Month: April 2001

Thanks to Char (IMG), who noted (on the R.net forum) that Halo was on TV – you can see a video stream (on a PC, at least) of the show here. Bonus material – there was a Halo preview last month that we seem to have missed… read it now.

Last Friday’s update has been added to the Halo Update Database – this week’s search word is ‘grenade’. See how long it took for Rob to go from ‘hop[ing] to start working on a hand grenade soon’ to being able to read the stenciling…

Someone dropped us a new entry for our Logos page – if you made it, let us know. I gotta lay off that acid…

More goodies in our Uploads folder… we got a nice desktop from LtPlayer with some good muzzle action – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

-[b.A.d]-VirGin sends us word of a French Halo clan, the blood, Anger & destruction’s Corporation, the bAd.corp. Their web site is a http://www.halo.be.tf and has a very nice Flash animation.

Matt’s Halo Update went to Haloplayers this time around – go read it. The AI can now determine the differences between types of fire, and act accordingly. The Multiplayer design doc has grown. There’s a Covenant dropship. And Capture the Flag is working well. Mmmm…

Sam Kite points out a Tribes 2 preview at PC Zone UK with an… interesting screenshot. Go to the second page of the review, and check out the top left screenie.

Gabriel Bregg posted (to our forum) some thoughts about the level of technology shown in Halo – you can find them in our Theories section.

The time for battle had come at last. At last I would be able to slaughter the aliens who threatened our race. They would die, all of them.Althalus sends in a new piece of Fan Fiction, ‘Death of a Soldier’, written from the Covenant point of view. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Just in case anyone thought the desktop Wirehead mentioned this morning looked familiar, Olaf submitted a very similar version to HBO last September – looks like the text got changed. Gotta keep on your toes to get one past us!

Cleaning out our Uploads folder, we ran across a couple of desktops uploaded recently. They came from Sweden, that’s all we know. Claim ’em if they’re yours… or just download ’em from our Wallpaper section. Pax.Update: Claimed.

For Great Justice… eek. The ‘All Your Base’ phenomenon invades HBO – Zypper sends in a Windows Media movie called ‘All your Halo’, turning Cats into a Red Covenant leader. It’s about 1.2 megs, and 47 seconds long – take a look.

In honor of Matt Soell’s conjecture on the relative strengths of sharks and hippos, Banzif (current leader of the Halo SETI Marines) has uploaded a tidbit for our Miscellaneous Art page… that’s one big hippo.

Someone set up us the scans. Freewill, Master of BS, dropped into our forum to tell us that he has scanned in the whole Next Generation magazine Halo article and upped them to his site Bungie Sightings. Best get them quick in case they are pulled. All your scans are belong to us… for now…

MacDesktops has posted another top quality Halo desktop from Olaf Kasper. It comes in a large number of sizes from 640×480 to 1600×1200. It uses the old Halo marine model which I must confess to favoring.

Harry Al-Shakarchi asks What if……it were the other way around: sitting in the jeep, you are in first person view, and on foot, third person…Interesting question, Harry. 🙂 (Thanks to Shacknews for the Planetside screenshots.)

We’ve received a bunch of mail today from folks who got email notification from EB World that the PC version of Halo was cancelled, and they could have their deposit back. Nick also posted a note to our forum about this issue. Matt Soell has once again jumped into the breach, and offered some words…

Marty O’Donnell popped into the R.net forums to clarify some facts about the ign.com edited movie we mentioned yesterday.Not only is it an edit but the music was put in by the fine folks at IGN. They used the same tune for a couple other movies also. This was not released by Microsoft, nor shown…

Thanks to Pallor, and Mat Noguchi, who both sent notice that the April 2001 issue of NextGen magazine has a 5-page spread (with pics) of Halo. We’ll be doing our best to grab a copy soon… check it out for yourselves!

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out that Open Tech Support has a Grey Matter column today called ‘Microsoft Didn’t Kill Halo’. It’s a lucid argument for letting Bungie get on with their jobs, without all the whining about how Halo is ruined… and that “instead of bashing Halo just because it is associated with Microsoft,…