Month: November 2001

Almost missed this, because of the ridiculous traffic the forum is getting these days… but Adam Daniel noticed (in an obscure location on TeamXbox’s site) that futureshop.ca is selling a CD called ‘Definitive Xbox Compilation’. Along with the music comes a Bonus CD:The disk contains band EPKs, Xbox title movies and previews, and The Making…

Hermes Trismegistus, Chapter 15 – dead men tell tales, and whatnot. Read it (and more of Tursas’ stuff) in our Fan Fiction section.

Whoa – bizarreness. Matt (no, not the Matt) found a way to see the IGN Multiplayer game guide, even without Insider access – apparently, GameFixx mirrors the stuff somehow. It’s slow loading… but it’s all there. Check it out! (They seem to be related to IGN in some way, so this is probably on the…

Spoiler alert – Final Solution has scanned in the entire Halo booklet that comes with the game. Full of information about weapons, vehicles, monsters… very, very high-res scans. Grab ’em now before they’re gone! (Or don’t, if you want to be surprised on launch day…)

Jason Yates has picked up an interesting bit of trivia, over on the Marathon’s Story page forum: in the small print of the manual that came with his CD was this snippet:Brothers and Sisters: the time is nigh. There is strength in numbers. Unite and the planet is ours: www.seventhcolumn.org(The URL doesn’t resolve yet.) Jason…

Final Solution writes to say that he picked up his Halo disc today – you can find scans on his site. Hmm… ‘Do not make illegal copies of this disc’… that’s still non-trivial, right? (Duping 8.4 GB discs still takes big hardware, right?)

We’ve added the latest batch of GameSpot screens – these are the 26 released on November 2 with the Updated Halo Preview. You’ll find them in our Screenshots section. It’s gettin’ easier…

“Diamond” Dave Candland, of the Bungie Online Team, decided to clarify the issue of multiplayer game types. You should read the entire post for full details… but the bottom line is this: There are actually 5 game types (Capture The Flag, King of the Hill, Slayer, Oddball, and Racing). Each of these has rule variants,…

Reading Halo: Fall of Reach, and the phone rings? No problem – Justin Brimm has just submitted a Fall of Reach bookmark. It’s in Photoshop format, ready for printing up to a 6 inch x 1 inch bookmark at 288 ppi, so none of the high-res goodness will be lost. You can see a preview…

Thanks to no7orious, who pointed out the Xbox Year-End Roundup over at GameSpot – Halo gets just a couple of paragraphs, but the first line says it all:Halo has the most potential to be the Xbox’s killer app.Take a look (and see what they said about other Xbox games, while you’re there).

If you visit any of Bungie’s official sites (bungie.com or bungie.net, or any – well, most – of their subsites) right now, you’ll get a message: “No web site is configured at this address.” As Rampancy.net reported, this is because Bungie is preparing to redefine their web presence… it’ll be worth the wait.

Last week, Gaming Age posted a ‘First Impressions’ article about Halo. They describe it as a ‘must-have’ – and though there are a couple of misconceptions in the article (bump-mapping is described as ‘sparingly used’ by Bungie, for example), in general, it’s a solid read. The most impressive feature for the reviewer was the audio…

IGN Xbox has put up part 2 of its Multiplayer Guide – this one details the 26 multiplayer types, with a few (small) screens. Unfortunately… it’s Insider-only for the time being. Credit goes to Dan for noticing this first…

Gordi has submitted ‘Chapter 3: Ile Aval’ of his ongoing (untitled) series – and this one’s a monster. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section. Remember – if you haven’t read the first two parts, you can read them all together using the ‘more by this author’ link.

A couple of reviews in the last few days (nothing horribly new – just plain old-fashioned drooling): ConsoleWire.com says it ROCKS (thanks, No7orious at the R.net forum)… and Game Revolution says it’s “the Xbox’s pride and joy” (thanks, Narcogen at R.net). But you knew those things already…

Wow. Thanks to Mike Flacy, who was the first to send us word of the first Halo ad – it’s linked to this column, which tears into gamers as a bunch of ‘absolute freakin’ morons’. Don’t mind the insults – watch the trailer. It’s tiny, and in streaming Real format… but it’s pretty astounding. (There’s…

The Halo SETI Marines hold steady at slot 52 in the Battle of the Teams, thanks in large part to the awesome crunching of charleya and Int_21… but the influx of nearly 1000 units (thanks to new members Istan, Radar, Matthew and Vladoz) doesn’t hurt, either. See all the crunching data on the 7 day…

Cesar Berardini, of TeamXbox, lets us know that TXB has a report about launch title commercials up – the short version; they’ll go live on November 11. Go read the long version to find out where Microsoft is spending its half a billion advertising dollars…

A couple of new desktop images for you tonight – one from Daniel Byrne, and one from [SE]X-Com. You can find both in our Wallpaper section.

The Hawk Chronicles continue – Chapter 3a arrived tonight for our Fan Fiction section. A taut read – check it out. (And don’t forget to leave Vector40 feedback in the Comments section!)