Month: September 2000

We’re baaaack! (Well, okay, I”m back. Wirehead is still on extended leave, Ding’s bugging some military guys, and Crux… hell, Crux hasn’t been the same since that game of spin the bottle up at the Monastery.) Looks like it’s been a slow weekend… but there was a LITTLE news. Psyrixx writes to say that The…

The crew of HBO is taking a break this weekend… we’ll be back late Sunday night (around midnight UTC, Monday morning). Enjoy your weekend!

Matthew Unger has composited a couple of Halo shots to come up with this ‘screenshot’ for our Miscellaneous Art page. Nice job!

Thanks to MrEiffel65, who submitted a new desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Night is falling…

Congrats to Isolder, who noticed (before I had a chance to find it myself) a tidbit in the October issue of MacAddict about Peter Tamte:A new company, headed by former Bungie vice president (and previous MacSoft executive director) Peter Tamte, has taken charge of bringing Microsoft’s key games, including Bungie’s titles, to our platform. I…

Hehe… these guys are nuts. HaloWar has a message from a bunch of guys who are building a Halo mod for Half-life… if they pull this off, it’ll be out before Halo will! 😉 Go check it out.

Oops… $erial-ki!!A sent word that the info about the Halo spot on British digital tv was incorrect. The actual show was called Gameover, and the channel was technology.tv. He’s got it on tape, but can’t upload it… hopefully that’ll change. 🙂

Thanks to $erial-ki!!A, who writes to tell us of Halo on TV:I was watching Gameplay on the british Sky digital channel dot.TV, and they were doing a review on the X-Box. Surprise surprise, HALO came up, and, to my enjoyment, they did a small feature on it. In this feature (with an interview with Seropian…

Thanks to Howard Bisoski, who submitted a new theory about the potential uses of the Halo. For good measure, he’s also tossed in some anti-gravity speculation… go take a look!

Thanks to Tom Van Sinden, who created a new desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Ever wondered where you were? Well, if you’re on the Halo, now you know.

Okay, we’ve had a submission of a Halo movie. It’s 5 MB, and it’s basically quick cuts from many of the Halo movies out there, put to a soundtrack from Toonami (on the Cartoon Network). Now… the only real problem is that it’s in Windows Media Viewer format. The latest Mac version of Windows Media…

Good Lord. He’s back to Halo clues. Nathan Bitner continues his mad posting spree… a mysterious email contains the following lines:”Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”And, addressed specifically to Hamish Sinclair:”Say not, ‘I have found the truth’, but rather, ‘I have found a truth’. For the soul walks upon…

Where Are They Now Dept.: Nathan Bitner rambled a bit this morning, letting folks know what’s up with him these days. School’s going well, the wedding got postponed (cancelled, maybe, if she reads this)… he rants a bit about some big purple gorilla. Hmm. Anyway, Nathan, the Producer job still seems to be open…

Computer and Video Games talked to J. Allard, GM of Xbox development, at ECTS yesterday, and got some details about the Xbox controller: “I can tell you that there will be no more buttons than on the PlayStation controller [8]. We think thatÂ’s pretty much the optimum number of inputs most people can deal with…

[RFAS]Fishbulb posts on our forum that Rebel Force Assault Squad is now recruiting. The site is far more viewable in IE than NS.

Sharp-eyed tulmid noticed an ECTS review at Hardware Central, in which a page was devoted to the Xbox, and Halo was the only game mentioned by name. However… any tech writer who says at this stage thatwhat Intel processor it will use is still not known (probably to Microsoft as well)can accurately be said to…

SOKAR posts to our forum that his German Halo website is now online – Halo Empire. Due to its heavy use of style sheets, it’s pretty much unreadable with Netscape, so visit with IE. We found it interesting that we’re not on the links page, although nearly every one of their magazine scans was taken…

Oops, we missed this one… HaloVault came back online Sunday, with a new maintainer… Vosx. Give him a few days to get up to speed… good to have the site back!

R.net has found an Xbox article on the New York Times website. If you don’t have a NYT login, read the R.net news post for information on seeing this easily. The Times is a bit pessimistic on the Xbox; they think the console market might not last long enough to keep the Xbox afloat:Brand and…