Month: January 2000

MacWorld Helps Unveil Some Storyline Freewill threw a party at Club-I on Wednesday night, and lots of Bungie folk showed up. One side benefit for Halo fans: a goodly chunk of the backstory got fleshed out. Kudos to Xzzy for the synopsis, since I actually didn’t make it there in time to hear it firsthand…

Jeff Campen points out that the Robocam has gone from Bungie’s main page. Thanks Jeff.

Kudos to the Marathon’s Story page for noting that Bungie’s bTV schedule has been changed to feature Bungie’s CEO Alexander Seropian rather that Matt Soell today at 1.00pm PST. The bTV webcast begins very soon.

Can the Halo’ites catch the Diablos? Check the 24 hour team stats to find out who’s crunching d’em units. Join us in the battle of the teams.

Inside Mac Games report that Gamelinks.net have a short Halo preview.

Thanks to Forensic, who posted to our forum that Etherlife has a new Halo-related comic. (For those who can’t find it, because we’re so tardy reporting this, the actual strip is here. Worth checking out the whole site, though…)

Another strange message from the Nether Legion: :::Recent update on Halo quadrant 25::: recieve waystation four identify transmission type: Mjolnir comm laser begin: We are…ving fire from sever…too…falling back to regroup–some kind…alien…attacks com…from all around… end. advise: units 3 and 4 not responding 223.43.213.01 7.7.7.. Again, The digits at the bottom could be interpreted as…

Good news the Halo SETI team page now shows all 146 members rather than the top 100. Who are the invisible 46? The Jjaro Difference Engine grinds SETI bones. Who swithed that baby on again? Check the Halo SETI 24 hour team stats for the tru7h and nothing but the tru7h!

Then there were two. According to a Core news item Rob Swenson (aka Noctavis) will be working with Tyson (aka Ferrex) “for the foreseeable future” on the Core site and other sites to come. Noctavis was responsible for the Halo News interview with Nathan Bitner.

Seeing is believing. Alan Stott reports that HALO-NET has had yet another update. Nobody here believed him until we looked. Alan also reports that FREESITE will be online soon offering free web-space without any adverts. Halo web site maintainers to your engines!

Halo Network is offline for a rebuild. Not sure what was wrong with the original design.

Keep checking those new main page graphics at Battleground: Halo. Somebody is keeping busy.

Kudos to Timothy Wilson, who was the first of many to point out that Bungie will be webcasting from MacWorld this week. (Tim got it from Voodoo Extreme, but the original press release seemed to be sent out by Bungie itself.)

“The Psyjnir Complex is finally completed!” says Marathon (formerly Psyrixx). Check it out.

The Halo SETI marines keep on pumping into the new year. Who pumps the most?

We received a rather strange message tonight, from Halo-Net and the Nether Legion: Intercepted incoming transmission… decode: 233.43.223.01 message subject: You really need to stop your struggling… Hello again, you know, I’ve been talking to the zealots and your little encampment may be doomed, of course that depends on just how willing you are to…

SETI stats are back, and the SETI servers are keeping up with us. Check out the 24 hour stats! (Our club standing continues to fall… we’re down to 128 now.)

Kudos to Ian Mankowski, who sends us a new bit of artwork for our Miscellaneous Art page. (You’ll find it at the end of the Original section.) Thanks, Ian! Pax.

Jon Chang writes to let us know that DEHc-3 Halo has gotten a complete overhaul. Easy to read, still the best place to go for Culture info! Thanks, Jon.

John from EuroGamer writes to tell us that Halo is featured in their “Picks for 2000” article, available yesterday. Nice to see Halo recognized! Thanks, John.