Year: 1999

M E R R Y    C H R I S T M A S ! From the HBO crew and our families, to you and yours, we wish you the merriest of holiday seasons. Pax. (We’ll be back updating on Sunday, the 26th.)

Roberta Garca writes to remind us that SoundJam MP comes with a Winamp converter program. So that Winamp skin mentioned earlier today can simply be converted to a SoundJam skin. Thanks for the info, Roberta!

Chris Earle sends us word of the GameSpy.com Year 2000 Preview, which (of course) mentions Halo. The most notable line in the short blurb is It will contain a short single-player-training scenario, though the meat of the game will focus on the multi-player element.” Short? SHORT? Hmm. We can only hope that GameSpy is incorrect.…

Those SETI Marines just don’t stop. Check out the 24 hour stats. (These will be the last stats posted until Monday. Look for 72 hour stats then.) Pax.

“No playable Halo demo at MacWorld Expo SF” says Matt Soell in our forums. Looks like they’ll be a Halo movie though. Who’s taking a video camera?

“Just updated my hompage and put out my Winamp skin Halo AMP” says Dead Glory. Right who’s going to do one for SoundJam?

Ghetto Astronaut sends in a new desktop he made for his b&w G3. You’ll find it on the Wallpaper page. Enjoy!

SonicStorm writes to tell us that BattleGround: Halo, a new Gamespy site, will be going live on January 15. There’s a teaser page up now.

A Christmas bonus from Daniel Speed, who sends us his interpretation of the marine assault rifle. We’ve added it to the Miscellaneous Art section (it’s at the end of the Original Art pages). Thanks, Daniel!

THanks to Mark Mezzetta, who sends us a tidbit from MacGamer’s Ledge. In a news item about the National Macintosh Gaming Championship to be held at next month’s MacWorld SF, MacLedge says that Bungie “will be simulcasting a MACWORLD show over the Internet right from their booth and talking about the latest developments in Oni…

Christmas? Bah humbug! Halo SETI marines don’t stop for Christmas. The 24 hour stats prove it. What’s your computer doing over the holidays? Put it to a good use. Join the Halo SETI marines into the new Millennium.

Dalan Galma sends in his thoughts on that shoulder-mounted device visible on some versions of the marine. You can read it on the Theories page. Thanks, Dalan!

We’ve added Bravehamster’s very nice Halo Christmas Card to our Miscellaneous Art collection. (It’s at the end of the Bungie section.) Merry Christmas!

Bravehamster sends us all a Christmas cheer in the form of A Halo Christmas Card. The staff at HBO wish Bravehamster and the rest of the Pax Nimbus gang a Merry Christmas.

John Houlihan of GameSpot UK asks you to head on over to their Top 100 Games of the Millennium feature. What is the best game of the past Millennium? Will your favorites be there? If not you’ll have a chance to vote for your own personal favorite.

Halo SETI Marines still crunching, even with SETI server problems. Check out the movers and shakers on the 48-hour stats page. Pax.

A happy holiday season, to you and yours!

Kudos to Andre, who dropped off two new pieces of artwork; one logo for our Logos page, and one nifty collage for our Miscellaneous Art page. (Look at the end of the Bungie section.) Thanks, Andre!

As reported on the Marathon’s Story page today Marathon is 5 years old. Happy Birthday Marathon from the boys (and girl) at HBO.

No SETI stats today… the SETI server seems to be having problems. 48 hour stats tomorrow.