Year: 2001

Sometimes, being part of a big organization means that things happen you don’t plan on. This message was posted on the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.mac.games.action yesterday – apparently, someone got into the beta testing lab, but wasn’t required to sign an NDA, and took the opportunity to pass along the info he learned. It’s an interesting…

Heh – the gooey green stuff is a big-enough surprise that even being on the Halo Dev team doesn’t guarantee you know what it is – Chris Butcher (over on the R.net forum) says even HE can’t answer the question Matt asked yesterday.

This week’s Halo Update is here – and while it’s mostly bugfixes and tweaks, there’s a bit of provocative stuff in there. What’s green and gooey and eats through the ground? (Happy Birthday, Other Mehve!) Go read all the goodness for yourself – it’ll be in the Halo Update Database in a few minutes.

Thanks to fate, who found the link at Blue’s News… PC Zone has put their Halo Preview online. They’re looking forward to the PC Multiplayer, obviously… and they think that the Xbox version is being badly rushed. Hmm. Read the preview for yourself!

You know… there have been a LOT of specific occasions where Matt Soell has stepped up and explicitly confirmed that Halo was DEFINITELY coming to the Mac and PC. There was this one… and this one… and this one… there was even this one (recently) from Alex Seropian, co-founder and current manager of Bungie Studios.…

Aginor started with the flamethrower pic from the new OXM preview, did a bit of judicious pixel pushing to remove the text (and fill in the remaining space), added a Halo logo… and ended up with this bit of Miscellaneous Halo Art. Nice job! As he says, it’s a shame the original pic was low-res,…

    The reality, or rather the surreality, of the situation began to sink in. Bob put his other hand on his knee and leant heavily on it. His breathing quickened and his vision blurred momentarily. “Talking to a plant. How foolish.” Tursas sends along chapter 6 of his Hermes Trismegistus saga – you’ll find it in…

It’s that time again… Id points out (over on R.net’s forum) that Gamespot’s got a new ‘Which Xbox title are you most looking forward to’ poll up; Halo’s currently in fourth place, behind WWF Raw is War, Metal Gear Solid X, and Matrix. See if you can help…

=NAV=Shadow writes to say that clan NAVCON has created a new (4.3 MB!) flash intro for their website, showing the various members of the clan. They’re looking for new members, and clans that would like to become allies. Visit the site, or drop =NAV=Shadow a note if you’re interested!

Vector40 sends in the introductory piece of a multipart story in the works – Hawk Chronicles. The Fan Fiction section overfloweth!

“At an unknown time, your ship is going to disappear and reappear somewhere else. If all goes well, that is.”Part 1 of Omniscient’s story ‘Sea of Steel’ has been added to the Fan Fiction section – it’s a night for reading. Check it out – aircraft carriers on Halo…

‘If I do this procedure you will be giving up your humanity. You were briefed about this?’ ‘Yes Sir.’A nameless one undergoes a critical operation in Brent Anderson’s fan fiction, ‘Halo’. Check it out (along with 146 other pieces) in our Fan Fiction section.

Interested in starting up a Halo fansite, but don’t have a cool domain name? Looks like Halo-World.com is about to be released (its registration expired last week, and the URL now forwards to this informational page). This suggests that maybe it’s time to prune some of the entries on our Links page…

“Is That A Talking Head In Your Sack Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?” Matt Soell chimes in on our forum, stepping into a debate on whether Phoenix and Myth III were ever one and the same. Seems they weren’t.

Mock writes to say that the totally revamped site of airbornerangers.org is up and running. A bumped up forum, an online store (!), and Community news from… wait for it… US! Very snazzy, overall. Nice job, guys! (They’ve served the Myth community for 2 full years now, and they’re branching out into Halo.)

A week ago, we posted a note about a new site called Online Universe, that was aiming to provide game developers some insight into what their fans want. At the time, they’d put up a Question of the Week, “If Halo has online support, what features would you want?” Well, the week’s gone by, and…

Thanks to Cesar Berardini, of Team Xbox, for another link to the hi-res PC Gamer scans mentioned this morning. (Same scans, easier to get to.) Picky noticed on our forum that the scans Young Gwasshoppah put up are low-res not because that’s how they were scanned, but because he told the server to scale them…

Zineas writes to let us know about a Swedish Halo site, Ringworld HALO. I can’t read it… and the text is pretty dang small on a Netscape browser… but the Gallery is pretty slick! Nice work, overall. Check it out! (Hey… some of those weapons shots look AWFULLY familiar…)

Fanatic sends us another logo for our Logos section. Pretty!

Barak, over at Haloplayers, noticed that this month’s PC Zone (UK) contains a one-page article on Halo – mostly recent screens, but also some interesting info. See what Barak has to say… and then go look for the mag!