Month: September 2001

Still wondering about that Halo Launch Party? Matt visited our forum today to explain the delay in the announcement – read it for yourself. Details as we learn them…

*Ar-Isildur of *WP* has created another MasterCard ‘Priceless’ parody – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Nice shot!

If you haven’t been able to get the mpeg version of TeamXbox’s movie from either TeamXbox’s site or from FunkyJ’s Hotline server, the good folks at thecorpse.com have added a mirror of it on the page we mentioned this morning. We’ll be putting up full mirror lists for this, and the interview movie, sometime today.

The official Xbox Magazine website relaunched recently… and one of their features is a Top 10 Game Ranker. Currently Halo is second, behind DOA3. Hmm…

A pair of new Fan Fictions arrived in quick succession today – Mr Bill Jr V’s ‘The Marine’ takes its flavor from recent released footage, while Vector40’s ‘The Sixty Minute War’ is a tribute to last week’s horrible events. (It’s not finished yet.) Check ’em both out in our Fan Fiction section!

We got a note that an early Halo clan, Societas Signi, has been reborn as clanLein. We had a bit of trouble with the website – looks best (what’s there of it) in Explorer.

A couple of mirrors have popped up for the .asf version of the TeamXbox video:FilePlanet (thanks, Battleground: Halo)thecorpse.comBoth versions are 8 meg zipped files. Additionally, FunkyJ has mirrored the 19.4 meg MPEG version on his Hotline server (details in this post)… the original, astoundingly, is still on TeamXbox’s site, as well. This one (in either…

jonki, Halo’s product planner, dropped into our forum to clarify that the first Halo ad is just now getting into production. October was the last date we heard…

We’ve put together a page of screen captures from the newest halo footage over at TeamXbox – you can see 21 shots showing some of the fun stuff in this movie.

Matt Liebhold writes to say that Penny Arcade mentions Halo today in their news post…Since I don’t remember (and it keeps changing) whether or not Halo will be available for the PC ever, I’m going to get my Halo on the only way I know how. Who knows? It’s got full co-op (Thank HEAVENS), maybe…

Wow – TeamXbox has gotten their hands on a 2 minute, 9 meg movie (.asf format) of Halo gameplay. Great new footage… and a teaser for http://www.combatevolved.com/ at the end (resolves to Microsoft’s main site at the moment). Thanks to Chanan for the heads-up!

Thanks to Uriel, who pointed out this article at Gamestar.de – apparently, they’ve gotten ‘official word’ from Microsoft that Halo WILL be coming to the PC, and that the ‘Only on Xbox’ tagline refers to other consoles, not to a PC version. (Yes, Matt Soell has said this a hundred times… but many people have…

Razorback sends in a sketch of a Covenant Elite for our Miscellaneous Art section. Sorry to hear about Photoshop, RB…

Recently, I heard from a viewer that the Wallpaper section was difficult to navigate, owing in part to the large numbers of images and in part to the fact that only three thumbs are shown on a page. I agreed to look into the situation, and suggested that a cookie-based solution might be good -…

Thanks to Allan_X, over at the TeamXBox forums, who picked up a copy of the Official Xbox Magazine at his local 7-11 – among the many bits he scanned was this Halo ad. We’ll do our best to get a better one for you soon. (Thanks, op_ivy, for the heads-up.)

Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Microsoft’s official Halo site is back up, in all it’s Flashed glory. Check it out!

Okay, I don’t understand this at all… but it works. So here goes. I mentioned yesterday that a program called DivX Player will let you watch the movie, but not listen to the sound. Bluskale writes to say that you can get sound by selecting ‘DivX Doctor’ from the ‘Movie’ menu, and saving the resultant…

Dink!… the Halo SETI Marines fall to 53rd in the Battle of the Teams, edged out by Picard – who are pulling away rapidly. Total crunchage is up, despite the loss of two team members this week, thanks in large part to NEO, who took la Crunch Honneur with 154 units. See how YOU did…

Last week’s Halo update has been added to the Halo Update Database – now 414 tidbits of Halo goodness, spread out over 44 updates. (The total timespan is 49 weeks – there were a few missed ones in there.) The word of the week is ‘Banshee’ – check out how the first 7 months of…

Joker writes to pass along a Halo animation – sort of an animated logo thing. It’s 3.1 MB, and lasts about 20 seconds. It’s in MPG format, and you can snag it here.