Year: 2001

No7orious noticed that the Halo Launch Party has made it into the news at Xbox.com. Remember – this is a site that saw 580,000 unique visitors last week… so if you’re planning on going, and haven’t yet sent your RSVP to halofest@microsoft.com… well, there are only 250 spots…

Because the subject (rumors that PC Halo is dead are BULL) is so important to so many readers, and because we posted this late in the day yesterday, we’re going to direct your attention to this news post – Matt Soell, once again, stomps on the rumormongers. Read it. Show it to your friends. Beat…

Solid Halo preview from PlanetXbox – they got the date wrong, but otherwise it’s a nice summary of the game. Thanks to Charles Clifford for the heads-up. Update: Oops, careless – this is the same article that was posted at PlanetXbox’s host, Gamespy, a week ago. My bad. Djof gets the first-noticed kudos.

Many thanks to Kbjlake, who has kindly mirrored the manual scans that have had such a difficult time finding a home. You can grab them individually, or get the whole shebang, zipped (3.6 MB). (And thanks again to Final Solution, who scanned them all in the first place!)

Five gorgeous hi-res screens at VoodooExtreme – go get ’em. First notification props to jan luow. (Who loves ya, baby?)

Okay, for most regulars here, this is a broken record. However, with the proximity of the Xbox launch, there are many newcomers… and this issue has become hot recently. A few days ago, Matt Soell, in response to a forum post in which an Xbox Germany representative was quoted as saying that PC Halo would…

The Gameplay page of the HBO FAQ has been updated. Old info has been pulled, new info added… one more question (coop splitscreen play) is there. This is a work in progress… more to come. Update: The Weapons and Vehicles pages have been updated, as well, this time using information from the Halo Manual.

Final Solution writes again – the Halo manual pics he put up yesterday (down on his original site, for bandwidth overflows – he can’t even log in to remove them) have been re-upped – to a Geocities site. Dunno how long THAT one’s gonna last… but if you haven’t gotten ’em yet (and want ’em),…

genohunter writes to let us know that a second Halo french preview has come out, at GameKult.com.For those whose french is as clear as the covenant language, I’ll just say that the Gamekult team found the game quite exciting, and, of course, really wonderful (especially all the bumpmapping effectsÊ·ith dynamic lights). They tested it on…

jeremedia notes that his recently-purchased retail copy of Halo is missing the training sequence seen in the O’Donnell/Staten commentary film and GameSpot’s Xbox movie 2. (He mentioned this before, a few days ago… but then he was playing at Xbox Unleashed, and it wasn’t clear if there had been some way to bypass it that…

Overnight forum doings… the Xbox manual scans we mentioned last night got crushed from the demand – Final Solution’s monthly bandwidth allotment has been used up… so Funky J has kindly put them up on his hotline server. Psyrixx has created a new Mastercard ‘Priceless’ parody – you can find it at The Psyjnir Complex.…

Hmm… Matt Soell drops hints about new media to be released at the Halo Launch Party…

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,…