Year: 2001

MASSIVE Halo update, finally, at Haloplayers – GO NOW. Two gorgeous screenshots (in two resolutions each, to be nice to the bandwidth impaired and the broadband-enabled both), an entertaining tale giving you a bit of the backstory behind the halo updates, and, finally, a few tidbits that might be recognizable as a Halo Update (but…

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out a new poll over at VoodooExtreme – ‘What Xbox game are you most looking forward to?’ Let ’em know what you think of Halo… but remember, keep it clean and honest. Remember the LAST VE poll… (Halo is currently leading this one, with 43% ofr more than 800 votes.)

Putting the new ‘Commander’ shot to good use, Allenthar creates a new wallpaper for your desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section, in 4 sizes. Enjoy!

Joker111481@aol.com sends us a monochromatic desktop for our Wallpaper collection. Similar to, but different from, an older submission by genohunter… check it out!

Wonga – we’re probably too late, but you never know… Joseph Staten jumped onto our forum about an hour ago, and asked for requests for tonight’s screenshot subject. It’s likely that the job is done… but add to the thread if you’d like! (The update, if all goes according to plan, should be at Haloplayers…

Dorram posts on our forum that a new Halo spoof/rant has gone live – it’s two and a half minute long MPEG, available as a 44 meg, 320×240 format, or an 8.4 meg, 144×120 format. Footage from a number of different films has been spliced together, and put to a new soundtrack, with a very…

A tidbit of good news, in the face of the disappointments yesterday: Matt Soell, in defiance of Microsoft corporate policy to milk gamers of every possible dollar, points out that the ‘System Link Cable’ that Microsoft packages for the XBox (sold separately for, generally, $15) is, in reality, just a 20′ crossover cable. These are…

Details on gameplay continue to emerge – Rampancy.net gets confirmation from Matt Soell (via email) that cooperative mode is limited to two players, on a single XBox in splitscreen mode. This is the only multiplayer mode with this restriction – all others can handle up to 16 players with a maximum of 4 linked XBoxes,…

Lots of action on the Fan Fiction front today. Mr Bill Jr V has asked us to pull his story, ‘The Answers’, because he didn’t think it was up to snuff… but he’s submitted a new one, ‘Escape’, to replace it. Almost simultaneously, Jasper, whose last story came in back in May, dropped us another…

Aaauuggghhhh! No films. 🙁 Matt Soell dashed hopes for one of the most commonly desired features today – Halo will NOT have a method for saving films. A sad, sad day for Bungie fans…

Not that you should listen to the man, or anything – and it’s not as though it’s the first time he’s said this – but Matt Soell steps into a thread about Halo’s gameplay to smack down the theory that Halo was converted to a first person view (from third person) in order to fit…

Not sure how long this thread will exist… or how many of you want to read it if it’s full of spoilers… but someone who obviously playtested Halo recently has broken his NDA and described his experience on the IGN Forum. The link (for now) is here. It’s all multiplayer stuff…

Before we get MORE mail about it – it seems that Gamespot has updated their Halo screenshots recently (yesterday, actually)… but all the new shots are OLD. There are some from October 1999… others that are screen captures from the E3 2000 movie… they’re ALL old. (Interestingly enough, the screen grabs from E3 2001, listed…

PlanetXbox has published Part 4 of their Halo Developer’s Diary, and this one is chock-full of details about what makes Halo different from other games of its genre. There are some really fun bug-discovering snippets:Two days ago some crazy (but diligent) tester stacked enough Warthogs to jump on top of an ‘unclimbable’ cliff on one…

Death and destruction on the Halo fill Mr Bill Jr V’s latest story, ‘The Answers’. Related to previous works… yet different. You’ll find it (and many others) in our Fan Fiction section. It appears that the new comments feature is a success!

Yesterday the Marathon’s Story page mentioned an interesting little comparison between the Covenant and the Pfhor, from the Marathon series, created by fan Joseph E. Haake. Today, Joseph points out a modified version… which implies a different connection.

Seems we missed a source for the TeamXbox movie yesterday – you can find another two mirrors of the 20 MB mpeg at 3D Gamers. Thanks, Frans!

In a first for HBO, we’re putting up Fan Fiction in a non-English language – Uriel has submitted ‘Beyond the Paradise, part 1’, in German. Be sure to let us know how this works for you – the Comments page can be found in our Fan Fiction section.