Year: 2001

This week’s Halo update is over at Rampancy.net… thanks to Acrappa for getting it up in the face of adversity. The Mighty Chris Butcher is mighty no longer… but Chucky just got Swarthy. (Yo-ho-ho…) A new name pops up – Eric Arroyo. And the shotgun gets bigger… go read all the groovy details for yourself.

More than two years after their original posting, Knight Premier sends in some thoughts about the first Cortana Letter (with ramblings about the rest, and a host of other topics, for good measure). Check it out in our Theories section.

Siva pointed out a poll at FunXbox, asking about the most-anticipated Xbox game… but by the time we went by, it was over. Seems there was a last-minute Halo push, though – because in the hour and a half between when Siva posted and when the poll closed, Halo went from ‘a few percentage points’…

Sikora drops off a new wallpaper, showing off the various environments the marine pops up in. You can find it in our Wallpaper section.

Thanks to both Marcus Tacker, and Deacon, who sent in pics of an Xbox from the Bungie webcam. (Marcus’ pic came in first, but Deacon’s was clearer.) That puppy looks MASSIVE!

Dead Glory writes to say that the results of his Bungie poll are up – he interviewed 181 fans about their feelings for Bungie. Go to dg.rules.it and click on ‘Misc’ or ‘Updates’.

Thanks to Tom Van Sinden, who sent in a pretty slick little Halo sticker – anyone got a sticker printer? You’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

PlanetXbox has put up the second installment in their Halo Development Diary, wherein Level Designer Jaime Griesemer talks about training players to use Halo without boring them to death. Instead of step-by-step voiceovers, you’ll learn skills as you go:For instance, at one point you engage some Covenant from down a hallway and the only good…

It landed on the platform no more than sixteen feet from him, then seemed to stretch its jelly-like mass towards the panel that he had previously been tinkering with. The feelings of anxiety reasserted themselves. Bob’s in trouble again, in the third segment of Tursas’ ‘Hermes Trismegistus’. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Not fully Halo-related… but absolutely worth a look. The visitors of the Fanfest Forum broke down the doors to arrival.bungie.org last night – and discovered some early Marathon memorabilia hidden in the cubbies behind. Level notes, discarded Bob sounds, even a bumper sticker… stop by and check it out. Username is ‘archive’, password is ‘outline’.

Bosskiller51 continues his modelling spree with the anti-armor rocket launcher – you’ll find it at Halo’s Universe.

Continuing with the older weapons, Bosskiller51 adds the anti-aircraft rocket launcher to the list of modeled weapons. Check it out at Halo’s Universe.

Eep. Decameron noticed, over on the R.net forum, that halo.bungie.com redirects to the wrong URL. Is someone working on the site? (New content, in other words?) Nah… probably just a mistake. Keep an eye on it, though…

Thanks to Char, who pointed out an interview with Microsoft’s Ed Fries over at TeamXbox.com. It’s a pretty interesting read, full of enthusiasm about the future (what a surprise, eh?). When asked how Microsoft is helping developers get the most out of the Xbox, Fries pointed out thatWe have strong internal development teams with great…

As you might have noticed, there is (again) a lack of a Halo SETI update today. The SETI servers are STILL having troubles with their scripts – and there are no statistics available yet. When this changes, we’ll run our stats. Apologies for the delay.

In last week’s Halo Update, Matt saidOn the programming side, we’ve made obstacle-avoidance and time-scale fixes (I’ll leave it to you to guess why time might speed up or slow down during gameplay)There was some speculation on the Marathon’s Story page that this might refer to some Matrix-like fight scenes… and I’d considered that it…

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database. The neat thing about the search function is that when you see something you think might be an error, you have an easy way to check it. Both Pallor and Hamish Sinclair (both usually very Bungie-savvy observers) questioned Matt’s use of the word…

Kudos to LTJ, whose sharp eyes spotted a Halo case in a fan of games held up by Robbie Bach in a photo over at MSXbox (the story is about the state of the online strategy). It’s pretty heartening to see a Halo box held up during a talk on MS’s online strategy… could there…

Of sort of general interest – Dead Glory, once a frequent visitor to our forum (and still around occasionally) interviewed a few prominent Bungie fans about the Bungie Community. Visit his site, and follow the ‘Misc’ link to the Bungie page to read the interviews.

Bosskiller51 continues his modeling frenzy – this time it’s the Sniper Rifle. You’ll find the 3d version over at Halo’s Universe.