Month: April 2001

Thanks to Aginor, who noticed another preview of Halo at PlayNOW. It’s generally on-target… though the screenshots are 18 months old (again), the system is listed as ‘PC’ (though the article itself focuses on the Xbox), and the Publisher is listed as ‘Jack Of All Games’. I thought that maybe they were an Australian distributor…

Our UK Connection finally got to a newsstand today, to pick up the PC Gamer UK issue fAt1 mentioned a few days ago… and decided there was nothing new. The concept art mentioned is actually already in our Concept Art section (and has been since July 15 of last year). In fact, he put the…

It’s the symbol that just won’t go away. Joseph Haake has sent in yet another enhancement of that Halo symbol on the back of the Red Covenant in the E3 trailer (though he says he doesn’t “see the point in determining the actual shape of this specific covenant symbol”…). Nice enhancement, in any case, Joseph…

Christian Bender writes to say that a new Halo fansite is online – Halobase. (It’s German.) Go take a look!

Woohoo! A kilometer-long Pillar of Autumn, grenade-hopping, functional teleporters, And the Bumblebee… and MORE! This week’s Halo Update is at Rampancy.net, and it sounds like an extremely productive week. Go read it!

Josh Laird took a closer look at the symbol on the back of the red Covenant (the one that Mike Sholl abstracted a few days ago), and decided that Mike’s drawing might be a bit off. He sent us this one, instead (42K). What’s your call?

Thanks to Aginor, who noted (on our forum) that there’s a new Halo preview over at eUniverseGames.com. Pretty clearly written by someone who didn’t do their homework – screenshots are 18 months old, team list more than a year out of date (and not attributed to its source), and comments like this:For instance, say some…

fAt1 informs us that he finally got his subscription copy of PC Gamer UK (general release on the 14th) which has a new Halo preview. While there are no new in-game screenshots there is a piece of concept art of the human dropship (woohoo!). Here are some juicey quotes from the article courtesy of fAt1:…

Um… someone who can read music better than I can… is this what it purports to be? Update:SiliconDream says it’s from the Myth TFL level, ‘The Siege of Madrigal’. Shoulda known…

Loren Petrich notes on our forum that the Indrema is dead. Loren first brought the Indrema to our attention in June of last year – it was to be a linux-based Xbox clone, available before the Xbox. Funding, however, has dried up, and the team has called it quits. You can read the details at…

Mike Sholl comes up with another one. The Jjaro, as a source of good, or evil? Drawing on a lot of Marathon backstory, he builds up some theories about the purpose of the Jjaro in the Halo universe… and though he makes some questionable assumptions (foremost amongst them being the idea that the Covenant are…

Whoa. From symbols strewn around the Halo to speculation on the origins of language, and quantum computing… Mike Sholl weighs in with a concept-heavy theory relating to symbols found in the E3 2000 trailer. Give it a read… then jump in with your thoughts on our forum!

News flash! We called him a troll, but maybe he knows more than we do! The Bungie Webcam is now showing a new Halo screenshot (here if you miss it)… it IS the Tribes 2 engine! (Before you hit that email link, ask yourself… did we really mean it?) Thanks, Aaron…

Mike Wong was the first to notice that the storyboard on the Bungie webcam has changed – the caption is ‘fighters fly by’. (It’s here if it’s changed by the time you read this.)

Nate writes that an early Halo screenshot has always annoyed him… so he decided to fix it.

Mike Sholl wants to know why there isn’t more talk about the symbol that appears on the back of the Red Covenant in last year’s E3 movie. While it’s true that Hamish Sinclair has put together a collection of observations of those symbols, nobody’s abstracted them like Mike did (67K). Hmm… that DOES look sort…

Nice catch by Zypper – the Bungie Webcam currently shows a bit of a concept pic of the Pillar of Autumn – that’s one big ship! (If it’s gone by the time you read this, you can find it here.)

Young glanced round. The alien’s shot had struck the ceiling, spraying semi-molten metal fragments across the room. One such fragment had passed straight through one of the panes surrounding the central hologram and then straight through the engineer standing at it.Today must be the day for Final Chapters – Chris Cox sends in part 4…

“Prepare for dust off and immediate medevac, we’ve got a man down.” “Roger that Group 3, proceed to rendezvous point. Network trackers on-line, we see the enemy, Zulu out.”Foxhound sends in the final chapter to his ‘Group 3’ story – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. (Remember, you can read the entire story,…

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall a notch to 49 in the Battle of the Teams, despite the addition of Ghalidrim, and almost 1000 units… It looks like this will be DarthFlounder’s last week at number 4 – even with those 1000 thousand units, he STILL managed to produce a bit over 10% of the…