Year: 2000

[uhS]BloodyAngel sends word that the Unholy Slayers, a German CS clan, has added Halo to its list of games. Take a look!

Heh… kudos to Mhaddy, who noticed that Gamestop is already taking preorders for the Xbox. He snagged the info off of MSXbox.com… dunno who’s gonna sign up this early (especially at a $500 price point), but hey – stranger things have happened!

One up, one down… News from Halo forums around the net tonight. Rampancy.net had taken its forum down until they can find a nasty little bug… and Haloplayers has upgraded to the latest version of InfinityBoard, cleaning up some bugs. Check ’em out!

Philippe Rom@net writes to tell us that another French Halo site, The Halo Times, has come online. There’s not much there yet, but it’s got a nice, clean design. Take a look!

Interesting… there’s been some discussion recently about how the controls for Halo will work, and doubt has been expressed that decent teamplay can happen without a keyboard. Computer and Video Games have been able to play with a prototype of the Xbox controller, and one feature stands out pretty clearly:Microsoft’s pad will have two expansion…

R.net has been invaded by demons! News at 11. (Or is it 12?)

Thanks to Joel Loukus, who submitted another sketch of the Halo Marine. “Just a little doodad I doodled…” We think he’s adorable. Check him out in our Miscellaneous Art section!

Peter Askam of HCC sends along the URL of a new Halo site: Station Halo. It’s badly broken on Macs, though (NS, IE, and iCab), and Linux boxes (NS, Opera) – I didn’t even bother looking on a Windows box. Check it out, though… who knows, it might get fixed.

Blam!… Dink! The Halo SETI Marines finally pass Team #Amiga!, only to be hammered down by the Israaliens. Position 43 in the Battle of the Teams remains firmly in their grasp. (Probably didn’t help that the SETI servers lost over 1000 of the Marines’ units this week, and 500 last week…) A great big welcome…

Peter Askam writes to say that Halo Command UK has changed its name to Halo Command Central (HCC), and has a new look to go along with the new name. Stop by and take a look!

Thanks to Pr@iler, of Halo.ch, who sent in a pair of desktops (variations on a fun theme) for our Wallpaper page. Enjoy the winter!

Xerxes writes to say that a new German site has hit the Halo scene: Halo Orbit. (This is no relation to the defunct Orbit site which closed up 7 months ago.) Germany is becoming the biggest home for Halo out there!

Chapter 7 of $erial-ki!!A’s ongoing fan fiction story has been posted to our Fan Fiction page. Heh… when he said “before Chrsitmas”, he wasn’t kidding. Check it out!

Good Lord. 4 weeks in a row, Matt Soell’s managed to write up weekly progress reports for the Halo team (and the Oni team, we should note, posted over at Oni Central). This one is chock-full of home-cooked goodness – lots and lots and lots of weapons, oodles of net game types, D&D research… the…

Heh… thanks to Alan Stott, who passed along this article from The Register, discussing a major security breach at Microsoft. Although the Register’s spin on this story is more dramatic than, say, CNN’s, the potential damage is great. The story focused on WinMe code, but we’re wondering about the Gaming Division… personally, we’d keep an…

Jeff Campen noticed that the Halo trailer (The E3 2000 movie) holds a place of honor on the MSN WindowsMedia.com Broadband page… It’s right up in the top section. (Not new material, but interesting placement.)

The Marathon’s Story page has an update about Konrad Sherinian, former Halo team member, from an anonymous source, describing a bit more of what he had been responsible for. From the tone of the note, there is an implication that Konrad’s leaving wasn’t entirely voluntary. Details can be found in today’s What’s New entry.

When the Xbox debuts next fall, its biggest competitor will probably be the Playstation2, which was released in the US and Europe last night at midnight. The hype was tremendous… though in some cases, it was hard to tell what was actually being sold. Wait… who’s that in the background?

As Mikkel Eriksen says, it’s not just the Strike Force guys going at it! Weapons Factory, a modmaking team that focuses on multi-class, team-based play, has already announced plans for a Halo mod. The interest is building…

Thanks to Neil Grattan, who submitted a collage for our Miscellaneous Art page. A bit dark… but nice. A bit of old, good for reminiscing…