Year: 2001

Took us long enough… but we’ve finally added the two latest movies (the Bungie Commentary movie available at Microsoft’s official Halo site and the TeamXbox gameplay movie) to our Movie list. You’ll find all the current mirrors (in all the various formats) that were still active as of this morning, as well as links to…

Drawing over the shattered, and dying SolCore vessel, the mammoth alien cruiser slowly begins to pull Percipere up into it’s giant docking bay, her hull turning green in the eerie glow of the ships interior. The bridge command crew, watching in terror through the transparent titanium viewports as they are sucked into the belly of…

Thanks to Vid Boi, who sent in a translation of the Swedish Halo preview mentioned earlier. Lots o’ work… check it out!

Occasionally, mention is made of Halo’s ability to take absurdly high-resolution screenshots. We thought, when we saw the 1920×1440 shots posted by Daily Radar in March, we thought we were seeing an example of this. How silly we were… Bungie has kindly sent along an absurdly high-resolution shot – the original (440K) is 2664×2562 -…

Magnus Esko, aka Dead Glory, an HBO Forum regular, has written a preview of Halo for the Swedish gaming site Nordichardware. We’d give him a hard time about how he got the story all wrong, just on principle, except… well, it’s in Swedish, so we have no idea what he said. There’s one part, though,…

There’s a fight at the top of the Halo SETI Marines! charleya and Int_21 duke it out for top crunching honors, with Charleya narrowly edging Int_21 out, 168 to 165. (Int_21 takes the consolation prize of the Frogblast Award, leaping over 101 of his fellow crunchers to climb to 168th position.) The Marines lose ground…

Everyone’s getting in on the Mike Salmon action – TeamXbox has just posted an interview with the OXM Editor in Chief. Most of the questions are pretty general… but this one made us smile: Having played nearly all the Xbox launch games, which ones are your favorites? Mike S: Halo. Halo. Halo. The latest build…

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database… word of the week is ‘screenshot’. Not bad – only two updates between the promised screen and its appearance! (The shot itself has been added to the Screenshots section, as well.)

Wow. I can’t remember when a single screenshot was subjected to the sort of scrutiny that the ‘Cortana shot’ is enduring… there are threads on our forum, at Rampancy.net, the Marathon’s Story page, Battleground: Halo, and probably a few other places around the net. Add your thoughts to the discussions! (Or simply marvel at the…

Vector40 sent in an update to ‘The Sixty Minute War’, a story dedicated to the September 11 victims. Upon the author’s request, we’ve updated the existing entry, rather than add a second chapter – go on, read it again, it’s worth it. It’s not very long. Don’t forget that all stories in our Fan Fiction…

The Weekly Halo Update, now one week shy of its first birthday, was over at Battleground: Halo this time around… and while it’s short (mostly tweaks – Halo is currently at Release Candidate 2, there’s not much left to do), it DOES come with a new screenshot – you can finally see what Cortana looks…

Someone claiming to be a manager for a major US gaming chain showed up on TeamXbox’s forum today with more info about the Xbox kiosks in game stores. Apparently, Microsoft is doing some retail training on October 8, and playable boxes will be moving into stores no later than the 9th. They’re rolling out by…

The fighting heats up in the second installment of the ‘New Wave’ series by The Emperor – check out ‘The Battle’ in our Fan Fiction section.

Not unexpected, or new, even… but something we should all keep in mind. Ferrex reminds us that PC hardware will NOT perform as well as Xbox hardware – Especially near the Xbox launch date. People shouldn’t be expecting hardware in their machines today to play Halo (or any other Xbox game that comes out for…

Hmm. This has been speculated before… but not, generally, by someone with the inside connections present here… Mike Salmon, Editor in Chief of the Official Xbox Magazine, answered a fan question on OXM’s forum about the upgradeability of launch titles:When MS goes online it will be in a big way and yes games that are…

raVen creates a new desktop for our Wallpaper section, in 4 flavors. We are unclean… Pax.

Hmm… our fearless leader seems to be napping – guess it’s time to put the prayer blocks down.A voice responded. As it spoke it became clear that it was not one voice but hundreds of voices, each one echoing into infinity. “Damuis?” Mr. Bill. Jr. V© drops us another story, introducing… well, read it. You’ll…

For those following the story of Xbox kiosks appearing in stores in the last few days… it looks like your chances of playing Halo on them in the near future aren’t very good. An Electronic Boutique employee posted the following tidbit to the usenet newsgroup alt.games.video.xbox today:I work at EB and opened up our X-Box…

Eric Trautmann, who popped up a couple of days ago with some interesting backstory info, has popped up again on the Marathon’s Story forum with some clarifications of his job. He’s part of the licensing team, so he interfaces with folks like Eric Nylund, who’s writing ‘The Fall of Reach’, due out in October, and…

Wondering about the Xbox hardware, and how it compares to your l33t computer? FiringSquad has just put up their Xbox Technology Overview, a massive guide to the inner workings of the Xbox, comparing it (in great detail) to a PC’s hardware… it’s pretty technical, but if you were curious about the nuts and bolts, this…