Month: March 2001

Kudos to Darkman on our forum who spotted a second Halo movie over at ZDNet. It’s a longer better one. Go read the hands-on Halo review as well.

We’ve updated our Screenshots section with the nine new shots released today. Most are available in two resolutions: 800×600 (originally found at MSXBox.com), and 1920×1440 (originally found at Daily Radar). Enjoy!

In the midst of new screenshots and movies and previews, Anrkey submits a short story about our beloved cyborg. Go and read ‘Technology Collides’ in our Fan Fiction section!

Hawk from HaloCenter would like you to know that they have mirrored the Gamestock movie. Swing by if you’re having Flash troubles with Microsoft’s site! Pax.

Recently, someone on our forum asked about the number of missions that might be available in the solo player game. We don’t have an exact number… but from MS’s Gamestock page:Fight the Covenant in dozens of missions as you uncover the dark secrets of Halo. Among your many objectives – attack enemy outposts, raid underground…

Jon Keegan writes that he’s converted the Halo .avi found on MS’s Gamestock site to .mov format… you can find it here. It’s 3.1 MB, with no sound. Thanks, Jon!

The Shaft! Thanks to John B Hopper IV , who noticed that MSXbox has posted the other three screens they were missing… and a new one besides! So THAT’S what the Shaft looks like…

Thanks to Ferrex, who noted on R.net that Daily Radar’s Xbox newsletter contains yet more info pertaining to Halo. It just keeps coming…

Halo video! Thanks to Fernando, who noted that Microsoft’s Gamestock site is up and running… there’s a 2.5 MB .avi video of Halo there, along with some other fun stuff. (QT on a mac won’t touch it… haven’t tried WMP yet. Plays just fine on a Win98 box.) Interesting that a lot of the shooting…

Wow. Daily Radar has the shots, as well… but they’re HUGE. 1920×1440 pixels. You want Hi-res, you got hi-res!!! The preview they go with is worth a read, too…The gameplay seems to be developing as quickly as the graphic improvements. The world is now populated with an interesting and imaginative assortment of alien varmints, many…

Matt Soell dropped into our forum to update folks on the Gamestock presentation. The kicker?And new screenshots are just the beginning. 🙂 Go read what you missed!

Oops, my bad: there are 8 new images in total, on those two sites. The unique ones are here, here and here (on the Xbox site) and here and here (on the MSXBox site). The other three are common to both sites.

Woohoo! NEW SHOTS! Thanks to Scott Cline who noticed 5 of ’em at MSXbox, and to Zypper, who hollered in the Xbox site (which has the same five shots, plus this one). Commentary later, maybe… right now, we’re droolin’. 🙂

The Marathon’s Story page had an interesting hypothesis this morning – that one of the business cards that showed up on the Bungie Webcam last night was Halo-related, due to its shape. Thanks again to Pallor and Mat Noguchi, who collaborated to bring us this closeup of that card – it’s clear that 1) it’s…

Now HERE is an interesting theory. Foxhound puts forth a novel suggestion for the origin of ‘Pillar of Autumn’, the ship that brings the humans (and, indirectly, the Covenant) to the Halo. Have your own ideas? Add them to the thread!

xbox.ign.com weighs in with their preview of tomorrow’s events… the Halo comments are interesting:Halo: Well, uh, “duh”. Anyone who had doubts about this puppy being shown, shouldn’t even be calling themselves an Xbox fan. Supposedly, the latest version running off the NV20 chipset will be there, and that is said to look much better than…

Thanks to Pallor, who sent in the first mail we got with the new Bungie business cards (as seen on the Bungie Webcam). There are more now…

Blam! Even with the loss of Soviet and his 767 units (to the MacAddict team), the Halo SETI Marines climb a notch to 47 in the Battle of the Teams. Nice going, guys! See who’s pulling their weight on the 7 day stats page. Pax.

Death and destruction everywhere! Another piece of Fan Fiction gets submitted this morning:There they were, brilliant infrared blobs in his scanner, oblivious to his presence.Check out the Fan Fiction section for the rest of Zypper’s ‘Trial Under Fire’. Pax.

The large Covenant tank fired its huge weapon, filling the pass with aqua radiance.Another grim tale is submitted to our Fan Fiction section – check out Dredwing’s ‘Night Assault: The Mystic Savior’!