Year: 2001

This week’s Halo Update mentions that ‘the Shadow is back in the game.’ This line instigated a sizeable amount of discussion, both on our forum and at Rampancy.net, from folks who weren’t sure what the Shadow is. (It’s a Covenant vehicle.) Ian McConville, our resident Mad Artist, has posted another of his entertaining speculations on…

fAt1, of MPZ Halo, sent in such a nicely written description of the Edge article mentioned a few days ago on our forum that we’re just gonna post it. Edge, the most respected videogaming journal in the UK, had their E3 feature in the latest issue (99), and it had a lot of Halo in…

Neil Grattan points out a short article he’s written on the relative merits of the Xbox vs the PS2. His conclusion – the Xbox is gonna wipe the floor with the PS2. Check out his points.

Apologies for the slacking yesterday – I was out of town, and the rest of these clowns? Who knows… anyway, time for some catch-up. In a recent thread on our forum, it was pointed out that the underwear the player’s character wears can be of utmost importance – Ian McConville’s graphic depiction says it best.…

Matt, in a blaze of speed (or maybe just an effort to get out of the office early), kicks out this week’s Halo Update in record time. The content, however, wasn’t skimped on. Lots of little stuff this week – working on the fine details. (Remember where God is…) And what’s this… the Shadow’s back?…

‘Tis the season to make wallpaper, it seem… Xboxman has sent in a new image to prettify your desktop. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

An upcoming Halo movie? Matt’s not talking… but he still says stuff. Hmm…

Thanks to CarthagTuek, who suggested a nifty little enhancement for the news page – the headlines section for older days on a page now contains links to the full days referenced; today, for example, whil you can still get to the individual posts in Wednesday’s news, if you want to read ALL of them, just…

A couple of days ago, a new desktop image was uploaded to our ftp space. Due to an unfortunate accident, the logs were lost – we have no idea who sent this. If it was you, let us know! (You can see the image in our Wallpaper section.) Update: The image has been claimed by…

Thanks to Ph.D., who pointed out an interesting article on The Elements of Gameplay, over at Gamasutra. It’s a good read, and hopefully gives the Halo dev team a few things to think about!

Jay Weinland, audio engineer on the Halo team, dropped into our forum to clarify his job description. The Elderly One will probably be thrilled to hear that Jay describes his job asSound Designer, Audio Engineer, and all-around Marty slave(That means he gets to carry around that huge horn that Marty holds up to his ear…

It was all over in a moment. The sharp pain he felt in his chest and neck turned to dull warmth as it tore him to the ground, ripping limb from limb, guzzling his intestines and other organs.Poor Bob. This guy needs a smiley-face sticker, don’t you think? Go read Chapter 3 of Hermes Trismegistus,…

Apparently, the ambient life seen in the E3 trailer is not currently in Halo. Matt Soell stopped into our forum to pass along this note in answer to the question about whether ambient life would be present in Halo:Ambient life is still on the To-Do list, and it’s not that far down either. I can’t…

Sometimes, people just lose it.

Ph.D. has taken it upon himself to put together a full list of Halo Development Team members, along with their job descriptions, where available. Pieces of this have been floating around the net for a couple of years now… but nobody’s ever put it all together in one place before. Once finalized, this information will…

As several people noted last week, the SETI servers finally started crunching stats again, so we’ve gotten to the Halo SETI Marines 7-day stats (this time out, 21 days) again as well. Looks like crunching went on as before – numbers are roughly three times the normal weekly output. (This is good – it means…

Last week’s update has been added to the Halo Update Database – and man, it’s getting big. Sounds like this week most stuff is unmentionable… but one thing has changed – the Mighty Chris Butcher is Mighty no more. The end of a 4-month era…

Over at Rampancy.net, there’s a very interesting post from Chris Butcher, currently working on AI in Halo, about the direction this field is going. Definitely worth a read.

Cody Ellis, one of the Flash directors at FunXbox.com, dropped us a note to let us know that he’s put together a little (okay, big) Halo teaser, in Flash. It’s a 3.8 MB file, but it’s a pretty nice presentation of some Halo images over the years. Check it out!

Andreas den Hertog writes to say that he’s started up a Halo fansite, called HQ HALO. Check it out!