Month: September 2001

While we’re uploading older scans… it’s about time to add the Rolling Stone image posted by Jesse Simko last month. It was pulled from the September 13, 2001 Rolling Stone, in an article about the Xbox, and it belongs in our Screenshots section.

As penance for missing the obvious signs of a Halo demo on the OXBM game disc, we’ve uploaded versions of the entire 4-page Halo preview to our server. They’re pretty much the same as the other versions you’ve seen floating around, but we’ve added the bottom tidbits (asides about Iain M. Banks’ novels, etc), and…

Uh, oh… In the preview edition of the Official Xbox Magazine (the one included with October’s PC Gamer and September’s NextGen magazines) is a page devoted to the disc that will be bundled with each issue. The wording of one section scares me…It only gets betterWhen you finally pick up that Xbox and a copy…

Mike Price submitted a new desktop using the latest screenshots… you can find ‘Halo Ice’ in our Wallpaper section.

We’ve updated the Screenshots section with the new shots from Xbox.ign.com. One of these days (soon!), we’ll add the remaining OXBM shots, as well…

It’s been in our Fan Fiction section for a month or so now, but we’ve finally gotten around to adding it to the Miscellaneous Art section (sorry, Jason!) – a piece of artwork created for the Fan Fiction story ‘The Wanderers’ can now be seen on its own in the Misc Art section. Take a…

Xodex sends in a minimalist desktop image for our Wallpaper section – very clean. Check it out!

Apparently, the Electric Playground segment shown last night on the Discovery Science Channel had no Halo information at all in it, despite what the online listings said. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and apologies to anyone who missed something else to watch it.

For those who want to be able to HOLD those Canadian Xbox commercials, and aren’t thrilled with the streaming .asf versions, you now have two download options: Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews has put them up at the Junkyard in .avi format (with DivX encoding) – they run about 20 megs each, and are 320×240. For Mac…

Due to unforseen problems at Haloplayers, Matt has posted this week’s Halo Update to our forum. You should read it at HP as soon as it’s up there… but if you just can’t wait, it’s here, too. Lots of little tweaks (the end is near – it’s GOOD that there aren’t any really big changes),…

Time-critical: Kevin Critchlow writes to say thattonight on the Discovery Science ChannelʨChannel 101 for those whoʨave it)ʦamp;quot;Halo” will be shown onÊ·:30 P.Mʐacific Time On a show calledʦamp;quot; The Electric Playground”. It will also air in the morning at 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time.That’s less than an hour from now – anyone who gets that channel who…

Wonga. Harry Al-Shakarchi points out a FutureNet article on the Microsoft HomeStation, basically an Xbox on steroids – it does everything the Xbox does, plus web browsing, TV recording, etc. Check it out.

Halo: Hello, a 2d sidescroller version of Halo for MacOSX, has gotten a web presence. (You know as much about it, now, as I do.)

Hrm. Looks like details of the Halo Launch Party will have to wait until next week – ‘catastrophe’ can include, apparently, bureaucratic silliness. Ah, well.

Wow. Xbox.ign.com has posted hi-res versions of the images that appeared in the OXBM magazine preview included in last month’s PC Gamer and this month’s NextGen magazine. These are clean versions – no text from the article; the only overlays are IGN’s stamps. Check ’em out! (Thanks to Charthepirate for pointing them out on our…

Griffon writes to say that Halo Command Central, offline for a bit now, has resurfaced with a new look and a new URL. Check ’em out.

TeamXbox has put up high-quality .asf versions of the three Xbox movies shown last night – the first one reminded me a lot of the 1984 Apple ad, in style, but the other two… well, go watch ’em for yourself. Not sure what sort of message they’re trying to put out, with a very odd…

More Wallpaper from the Socket Error boys – check our Wallpaper section.

Sikora wasn’t happy about the ‘Only for Xbox’ stamp on the top of the box art we mentioned a few days ago… so he made his own. (249K) Note for slower connections – the only change is the ‘Only for’ stamp at the top…

Well, the MTv Video Music Awards have come and gone, and as promised, there were three Xbox commercials shown in Canada. Harry Al-Shakarchi described them on our forum, here, here, and here… and TeamXbox put up some shots. (Thanks, Jeffrey Campen.) No Halo material – they were more esoteric than that – but they look…