Month: February 2001

Thanks to |CaRnyL|, who alerts us to a poll that needs smashing… VoodooExtreme is asking, Who is the best gaming development company?” You know what needs to be done…

Paul Frankenstein brings to our attention a Gamasutra article entitled “Dogma 2001: A challenge to Game Designers”. In the spirit of a 1995 ‘vow of chastity’ proposed by a pair of filmmakers unhappy with the use of technology to cover content flaws, a game designer has suggested a set of 10 rules game designers should…

Thanks to Jenkz, who sent word that Haloplayers is back up, and on a faster pipe than before. If you get a ‘Forbidden’ message, the new address hasn’t propagated to your nameserver… give it some more time. Welcome back, guys!

Eldar-Colonel writes to say that Halo HQ has gotten some new forums. Check ’em out!

Matt’s weekly Halo Update went to Battleground Halo this week… and it’s full of progress reports. A dev kit upgrade, controller issues, particle effects, cool new map editor features… and waves! We want to see waves (though we don’t want to be close to Joe Staten when we see them…) Go read the details over…

Ouch. Halo makes the “Worst Moments of 2000” according to the March 2001 issue of PC Gamer. Amongst mentions of 3dfx’s demise and Daikatana, they consider “It’s Xbox first for Halo” to be one of the worst gaming moments of the year. Not a list you really want to be on… thanks to Lophan for…

From Lophan, maintainer of our sister site myth.bungie.org, comes this snippet from a Wall Street Journal article on Wednesday, entitled “How Microsoft Hopes to Win With Xbox”:First, it’s taking out it’s checkbook. Since march 2000, when it announced plans to enter the multibillion-dollar video-game industry, Microsoft has bought two small game developers, Bungie Software Products…

The Junkyard is having a design competition – come up with the winning artwork, and your creation can grace their t-shirts! Stop by and take a look. (They do Halo news too, you know.)

Thanks to all the people who sent in notes about Haloplayers’ moving woes – we just got a note from Jenkz, as well:we’re in the process of getting the site backup as i speak, but as we dont have 100% control over the new machine its taking time. once we find the root mysql pass…

Huh? Stopping by Haloplayers made me wonder if I needed to change my dosages… It’s been replaced with a page called ‘Joyful Systems – online gardening for healthy systems and happy humans’ based in Santa Monica, CA. Uh oh… broken DNS or something more sinister?