Month: March 2001

And the questioning begins… Tom Van Sinden writesA couple of observations: (Sat Mar 10 15:26) That glowing red light is a Microsoft Optical mouse. (Sat Mar 10 15:47) THAT looks like four-way split screen… hmm…We just report what gets sent to us, folks…

Massa wrote to let us know that the lo-res version of the new movie is now available at Halo Network… and he hopes that the hi-res version will be up by tomorrow.

Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who gave us the heads-up that bungie.com is once more accessible, with the movies moved to a nameless (IP-address-only) MS server. Go on in and see the pics! (And maybe even get the movies…)

Thanks to Pallor for the heads-up – Max Hoberman jumped on to the R.net forum a few minutes ago to suggest that there’d be some relief for the movie congestion problem coming very soon. Great news!

More behind-the-scenes stuff… Marty O’Donnell explains a bit about how the sound worked during the demo. To set the scene, Joe Staten said this in his reply to Mark Levin’s post:If my shooting style seemed erratic, it’s because I was trying to stay in sync with the music. Notice how the last Grunt in the…

Things that make you go ‘hmm…’ Readers of the Marathon’s Story page might remember that in the series of webcam movies Hamish has been posting for a couple of weeks, there was a missing day… and David Candland (part of the Online team) wrote to tell Hamish that that particular day, “That timeframe is more…

Mark Levin posted a long and detailed analysis of the new movie, and cross-posted it to Rampancy.net… where he got a reply from Joe Staten, who clarifies a few tidbits. Both posts are definitely worth a read!

Thanks to Eric Odegard, who found a european mirror for the hi-res Gamestock demo, at FragZone (in Sweden). Let’s hope this doesn’t crush them… 🙂

For those who would like to see the current form of the Halo backstory, we’ve transcribed the voiced-over commentary of Joseph Staten, as recorded during the Bungie demonstration at Gamestock. (This has also been sent to Hamish Sinclair for inclusion on the Official Halo Backstory page.) Quick update: Oops – seems Bachus included this entire…

Thanks to EKSalzman@dstsystems.com, for pointing out a UGO poll – ‘which Xbox game has you drooling?’ Halo is currently third, behind WWF Raw is War and Pro Skater 2x (does that tell you something about their audience?). You know what to do…

We’ve put up a list of all known mirrors for the low-res version of Bungie’s new Gamestock movie – currently, that’s 6 download sites in two countries. If/when mirrors for the hi-res version begin to appear, we’ll put them up. Thanks to Tomas Matuschek and Halo Network for some of these links.

The shield blocked out most of the noise around him, but he could still hear reverberations coming through the grating. It sounded like a jackhammer hitting a broken xylophone stuck on one note and amplified through a hundred sub-woofers.More Fan Fiction today – this one’s a little strange. When you get to the Pleenta, you…

While you’re waiting for some server to unclog enough to download the hi-res version of the new Gamestock footage, we’ve got some reading material for you.He was about to move the camera back when he noticed something that made his blood chill. A pair of Covenant elite were slowly moving through the woods about 150…

Our good friends over at Blue’s News have mirrored the low-res Halo movie (34.6MBs). Their download page also lists 3D Gamer as a source for the movie as well. Check back for mirror sites as we get them.

Kudos to Harry for creating a page of screen captures from the latest Halo movie. If you can’t grab the movie then get the next best thing.

Well, as everyone this side of Katmandu probably already knows, bungie.com and Bungie’s Halo site were both updated this evening, and the highlight of the update is a nearly inaccessible new trailer, in two flavors. The big version is 182 MB, the smaller version is 35 MB. Bachus has kindly written up a synopsis for…

Gawd… the every-day-checking of the PlanetXbox site for their promised hands-on report has finally paid off! There’s some good discussion about the ease of transition to a console controller (they liked it), and a nice description of the mission itself… but the little tidbit that stood out for me was their description of the Halo…

Joel Stransky found this (124K) ‘in an old magazine’… that’s all the info we have. Oddness.

It’s not completely clear how we missed this… but we got notice a few weeks ago of a new French Halo site, Halo’s Universe. Apologies for the long annoucement delay… Take a look!

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall a notch to 48, partly due to lost units, but partly due to leveled-out crunching. Don’t blame DarthFlounder – his output has INCREASED, to over 200 units a week. The rest of the team, though… there are fewer than 1/3 that actually produce a unit each week. Are you…