Month: August 2000

Well, quality has dropped a bit, but FINALLY it’s viewable on PCs. Sorry for the delay, and sorry for the quality drop. One of these days, we’ll figure out why moving video files from PCs to Macs and back is so difficult… in the meantime, enjoy this spoof of the famous Budweiser ad. (15.4 MB,…

Harry Al-Shakarchi sends in this link to a Daily Radar article about the Xbox XDK (Xbox Development Kit), which includes the current version of what the Xbox looks like. GM J. Allard warns that this won’t be the final version of the product, though. Still, interesting to see where it stands now! Pax.

It’s full of stars! SiliconDream has put together a starmap showing Earth, Tau Ceti, iota Horologii and HD 177830, plus the directions and distances from Earth of the Galactic Core and the Pfhor homeworld. Head on over to his site to see the systems.jpg. More details can be found here. You can blame Miguel and…

You heretics will burn! Daniel points us to an I, Cringley report from The Pulpet about X Blocks… that’s Xbox for you faithless lot. Olde Bob knows a thing or two though and rightly confesses that Xbox will only deliver if it has “kick-ass games that appear first on the X-Box”. Here’s the quote: Of…

Matt Soell wades in on our forums about an overzealous Apple employee with vague memories of timelines… sounds a bit Marathonish to me. Matt obviously hasn’t got his G4 Cube yet… just like the rest of us. Power to the Cube baby.

Kudos to fire phoenix, who wrote to Matt Soell for clarification of yesterday’s eNews tidbit (suggesting that the Mac version would be released simultaneously with the Xbox version). You can find Matt’s answer here at Halo Center.

Daniel Chace sends us this word: Here is a little quote from an apple eNews email I received today. It seems (according to this) that at least the Macintosh Version will be released the same time as the X-Box version. Here is an excerpt. 3. More Games Coming to the Mac …………………………. Game enthusiasts didn’t…

According to Matt Soell in aforum post there is no answers as yet to the questions about the creation and use of Halo Mods. There is also noanswer to the question about the inter-playability between PC/Mac and X-Box systems

More Halo Center news… Yrro decided to return as site maintainer. A short break was all that was needed.

Haloplayers announced yesterday that due to server load, they’re going to discontinue their site hosting services for new applicants for the time being. This does not affect existing sites (nor does it affect any sites already accepted but not up yet). And Halo Center would like to remind you that they have their own hosting…

Kudos to Picky, who noticed that Discreet, a division of Autodesk, announced at SIGGRAPH a couple of weeks ago that they’d be releasing a pared-down version of 3d studio max, called 3d studio gMAX, free to gaming communities everywhere, for modmaking. Halo mods just got easier! The full press release is here. Pax.

Fire Phoenix wanted to make it clear that he was still working on Halo Center (although not as site maintainer)… the site’s not closing down, it’s just lost its site maintainer. Apologies to anyone who misinterpreted my comment about there being noone in the position of maintainer as meaning there was noone working on the…

The PC vs. Console Debate. GameSpy have a report on John Carmack’s (co-founder and lead programmer of id Software) annual QuakeCon speech which covered among other things the PC versus console debate, mod making, and the new DOOM game. Here’s a quote: “Is the PC dead?” It was a question Carmack had been asked several…

Yrro has resigned as site maintainer of Halo Center. At the moment, that leaves… nobody there. Ouch. All of us at HBO wish Yrro good luck in whatever he chooses to do next.

This page was compiled yesterday, but I ran out of time before I could upload it… the Halo SETI Marines continue to hold steady at about 500 units behind the TidBITS team, although SETI hasn’t updated the Club Rankings. Darth Flounder takes la Crunch Honneur, and abotani rockets 51 positions to snag the Frogblast award……

To vepa, who has now sent the same desktop image twice… please send along a valid email address, I have some questions about your art before I can put it up. Thanks. vepa@microsoft.com bounces.

Jason Rachford writes to tell us of another new Halo site on the scene… Halogame.com. Still being worked on… but it’s fast and lean. Worth a look!

Oops, we missed another Dutch clan (thanks again to HP): Clades. They claim to be the FIRST Dutch Halo clan… seems like a fine claim to me.

Seen at haloplayers… Seems there’s a Dutch Halo squad called Death ‘n Destruction, and they’re recruiting. Stop on by!

Christoph Schmidt writes to tell us that Halo has moved up to the number 3 position in the “Most Wanted Games” list in the September 2000 issue of the German edition of PC Games. Guess the buyout didn’t affect German gamers as much as American ones… (That issue went to press after the buyout news,…