Year: 2000

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 It’s nice to see new people excited about Halo, even if some of the info is out of date or just plain wrong. (All the pictures in the article use the old-style, outdated screenshots, Larry Niven is named in connection with the storyline, and…

Thanks to Elmo, who submitted the first of what should be 8 chapters for a new piece of Halo fan fiction.I really want to get some feedback from fans. I’ve taken a few creative liberties with the story before they arrive on the Halo but i want some feedback on how well this works. Read…

Interesting. Seems the Xbox is going to have a VChip-like parental controls, according to Alex Kotowitz (Xbox’s Senior Director of Sales), as reported by Game Informer. Parents will be able to restrict what games are played on the Xbox, based on game rating. This gives everybody (parents, regulators, adult gamers) what they want… except the…

Battleground: Halo puts up another episode of “Retaliation”, a fan fiction in parts by Patrick Palmer. Pax.

Wow. Seems the nVidia movie has caused some major problems… R.net has a story that every Halo fan should read. Cannibal Harry, a Bungie fan with a big heart, now has a big (whopping big) ISP bill to go with it. From the outside, it sounds like Earthlink (his ISP) was either astoundingly ignorant of…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who mailed us two pieces of artwork: a modified Halo logo for our Logos page, and a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Put a tiger in your Halo! Jesse Keenan sent us a modified Halo Marine, wearing camo stripes. Check him out on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Halo marine in early Oni movie? Some say yeah… some say nay. The Marathon’s Story page has a shortclip of a rare Oni movie seen briefly on the web in ’98. It shows what looks like a guy in aHalo marine helmet. It has been discussed before on the Oni forumsbut some Oni folk didn’t…

Interesting tidbit… the Marathon’s Story page notes that a letter written to Macworld 4 years ago, condemning Macworld’s judgement that violence in video games decreases the games’ worth, was authored by a Matt Segur… a name shared by a current Bungie programmer working on Halo. Coincidence? Or was Matt simply standing up for a company…

Two more mirrors for the nVidia movie have popped up: Halo Center now has a copy, and so does HaloCenter.de (no relation to the American site). In fact… it doesn’t look like we’ve ever seen HaloCenter.de before, so we’ll take this opportunity to announce it. Looks like it’s a GameszPlanet affiliate.

Thanks to Olaf, who sent in a pair of high-quality desktops for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Sokar writes to say that the nVidia movie is available on the HaloEmpire server, which is probably a good choice for European visitors. That makes 4 locations we know of… the one above, Stomped, VoodooExtreme, and here at HBO.

Took a whole day to get these onto the server, but they were calculated on time, Monday. The Halo SETI Marines hold steady at number 43 in the Battle of the Teams, pulling farther ahead of Team Slashdot. A couple of Marines went AWOL this week… maybe we’re not pushing the team enough. 🙂 DarthFlounder…

First seen at HaloCenter: looks like Halo HQ is coming back online. Nothing there yet… but it’s nice to see it’s not dead permanently!

AAARGHHHH!! For two months, we’ve been working on getting Bungie to release the nVidia promo movie that was shown at the Bungie fanfest at MacWorld NY 2000 in July. It finally came through last night… in the middle of the first network outage of merit we’ve experienced. Ah, well… and so it goes.Anyway, this film…

No internet browsing on Xbox!Gamecenter has posted aninterview with Seamus Blackley,manager of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft. Blackley explains in theinterview that there are no plans for internet browsing on Xbox. Here’s the quote:GC: There’s no browser on this still, right?S.B.: No! Nobody wants a browser on a game box. And I’m not…

Wow. That was the longest outage since we moved the servers here. Ouch. Anyway, we’re back up. (We think.) Sorry for the downtime! Look for more updates later today or early tomorrow.)