Year: 2001

Another walkthrough page goes up… IGN has posted their walkthrough of The Library in their Halo Strategy Guide. Thanks to Aida-kun for pointing it out seconds before I could write this… 🙂

Deco drops a note on our forum about the poetry in 343 Guilty Spark – and upon reflection, I’d have to agree with him that the hectic feel of the level was pervasive; I never felt like I got a break. (In fact, I got fatigued near the end; I really WANTED a breather. :)…

Anthony Tilford dropped off a new desktop using some of the cool new concept art and screenshots at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

NaliGun noticed a review at Blueyonder of the Xbox Xperience tour currently in the UK. While they hated the event itself, they loved Halo:Even the poor LCD screens in Nutopia had difficulty disguising the sensational visuals.Worth a read – gives props to Marty and the Sound team, as well!

A couple of days ago, TeamXbox mentioned a rather absurd eBay auction – someone was auctioning off a PICTURE of an Xbox. The auction closed Monday, and the listing was gone yesterday – obviously some eBay rules were violated by selling a printout of a game console for roughly what the console itself should sell…

Skeletor had to crow this morning – he tells a fun gameplay story on our forum. No spoilers… but he did come up with something interesting. In many reviews, people have disparaged the Covenant Needler as a useless weapon… but Skeletor discovered an extremely valuable aspect to it; if you can keep the targeting reticule…

The Xbox names just keep pouring in… Some people have noticed that the Seven Dwarves names show up as default player names, so it’s not clear whether they’re ALSO machine names, or if folks are just reading the wrong line. Also, in several cases, the box had already been renamed, so some of the names…

Heh – people see funny things. 🙂 A month ago, we wondered whether Captain Keyes (as rendered in the game) might bear some resemblance to Joe Staten… now septimus prime, over on the Marathon’s Story page forum, is wondering if the storyboard version of the Captain (visible on Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site) might not…

All right, you greenhorns, listen up! Bungie has made the introductory movie they showed at the fanfest (Sargeant Johnson introducing the crowd to Halo) covertly available on their Tru7h and Reconciliation site. (There’s an article on the Launch Party – they mentioned the movie when it first went up. Recently, a link to the movie…

Just a heads-up… another page has been added to IGN Xbox’s Halo Strategy Guide; level 6 (343 Guilty Spark) has been made available.

At the request of The Shrike, we’ve begun a list of all Xbox names. (When being used in multiplayer games, each Xbox identifies itself with a whimsical name.) We’re going to do our best to compile all of them – if you want to help, send in the name of your Xbox! (See the list…

drunkgamers.com have put up a Halo review. It’s a pretty funny read…While I can not recommend taking a Ghost head to head against a Scorpion I suggest you try at least once…if only to see how far your body flies when you explode.They say they don’t have a rating system, but if they did, they’d…

Raymond Makowski drops off a newly-captioned screenshot… I think he’s captured the feeling pretty well. You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site has been updated again – new screenshots, and Part 2 of the Multiplayer Guide. Check it out! (Screens will be up in our database shortly.) Update: 13 new shots have been added to our Screenshots section.

To all the people sending us links to other sites posting about the thread on the IGN boards concerning playing Xbox online – thanks, we know about it. We are also pretty sure that getting it to work is non-trivial – we chose not to post about it because at this stage, it’s hype only.…

Thanks to dyoung92 and Brad Peterson, who pointed out the same review (at different URLs) today. ConsoleDomain has put up their Halo Review… and it’s a solid read. They keep the wild-eyed fanaticism to a minimum, and focus on the merits of the game. (They DO get a bit hyperbolic at times… but it seems…

The time has come. Our Screenshots Collection passed 400 items recently, and that’s just way too many images to nagivate (or maintain) by hand – so it’s been completely overhauled. You should find it far easier to look through now. Comments are always welcome, though we may choose not to implement your suggestions. (We’ll do…

SonorousB sends in another MasterCard ‘Priceless’ parody – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Thanks to NeXuS, who noticed a Halo review at GamePro. There’s no date on it (nor any reference to a date in their news), so I’ve no idea when it was actually posted… we’ve dated it today on our Reviews page. It’s positive – a few minor gripes (the ‘Ewoks on helium’ sound of the…

Gamespy has started the fan voting on their Game of the Year 2001 Awards – you all know what to do in the Xbox category… thanks to Darkman for the heads-up.