Year: 2001

Matt Soell dropped in on our forums to give an update on the status of the Halo playtest. Looks like if you want in, you’d better move fast.

Evan Sharp sends in two wallpaper variations on a theme, which may be found here and here.

The air snapped and flashed, three times. Banning closed his left eye reflexively. When he opened it again, there were six pock marks all along the metallic walls. Wilder grinned, holstered, walked up, and gave the door a kick. Vector40 sends the next part of his Hawk Chronicles. Find out more of what really happened…

Steen Neilsen sends in a new piece of art named Classified Info.

I was hollow in my dream, a ring, yearning to be satisfied enough to live in peace. I think that is a brillant metaphor for who I am now isn’t it? Hollow, a hole in my soul that I can’t quite fill. I wonder if they did this to me when they made me a…

Nekio sends in a new wallpaper featuring the Cyborg in action.

ÊŠÊŠ I feel something is here waiting for me, guiding me, telling me something. But I want nothing to do with some kind of higher power, or intelligence. I never was a religious man, perhaps that was half the reason why I became a mech in the first place. From Mad Dog – CFH comes…

Gamespot has thrown up a new poll: Which Microsoft-published game are you looking forward too? I think we all know the answer to that…

Team Xbox has investigated the new Halo logo spotted recently, and gotten this reply from Matt himself:It’s just a tagline, not part of the title (i.e. the game is still named “Halo” not “Halo: Combat Evolved”).

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to our database. Did the Bungie crew survive?

Tom Van Sinden points out an interesting post by Bungie d00d Ferrex to the Rampancy.net forum. I’ve been wanting that since day 1!

The Online Universe has posted the results of the latest Halo Question of the Week

From Bungie Sightings: Bungie is about to hold a series of semi-public Halo playtest days! More information, and instructions on how to get a piece o’ de action can be found on Bungie Sightings. In short: You must reserve a spot ahead of time, you must be in the Redmond, WA area, you must sign…

Hoo boy. Vector40 sends in more – a lot more – of his epic Hawk Chronicles. First, there’s Hawk Chronicles: Prologue, to set the scene. However, Hawk Chronicles: Chapter 1 took a bit of work to post: The database behind the scenes at Halo.bungie.org can only handle fan fiction in 32K chunks, so Chapter 1…

Charles Powell sends in a new wallpaper. Look at those two… You can cut the tension with a knife.

An interesting thread on the TeamXBox forums points out that Microsoft’s Halo page is now sporting a brand new logo. Combat Evolved? Sounds good! Thanks to Andrew Paul for pointing it out to us.

The Group on Elites were walking along the hillside, headed due east.There were about five of them, maybe 6. It was hard to tell from 1300 meters.Koontzy sends in a short, action-packed story entitled “Silent Assasians”.

“Hang on, sir, I’m moving a little closer,” said another voice. Louis heard the rustle of leaves and sticks cracking on the radio. Thirty seconds later, the voice returned. “Affirmative. Repeat, affirmative contact. I think it is the clearing, sir.”The crew of the Alcatraz investigates mysterious goings-on as Omniscient sends in another chapter of ‘Sea…

Your friendly neighborhood maintainer is off for a bit – gonna do some cycling in eastern Canada. Count Zero, who showed up briefly a few days ago, will be filling in for the next couple of weeks… so if anything gets badly screwed up, blame him. (Or blame Crux, who should be whipped soundly for…

Short and sweet – that’s this week’s Halo Update, to be found over at Battleground: Halo. Lots of improvements in weapons, AI, spit and polish… and “Vehicles blow up real good now.” Go read all the details over at BGH!