Month: November 2001

Our forum is starting to see stories of folks and their first Xbox experiences with Halo in their own living room. Nij and The Shrike seem to be the first forum-ites to report back… and the news is good.

Over at Xbox.com, Jacqui Kramer writes about hardcore gaming from a female perspective… and she loved Halo:Here we have everything a grrl could want: Beautiful, sweeping landscapes with the perfect tinge of weather. Why, Jane Austen could be writing about this place: “Forsooth, it is winter, and I am here to turn the sweet white…

vladinn@msn.com lets us know that another Halo domain, halogame.com, is up for auction – starting bid is $500. Given that haloserver.com failed to sell for $61 last week, this seems rather steep… but hey – who are we to judge?

Lophan points out a fun read – GamesFirst put up an article called ‘Notes Scribbled in the Dark While Playing HALO’. That’s exactly what it is… some of ’em are great.Okay, this is silly. The Warthog should be able to climb this hill, but all it does is spin out. Oooh, pretty dirt clods.Okay, that…

You want a piece of this? No7orious turns in a sketch he did in class in honor of (in his words) “Happy Halo’s Eve!” Check it out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

People in the UK (and the rest of Europe, actually) should be glad to know that the UK website for the Official Xbox Magazine is now up at http://www.officialxboxmagazine.co.uk/, featuring Halo on the cover of its first issue. Pax.

As you might notice, there is now a prominent flag at the top of this page (and all news-related pages at HBO). The setting you choose will decide whether you see news posts with spoiler-related information in them, or not. Read the ‘Huh?’ page for more details. And please – if you run into a…

Thanks to Lophan who spotted an article on the Xbox at MSNBC that makes mention of Halo: Halo, a first-person shooter in which players lead a squad of marines in a battle on an alien planet, still has some frame-rate problems. To read about the game online, you think the frame rate was a very…

genohunter informs us that The Halo Elite League returns after FTP problems and just in time for Halo’s release tomorrow. You can reach them by going to http://www.halogame.fr.st or http://www.clanhell.fr.st. Pax.

Harry “I just can’t stop” Al-Shakarchi drops off ANOTHER link – this time to the latest issue of an ongoing column at Xbox.com – State of the Xbox. In issue 7, Jeff Henshaw looks at gameplay – and a new, 40 second Halo clip is included. No real spoilers – it’s the beginning of the…

Harry “I’m your Halo man” Al-Shakarchi points out that the entire Halo Manual is now online (along with the rest of the launch title manuals), in PDF format. 1.5 MB, baby!

Thanks to Razorback, who noticed that the IGN Xbox Halo review is now open to non-Insiders.

Meet Bungie Studios – Harry Al-Shakarchi points out a news article on Xbox.com detailing the history and timeline of Bungie Studios. Mostly, it’s a good read. (Sort of disturbing that Weekend Warrior gets more text than the Myth series or Oni… but hey, I didn’t write it… and MS is probably looking at it from…

Wow – Xbox.com’s Halo site has gotten some major overhauling done! The full timeline is up, an overview of the MJOLNIR armor is up, the TV spot is up (asf format, but nice and big), and there’s a new link for ‘Forums’. (This is actually just a web interface to the Usenet newsgroup we mentioned…

Matt Soell gave HomeLAN an interview – it’s a good read. The interview actually took place a few weeks ago (Xbox testing was still in progress), but the info is up-to-date. Matt talks about gameplay issues:HomeLAN – What sorts of enemies will the player face in Halo? Matt Soell – The Covenant is a collective…

As everyone and their brother have already noticed, The 7th Column has finished their countdown – but you STILL can’t see what’s inside.Your browser is incompatible with this site. Please upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. A version of this site for earlier browsers will be made available shortly.(No, there is no IE 7.) Give it…

Funky J posted a very nice ‘Halo Impressions’ piece on our forum this morning – 7 hours in his local Software Etc. (You’d think they’d have thrown him out…) Kudos to Rampancy.net for posting this before us… not that we COULD have posted it, of course – the dang site’s been down for the past…

It’s the end of an era… the Hermes Trismegistus saga has come to a finale. Tursas has submitted the Epilogue… and a fitting closing it is. Find it (and lots of other good reads) in our Fan Fiction section.

More new screens, from Germany’s PC Games Magazine – 8 of ’em, in all. Some pretty nice stuff – a cool shot of a Jeep just off its dropship, a jeep in water, and a dead hunter. Available in both 768×576 and 640×480 formats. Thanks to Uriel for the heads-up.

Another take… netshade, from brainrazor.com, wrote up his take on the launch party. It’s pretty funny, even if it DOES make fun of the denizens of this site… pictures are coming, apparently.