Month: September 2000

Ironfist mentions on our forum that he has updated the Bungie Coat of Arms, and brought it into the Halo age. The QuickTime movie weighs inat just under 2 megs. And it looks a little better in IE than it does in Netscape (has to do with the placement of end-of-line returns). Go take a…

Psyrixx writes that there’s an interview with Durandal, Project Lead of the Marathon: Resurrection project (a project to bring Marathon to the Unreal Tournament engine) over at the Psyjnir Complex. (If you’re having trouble getting in to find it, here’s a direct link.) This is only marginally Halo-related; it’s here because of the (so far…

Sokar writes to say that HaloEmpire now has a Halo screensaver (created by GCA) for download. It cycles through Halo screenshots with various fades and cuts between them. (Windows only.) Go take a look! Pax.

Lord of flaw sends word that his new German Halo site is online: Halo Universe. Swing by and take a look!

Oh, my. I’m not even sure how to explain this. Well… first read the thread (it actually gets relevant here), then look at the picture. And then wonder about the free time Halo fans have… and be afraid. Be very afraid.

Three different X-boxes? Daily Raider UK have an interview with J Allard of Microsoft concerningX-box’s global roll-out. Here’s a quote: DR-UK: If you buy a game in Japan, will it work on a UK X-Box?J Allard: That’s up to the publisher. We’ll build three different boxes, one for each territory, and what thepublisher can choose…

In case anyone was unsure (and if you were, you should be ashamed of yourself), Matt Soell lays to rest the “Halo is ready” rumor in no uncertain terms. Turns out even the bit about Halo running on nVidia cards on Macs ain’t true. Watch that bull flying…

Geez. Thanks to Carth for the heads-up… Macrumors.com is reporting (reporting?) that “HALO for the Mac is ready but Microsoft are holding it back till at least 2 months after the X-Box is released. Although the game is ready to ship for both the Mac and the PC the game will be most marketed on…

A rather spartan email from Pureblood announces HaloPort… which is, apparently, a new Halo site. I say ‘apparently’ because it requires a username/password combo to get past the opening screen… but provides no way to obtain one. More as we know it. Pax.

Heh… in case anyone didn’t realize how important the Marathon’s Story page is to the fans of Halo… several Story page fans noticed some quotes from Nathan Bitner (first made on our forum, here and here, over a week ago, and posted to the Story page yesterday), and the source of both sets of quotes…

Ack… very good question posed by PsychoBean on our forum. The Bungie job offering mentioned yesterday states that the mission editor will be developed in MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class)… does this mean the mission editor will be PC only? Or will Tamte’s group be porting this, as well? Hopefully, a Bungie employee will chime into…

Kudos to TomeOne, who noticed another job opening on Bungie’s page: They need a Tools Programmer to build a mission editor for Halo! Wonga.

Sebastian “The Tiny Toad” Brytting sends in a theory on the builders of the Halo. We don’t rate ’em, folks, we just publish ’em. If you like this one, let Sebastian know on our forum.

Peter Askam writes to tell us that Halo Command UK has been revamped with more content on the way. Stop by and take a look! Pax.

JosephAW noticed a computer animated short film (‘Antebios’) highlighted on the SciFi channel. The movie itself is visible on SfiFi.com’s website… if you have a Macintosh, Netscape, and a (very) fast connection, the On2 link is pretty astounding. Otherwise, it’s available in RealPlayer format. Joseph mentions it because the alien sounds a lot like the…

Dink! The Halo SETI Marines fall one notch, victims of the unrelenting climb of Team Project Blue Book. On the plus side, Team Slashdot is only 500 units ahead… they’ll fall soon. cae takes La Crunch Honneur this week, and limbofrog snags the Frogblast Award. The 7 day stats page contains all the details.

Heh… tired of waiting for Halo? Play Halo, the Game! Battleground: Halo has put together a Flash 4.0 game in which you can kill your fill of Covenant and vie for the top spot in their Hall of Fame. (Be aware, though, that a couple of people have already put up four-figure scores… in a…

We usually stay away from the competition’s news… but this movie is too good to miss. Epic Games (and specifically this article at Daily Radar) has released a movie showing some of the new features of the Unreal engine, including 3700-poly skeletal models, facial animations, improved level-of-detail (LOD) support, and large-scale terrain support. (The trees…

Red Hot Ryan sends word that Halo-World is fully up and running. Go check ’em out! Pax.

The word from Haloplayers is that the folks who were talking about bringing Halo to Half-Life have decided that HL is too limiting, and have switched over to Tribes. Anyone interested in this project can join in this HP Forum thread. Pax.