Year: 2001

Thanks to Joe Staten, of the Halo Cinematics team, who posted to R.net’s forum today, clarifying a bit about cutscenes in Halo. Nice info: All of Halo’s cinematics will be rendred in the engine. Some cinematics you’ll be able to move while they’re playing (non-interruptive) and some you’ll just have to sit back and watch…

fAt1, of MPZ Halo, let us know that we can probably expect PC Gamer UK to hammer Halo in their upcoming E3 article – he spoke briefly with editor Matt Pierce, and it seems they were very disappointed that Halo is currently showing only on the Xbox. (Not horribly surprising, for a magazine that focuses…

Johannes Gunnar sends along a desktop pointing out a connection that’s important to him. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Koontzy sends us part 5 of his ‘Land of the Unknown’ saga. It’s getting a little odd. You’ll find it, along with lots of other fan fiction, in our Fan Fiction section.

Took a while to find some slow time… but the Screenshots section has been updated – you’ll find the 15 official pics released by Microsoft last week on the Gaming Sites page, and a number of camera shots taken off the monitors at E3 on the Unofficial page. (Most, though not all, of these have…

Wow. You’d think that they’d take a break after E3… just to calm down. (I suppose since the actual programmers didn’t even GO to E3, it’s understandable that they didn’t… but it’s still surprising.) This week’s Halo Update is over at Rampancy.net… and it’s chock-full of goodies. New multiplayer options, a new team member, more…

And they just keep coming – Koontzy sends us part 4 of his Land of the Unknown. Read it in the Fan Fiction section.

Gamespy has put up their Best of E3 awards… Halo snagged a runner-up award in the ‘Best Xbox Games’ category. Xbox.ign has posted two top 5 games lists (one for each editor) – and Halo made Jeremy’s list. Unfortunately, Halo was ignored by Well-Rounded Entertainment and VoodooExtreme – and actively panned by the Stratos Group…

Sharp-eyed Aginor once again spotted a nice review – this time from Game Revolution. It’s a first-person account of one man’s E3 playing experience, and it’s a fun read. Go check it out.

Battle of the fiction writers: Anrkey has sent in the next part of his ‘Close Combat’ story – ‘Survival’. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Vector40 sent in the final part of his 4-part generically titled ‘Halo Story’. Marathon fans, take note. (Don’t forget, you can read the story in its entirety with the ‘More by this author’ link.) The Fan Fiction section is up to 150 submissions…

Thanks to Aginor, who noticed another Cliffy B (audio) interview on XGR.com – this time he’s giving his thoughts on E3. The second part has a tiny quote on Halo:Well, Halo looked very solid, I wonder if a first-person shooter can sell a console from a launch. The markets are tricky out there.(He immediately moved…

A new section has opened up at HBO – the Bungie Research Center Photo Archives. You know as much as we do.

Anrkey sends in the story of Private Ryles – ‘Close Combat: Infiltration’. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section. Nice to see the area is hopping!

We hesitate to point this out, given how some folks tend to overreact to the words of Bungie employees… but it seems pretty clear from here. Matt Soell weighs in on the possibility of internet play for Halo – looks like it won’t happen, at least for the initial release, on the Xbox. NOTE: He…

E3 articles: hoslap.com was mostly unimpressed by Halo, but thought it nicely showed off the power of the Xbox:At the booth where they were demoing it, they had set up a multiplayer game between two consoles with 4 players on each console for a total of 8 players. The fact that the graphics were decent…

Gothmog points out a new poll over at Dream Machine, an Xbox site we’d never heard of. “What Xbox game are you most looking forward to?” We took a look around the site, and found a Halo preview, written about 3 weeks ago in an… um… interesting style. Either the author consumed a massive amount…

Aginor pipes up on our forum, pointing out a GamePC E3 report, which gave Halo their ‘Most Disappointing’ award for the show (tied with the Xbox, in general). They didn’t even like the single-player:Their flagship game, Halo, was displayed in a four-way split screen (a la Golden Eye). The graphics were choppy and the resolution…

In what’s quickly turning into Ph.D. day here at HBO, he points us to an MSXbox.com article that showcases some of the screenshots we took for the Fanfest V page and our E3 2001 coverage page. One that’s worth a second look – the Xbox controller diagram. Never mind the errors… the diagram makes it…

Whoa – not sure how we (and every other Halo site out there, it seems) missed it, but Ph.D. posted an interesting link to our forum last week – xbox.ign posted a direct feed video (not filmed off a screen with a camcorder) of some Halo gameplay last Friday. It’s in QuickTime format, and it’s…