Month: July 2001

Thanks to AcidBurn, for making two new mirrors for the GameStar movie (these both in Germany) available:http://www.bungie.de/files/E3HALO.MPGhttp://www.aquanox-forum.de/files/E3HALO.MPGAlso, thanks to Yosr, who made the movie available on his mac, using MacOS Web Sharing – a grand gesture, at the very least! Go get ’em!

Noctavis spun out one of his trademark-length posts, explaining in quite a bit more detail what’s going on with Rampancy.net – definitely worth a read.

More apologies, this time for actually going to sleep. In the last 5 hours, though, 4 mirrors have popped up for the GameStar movie – we’re supremely grateful to the folks who helped out here. Fileplanet mirror (2 download links – thanks, Bounty!) tornado.omnicon.net (thanks, B-Sharp!) ghalidrim.2y.net (Hotline server – thanks, ghalidrim!) Hopefully, one of…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to say that the Junkyard has put up the first of 13 interviews with fan site personnel, exploring why they do what they do and what it takes. This one is with Manveer ‘Eidolon’ Heir of VoodooExtreme. Check ’em out!

Apologies – our puny T1 just couldn’t handle it. The server hosting that GameStar movie died under the almost 600 simultaneous connections you folks threw at it – I’ve (regretfully) pulled it until we can get some mirrors going. If you can mirror this, let us know (preferably with a place we can upload it…

With great trepidation, we’re making the E3 Halo video included with last month’s GameStar magazine available. If the pipe fills up, we’re going to have to pull it down – ideally, others will mirror this quickly, and make our lives easier. You can find it here – it’s 32 MB, in MPG format. We’ll keep…

Lophan writes to say that PC Gamer has finally published their E3 impressions, in the August issue. Halo gets mentioned… in the Planetside blurb.The demo of this persistent-world first-person shooter had snipers picking off opponents from long distances, and duos taking lethal vehicles out for spins with one man at the wheel and the passenger…

Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall two notches in the Battle of the Teams this week. YOU’RE SLACKING, MARINES! Tharkhaad takes La Crunch Honneur, despite a 15% reduction in crunching… WereTiger continues to leapfrog teammates to take the Frogblast award again… but as a team, you’re slipping. Time to step up the crunching! Those…

Wonga. Buried deep in a thread about various data-delivery systems, Noctavis, of Rampancy.net, delivers his clearest (to date) description of the (near) future of Rampancy.net. This site, which has been around since the very beginning of the Halo fan scene, looks to be shifting to a community discussion area, without the news section they have…

This week’s Halo Update mentions that ‘the Shadow is back in the game.’ This line instigated a sizeable amount of discussion, both on our forum and at Rampancy.net, from folks who weren’t sure what the Shadow is. (It’s a Covenant vehicle.) Ian McConville, our resident Mad Artist, has posted another of his entertaining speculations on…

fAt1, of MPZ Halo, sent in such a nicely written description of the Edge article mentioned a few days ago on our forum that we’re just gonna post it. Edge, the most respected videogaming journal in the UK, had their E3 feature in the latest issue (99), and it had a lot of Halo in…

Neil Grattan points out a short article he’s written on the relative merits of the Xbox vs the PS2. His conclusion – the Xbox is gonna wipe the floor with the PS2. Check out his points.

Apologies for the slacking yesterday – I was out of town, and the rest of these clowns? Who knows… anyway, time for some catch-up. In a recent thread on our forum, it was pointed out that the underwear the player’s character wears can be of utmost importance – Ian McConville’s graphic depiction says it best.…