Year: 2001

Ouch – looks like Microsoft is delaying the US release of the Xbox by a week, according to this Associated Press story. That’s gonna cost something, PR-wise… Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the heads-up.

Thanks to Xero, who noticed a new poll over at Gamespot: “Which of these Xbox launch game [sic] will you buy first?” Halo is currently in the lead…

Interesting. This Reuters story, gotten to us via Gamers.com through Dorram, suggests that Microsoft might have trouble meeting their projected targets for the number of Xboxes available on the day of launch. Rather than 600,000 to 800,000 units, there might be as few as 300,000. (However, most parties believe that even if they miss the…

The first time we got a note on this subject, recently, I smiled. The second time, the smile faltered. Now, I’m disturbed. There seems to be a whole raft of newcomers to the Halo scene, who have just discovered that in the center of the Halo logo is buried the Marathon logo. They send us…

And the god of the machines thundered across the beach, hefting his weapon expertly, and his bullets bore the wings of avenging angels, hungry for the vindication of Reach.Ape Man sends in his latest short story, ‘The Desperation of Dreams’. A harsh look at the insides of a man of steel. Check it out in…

Mike Weber, Site Director of PlanetXbox, sent word that they’ve put up a first look at Halo. There’s not a whole lot new (although this line I don’t remember seeing in print before:The game’s engine also sports body model reactions, which means if you plug a creature in the chest, the chest area will reel…

TeamXbox trailer mirror update: The files (both the .asf and the .mpg) seem to have disappeared from thecorpse.com… but The Junkyard moves in to fill the void. Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to say that the .mpg version is now available on the Junkyard’s Downloads page. Thanks, Mhaddy! Update: Silly person that I am, I mistyped…

WereTiger writes to clarify some details about the Game Ranking poll at OXMOnline that we mentioned yesterday: The order of games is arbitrary – or at least, was set by the OXM staff, not the fans that voted. If you check the individual polls, you’ll see a different story – right now, 335 of 977…

Still wondering about that Halo Launch Party? Matt visited our forum today to explain the delay in the announcement – read it for yourself. Details as we learn them…

*Ar-Isildur of *WP* has created another MasterCard ‘Priceless’ parody – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Nice shot!

If you haven’t been able to get the mpeg version of TeamXbox’s movie from either TeamXbox’s site or from FunkyJ’s Hotline server, the good folks at thecorpse.com have added a mirror of it on the page we mentioned this morning. We’ll be putting up full mirror lists for this, and the interview movie, sometime today.

The official Xbox Magazine website relaunched recently… and one of their features is a Top 10 Game Ranker. Currently Halo is second, behind DOA3. Hmm…

A pair of new Fan Fictions arrived in quick succession today – Mr Bill Jr V’s ‘The Marine’ takes its flavor from recent released footage, while Vector40’s ‘The Sixty Minute War’ is a tribute to last week’s horrible events. (It’s not finished yet.) Check ’em both out in our Fan Fiction section!

We got a note that an early Halo clan, Societas Signi, has been reborn as clanLein. We had a bit of trouble with the website – looks best (what’s there of it) in Explorer.

A couple of mirrors have popped up for the .asf version of the TeamXbox video:FilePlanet (thanks, Battleground: Halo)thecorpse.comBoth versions are 8 meg zipped files. Additionally, FunkyJ has mirrored the 19.4 meg MPEG version on his Hotline server (details in this post)… the original, astoundingly, is still on TeamXbox’s site, as well. This one (in either…

jonki, Halo’s product planner, dropped into our forum to clarify that the first Halo ad is just now getting into production. October was the last date we heard…

We’ve put together a page of screen captures from the newest halo footage over at TeamXbox – you can see 21 shots showing some of the fun stuff in this movie.

Matt Liebhold writes to say that Penny Arcade mentions Halo today in their news post…Since I don’t remember (and it keeps changing) whether or not Halo will be available for the PC ever, I’m going to get my Halo on the only way I know how. Who knows? It’s got full co-op (Thank HEAVENS), maybe…

Wow – TeamXbox has gotten their hands on a 2 minute, 9 meg movie (.asf format) of Halo gameplay. Great new footage… and a teaser for http://www.combatevolved.com/ at the end (resolves to Microsoft’s main site at the moment). Thanks to Chanan for the heads-up!

Thanks to Uriel, who pointed out this article at Gamestar.de – apparently, they’ve gotten ‘official word’ from Microsoft that Halo WILL be coming to the PC, and that the ‘Only on Xbox’ tagline refers to other consoles, not to a PC version. (Yes, Matt Soell has said this a hundred times… but many people have…