Month: September 2001

“Master Chief”? Matt Soell stops into our forum to clarify that this sobriquet, first mentioned in the Gamespot preview, is actually your rank as player, not your name.

Sikora (alias bsotizz) sends in an enigmatic desktop image for our Wallpaper section… it’s beyond us.

Wow. Yesterday was X-Day. Microsoft stopped by the offices of IGN as well as Gamespot…and not one, but four IGN staff writers wrote up their impressions. Attitudes can be summed up in one word – awed. Lots and lots of spoilers here… but lots and lots of info for those starved for Halo details. Story…

For the serious techno-geek: Michael (a.k.a. Ph.D.) writes to point out a pretty heavy-duty article on Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games at Gamasutra. This one’s only for the hardcore “how do they do it?” crowd… it gives a very good overview of how AI designers might prepare their creations to act more realistically based…

Woohoo! Fuolornis Fire Dragon points out a new Halo preview at Gamespot… and it’s a doozy! Seems they spent a goodly chunk of time playing… and have revealed a couple of previously unknown facts. (Folks who don’t like any spoilers at all should stop reading now.) One interesting tidbit: after you leave the Pillar of…

“Primary intel reports tell us they took over this abandoned base in sector 7 here”, he says while pointing somewhere on a holo-map,” and they have already attacked an armed weapons convoy in this region. Their weapons technology and tactics seem superior over what we had before.The Emperor (General of the Roman Federation) sends in…

Tursas sends word that he’s suspending work on the Hermes Trismegistus saga (temporarily or permanently, he hasn’t decided yet) – he feels that continuing would show disrespect for the current situation. We accept his decision… but hope that he comes back to it at some point.

Christian Bender writes to say that his website, which used to be at halobase.here.de, has moved to either www.halobunker.de or www.halo-bunker.de. (I can’t get anything but the news to show up on either version… but maybe the rest is coming.)

“What about them new alien troops? The ones with the shields? And the invisible guys? Don’t they out number us, like, one million to one?” “Don’t you worry about that stuff son. All you need to know is that the Pillar got us here, and now its our job to make it worth while.”The end…

Yesterday’s events put a new perspective on this video game thing… but shutting this site down wouldn’t bring back any dead, so on we go. Our hearts go out to all who lost loved ones yesterday… and to all who awoke in a new world today. May we learn from any mistakes we made, so…

Peace.

News from around the Halo world:Battleground: Halo has built a Windows program that sticks a dynamic view of the Bungie Webcam on your desktop – grab it if you want your view of the webcam without keeping your browser open.Rampancy.net found an interesting Wired article that suggests that if you don’t buy one of the…

Hmm. Drew points out an intriguing article at Xbox.ign.com, in which the developer of Dead or Alive 3 suggests that 1) the Japanese version of the game will have more features than the US version (they’ll continue developing it during the three months between US and Japanese Xbox launch dates), and 2) thatWhen asked about…

Arch Angel sends in a new desktop image, using the Halo Marine and the Xbox – nice combo. Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

A little OT, but fun anyway: Eric Meyer sends in a link to an interesting Sci-Tech article at CNN… what caught his eye was the image at the top, but the article’s interesting, too. 🙂

Thanks to Adam Daniel, who noticed this little tidbit at XboxAddict.com:Just wanted to let everyone know that my sources told me that the official halo site at http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo will be going up with new ingame footage, so keep a look out.Nothing there yet… but we’ll keep our eyes peeled!

Blam!… the Halo Seti Marines climb back up to 52nd in the Battle of the Teams… but don’t start resting on your laurels, soldiers! As the 7-day stats show, total crunchage hasn’t climbed very much… it’d be easy to fall again!

Joel Day writes to say that he’s recently added a Halo desktop to his site, Third Coil. While you’re there, select ‘Bungie Studios’ from the navigation popup on the left – you’ll get an image-sized view of the Bungie webcam.

Dead men tell tales… sometimes. Mr Bill Jr V sends in a look at life (and death) before Halo… read ‘Hell of all seasons’ in our Fan Fiction section.

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database. Search of the Week is ‘Hardy’… in a month and a half, the guy’s gone from the beginnings of multiplayer logistics to all-out war. Not bad… (Note: We’re hoping Matt can drag these out until the October 5 update; we agree with Narcogen…