Month: November 2001

The HaloServer team points out that the haloserver.com domain (which,

FAQ overhaul: two major changes are visible to you, the reader; There’s a new page, called ‘Most-Asked Questions’ – you should point people to this page if you see them asking about the PC version, or bots. (Likewise, you should let us know if there’s a question you think belongs on this page.) Additionally, the…

Woohoo! Folks have asked how long Halo will take to finish, and how the different difficulty levels change this… Chris Butcher, who developed much of the AI, has posted a detailed commentary on just this subject on our forum.for an epic battle (or if we’re playing co-op) I pick Legendary. it took me about 60…

A couple of forum posts worth noticing; DevilFrog found a MadCatz trackball for the Xbox (interestingly enough, the idea of using a trackball came up a couple of days ago, and was met with serious enthusiasm)… and Darkman noticed that Microsoft’s official Halo site has been updated again – the timeline has been removed, and…

Oops – we managed to miss Cloudchaser’s Xbox Unleashed: Halo Impressions Part 3. (We commented on parts 1 and 2 yesterday, and part 4 earlier today.) They were impressed, especially with the AI and the audio. Careless of us… sorry.

In a HORRENDOUSLY long thread over on the IGNCube.com forums, Matt Casamassina, Editor-in-Chief of IGNCube.com, put up a few screenshots to point out what textures SHOULD look like – he’d started the thread by complaining about what was being done on the GameCube. His example? Halo. We’ve added 4 of these shots to the Unofficial…

A month ago, we showed you the first Halo 2-page print ad. The second one’s been floating around for a bit now… It’s been seen in Rolling Stone and GamePro, for example. As before, we’ve scanned it at a small size (800×527, 84K), a larger size (1500×989, 242K), and the ad copy itself (800×168, 25K).…

Cloudchaser Microsoft has put up part 4 of their Halo impressions – this time, it’s a fan-written commentary on the level known as ‘Flawless Cowboy’. It’s interesting, given that it’s written by someone who has either never seen Halo before, or is pretending that they’ve never seen Halo before:Well, this lady told me over a…

Ooh… nearly missed this. Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, noticed a story at Wired News with the following subhead:Rumors of the Xbox’s shaky stability have been greatly exaggerated. The story notes that Xboxes in use at the Xbox Unleashed event have been running for 12 hours straight, with no crashes. (There are more than 50 consoles at…

Konard’s in trouble, in Ashley Power’s ‘Running, Part 1’, available on our Fan Fiction page. Be sure to let her know what you think of it in the comments section!

Forum wrapup: op_ivy passes along commentary on the Xbox Unleashed event in Los Angeles – event flavor, Halo impressions, and a spoiler or two (clearly marked). Funky J makes the new GameSpot movie available on his Hotline server – details about access can be found in his post. And Darkman, annoyed by the commentator in…

Gamespy has posted a Halo preview a couple of days ago. They were unimpressed with the AI – and they wished for mouse control – but otherwise, they liked it. Can’t please everyone…

Cloudchaser Microsoft has put up a couple of articles about Halo as part of their Xbox Unleashed coverage – the first one is extremely positive about the framerates (looks like just a quick note) and focused on multiplayer, while the second one is a bit more in-depth, and looks at solo player. Their biggest gripe…

Lots of HBO visitors are worried about spoilers popping up where they don’t want to see them. For those actually LOOKING for spoilers, the Marathon’s Story page has some pretty massive ones in its most recent update… if you decide to look, don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Electric Playground interviewed Seamus Blackley, head of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group – he’s as enthusiastic as usual. He raved about a lot of things – including control:EP: Halo surprised Blackley. He had concerns about the control of the game, and in fact didn’t want it to be a launch title. SB: Jason Jones and…

<sigh> Right about the time we get caught up with screenshots and movies, places like GameSpot have to go and release tons more. There’s an updated preview, a 75 meg movie (!!), and 20-someodd new screens. (They say it’s 30, but there are at least a few repeats – but they can be forgiven, it’s…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Score Central was putting together an interview of Marty O’Donnell, the sound guy behind Halo, and was asking for fan questions. Tonight, they’ve posted the result – and overall, it’s a lot of information. A snippet:SC: How has sound and music changed in the gaming world from…

Well… this probably means we’ve caught up for a day or so… but we’ve added 75 screenshots to our Screenshots section. (They’re all in the ‘Sites’ pages, and come from the 5 new articles published in the last few days.) Whew!

IGN Xbox has put up the first of a three-part special on Halo – this part contains the prologue to Eric Nylund’s book, ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’. While the text is identical to the excerpt put up by Random House a few days ago, visiting IGN gets you an extra bonus – a PDF…

TeamXbox has put up the first part of their Xbox Unleashed impressions – words from the event floor in New York where Xbox fanatics try to stay alive for 48 hours of non-stop gaming. Crashing eggs and monster lines… it’s a fun read. Sol also managed to throw in his Halo impressions… he liked it:Halo,…