Year: 2001

First up – it seems like the IGN Insider Multiplayer Guide mentioned yesterday has been opened to the public. Go check it out here – and don’t say they never gave you nuthin’. (Thanks to Erick Delgado for the heads-up.)

A couple of threads over on the TeamXbox forums suggest that Halo is beginning to show up in retail kiosks – one in Orlando, FL and another in Exton, PA (both in Babbages stores) have playable versions. Gameplay reports are always welcome. 🙂

Rampancy.net uncovered some more details about the Halo Strategy Guide, due soon from Prima Games. Prima has a listing for it now (they didn’t in August when we first noticed this)… the release date is unchanged (November 11), but the book’s gotten longer (160 vs the previously reported 144 pages). Bigger is better, right? It’s…

Hehe – [SE]X-Com, editor over at Socket Error, sent in a Halo logo… well, you just gotta see it. (136K) The time some people have…

Philip Palermo submits a pair of images he rendered with TrueSpace 5 (they took about an hour each). Pretty nice work… We’ve placed them in the Miscellaneous Art section, but these are more or less the right size for a small desktop (800×578 or so each).

W00t! Heads-up kudos to Cesar, from TeamXbox – Xbox.com has put up an information page about the Xbox Odyssey (which TeamXbox mentioned last week) – one of the photos shows an ENORMOUS plasma screen, running Halo… if you live in (or near) San Fransisco, LA, San Diego, or Phoenix, GET YOURSELF INTO THIS THING. (It’s…

IGN Insider has posted a Multiplayer Halo Guide (or at least the first part of one) – it’s only available to Insiders, those who pay the subscription fee for their premium service. (Insider access costs $10/3 months or $20/year, but there are several ways of getting it free.) 13 multiplayer maps are described, with a…

Thanks to Bob Blandeburgo, who pointed out a new Halo preview at Gamers.com – it’s a good read. The control scheme is described in detail, for those who have been curious, and there aren’t any spoilers, for those trying to avoid too much information. They complain about the standard thing PC gamers complain about -…

Speaking of new sites, Nartin Spitzenberg points out that Halomedia (also German) is now online. Nice design!

[lw]Reicheraltermann sends in a pair of desktops for our Wallpaper section – pretty nice to look at. One of them advertises a Halo site (German) we’ve never heard of: haLoXpEriEnCe.multipalyer.de (not fully online yet, it would appear). In any case, check out the images!

[SE]X-Com, from Socket Error, turns in another desktop image for our Wallpaper collection. Neon…

The Halo SETI Marines take a hit from the loss of Luke Brannon… but charleya and Int_21 continue their astounding crunching rates, nearly making up for the slackage in the rest of the team. Total crunching is down significantly – are YOU helping find the Covenant, before they find us? Check the 7 day stats…

Thanks to CubanB, who noticed more Halo commentary at VoodooExtreme; seems Apache finished it this weekend, and he’s sticking with my “best first person shooter ever” statement, as the game kicks ass from start to finish. He goes on to explain why. In case you weren’t already having trouble waiting…

Today’s Penny Arcade news rant has Tycho wondering whether someone who really HATES the Xbox could sit down and do a solid review – he’s afraid that the good news is coming from people who were already convinced, and the negative press is coming from people who have a grudge against Microsoft, or the Xbox,…

Djoey.154 has created a new Halo Winamp skin; we’ve stuck it in our Miscellaneous Art section. (We don’t really have a ‘downloads’ section…) Pretty nice looking!

Thanks to Zypper, who pointed out a Halo review from the IGN Xbox boards written by the IGN DVD editor, ManaByte. I’ll refrain from quoting from it, since my favorite snippets would inflame some regulars here… go read it for yourself.

Our Movies listing has been brought up-to-date… all movies released in the last month or so (and it’s a sizeable list) have been added, along with all known (current) mirrors. If we missed something, let us know!

Thanks to Mr. Temper, who brought to our attention the current episode of Gamespotting at (where else?) GameSpot. Three sections rave about Halo: Joe Fielder gushes:So it’s good. How good? You’ll have to wait until my review to find out, but suffice it to say, I think that Microsoft’s purchase of Bungie was one of…

Thanks to Noctavis, of Rampancy.net, who uploaded a preview of Halo from the December 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. The scan is small (540×706, 403K), but readable… Halo is top-rated among the Xbox launch titles – EGM loved it. (For those wondering about our posting this, given our general policy of allowing the issue…

A bunch of new art recently – one Miscellaneous Art submission from Matt Baker, and three pretty slick desktop images from AEon. (These last can be found in our Wallpaper section.) Some days, you just get behind…