Year: 2001

As sort of a teaser for the upcoming Halo Story site, we’ve pestered Marty O’Donnell until he answered our questions, just to make us go away; we’ve compiled a list of voice actors (from the Halo manual, mostly, with a few additions), and Marty’s matched them up with names. This is a nice resource for…

Wondering about seamless virtual worlds? Chris Butcher holds forth on some of the issues standing in the way of you and zero loading times. When you think about it… the minimal times we currently see are pretty amazing!

Psyrixx writes to say that The Psyjnir Complex is back up and running. And who has joined the team but …HBO forum regular *Ar-Isildur of *WP*! Goodness. Go visit. (5+ versions of browsers only, please.)

Dink!… Dink!… Even though unit production is climbing, the Halo SETI Marines continue to tumble in the Battle of the Teams – this week, it’s two more notches to 62nd. Only 150 team members (of an impressive 710) turned in a unit this week – were YOU on that list? Check the 7 day stats…

Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who pointed out this pretty cool movie made by ‘Bonk’, showing (VERY clearly) an easy way to put the Warthog on the roof of the Blood Gulch base. It’s 41 seconds, and about 5 megs – quality is quite good. Enjoy!

It’s pretty clear that some vote padding occurred in the last VoodooExtreme poll – Blizzard (with no real releases except the Diablo II expansion pack) flew away with the ‘Best Developer of 2001’ poll – 7197 votes, which is what an average VE poll gets, TOTAL. Bungie came in third, behind Bioware (with 1561 and…

LK.Rage writes to let us know about a new Halo clan – Lethal Killers are currently playing UT together, but they’ll add Halo to the rotation as soon as the PC version is out. Check ’em out!

Genohunter points out that GamersHQ at MadOnion.com has a weekend quick poll, asking for your favorite console. Currently, the Xbox is in the lead, followed by the Playstation 2.

VoodooExtreme Robert ‘Apache’ Howarth has put up Apache’s Top10 of 2001, an article detailing what he thought were the 10 best games of the year. And Halo turns up at … Number 1.1) Halo (Bungie)Ê­ After playing through Halo a couple times I can safely say with no repentance that it’s one of the most…

Eric Trautmann mentions that there’s a Halo review in the latest issue of TV Guide. (He hadn’t actually seen it, so he couldn’t summarize.) We were hoping to get our hands on a copy today… didn’t happen. We’ll try again tomorrow. Meanwhile, if anyone has this lying around, next to their scanner… Update: Thanks to…

Hot damn – finally, a theory you can sink your teeth into! Thaumaturge suggests that the Halo was built by… humans. I’m not gonna steal his thunder, so go and read the whole shebang – it smacks of Bungie goodness, right out of the gate. Now, where’s that dang Story site?

Space Cowboy points out that Next Generation magazine reviewed Halo, and gave it 5/5 stars. Their opinion:”Let’s keep this simple: ʈalo is one of the best games you’ll ever play. ʐeriod.”Maybe it’s time to start adding magazine reviews to the Reviews page… but to do that, we’d have to go back and figure out who…

Matt Soell stopped by our forum to debunk the Adrenaline Vault ‘cheat’ posted earlier – it ain’t true. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to finish the game on Legendary in 3 hours… just be aware that doing so will get you nothing except maybe a headache.

Huh? Adrenaline Vault is listing the following hint in their Halo Cheats section:Beat the easiest setting then on the hardest in 3 hours to unlock 2 new gunsI’m nowhere near good enough to confirm or deny this… anyone want to give it a shot? Thanks to Afoxi for the heads-up.

A couple of weeks ago, Bungie solicited questions for a fan-conducted interview with Jason Jones. They said the answers would be available the following week. (That should have been last week.) Last week, Matt Soell apologized, explaining that Jason wanted to do it right – and was taking extra time. He said it would be…

Halo Orbit has packaged up some 200+ screenshots, ranging from July 1999 through this month, and made them available in a single zip download. You can find the link on their Downloads page (It’s called ‘Screenshotarchiv #1’). Only 16 megabytes! Get yours today.

The Haloport team writes with the info that they’re looking for a few beta testers for their site. The official request:www.haloport.com is looking for select members of the Halo community to beta test a system which has been underdevelopment for several months. We’re looking for mainly squad leaders, members of squads and anyone of great…

ActionTrip has reviewed Halo – ‘A HALO review from a PC gamer’s perspective’ – and though they spend well over half the review whining about how Halo isn’t really a console title (and the Xbox is really a mini-PC in disguise), and how they HAVE to take points off because “MS ruined some of the…

Last month, Matt Soell wrote an article for the opening of Bungie’s Seventh Column community site called ‘Hosting a LAN Party’. Now Part 2, written by David ‘Candyman’ Candland, has been posted: ‘Finding the Right Venue’. It has some great ideas about places to get together, if your living room just doesn’t cut it. It…

A glimpse into the mind of a Portuguese student… Razorback submits a sketch he did during school last year, doodles and all. I love the duck. 🙂 Check it out on our Miscellaneous Art page.