Month: June 2001

Bryan Chaffin, Editor-in-Chief of The Mac Observer, wrote to let us know that they’ve put up an audio interview with Matt Soell, recorded from the show floor at E3. It weighs in at a bit over 2 megs, and contains 15 minutes of insights into the development of Oni and Halo, and life at Microsoft.…

Thanks to an intrepid HBO agent in Germany, we’ve gotten our hands on the Gamestar CD movie mentioned a few days ago. Now, we can’t actually put this movie online yet (to do so would violate Gamestar’s copyright), but we can tell you that it contains filmed footage from the first two missions, as do…

Frequent visitors to this site might wonder why, in the face of repeated assurances from Bungie that there WILL be PC/Mac versions of Halo, there are STILL people visiting the forums (ours and others) and asking about this. Well, it’s because even the folks who SHOULD know get it wrong. At E3, Microsoft distributed an…

“You’re not paid to guess where the tango was, Alpha leader,” Simmons replied with disdain. He was about to voice the rest of his opinion, but was cut off — very abruptly — as the backpack filled with high explosive triggered.New fan fiction from Tursas was in our Inbox today; Hermes Trismegistus – Prologue should…

They’ve come in! Aginor sends in a pretty slick Bungie webcam shot… looks like the Xboxes have arrived.

Poll Smash! xxx xxx alerts us to the fact that MacGamer has a new poll up:Which upcoming game are you looking most forward to?Halo is currently holding a 3-vote lead over Warcraft III, but only 115 votes have been cast… you know what to do.

X-Treme Gaming Radio put up their First Annual E3 Awards… and Halo didn’t rate. Why? Well, yes, they had a Best FPS category… but they got overwhelmed:This was definitely the second hardest category to decide. How do you limit the scope so you don’t go insane with all the choices at this year’s E3? Should…

This one’s just… odd. Steen Nielsen submits a bit of miscellaneous art… we’re not even gonna TRY to figure out the rationale.

We wuz robbed… again! The Halo SETI Marines gained a pretty major new member (welcome, -=SHARkY=-), but the units just haven’t shown up. Maybe next week? They’ve held on to position 49 in the Battle of the Teams by the skin of their teeth – comets&cats@seti is just a few units behind. Are YOU helping?…

Aaron Kelder writes to say that Halo got a small mention in yesterday’s Sunday Times, in Australia – a pretty major mainstream newspaper published in Perth. The article looked at new games to watch for on the PC, Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox… and Halo (and a small picture of the human dropship) were featured. Nice…

Well, it took MUCH longer than the ‘next few days’ I promised two weeks ago… but the Movies section is finally updated to include all the new E3 footage. Run through it and make sure you didn’t miss any clips! (And if you see one I missed, be sure to let me know.)

Thanks to Dan Rudolph, who noticed another Halo preview over at GamesFirst – pretty positive, overall. Go read it.

BluR, of Ozhalo, writes to say they’ve got a new poll up:Who do you like best in Halo?Go visit and let ’em know what you’ll be playing as!

Freedom writes to say that Garden of War, a new Halo site, has come online. Check ’em out!

Massa webmaster over at Halo Network describes in detail the new German GameStar Halo video: New GameStar-video: The same as with the last one – we’re not yet allowed to publish it on the web. But one thing is sure – the quality is goodÊ¡nd the footage is all new. It shows the E3-level from…

fate writes to say that the Gamestar website has a poll up, asking which E3 game you’re waiting for the most. Halo currently holds a strong lead… but a few more votes couldn’t hurt. Also, as reported on Halo Network, the print version of Gamestar (German-only, unfortunately) will have a new Halo video (‘all new…

Bosskiller51 writes to say that he’s modeled the Halo assault rifle entirely in 3D. Check it out on the Halo’s Universe page. (It’s a tad fancier than our own model, done by Ian McConville about a year ago.)

Wow. Thanks to fAt1, of MPZ Halo, who pointed us to a pretty nice mainstream press mention of Halo – the BBC ran a piece on how the Xbox is challenging the PS2, and Halo is one of two Xbox games shown in play (and the only one mentioned by name). The 2 minute long…

In case you missed the reference in the weekly update, Jason Jones turned thirty yesterday. Marty “Old Geezer” O’Donnell blows him a big kiss on our forum – and we’d like to throw in our own wishes for a fruitful few decades to come! (And Peter Marks, too… Marty says he’s still a youngster, but…

Gawd. Cortana has a body! Matt’s Halo Update is here this week, and it’s got a few zingers in it. Cortana’s corporeal self is one, in-air battles another, and the kicker:The tank is back in, too.Wonga. We’ll be adding this to the Halo Update Database very soon – if you wonder what John’s been doing,…