Month: July 2000

Battleground Halo has upped two higher quality scans from the Halo preview in PC Gamer Aug2000. You can now get a clearer picture of the new red Covenant craft and the Covenant sniper rifle. Thanks BGH.

Just a heads up on some interesting posts in our forums: Anthor posts an interesting list of rants and raveson the E3 Halo movie. Thanks to SkyFire360 for pointing us to this one.TOPGUNN123 notes disappearing bodiesin the E3 Halo movie. It’s not clear how persistent objects will be in Halo but I did find dead…

Thanks to bibendum, who submitted a nice rendition of froggy for our Miscellaneous Art page. He looks so comfortable!

The Halo-Net Shop is now selling t-shirts… and they’re taking no chances.we’re now printing the Halo Shirts, which have artwork which is fully original to Halo-Net, none of the content is by Bungie , so hopefully they can’t make any complaint about it.Go on over to the shop and have a look @ the overview…

Marty O’Donnell of Total Audio offers some points of clarification about the E3 Halo movie on our forums. Here’s what the had to say: A few points of clarification: 1. The movie on the PCG CD is a copy of the full DVD movie from E3. The show at E3 also included Joseph Staten doing…

Dink! The Halo SETI Marinesdrop two places from #46 to #48 in the Battle of the Teams. While we’ve got 436 recruits we’ve also lost some big crunchers. Banzif is the latest to stop crunchin’. Unless we get more marines crunchin’ units we’re going to start losing out big time. Don’t let the team down……

John Carmack gives his views on Xbox and the future of gaming on the PC in an IGN Xbox interview. Here’s a snippet: IGN Xbox: Would you ever consider doing original content for a console? JC: There are some pleasures to developing on a console that you don’t get on a PC, but I Would…

Xbox technology-head, Seamus Blackley, discusses console hard drives and why developers are having an Xbox love affair in an IGN Xbox interview. Here’s a snippet: IGN Xbox: Did you have the same problem convincing developers of themerits of the Xbox that you did convincing the general public? SB: No, I think that the main problem…

Matt Soell has a few words to say about the XBox, keyboards and the future of the online Bungie fan community on the Marathon’s Story page. Will the Xbox have a keyboard? The PS2 will have one. As Hamish would say ‘Veritatem Dies Aperit’ or something.

Alan Stott of Halo Centerwrites to say he has posted a full explanation of events in the Halo-Net Shop Controversy. Having said all this they are still taking pre-orders for the Halo Stickers it seems?

Nate Birkholz airs his views on the situation between Bungie and Microsoft in a MacCentral article called Game Guru: Reflections on Bungie and Microsoft. Here’s a great quote:Large publishers are, by nature, somewhat conservative, and they prefer to maintain a healthy measure of control. Most developers hear at first that things aren’t going to change,…

More Halo movie mirrors:3D Action Gamers (Thanks Frans)Meccaworld (Thanks luxor)3D DownloadsStompedJosephAW’s site 18MB version for 56k users (gone now)

Haven’t grabbed the Halo movie yet? Then never fear Bravehamster is here! Kudos to Bravehamster who sends the following good news:I brought the E3 halo movie into WMP and managed to get 30+ screenshots taken. Some pretty good ones in there, got all the major points of interest. Anyways, here’s the link, for your readers…

Mirror mirror on the net… The E3 Halo movie has appeared on the net in a number of locations. Try here for now:Fileplanet. (Thanks Charles Fitzhugh)Battleground: Halo (Thanks Bounty)Halo Vault (Thanks luxor)Halo Center (Thanks Yrro) More as we get them.