Year: 2001

Ooh… nearly missed this. Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, noticed a story at Wired News with the following subhead:Rumors of the Xbox’s shaky stability have been greatly exaggerated. The story notes that Xboxes in use at the Xbox Unleashed event have been running for 12 hours straight, with no crashes. (There are more than 50 consoles at…

Konard’s in trouble, in Ashley Power’s ‘Running, Part 1’, available on our Fan Fiction page. Be sure to let her know what you think of it in the comments section!

Forum wrapup: op_ivy passes along commentary on the Xbox Unleashed event in Los Angeles – event flavor, Halo impressions, and a spoiler or two (clearly marked). Funky J makes the new GameSpot movie available on his Hotline server – details about access can be found in his post. And Darkman, annoyed by the commentator in…

Gamespy has posted a Halo preview a couple of days ago. They were unimpressed with the AI – and they wished for mouse control – but otherwise, they liked it. Can’t please everyone…

Cloudchaser Microsoft has put up a couple of articles about Halo as part of their Xbox Unleashed coverage – the first one is extremely positive about the framerates (looks like just a quick note) and focused on multiplayer, while the second one is a bit more in-depth, and looks at solo player. Their biggest gripe…

Lots of HBO visitors are worried about spoilers popping up where they don’t want to see them. For those actually LOOKING for spoilers, the Marathon’s Story page has some pretty massive ones in its most recent update… if you decide to look, don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Electric Playground interviewed Seamus Blackley, head of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group – he’s as enthusiastic as usual. He raved about a lot of things – including control:EP: Halo surprised Blackley. He had concerns about the control of the game, and in fact didn’t want it to be a launch title. SB: Jason Jones and…

<sigh> Right about the time we get caught up with screenshots and movies, places like GameSpot have to go and release tons more. There’s an updated preview, a 75 meg movie (!!), and 20-someodd new screens. (They say it’s 30, but there are at least a few repeats – but they can be forgiven, it’s…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Score Central was putting together an interview of Marty O’Donnell, the sound guy behind Halo, and was asking for fan questions. Tonight, they’ve posted the result – and overall, it’s a lot of information. A snippet:SC: How has sound and music changed in the gaming world from…

Well… this probably means we’ve caught up for a day or so… but we’ve added 75 screenshots to our Screenshots section. (They’re all in the ‘Sites’ pages, and come from the 5 new articles published in the last few days.) Whew!

IGN Xbox has put up the first of a three-part special on Halo – this part contains the prologue to Eric Nylund’s book, ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’. While the text is identical to the excerpt put up by Random House a few days ago, visiting IGN gets you an extra bonus – a PDF…

TeamXbox has put up the first part of their Xbox Unleashed impressions – words from the event floor in New York where Xbox fanatics try to stay alive for 48 hours of non-stop gaming. Crashing eggs and monster lines… it’s a fun read. Sol also managed to throw in his Halo impressions… he liked it:Halo,…

Uriel points out a new review at Gamestar.de – it’s part of their print review, and it contains a couple of new screens. Uriel promises a translation soon, too. 🙂

They’re pouring in… DarkSkies ran his wife over last night, and dropped in to tell us about it. (He’s also, after playing for a bit, decided to hold off on buying an Xbox – he’ll rent one, then buy the PC version.) Read his post for details!

Another fan impression post – Caerdwyn didn’t seem to like it at all. His final summary suggested it was ‘a solid title’… but each point made it clear he wasn’t impressed.

Sam has taken our request for gameplay feedback to heart, and posted a pretty in-depth look at Kiosk Xbox (no, it’s not the same as Living Room Xbox – read his rundown to see some of the reasons why). Read the rest of the thread, as well – lots of good followup info.

Final Solution has put up Day 2 of his Halo coverage – this includes three things you SHOULDN’T do while playing Halo. Take a look!

Halo’s Universe (in France) has put up a Halo preview (they say it’s the first) – my French isn’t good enough to translate this, but for French speakers, this might be a good place to get info!

In response to a request to see what the Halo DVD actually looks like, Matt Soell popped one in front of the Bungie Webcam. Is that cool community relations, or what?

To go with the new movies, GameSpot has put up a Multiplayer Impressions article – a description of the 13 maps (similar to the description IGN put up a couple of days ago) and some tips and comments. They were playing a ‘near-final’ build… and they commented on the framerate blips; I’m wondering if we’re…