Year: 2000

The Halo SETI Marines dig in at position 48 on the Club Rankings… but with the growth of the team (three new members today), it won’t be long! Jjaro Tech crunches again, Skyhook frogblasts past another 28… Where are YOU? Check the 24 hour stats!

Goodness, we missed one. There was ANOTHER fanfic posted to the forum this morning… Thanks, Octavio! We’ve added it, as well, to the Fan Fiction page.

The field is alive again! Tycho has posted another piece of fan fiction, on our forum, which has been added to our Fan Fiction page. Take a look!

arctic wolf submits another piece of Fan Fiction, via our forum. The field is warming up again!

Joel Loukus sends in another desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines crash into 48th place in the Club Standings, and 98th place in overall standings… and the SETI server begins to return a few lost units. Jjaro Tech proves once again that weekends are more reliable times to find aliens, handily taking La Crunch Honneur. Skyhook vaults past 21 teammates to…

New Fan Fiction today from Tycho [OSC]. Short, but sweet… there is already feedback on our forum asking for more! Enjoy. Pax.

Rampancy.net has made note of another poll to smash… Gamertech is asking “What game are you most looking forward to?” (Gee, where have we heard that question before?) Currently, Halo holds a commanding lead, but only 60 people have voted. Do your part to keep Halo where it belongs!

Blam!… but they just don’t know it yet! The Halo SETI Marinestake down Team 3DNow! but the SETI team ranks server hasn’t recorded it yet. Team membership rises to over 400 marines! A big welcome to Shard (208 units), Josh S (192 units), Agent Cooper (111 units), Fred (17 units), and Psyjnir Complex (12 units)who…

The logo on the right side of the new Halo pic scanned by R.net was mentioned by them last night… but the weird glyphs along the bottom were not. They look vaguely mesoamerican… can anyone place them? Does this suggest that Aztec or Mayan glyphs were created by non-earth-dwellers? Thanks to The Marathon’s Story page…

Matt Soell once again clears up the “Halo is just Myth III repackaged” rumor, with some history of Armor, the codename of the game that Halo evolved from. Thanks, Matt!

Also from Massa: GameStar has released a large E3 report (I couldn’t find it on their web page, so it must be in the print edition) which fingers Halo as the best thing they saw at the show. Massa points out that Tribes2 wasn’t even in the top 10.

Haloplayers reports that someone from Barrysworld talked to Take2 yesterday, and was told that Halo won’t be out before 2001. Not a huge surprise, but Take2 should probably be in the loop here. As this news post was being put up, word came from Massa, at Halo Network… apparently, GameStar is also suggesting a date…

Wow! Thanks to Allenthar, who points out that the recent advance of the Halo SETI Marines not only propelled them into the top 50 Club Teams… but into the top 100 Teams of any kind! Congrats, folks.

For A Few Units More. The Halo SETI Marinesneed an extra 200+ units to take out Team 3DNow! in the Battle of the Teams. They’re going down! 😉 Banzif and JackMech take the La Crunch and Frogblast awards. Find out more on the24 hour stats page.

Noctavis, over at R.net, has scanned in a beautiful shot of the E3 Banner, which showed up in the July 2000 issue of Incite Magazine. Look at the detail of that shot! Gotta go out and buy me one of those tomorrow.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. who own a 19.9% equity interest in Bungie Software have announced a 60% growth in net sales for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2000. For the three months, net sales were 70 million U.S. dollars, a 34 percent increase from 52million for the quarter ended April 30, 1999. Net…

Mentioned a couple of days ago at Battleground: Halo, but we slipped until Edgecrusher sent us mail: TiberiumSun.com has a poll up… “What caught your eye at E3?” Red Alert is still in first place (not surprising, given where the poll is), but Halo is a close second. See what you can do, okay? Pax.

The Halo SETI Marines dig in in their push to be top dog. A solid effort today… 463 units crunched, almost all accounted for. Welcome to SeanA, and congratulations to JackMech,who vaulted over 26 teammates to take the Frogblast award. Congratulations, too, to Banzif,who crushed the competition for La Crunch Honneur. How are YOU doing?…

Well-Rounded Entertainment has posted their E3 Awards, and Halo garnered a Runner-up award in the Action category. (The category was won by Alice.) In addition, they came in second (with 44% of the vote, compared to Deus Ex’s 46%) in the Reader’s Choice awards. Thanks to R.net, who noticed the awards.