Year: 2001

Gasmask turns in another couple of incredibly short Fan Fictions – one ends the Journey of the Doomed series, the other starts the Training Day series. (They’re SO short, in fact, and they come so frequently, one wonders why he doesn’t just send them in when the series is complete – each of his completed…

How many places can you shoot a flood and knock parts off? Some thought it was just the arms and head… but Skeletor points out that the abdomen is another piece. (In fact, he took a picture.) We’ve made it local, to avoid loading problems with Geocities images…

Even with the additions of new members Donguido (3772 units) and beamanm (120 units), among others, the Halo SETI Marines can’t catch a break from the Berkeley boys. Total units crunched these past two weeks: 3333. Total units brought in by new team members: 3918. Total new units registered by the SETI server: 3510. OUCH!…

Whoa – a misstatement, or is something big coming? Jay Weinland (known on our forum as Jay the Younger) dropped off a clarification of what was recorded (and what was released – two different things, apparently) but what caught my eye was this sentence:ow if you want to hear some classic s**t just wait until…

Apologies for the low number of updates yesterday – the HBO Junkies had a LAN party yesterday, at HBO headquarters (here), and at its height, we had 11 marines on 4 Xboxes battling it out to the death (and what a lot of death it was). There were, in fact, 6 Xboxes (and 5 TVs)…

Halo won the Team Xbox Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Game of the Year. Pax.

SpAder writes to say that Halo-World, which we’d listed as an English Halo page, is actually available in both English and German. (In fact, the English version isn’t even there yet – but the German version is.) We’ve adjusted our Links page to reflect reality.

Andreas den Hertog AKA Pacey Dré writes to say that his FTP problems are over, and HQ Halo is back up and running, with an entirely new design. Check it out – soothing and easy to look at!

More fan fiction for the masses – another couple of stories from Gasmask, and another installment of Uriel’s ‘Beyond the Paradise’ series. Check the lot out in our Fan Fiction section!

A few days ago, GameSpy put up its Game of the Year Awards… and Halo was voted Xbox Best Action/Adventure Game. (We reported this last week.) It lost out to Madden NFL 2002 for Xbox Game of the Year, though… and was overlooked for a number of special achievement categories (Best In-Game Cutscenes, Best Sound,…

Though it will keep coming up, Marty O’Donnell, Halo’s Audio Lead, makes a very clear statement about the existence of a certain curse word in Halo:the “f” word is never used by anyone or anything in Halo. It is however used by players stuck in the grav lift room of the T&R on legendary… I…

Inside Mac Games has put up their 2002 predictions, as part of a 2001 Year in Review article… and Bungie gets a pair of mentions. The first one is serious (and seems quite possible):Destineer will ship Halo for the Mac. Period. (OMG, the BEST GAME EVER WILL SHIP! Wooohoo!)The second… well, not so serious:Bungie’s Jason…

Heh – Mr Bill Jr V asks on our forum, ‘Is there too much Fan Fiction?’ Half an hour earlier, though, he submitted ‘The Awakening’, a sequel (of sorts) to his earlier ‘The Spirit’. You can find these (and many many more – too many?) in our Fan Fiction section.

Gasmask has turned in not one, not two, but THREE more installments of his ‘Journals of the Doomed’ series. You’ll probably find it easiest to simply read them in one shot – but you’ll find the individual stories in our Fan Fiction section. Comments work again (I managed to break them for part 2). Warning:…

Two of the new reviews mentioned recently contained new screenshots – we’ve added them to the Screenshots database (now up to 538 shots!). The Xbox Hotgames pics are right at the beginning, where new shots usually are… but the GamerSquare shots are farther in (since we missed the review when it first came out). Enjoy!

Thomas Barbee dropped off a very nice Bryce image, Halo-fied… we’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section, but it’s a decent size for a desktop image, as well.

Wow. Dan Rudolph pointed out this page at Game Rankings, containing a list of 40 Halo reviews, a whopping 11 of which weren’t on our Reviews page. We’ve added them now… and placed a running aggregate score at the top of the page. (Halo currently holds a 95.2% rating over those 55 reviews.) Later tonight…

Reuters reports that Sony is dominating the video game market at the moment – after the rush of buying spurred by the release of the Xbox and the GameCube, people have gone back to buying for their existing products, it seems. 12 of the top 20 best-selling games for the first half of December were…

Gamespot has put up their Best and Worst of 2001 awards… and Halo did pretty well. Best Shooter, Best Xbox Game, Number 3 in the Top 10 Video Games of 2001 (beaten by Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Grand Theft Auto III), and nominated for Best Sound. (Strangely, it wasn’t even in the running…

Doesn’t usually happen quite this quickly… but Gasmask has submitted Part 2 of his Journals of the Doomed series (Part 1 was posted 12 hours ago). You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section…