Month: August 2001

Thanks to TomeOne, who noticed these two little images over on Mehve’s Aerie, the personal site of Lorraine Reyes, a Bungie artist currently working on Phoenix.Apologies to Mehve for any image degradation introduced in the quest for fast-loading pages – the originals can still be found on her site.

The retribution of the AR was swift, cutting into the grass and causing four dead Covenant to spill out from it.NevinNiven sends in Part 3 of his ‘Down In Flames’ story – the Fan Fiction section continues to balloon.

Char the Pirate writes exuberantly to point out that Perfect Cowboy, who may be Steve Fowler, Product Marketer for Halo, jumped onto the TeamXbox Forums with a boatload (interesting choice of words, that) of info about Halo last night. High points: Halo is now locked at 60 FPS; Watercraft/water battles seem to be out; Co-op…

Last week, we mentioned that FunXbox had put up a picture of the Xbox development kit from the Bungie Webcam… what we forgot to mention was they’d also put up a Halo preview. It’s a little funky on the hard info (I’d question the weapons count, for one thing), but it’s pretty dang positive. Always…

“It must be here. The humans know it, too. We must find it first, brother. I know you know.”Omniscient sends in part 9 of his ‘Sea of Steel’ saga – family tensions mount. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section. (Did I mention I was back? A HUGE round of applause for Count Zero,…

Been a while since I’ve seen one of these: Elbert D. Wall points out that GameFAQs has a new poll: Which X-box game are you looking forward to? You know what to do…

New site EDBIS has thrown up a Halo preview. Not bad, except for the old screenshots…

This week’s Halo Update has surfaced on Rampancy.net. That’s a whole lot of music…

This was somehow passed over during the week: Matt Soell has (again) clarified the “Halo: Combat Evolved” issue on Rampancy.net. See what he has to say here.

The humans lay motionless, with blood spattered on them. The fire burning nearby, smoke climbing into the sky in a hopless attempt to reach other humans. Several of them were high in the trees, freshly cleaned in a river. And looking about nervously. The Covenant bite off more than they can chew in Part 2…

A Covenant Banshee sailed high overhead. The Marines crouched in a cave winced as the shrill noise reached their ears. The Covenant strike back in Matthew Massey’s fan fiction, Down in Flames.

General William Aaron, United Earth Marine Corp, awoke to the harsh ringing of the telephone next to his bed. He picked it up, “General Aaron,” he said in a groggy voice. “Sir, sorry to wake you, sir, but you’d better come to the Control Station.” Matt Joseph sends in a space-based tale named The Last…

Roughly two days later according to time on the Halo, Bob found himself sitting under a large tree, boiling before him in the cooking pot the flesh of a member of one of several species of herd animals that he had found resided on the ring construct. Bob continues his strange journey in Chapter 8…

Matt drops in on the forum again to expound on the ESRB rating process and explain what a T (Teen) rating really means.

Official Bungie double whammy on the forums today: First David “candyman” Candland gives us the straight dope on the Halo box, and puts some rumors to rest for the umpteenth time. Then, Matt “Matt” Soell further explains the Halo box art.

ÊŠÊŠHis train of thought was derailed as the intercom on the table started beeping. He entertained notions of ignoring it, setting it with a charge of plastique, or dropping it in the “Out” bin- filed the ideas for future reference, reached over and activated the com. The Silver Hawks indulge in a little electronic espionage…

“Ar, hey thar matey. Mission successful. We met up with our marine comrades. We took zero casualties, but I’m afeared I can’t say the same for the marines. We’re returning to the ship. These boys need some new hardware bad.” The plasma hits the fan as Omniscient sends in Part 8 of his ongoing Sea…

ʊʔhe pitch black came apart. Carbines fired in sloppy automatic belches. Tracer fire richochetting wildly off the local terrain. Then the cluster of mines burst. Submunitions scattering shards of metal and explosive into the air at over a hundred miles and hour. Jon Chang sends in a short, violent story entitled War Hero.

Thanks to Evil Bastard, who was the first to tip us off that Xbox.com has Halo listed at $49.99 US. Get those preorders ready…

A number of people have written, via mail and the forum, to inform us that IGN has come up with what appears to be Halo’s box art. It is visible here, along with several other Xbox games.