Year: 2000

topgunn123 submits a new story for our Fan Fiction section… is this the renaissance? Whatever you want to call it, it’s great to see so much new work! Now go read it, and be inspired to write your own!

The last two questions of the Webmaster Interviews have been put up at Halo MultiPlayer Zone (and their mirror, Halo Command Central). Vosx, from Halo Vault, has been added to the mix for these two questions, giving a fourth perspective on the issues. Go take a look… and thanks to fAt1 and Blurb342 for putting…

Iden sends in a new story, Firestarter Squad, for our Fan Fiction section. Adrenaline-packed read… go check it out! Pax.

Terror sends word that Halo-Australia has acquired Halo Heaven, combining the two biggest Australian Halo sites. Go check ’em out!

Shame on us for not posting this yesterday… Jim Ruiz has returned to man the (upcoming) Bungie Store, and has reactivated the Oni/Halo Alert List! If you want to get on the list, just send Jim mail. Very nice to see you back, Jim!

Who says they don’t listen to fans? Two subjects discussed recently on our forum have been new weapons, and limb-specific damage. In this week’s Halo update, Matt Soell mentions a new weapon that issuspiciously similar to a suggestion made on this very forum in days past.He also mentions ‘secret beasties’, and ‘limb-specific impact animations’. Oooh!…

Again, not totally Halo-related, but PlanetSide has been generating quite a bit of buzz recently on some of the Halo sites… Kevin McCann gave another interview yesterday, this time to PC IGN, and in it he does a much better job of describing the gameplay that folks can expect from PlanetSide. Very intriguing… but the…

Halo Tip Kaidu writes to let us know that another Halo site has come on the scene… Halo Tip, ‘Your portal to the planet Halo’. Pretty filled out for a new site… check ’em out!

As Mark Levin points out on our forum, even Blue’s News has gotten in on the “isn’t that Planetside screenshot a lot like Halo?” game. (This game was first played by Nights, on our forum, Tuesday.) Concentration, anyone? Pax.

Thanks to Neil Grattan, who submitted another piece of Halo fan fiction for our Fan Fiction page. Short and sweet…

Oops – in the crush of news recently, we managed to overlook one of the few real Halo-related newsbits… days 2 and 3 of the Halo MultiPlayer Zone Webmaster Interviews are up (and mirrored at Halo Command Central, for those of you who don’t want to log in to MPZ). Look for another question (and…

Hmm… of borderline interest to most Halo fans, but what the heck, news is slow. The Marathon’s Story Page has a tidbit about finding a Marathon sound in the Halo E3 movie (specifically the rocket explosion). Go check out the Story page, and decide for yourself!

Thanks to Br’fin, who noticed an interview with Kevin McCann, producer and lead designer for Planetside, a Massively Multiplayer FPS coming next year, over at Daily Radar. (How many dangling participles can YOU spot in that sentence?) While the graphics don’t look anywhere near as good as Halo’s, the gameplay sounds an awful lot like…

Hmm. Griffon dropped us a line to let us know that the MPZ Webmaster Interviews are being mirrored at Halo Command Central. That’s good to know… and for those of you saying, “What Webmaster Interviews?” you didn’t miss anything, because the MPZ boys forgot to let us know they were up. 🙂 (The Halo MultiPlayer…

As noted at Haloplayers, XBOX365 has put up a story in which ‘Inside Informant’ provides details of the finalized Xbox design. Now, take this as you will – read the comments below the story for some, um, alternative views… but one thing is clear to me – in the news post we put up last…

The Halo SETI Marines continue on their 350+ units/day pace, holding steady in 77th place on the Overall Teams list. (Not to worry, they’re still in the top 50 on the Club Teams list.) DarthFlounder continues his crunching streak, and Traxus2 vaults over 151 teammates to take the Frogblast award. Full details can be found…

New clans on the horizon… [Hark]Age writes to say that House Harkonnen (a German Clan) is online now, and will be getting a site overhaul on January 1, 2001. And A.J. Hoelter writes to say that the Caffeine Drinkers Clan is live, although almost nothing works on macs, and very little works on PCs.

Kudos to Tomeone for sending us news about a Ringworld movie in the works.

Matt continues his 5-week run of Halo updates, this week at Rampancy.net. It’s not very long… but it’s tantalizing in its implications. Ah, don’t take my word for it… go read it for yourself!

A warm welcome to an old friend… Doug Zartman (well, we think it’s Doug) stopped by our forum today to badmouth George C. Scott. We tried to notify Scott, so he could defend himself… then remembered he was dead. Nice job, Doug!