Year: 2000

Thanks to Kevin Adams, who sent in a slick desktop for our Wallpaper page. Action unlimited!

Freewill is trying to get a semi-accurate count of those people planning to attend the Fanfest in New York in a couple of weeks. (If you’re not sure what this is about, check this page.) To help out, bungie.org has put up a Fanfest Forum, where folks can get more info, or just RSVP.

The Modeller’s back! Ian McConville has added another model to his collection. This time it’s the Covenant energy sword… simple model, but check out the pic of Ian wielding it! More on the way, we hope.

Bungie Fanfest is go! The date of the Bungie Fanfest @ Macworld NY 2000 has been changed to Friday July 21, from 4pm-8pm at Neutral Ground 122 West 26th Street. Check Freewill’sBungie Sightings page for full details. Lots of special guests, the E3 Halo movie DVD Special Edition, the limited edition Marathon Story Page T-Shirt,…

Hey we nearly missed this but a Marathon’s Story page reader spots a similarity between the herd of small dinos in the E3 Halo movie andGraboidsfrom the movie Tremors 2. Freaky stuff.

Blam! The Halo SETI Marinesrecaptured position #47 in the Battle of the Teams yesterday thanks mainly to the return of DarthFlounder and his 1394 units. Good to have you back Darth. Team membership now stands at447 and rising daily. Awright, let’s go marines, they ain’t payin’ us by the hour.

We asked Marty O’Donnell about the score for the E3 movie, and about what went into making it. His response made for some very interesting reading, so we’ve included it in its entirety.Scoring a movie and scoring a game are two entirely different processes. I approached the E3 movie the same way I’d approach any…

Thanks to luxor, of Halo Vault, who (with Mark Levin’s blessing) has mirrored the Halo “Whazzup” movie. If you’re finding our server slow… try the much fatter pipe over at IGN.

Flashback has sent word explaining the details of the Halo-Net shop: We’ve finally sorted out everything with the Halo-Net Shop Pete Tamte (Executive Vice President) of Bungie has been contacting me this afternoon a bit and we have cleared up everything related to the shop now. They are letting us send any orders made for…

Wazzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuupppppppp… watching the Halo movie having a Bud! The Halo Wazzup.mov is now here! Thanks again to Mark Levin. True… true…

Thanks to Dan Lacy, who sent in another nice desktop for our Wallpaper page. Worth a look… very clean.

True, true… Halo Wazzup.mov created by Mark Levin is a totally hysterical parody on the Wazzup Budweiser commercial. Highly recommended. You can get it at the Bungie.Org Hotline server, at hl.bungie.org . It’s in Uploads/Temp Uploads. As soon as we get permission we’ll upload it here. Thanks Mark from brightening my day! Note: if you…

Another new alien? Kudos to Davin for spotting what’s looks like a new Halo alien in Computer Games Magazine. We’ll let Davin tell it: I just got a copy of Computer Games Magazine No#117 August 2000 www.cdmag.com. There is a good 5 page spread in there about HALO. The most interesting thing however is that page…

Dave “Chia” Pindrys of Vista Cartel points us to a Dr. Dobb’s article on Xbox called A powerful game platform waiting in the wingsby Michael Abrash a Microsoft programmer working on Xbox graphics. Want the inside skinny on the Xboxthis is it. Well worth reading. Thanks Chia. Oh and don’t forget to visit Vista Cartel…

Picky draws our attention to another Halo review, this time at SpieleCity, a German gaming site. This one contains quite a large number of screenshots from the E3 trailer, so if you’re having trouble stomaching the huge download, this is worth a look.

Just an update on that “First Ever Xbox Console Shot” at MSXBox. According to Microsoft the image was put together to only “represent” the Xbox. The final Xbox design has yet to be determined.

“Go to infrared. Look sharp people!” The Halo SETI Marinescame under heavy sniper fire last night and lost position #47 in theBattle of the Teams.”We’re getting juked!” Help save the team join up today!

First Ever Xbox Console Shots! MSXBox have posted what they believe is a development pic of Microsoft’s Xbox and controller. They have also posted a complete Xbox Developers List. Matt Soell also gets featured for his comments on Xbox and how it will affect the PS2.

The folks at Cutting the Edge have put together a nice two-page analysis of the E3 Trailer, pointing out the good and bad points along the way. Well-done job, all around. Definitely worth a look.

Massa writes to tell us that Halo Network has put up a surprisingly high quality 30 MB .asf version of the E3 trailer for those who can’t manage the 160 meg version. We’ve added it to our full e3 trailer mirror list.