Year: 2000

Kudos to Kuniklo, who noticed (on the R.net forum) that PlanetXbox has learned that John Carmack will be on the Xbox advisory board. Interesting news, since Id has not announced any plans for Xbox games…

Once again, kudos to edge, who noticed that Computer Games Online has part 2 of their Halo preview, “Bungie dreams of rings and things.” As before, the info is quite good, and has some new tidbits; Jason Jones talks about how they decided what would go into the E3 trailer:”We were trying to capture the…

The move is underway! Both bungie.com and bungie.net are currently unreachable… this almost certainly means the machines are physically on their way to Redmond. Here’s hoping the move goes smoothly, and that everything’s back up and running soon! (Flashback noticed b.com down about 4 hours ago… so they started pretty early in the morning.)

FraxX writes to tell us about a German Halo site he’s involved in… Haloweb. Not sure how this missed going on our links page… we’ve seen it before. In any case, it’s there now! Check it out, if you speak German!

Killermac.com have posted a hilarious new lookMicrosoft/Bungie page. Yes this could be the new face of Bungie. Warning: for the humorlessly impaired this is a JOKE people… with possibly a bit of tru7h thrown in.

“…all of the Bungie team will be moving to Redmond and they will be assimilated.”Damn edge and his amazing X-ray eyes. Edge points us to aPlanetXbox news item about Bungie’s third game “Fantasy Siege” in this month’s Next-Generation magazine. While this isn’t exactly new news the quote is hilarious. Here it is: For two years…

As Tursas noticed, there’s something wonky over at the petition to bring Halo to the Mac/PC. Hopefully, they haven’t lost all that data…

The Halo SETI Marines’ page has been wiped out… Phhht! Just like that. The SETI team rankspage has been updated however and we are still lying in position #47 some 1000 units behind the “TidBITS” team and some 1000 units ahead of the Seti Italia team. Hopefully the SETI techs will have their server back…

False alarm. Bungie.net is back up. The plan is still to shut-down and relocate this weekend. Take a last look.

New Halo screenshots! Woohoo major kudos to edge (again!) for pointing us to a new Halo preview at CDmag which has some very high quality screenshots including the new alien. There’s also a shot of the Halo marine driving the jeep! Woot!

More on Microsoft’s acquisition of NetGamesUSA. Thanks to edge who notes on our forums that there is a follow up interview with Craig Sparks, CEO of NetGamesUSA, at Stomped.comHere’s some quotes: Stomped: What will this move mean for your personally and for the rest of the NetGamesUSA team? Will the team continue to work from…

bungie.net is down! They said the server was closing this weekend but they must have shut up shop early. Could be down for some time as they move to Redmond and set up shop. Head on over to bs.bungie.org and Marathon’s Storyfor the first comments on the closure.

The Microsoft buyout of Bungie gets discussed by the “Geeks in Space” a nearly-weekly audio show hosted by Rob Malda and Jeff Bates ofSlashdot.org. It’s in their typical Geek ‘off-the-wall’ style with lines like “Myth 3 will now be known as Age of Empires 3” and “Magic Carpet by Bungie”?!!!. For Geeks only.

Another gaming acquisition by Microsoft. Thanks to edge on our forumswho points out that Microsoft have acquired Kansas-based NetGames USA, a leading developer of scoring, matchmaking and other enhancements for retail and Web-based games. The acquisition will enhance the competitiveness of games on Microsoft’s Zone.com and further solidify the site as the Internet’s best location…

Playtest the Xbox and Halo?!!!MSXbox report that Microsoft is looking for volunteers to playtest its upcoming videogames for the PC and even the Xbox. Halo will obviously feature heavily here. MSXbox have the details but here are the basic requirements: You live in the Puget Sound area and are able get to the Microsoft campus…

Frederico Giacanelli writes:I’d like to know if someone has written down all the dialogue lines of the E3 movie. While the general plot is quite clear to non-english speakers (as I am), some of the fast-paced phrases are not so intelligible.Well, Frederico… so far as I know, no one had. So I did. You can…

Kudos to Aaron Sommer, who pointed out a Robert Cringely article on our forum. It’s 5 months old… but still quite relevant, especially if he’s right. The theory’s not new, but Cringely presents it convincingly. If he’s right, will Bungie end up as a casualty of war?

bungie.net server relocation at the weekend says Yeroen, Here’s the details: We’re tentatively planning on moving the web and gaming servers to Redmond this weekend. This means that if all goes well we’ll shut them down Friday morning, ship ’em in cold storage, thaw them out and set them up again early next week. However,…

Ian “No more hate mail, please” McConville updates his Needlegun model, based on the higher-res shot in the August 2000 PC Gamer. Classy stuff…

Massa writes to let us know that GameStar has a poll asking “Would you buy an Xbox just to play Halo?” While a resounding 74% (at this point) say “NO!”, a surprising 367 (5%) say “Clearly.” The poll’s in german, but Babelfish can translate well enough for you to understand what you’re voting…