Year: 2001

FunXbox has posted its full review of Halo – and it’s simply overflowing with praise.Imagine Half-Life, Tribes 2, and Goldeneye all mashed together, then multiply it by one thousand, and you still wouldn’t have a game as captivating, exciting, intense and fun as Halo.(That’s how it STARTS.) Bottom line – they liked it. (We think.)…

Good lord. One day after launch, and IGN Xbox already has a complete Halo walkthrough posted. Sheesh. I read through the page covering the first mission (which I’d completed on my own), and it’s pretty nitty-gritty… if you’re looking for an easy way out, you’ll find it here. Don’t come looking for respect when you’re…

Leave it to the Socket Error team to take first advantage of new shots… [SE]X-Com has made a new desktop image from Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Core Magazine has put up their Xbox Launch Guide – Halo gets a mention:A refined and full-featured FPS engine combines with controls almost as useful as the PC standard keyboard and mouse combo to make Halo a likely candidate to be Game of the Launch. Thanks to R.net for the heads-up.

As about 8 million of you noticed, all the new Bungie sites went live last night. (Don’t ask me why MS is approving launches after 10 pm local time…) The 7th Column, the new gathering place for local fan clubs, is open and accepting new club applications. Truth and Reconciliation, Bungie’s new official Halo site…

Forum regular Vector40 has written a ‘pre-review’ of Halo for the Junkyard… it’s worth a read. He’s got a nice way of pointing out some of Halo’s strengths:It’s difficult to appreciate fully until you see a car flipped ten feet into the air with a grenade explosion, or a weapon laying on the ground get…

Rampancy.net has put up a forum devoted specifically to spoilers – if you’re looking for a place to ask questions, or want to get the skinny on some Halo level or other… this is your place. Nobody’s gonna jump on you for posting ’em there.

GameSpot UK has repackaged the preview GameSpot (US) published two weeks ago (UK spelling, a final paragraph acknowledging that it won’t be available in the UK for quite some time), and added a subset of the huge collection of screens Gamespot US put up last week. I suppose if you space it out…

Salon looks at the Xbox launch… and sniffs its nose. It sees the entire console as uninspired, with Halo and Oddworld as the only standout games, but doesn’t think they’re enough:In the console space, where the potential audience is in the tens of millions, the field is dominated by instantly identifiable, engaging personalities, intrinsically linked…

Thanks to fate, who noticed new Halo coverage (and media) in a FiringSquad article on the Xbox launch. (Halo’s section is 2 pages long, starting on page 4.) Included is a passel of screens (20-someodd, mostly stuff you’ve seen before, but with occasional interesting variations) and a 20 MB DivX-encoded AVI (no spoilers). This isn’t…

Markus Tacker noticed this image on the webcam last night… either Matt has decided that answering the ‘is it REALLY coming to the PC?’ question has gotten to be too much, and is contemplating a particularly messy suicide, or he’s preparing mentally for a voice role in the hush-hush Phoenix project. Or maybe he just…

TeamXbox is giving away 10 Halo Game Guides, from Prima Games – head on over to register to win one. WARNING – the sample tips in the article contain spoilers.

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…