Month: July 2001

Last week’s Weekly Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – go play with the search page. How long from conception to finished map? Ask Hardy. It’s like a jar of Ragu; it’s in there…

The Junkyard Gaming Site Interview series continues… and today’s contestant is our own Louis Wu. Looks like he’s been taking brevity lessons at the monastery… his answers are pretty short. You can tell how old he is, though.. just check out question 15. Pax.

Ph.D. points out (thanks to MSXbox) that GameSurge has interviewed James Parkman, Senior Level Designer for Unreal 2. At one point, he’s asked what games he’s looking forward to… and the answer is amusing:As for FPS games, I’m looking forward to playing Red Faction and Halo, as much to analyze as to have fun (maybe…

Blossoming open into a surreal starburst of fire and smoke, the blast sent the Wraith wheeling off towards the sea, and its concussion bowled over the Elite and most of the Grunts alongside the tank. Jackals flew into the air, screaming and spinning, discharging their plasma rifles in random directions, before they were lost in…

William Malmi writes to say that the Dogs of War squad has changed servers, and updated their site. There are some new rules of behavior, designed to improve performance of the squad… stop by and check it out.

MichiganJ.S has asked us to pull his server’s listing (CitrusV) from the GameStar movie mirror list, because the huge demand caused him to go way over his bandwidth limit (9.5 gigs in 2 days). Folks – it’s not unusual for a new Halo movie to be downloaded by 10,000 people or more. At 30 megs…

Matt’s Weekly Halo Update surfaced at Battleground: Halo this week – and it’s tasty. Lots of Sin-O-MaTiXXX stuff, some good multiplayer morsels, and the Shadow is out again. (Oh, and Jason’s listening to some scary stuff.) Go check it out!

Mark Levin, walking repository of Halo knowledge (and other infectious stuff), dropped a note on our forum to let folks know that he’s updated the HBO FAQ. Always nice when we’re up-to-date! Thanks, Mark.

What do you get when you put a great battle scene to great battle music? A little diversion, that’s what. Freedom, from Garden of War, started with the E32000 Halo movie, and spliced and diced it to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. The result is a pretty nice clip. Check it out. (1.7 megs, WMV format.)

And as she jumped, reality falling away into memory, Einstein’s laws vanishing as seeds of millet upon a fierce wind, the talons of a mad empire raked across her skin, and the gods of this empire were still not satisfied with the bloody massacres occuring on five worlds. Defensive cannonry fell from Pillar of Autumn…

“Who are you?!” “Destiny,” and shot him too.That’s all we got from vector, who says it’s the beginning of another Fan Fiction… and the end of a poem. It’s called Lineatemp. And when we get an actual story, you’ll be able to find it in our Fan Fiction section.

He walked to the table and ran a hand across the smooth surface, avoiding the plant that seemed to expand and contract, as though breathing, upon closer inspection. Putting his ear near to one particularly large creeper, he thought he could make out a barely perceptible rhythm of air sounding from pores too small for…

Mac Halo has put up a translation of the voiceover on the Gamestar E3 video – if you don’t speak German, this is a good way to find out what’s being said. Pax.

Tom Van Sinden noticed that the newest Bungie.net poll asks, “If Bungie were to support a FanFest in only one of these US cities, which would you choose?” Go check out the choices. Pax.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews lets us know that Day 3 of their Gaming Site Interviews series highlights Matt ‘Acrappa Martinez, newshound for Rampancy.net and maintainer of bungie.org’s own OniRes. Check it out! Pax.

Ph.D. writes to point out that the Xbox Japan calendar for July features Halo – it’s available in 800×600 or 1024×768. (Thanks, MSXbox.) There’s more Halo stuff listed here… but it’s hit and miss if you don’t read Japanese. Pax.

You guys are amazing. While we slept (okay, Crux wasn’t sleeping, he was zoning out), news of three more mirrors for the GameStar movie appeared in our inbox:Wireplay Australia andAusGamers (thanks, trog)CitrusV (thanks, Michigan) There are now enough mirrors out there that EVERYONE should have access to this movie, one way or another. What a…

Two more mirrors for the GameStar movie – Dan Kristiansen, of Xbox Movies, has added the file – when I tested it, I got VERY fast transfer rates… and Clayton Hernandez notes that Multiplayerzone.com has the movie up, though you need to log in to get it. Thanks, guys! (These have been added to the…

Oops – we missed this a few days ago. Mac Halo, an Inside Mac Games affiliate that has had on-again, off-again webmastering over the past several months, seems to have been revived. Welcome to Matt Malinowski, the ‘new guy who will be bringing you the news now, only several days later’. Let’s hope they’re back…

Pete Cooner, admin of the bungie.org Hotline server, dropped us a note to say that the GameStar movie is up on the BorgHL server, plus a couple of personal servers – folks should check the news and user list for details. He reminded us that Hotline might be a better choice for modem users, since…