Month: October 2000

We just got mail from Geert Roete, saying that there are some Halo shots posted at the Dutch site Ultimate Gamer. They’re just screen grabs from the E3 movie, though, and the text is very sparse (one sentence), so I’m not really sure what the deal is. You can go look anyway, though… there might…

The Halo SETI Marines continue to crank out units, slightly improving last week’s total output. DarthFlounder remains in the number one Crunch position, and last week’s Frogblast award winner, Trux, was surpassed this week by camw. All the gory details can be found on the 7 day stats page. Pax.

Okay, we goofed. Turns out the bit about Halo being released simultaneously on the Mac and the Xbox is somewhat old (and since superceded)… apparently, it was posted to a Mac gaming site in August, and 8/10/2000 was interpreted (understandably) by a European as October 8, not August 10. The eNewsletter in question had this…

Wow! Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who noticed that the latest Apple monthly newsletter reminds readers that the Mac version of Halo will be out at the same time as the XBox version. (‘Reminds us’? Seems to me we never KNEW that in the first place!) This came from Microsoft’s Vice President of Games. Corroboration as…

They’re doing it again… the king of the Halo Makeovers, Battleground: Halo, has switched looks again. There’s nothing there yet (again), but the blue and white has given way to black and orange. Just in time for Halloween…

MICROSOFT TURNS BUNGIE INTO SWEATSHOP: Oh, wait… that’s not right. Matt Soell stopped by R.net’s forum this evening (yeah, we know, he’s not allowed to do that) and volunteered a bit of info about what’s going on behind the scenes. Promises of more info have been made… beware, Matt, your words have been recorded. Go…

Miguel Santiago has sent in a hand-drawn Halo Marine, as a cartoon. Pretty nice work… you’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Clay Bratt has put together a new Flash Halo logo… you can see it here. (Thanks to Clay for the heads-up on our forum, and to •Mimer for the corrected URL.) Pax.

MacNN has news of a new SETI@Home client… 3.0. Currently available for Windows98/95/NT, MacOS, MacOSX, and Unix, the new version adds pulse and triplet detection to signal analysis, faster FFT routines, and better multitasking. All versions are available from SETI@home’s Downloads page. Grab it today, and increase your searching abilities! Find the Covenant before they…

The second chapter of Role Reversal, a Halo fan fiction-in-progress, arrived this evening. The action’s heating up! Elmo warns that this will be the last chapter for a few weeks… life getting in the way, again. You’ll find it on our Fan Fiction page… enjoy!

Good to know that even when real life gets in the way of updates, fans keep on top of the good stuff. Island Four (otherwise known as Nathan Bitner, former Producer of Halo) is back on the forums, spouting Neruda, Blake, and his own feverish rantings. A line from an R.E.M. song comes to mind:This…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who submitted a fully hand-done version of the new Marine… you’ll find him in our Miscellaneous Art section. Diogo’s not happy with the arms… but he says he’ll get back to them. Take a look!

“Halo-Online” writes to say that a new Halo fansite is up and running in Germany… halo-online.de. German speakers, check ’em out! Pax.

Thanks to Christian Ytterström, who sent in a newly colored version of the original Marine. You’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Thanks to Aaron Sommer, who spotted an article about Cannibal Harry’s online woes at UK-based The Register. Definitely worth a read.

The Halo SETI Marines gain another 6 recruits this week, and remain firmly in 43rd position in the Battle of the Teams. DarthFlounder again outcrunches the competition, and Trux (a new recruit last week) leapfrogs over 48 team members to garner the Frogblast award. The most interesting movement, though, is the second-place cruncher this week……

Seen at Battleground: Halo – Speedy3D has an article comparing Black and White, Team Fortress 2, and Halo, discussing how they redifine their respective genres, and dreaming about how sweet it would be to see these in time for Christmas. Aside from the wholly unrealistic estimate of release dates, it was a fine article, at…

David, an Australian fan, sent us this note:This is David from the Australian Music Group Seventh, one of our fans made up a video Music Clip using Halo footage. The song in the clip is “I’m Gonna Fly” we recorded the track ealier in the year with Halo in mind.The song won the Australian Triple…

StarHawk sends word that IntelGamer has a new Halo preview up. It’s nice to see new people excited about Halo, even if some of the info is out of date or just plain wrong. (All the pictures in the article use the old-style, outdated screenshots, Larry Niven is named in connection with the storyline, and…