Month: February 2001

Another poll to smash! (Let’s try not to cheat this time…) Thanks to Ph.D. for noting on our forum that MSXbox has a new poll up, asking which would be the one game you’d buy for the Xbox if you had money enough for only one. Halo currently has a slim lead over Metal Gear…

And the roll continues. Matt sent his weekly Halo update to Haloplayers… there’s some good stuff in there today. The big news – the Oni team has joined forces with the Halo team to become the ‘Dream Team’… and they’re ALL working on Halo. Woohoo! Beyond that, there are bug fixes, working material types, almost-working…

Thanks to Iden (who mailed this to us this morning) and Forensic (who posted it to our forum a little later), for the heads-up on a comment posted at MSXbox.com. Ed Fries jumped into the thread started by the no-delay news bit we mentioned a few days ago. Here’s what he had to say:”Any of…

And the recount is over… according to the readers of VoodooExtreme, the best game developer (with almost 30% of the 11,000 legitimate votes) is Blizzard. Bungie followed in second place, with 17% of the vote. Looking Glass (a dead studio) was third, followed by Valve and Dynamix. Makes you wonder what the logs REALLY looked…

Interesting. Adrenaline Vault has an article about the recent Surgeon General’s report on the causes of youth violence. As we reported back on January 19, the Los Angeles Times stated that this report drew definite links between video games and youth violence. As you can see by reading the report for yourself, that conclusion was…

As noted by Jester, the VoodooExtreme poll has been extended… and Blizzard has pulled ahead of Bungie. (As of the time of this writing, the tally is 3311 to 3217.) If you haven’t voted… go vote! (If you have… find another machine!)

MSXbox noted last night that Microsoft has issued a statement pertaining to the pending lawsuit over the Xbox name:”Despite some reports, Xbox is on track for killer launches in the US and Japan this fall and Europe in spring 2002. While there is a known trademark issue which needs to be resolved, Microsoft wants to…

Gotta hand it to Hamish – he’s keeping on top of the Bungie Webcam. A second hippo has appeared (this one’s hugging a monitor, not a wall, but…). Pax.

glock dropped us a line to let us know of a new Halo site, HaloNews.Org, hosted by Telefragged. Nice clean design – check it out!

fAt1 from MPZ Halo writes to say that he’s put together a new Halo compilation movie.A little while ago I cut and pasted together a compelation of the most spectacular Halo clips from the Halo movies released so far, and I divided them up into sections like ‘Interiors’, ‘Exteriors’, you get the idea. If you…

Ever wonder where the Halo logo came from? Well, Lorraine Reyes, Bungie artist extraordinaire, passes on a bit of Bungie trivia in this post (and in several of the followup posts.) The whole conversation makes me wish I could have seen some of the rejected designs!

Seen on the Marathon’s Story page… the fabled Hippo makes an appearance on the Bungie Webcam! (Pay no attention to the book in the foreground… this is a family website.)

We got this in the mail from info@halo-net.com: I must be quick as they’re after me. I found this data left at the location. I hope you can make use of it… 796F757220616374696F6E73206172652066 6F6F6C6973682E207768617420796F752068 61766520646F6E652077696C6C2063617573 6520737566666572696E6720756E746F2074 68652067616C6178792E206265207761726E 656420796F75722069646C656E6573732069 7320796F7572207765616B6E657373 Delta signin’ out… For the lazy among you, that hex code translates toyour actions are foolish.…

More fan fiction from our forum. NevinNiven posted ‘The Sacrifice’ this morning, and told us we could put it in the Fan Fiction section. Choose your reading location!

Final round of voting! The VoodooExtreme poll “Who’s the best game development company?” is in its final round! Currently, Blizzard is in the lead, with Looking Glass second… and Bungie 6th! (Of course, there are only 200 votes so far. Get over there, and make sure they take it!

Dink!… Dink!… As of last Thursday (the last time the team stats were compiled), the Halo SETI Marines had fallen two notches in the Battle of the Teams. Ouch! Darthflounder continues to do his part, with almost 200 units this week… are YOU doing YOUR part to find the Covenant? See who’s slacking on the…

Thanks to Anonymous Coward, who wrote a short bit of fan fiction and posted it to our forum. (It’s been added to the Fan Fiction section, as well.)

Shmuck the Kneerubber has another Halo-related comic up… this one really IS about Halo. 🙂 Check it out!

What’s in a name? A lot according to the Financial Times. Seems a small Florida-based company called XBOX Technologies insists it has first claim on the Xbox brand and says it is prepared to go to court to protect its trademark. Mr van Leeuwen chief executive of Xbox Technologies is reported to have said: “There’s…

Minor details… but sometimes minor details are important. (Remember van der Rohe…) We’ve added the latest Halo update to our Halo Updates database… remember it when you need to remember that tidbit in the back of your mind! (Need to know the names of all the Pauls working at Bungie? It’s in there!)