Year: 2000

Thanks to JosephAW, who has put up a streaming version of the Day 1 bTV clip Bungie posted yesterday. Read about it on our forum!

Ooops Halo SETI marines slip back to position 117 in the team rankings. Looks like we have a fight on our hands. Were you crunching yesterday?

By popular demand, we’ve added a Fan Fiction section to halo.bungie.org. So far, it’s stuff that’s been posted on our forum… but if you’d like to submit, by all means, feel free!

Joseph Staten salvages a chunk of the missing Day 1 footage from bTV’s MacWorld SF broadcasts. Thanks, Joe!

Stop your coding and grab your… err… Bounty of Battleground: Halo informs us that they are setting up a Halo community newsletter. Interested in helping out? Got an announcement to make? Then drop them a line.

Halo SETI Marines climb another two notches in the club standings, to 115. Check out the daily activity!

Robert Cox sends word that iHALO is live, and ahead of schedule. Wow, two posts in one night… I’m on a roll! Pax.

Ripperjack writes to tell us that PROBE 01 is the newest Halo site. Not much there yet… but the page suggests that will change soon. Pax.

A couple of days ago, Xian posted a request on our forum for people to describe the game as they envision it. He was looking for gameplay descriptions, but more people decided to get creative with the Halo world. Here’s one of the latest (and more interesting) posts.

According to Macintosh Gamer’s Ledge, Bungie plans to release the source code to Marathon 2. (This is the much-anticipated #2.) It was supposed to be available on Bungie’s FTP site at 7 pm CST this evening… but that box is swamped at the moment, and even those getting in report no code. Give ’em some…

The Halo SETI Marines are falling back… only 75% of the units crunched on Friday. The long weekend causing computers to be turned off? Check the 24 hour team stats.

Even over the weekend, the Halo SETI Marines crunch away prodigiously. The 24 hour team stats tell all! (They’ve climbed another two notches, to 117, in the Club Team standings.) Congratulations!

It’s official… the Psyjnir Complex has moved to its own domain. Check ’em out! Pax.

Doug Zartman goes in-depth on space colonization, and who might be doing it. Read about it on our forum!

Hmm… it can be ugly out there. A anonymous email points out that the text and images on the General Info page of Halo HQ (the first one, according to Wednesday’s news) was lifted word for word from Halo Command. (Note that if you want to see Halo HQ’s page, you’ll need to turn Javascript…

Bad day to step away from the screen… Battleground:Halo opens its doors. Lookin’ good! (They’re also mirroring the Day 4 bTV halo footage.)

The Halo SETI Marines are kicking into high gear… check out the 24 hour stats! Way to go, guys!

Kudos to Georg for another Day 4 bTV Halo footage mirror. It’s in Germany. Pax.

Giles of the Blazing Electric Death sites reminds us that they distribute a weekly Halo Newslettter. To subscribe sends an email to bed_sub@hotmail.com. Make the subject “subscribe” and make sure that the reply address is where you want the newsletter to go. Pax.

Battleground: Halo scheduled to open today. What will be there? Pax.