Month: March 2001

A cautionary tale… Anrkey’s latest Fan Fiction offering, ‘Joyride’, explains why you should be careful what you get into… You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. Pax.

Every once in a while, we get an art submission that takes our breath away. We got one of those today. Jay Faircloth, who has in the past submitted impressive material to both our Miscellaneous Art and Wallpaper collections, has done it again – Check out ‘Hostilities’, on our Wallpaper page. It’s available in 5…

Last Friday’s Weekly Halo Update (originally at Rampancy.net) has been added to the Halo Update database. The database can show you fun things, like this is the fourth week in a row in which the ‘Mighty Chris Butcher’ has figured prominently. And is this the first time we’ve seen Chris Hughes’ name mentioned? (Hint: no.)…

Jay Faircloth (Anaphiel) points out that the US military has a lightweight tactical jeep as well, though not nearly as cool as the German one. Advantage – it can be dropped in via helicopter (a dropship of sorts…). There’s a hi-res shot linked from that page – but beware, it’s almost 2 megs.

Tilo Probst sent this to Hamish Sinclair, of the Marathon’s Story page, who forwarded it to us, with permission.I was reading the book: “Terry Gander: Moderne MGs – Eine internationale Übersicht” (German title, but a book about modern MGs). On page 97 I found an interesting picture, showing a jeep called “Light Strike Vehicle, Wessex…

“After taking out some aliens with the mounted gun and running over a few more…”The Action Vault Gamestock report should make some of our forum regulars happy – running over enemies has been high on the list of requested features. There was also an interesting quote from Jason Jones, that must have come from the…

Shielded Halo? Ryan Parsons thinks so. Check out his Unified Theory, over in our Theories section.

It was sitting awkwardly, crouched with one leg underneath, having somehow survived having most of its chest blown away. Up close and personal, with the latest installment of Chris Cox’s ‘The Prisoner’. You can find it (along with the first two chapters) in our Fan Fiction section.

Thanks to Lophan, who noted that in today’s GameSpy Daily, the Thought for the day was “What is YOUR killer app?” They suggested that Halo was impressive, “maybe worth buying a system for.” Guess they should talk to the Daily Radar folks…

Looks like a bunch of gaming sites finished the week off by putting up their Halo reviews. Gamesmania has a pretty positive take – sounds like the AI is really coming along:The AI of both your enemies and your allies is looking pretty good. Enemies will take cover during a fight, investigate noises and bodies…

DigitalGolem writes that he’s uploaded a new music video from Halo clips. It requires the divx codec to watch, which I haven’t had time to install yet… but at least one person on the forum liked it. 🙂 It can be found here, and links to all the necessary software are on the page. Be…

Matt’s weekly Halo Update can be found at Rampancy.net this week – as though we didn’t have some idea already how Halo was doing. 🙂 We got names for “here are two people working FULL-TIME on multiplayer” mentioned in the Q&A yesterday – Hardy and Michael – presumably Lebel and Evans, two big names from…

Thanks to Oliver Heilwagen, who sends in a nicely done desktop image for our Wallpaper page… go grab it! (A little bit o’ green in there, maybe to honor St. Patrick…)

In the interest of sanity, Otokam writes a story of monkeys and quilts. Definitely worth a read. All your stuffing are belong to us.

Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who pointed out a FiringSquad review of Halo. No new info at this point… but it was encouraging to hear die-hard PC gamers talking about getting the basics of fighting down inside of 5 minutes. Take a look!

fate noticed that the Xbox.com Halo site now has the following comment:We have a better video coming soon!There’s also a fun new Halo flash animation at the top of the Games page… but don’t follow the link, it’s showing its PC origins: http://www.xbox.com/Games/\games\halo Pax.

A few days ago, we mentioned that Noctavis, of Rampancy.net, had posted a pretty nice analysis of the new screenshots. Soon after that, though, the R.net forum exploded, showering its denizens with shards of broken verbiage, injuring 14, killing 4. One of the casualties was Noc’s analysis post. Luckily, he’s taken the time to reproduce…

Todd Hansen sent in a couple of theories, which we’ve added to our Theories section: Ring Rotation and Weapons Usage, which plays with orbital bombardment, and Orbits/Seasons/Communications, which looks at weather patterns on the Halo. Have your own ideas about the Halo? Send ’em in! Pax.

Thanks to Char (IMG) for the heads up – MSXbox is running a poll asking what you thought the best game shown at Gamestock was. You know what to do. 🙂

EXCLUSIVE: In response to the comments and confusion surrounding what was expected and what was delivered (to the public, not the press) from the Gamestock event, Matt Soell has answered some questions we’ve put together for him. Read them. If you have more questions that you think should have been asked, send them to the…