person shooter ever” statement, as the game kicks ass from start to finish. He goes on to explain why. In case you weren’t already having trouble waiting…

Today’s Penny Arcade news rant has Tycho wondering whether someone who really HATES the Xbox could sit down and do a solid review – he’s afraid that the good news is coming from people who were already convinced, and the negative press is coming from people who have a grudge against Microsoft, or the Xbox,…

Djoey.154 has created a new Halo Winamp skin; we’ve stuck it in our Miscellaneous Art section. (We don’t really have a ‘downloads’ section…) Pretty nice looking!

Thanks to Zypper, who pointed out a Halo review from the IGN Xbox boards written by the IGN DVD editor, ManaByte. I’ll refrain from quoting from it, since my favorite snippets would inflame some regulars here… go read it for yourself.

Our Movies listing has been brought up-to-date… all movies released in the last month or so (and it’s a sizeable list) have been added, along with all known (current) mirrors. If we missed something, let us know!

Thanks to Mr. Temper, who brought to our attention the current episode of Gamespotting at (where else?) GameSpot. Three sections rave about Halo: Joe Fielder gushes:So it’s good. How good? You’ll have to wait until my review to find out, but suffice it to say, I think that Microsoft’s purchase of Bungie was one of…

Thanks to Noctavis, of Rampancy.net, who uploaded a preview of Halo from the December 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. The scan is small (540×706, 403K), but readable… Halo is top-rated among the Xbox launch titles – EGM loved it. (For those wondering about our posting this, given our general policy of allowing the issue…

A bunch of new art recently – one Miscellaneous Art submission from Matt Baker, and three pretty slick desktop images from AEon. (These last can be found in our Wallpaper section.) Some days, you just get behind…

Thanks to Chanan, who was the first to point out that the Halo novel, ‘The Fall of Reach’, is appearing in bookstores around the nation. And it’s already receiving positive reviews on our forum.

Very interesting movie out there – FULL OF SPOILER MATERIAL. It’s filmed with a handheld off a small TV screen, with no sound… but it has some very interesting content, such as interface screens, help screens, the fact that you can have closed captioning of spoken text… It starts with the player turning over an…

Wow – the stories circulating around the internet about crashing Xbox kiosks might just have some basis in reality! Matt Soell passed on this tidbit:Stefan just heard this from one of the MS testers…apparently some of the software on the demo discs was accidentally built with an old video library. A conflict between the finished…

Thanks to Mavruss, for the heads-up: Matt Soell has posted a note over on the Bungie Sightings forums, giving details about the RSVP situation for the Halo Launch Party. He needs the standard stuff – who, when, why… okay, maybe not why. Go read it at BS, or wait a bit for it to show…

Whoa – very cool. Chanan has sent in 15 screen captures (720×480) from the features movies on the December 2001 DVD bundled with the Official Xbox Magazine – there are a few Halo snippets in there. Some of the shots are similar to what’s been seen before, some are mediocre… and some just make your…

Halo showed up on TechTV today (a little after 4 pm Eastern Time). A couple of minutes of smooth gameplay… nice exposure!

TeamXbox has a story about the Xbox “Odyssey” Tour – a 40-city rolling Xbox circus; 50 Xboxes with plasma monitors and giant projection screens. There are a few pics, including one of a Halo game in progress. (Thanks to TomeOne for the heads-up.)

AEon wrote to let us know of a Halo desktop he submitted to Fileplanet last year. We’ve added it to our Wallpaper collection.

Uriel notes that the next issue of the German PC Games will have a ‘huge special about halo’ – it should be on the shelves on the 7th, and he expects to see it by next weekend. We’ll keep you posted!

Well… the Cinematics team said not to watch intro films posted to the net, because they would spoil the ‘first-time’ experience of playing for yourself… but many have said they’re waiting for the PC version of Halo, and in any case, we would be remiss if we didn’t tell you what’s out there. Fileplanet has…

Now this is interesting. Several subscribers have reported that there was no Halo trailer on the December 2001 Official Xbox Magazine DVD… but greatdayne27, over at the TeamXbox forums, says it’s just a little harder to find:While they are not in the trailers section if you watch the special feature “The Xbox difference” with Seamus…