Month: October 2001

Eric Trautmann, MS Content Developer, drops by to pass along a tantalizing tidbit about the Halo backstory – there had been some forum speculation about the credibility of the plot – why, for example, would the Covenant go to the trouble of a ground war against the inhabitants of Reach, rather than simply wiping the…

Mr. Temper points out on our forum a new print review of Halo, in Game Informer magazine – he supplies links to scanned pages, and includes written text for those who can’t read the small print in the pics. The upshot – they liked it…

A boatload of updates coming… bear with me as I write ’em up, one by one. First up: the TGS movie. Many people have been complaining about a couple of features of this movie – first, that there are three separate cov kills at the start that use the same bit of soundtrack (same covenant…

And the battle for leadership of the Halo SETI Marines continues… this week, charleya tops Int_21, 265 to 212 units (and to think, there was a time when the entire TEAM didnt’ crunch that many units in a week) for La Crunch Honneur, and cdm3 leaps over 38 team members for the Frogblast Award. How…

JimPa|NsE drops us a note to let us know that he’s written a new Halo preview for Halo Network – Babelfish tortured it, but if you read German, you should go visit.

Down, but not out… Battleground: Halo has mirrored the .wmv version of the new TGS film on Fileplanet – grab it there if you’re having trouble with Gamespot’s servers. Thanks for the heads-up, Bounty!

Quick note from Bounty, over at Battleground: Halo – they’re not ignoring all the weekend’s news, or sleeping; they’re having technical difficulties. The news system seems to have stopped taking submissions (since Thursday night)… he’s hoping all will be back on track by tomorrow. Hang in there!

For those having trouble getting through to Gamespot’s servers, or simply on lower-bandwidth connections, we’ve put together a screen capture page, showing some of the more interesting features of the movie. You can check it out here. Enjoy!

Thanks to vein13, who pointed out a new movie at Gamespot. (It’s the Halo Trailer 1 – Direct-Feed entry on their Media Index.) It seems to be an extended version of the IGN movie mentioned yesterday. It’s available as a downloadable wmv file, a downloadable mpeg, or streamed .asf formats (in several speeds). It’s 320×240,…

And the money keeps rolling in… from every side. Fanatic sends in another desktop image for our overflowing Wallpaper coffers… check it out!

Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who noticed an article over at IGN Xbox, on the Game of Show at TGS 2001. The winner was Dead or Alive 3… but the article asks:You were thinking Halo, right? Unfortunately, in terms of what’s being shown at TGS for the Xbox, the Halo demo is pretty conservative, especially considering…

Thanks to Noah “MigraineBoy” Brimhall, who pointed out that Halo got a couple of mentions in the November issue of Wired Magazine, during a story on Flextronics, the company that Microsoft outsourced the manufacturing of the Xbox to. (Eep – ending sentences with prepositions again…) I’d found it a pretty interesting article, but not all…

Once again, new screens means new desktop images. Three came in overnight – one from Sikora, two from Shaun Brookman. You’ll find all three in our Wallpaper section.

Come Get Some… another new desktop, this time from Deimosâ„¢, poison crazy lush from Subnova.com. Find it in our Wallpaper section!

Hand-drawn desktop from RAZORBACK – check for it in our Wallpaper section.

Thanks to Fuolornis Fire Dragon, who noticed that IGN has a new Halo movie from the Tokyo Game Show. His post will give you a nice rundown on the contents – you can grab the film from this page (the Halo link is here, but there are other goodies you might want to snag).

Funky color shifts in RAZORBACK’s latest desktop, Binary Code – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

We’ve added the new, hi-res version of the ‘Combat Evolved’ Halo logo to our Logos page, in a couple of resolutions – these might be helpful for those thinking about creating new artwork with it.

Okay, we lied. We decided to put the new screens up after all – they’re just so nice to look at… The Screenshots section has been updated. The first 13 shots are brand-spankin’ new, never seen before. (They’re a lot more reasonably-sized here than they were in Tokyo, because they’re no longer TIFF files.) The…

Okay… once you’ve caught your breath and stopped drooling over all that new Halo goodness to come out of Tokyo… Matt dropped by our forum to let us know that there wouldn’t be a Halo Update tonight. The good news, though… is that Halo might go Gold Master next week. (That would leave them almost…