Year: 2000

Thanks to Eric Meyer, who posted to our forum a clarification of how Amazon.com lists books. Although the actual method is pretty close to what folks have been speculating, it’s nice to see some harder facts. Bottom line – don’t look for that Sybex Strategy Guide any time soon, though it most likely WILL get…

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall another notch in the Battle of the Teams, thanks in large part to the disappearance of Oddot, and almost 1400 units. Welcome, though, to the new members – ReddyStupidity, Dr. Gough, OneWhoKnows – who brought almost 1000 new units with them. With work, we’ll begin climbing again… but the…

Wow… somehow we missed this last week, but it seems an image has been making the rounds, purportedly a leaked shot of an Xbox. Daily Radar has gotten word from Carrie Cowan, PR manager for Microsoft’s Game Division, that this is totally false. Ack… by the time we hear the rumors, they’ve been disproved!

TyRant has already sent in Installment Two of his Ridge series (Installment One came in less than 18 hours ago). Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

ParaDoxX writes to tell us that The Syndicate Clan, a Starcraft/Broodwar/DiabloII clan, is planning to branch out into Halo, and is looking for new recruits. (They’re specifically looking for ‘very ELITE, active and mature gamers’.) Stop by and take a look (this URL works, too, though it seems to be down at the moment).

TyRant sends in Installment One of a new fiction series – Ridge. Find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Oops, almost got lost under the leftover cranberry sauce: Griffon writes to say that Halo Command Central has put up a new halo song, incorporating sounds from the E3 video. It’s an MP3, zipped, and weighs in at 3.3 MB. Check it out here.

Maarten Edgar sends in a theory discussing possible purposes for the Halo, in the context of the closure of the universe. Intriguing stuff! Check it out in our Theories section.

At the author’s request, we’ve removed all fan fiction written by $erial-ki!!A. We’re sorry to see them go!

Hmm. We know we’ve seen this somewhere before… but we can’t for the life of us remember where. Anyway, it’s news here, so we’ll post it. Amazon.com is selling Halo: Sybex’s Official Strategies and Secrets, listed as being published on January 22, 2001. (Yeah, right.) It’s written by Bart Farkas, who wrote both the Myth…

General DwK writes to tell us that the Terra Defense Force is back, and looking for new members. Check ’em out, and join up if you like what you see! Pax.

Looks like all that crypticity (yeah, we made that up) over at bungie.org was just a site redesign. (A pretty nice one, actually.) Now, if only we could figure out how many of those random links in the Habete Quidam section pointed to HBO… Pax.

Hmm… Joe asks (on our forum) “What’s up with bungie.org?” What’s up, indeed?

According to a news report over at PlanetXbox Microsoft is planningto put $500 million towards marketing the Xbox. The plan is to literally take over entireretail floor areas. For next year’s E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center in MayMicrosoft have asked for at least twice as much floor space as Sony. According to…

Lupus sends word that he’s got a new German Halo site up – Halo Headquarters. Check it out… quite a bit of work has been put into it!

Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose two spots in their climb to the top (maybe more, the SETI server is a week behind compiling team stats). Didn’t help much that we lost braeden and his 788 units… All the damage can be seen on the 7 day stats page. Without better crunching, those Covenant…

Thanks to Iden, who submitted Chapter 2 of his ongoing Firestarter Squad saga today. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Another redesigned Halo site: Kaidu writes to tell us that Halo Tip has been overhauled – stop by and take a look! Pax.

Man, they’ve done it again. Battleground: Halo, the Halo site voted Most Likely to Overhaul Their Graphics, have once again overhauled their graphics… and this time, have joined the ranks of Sites That Are Nasty In Netscape 4.x. Minimum requirements to view the site: IE 4, Netscape 6 (yeah, it sucks, but it uses bigger…

Okay, we couldn’t let this pass… it’s just too convoluted. 🙂 On Thursday, Matt Soell posted a short message to our forum confirming that Bungie wouldn’t have a booth at MacWorld SF this year. Rampancy.net picked up on this post yesterday, and included a front-page news post about it. Less than an hour later, MacLedge…