Year: 2000

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…

Thanks to Eric (on our forum), Dan Rudolph (via email), and fire phoenix (of Halo Center, also via email) for notification of yet another Halo preview, this time at Jack In. Mostly, it’s a good overview of the game… but they either know a LOT more about this game than the rest of us, or…

Blam!… Blam!… Blam!… Blam!… Blam! The Halo SETI Marines climb 5 notches to number 43 in the Battle of the Teams, mostly due to a server reset that changed the way earned units are allocated. No matter… Slashdot is now within easy reach. Unfortunately, Project Blue Book is climbing fast… can the Marines hold on?…

Seen at GameSpot UK: At this weekend’s ECTS (the European Computer Trade Show), Ed Fries announced some details of the Xbox launch strategy. There will be (at this point) 22 games ready for release with the box itself – seven from within Microsoft, and 15 from 3rd-party developers. It was this passage that caught my…

Will nobody actually put their name to any information any more? Last week, xbox365.com posted a story in which “a good source” suggested the Xbox spec had been improved to include 128 MB RAM, instead of 64. A day later (we missed this until now), Spank! did some checking, and found another “source” (unnamed, of…

Noticed this on Halo Center: There’s a Danish Halo site up and running. Seems to have been reporting for the past 3 weeks or so, actually.) I’ve got very little idea what they’re saying… but if you speak Danish, go check out PlanetHalo.dk!

The Wallpaper page gets another one… J.C. Barbosa has submitted an interesting tropical scene for your viewing pleasure. Check it out!

Thanks to Alerus, who sends in another desktop for our Wallpaper page. It’s built on the original Blues News screenshot… so it’s sort of big. Worth a look, though!

Wow… Nathan comes back from the dead (or at least marriage). Nathan Bitner, who left his job as Producer of Halo last fall to get married and go back to school, has surfaced once again on our forum… the man sounds a little frazzled, but I hear Raleigh can do that to you. Good to…

We got more Fan Fiction… I think. Empty Weapon, it’s called.

Interesting. Bungie has always made a point of the independence they’re keeping in the Microsoft buyout deal… how Microsoft saw the Bungie name, its cachet, even, worth as much as the games it would produce. Yesterday, however, Microsoft published a press release about the talent pool currently developing for the Xbox. In it, they list…

Well, the Xbox is proving to be one of the largest rumor generators since Mata Hari. xbox365 is reporting that the 8 gig drive is being swapped out in favor of a 40 gig drive, so that the Xbox can act as a recordable VCR, like TiVo or Replay TV. Even Slashdot has picked up…

Turbine Entertainment Software, “the technology-leading developer of massively multiplayer Internet-based persistent virtual worlds for PCs and videogame consoles,” put out a press release on August 17 announcing that they’d hired David Bowman, formerly of Bungie Software, “where he designed for their hit series Myth and Fantasy Siege, the forthcoming hit based on BungieÂ’s Halo engine.”…

Another old name hangs up his hat: Stryker writes to say that Halo HQ is closing down, due to “time contraints and lack of Halo-related information.” (There’s a full resignation letter at Halo HQ, but unfortunately, that’s unreachable from here at the moment.) That’s two of the oldest Halo sites gone, in one day! Ouch.

Wow! It looks like there’s been a full server reset over at SETI… the Halo SETI Marines have been credited with over 10,000 units sometime in the past day. (These were units submitted by team members that may have been completed for other teams. Currently, the total for the Halo team is equal to the…

Alan Stott writes to say that due to problems finding a free server that allows server-side includes, Halo-Net is going down, but he made this offer:The domain is up for grabs and is paid off until next August, and if someone has a server with Server Side Includes, they can have the new unseen site…

Thanks to Ben Evans, who sent in a pair of desktops for our Wallpaper page. They’re composited screenshots… one with the old graphics, one with the new. Take your pick!