Year: 2001

In the rush for E3, little things get forgotten… we’d like to wish Jaime Griesemer a very Happy Birthday today! Pax.

Thanks to Gothmog, who points out a new poll over at msxbox.com – WWhich Xbox game are you looking forward to the most from E3? Currently, Halo holds a nice lead – 37% of 300+ votes – but you never know. Go make your voice heard!

The Halo SETI Marines keep their position in the top 50 Club Teams, due in large part to the addition of several new members – welcome, jcampen, ducky sauce, and signum! DarthFlounder seems to have been unsuccessful at finding all the machines running clients for him, since he passed the mythical 7777 mark this week……

Thanks to Cartack, who noticed a feature in Time Magazine (by way of Xbox Campus) in which Halo gets a brief mention. The feature is called ‘The Battle of Seattle’, and compares the Xbox to the Nintendo GameCube. Halo gets touched upon when they discuss the realistic abilities of the Xbox: Just take a walk…

Friday’s Weekly Halo Update has been moved to the Halo Update Database… word of the week is ‘warthog’. Does it look like Bungie’s been focusing on this bad boy recently?

Halo Developer Diary. Thanks to dcd for pointing us to the 1st installment of a Halo Developer Diary over at PlanetXbox. Jaime Griesemer reflects on “some of the sweeping (and to some of our fans, disturbing) changes that Halo has gone through.”

Zandog is getting ready for the online gaming switch… but his uncertainty is clear in this latest submission to our Wallpaper section. He probably has a bit more time to adjust… what do you think?

Thanks again to Darkman, who uploaded a new, much nicer scan of the Hyper magazine interview we mentioned yesterday. It’s fully readable now. (Quite a bit larger, too – almost 500K.)

Thanks to Razorback, who sent in another desktop for our Wallpaper page. Pretty spiffy!

Kalis uploaded a funky scan (271K) of an article out of an Australian gaming mag called Hyper. Some of the text is cut off, and some is unreadable… but what’s left is pretty interesting stuff. It’s an interview with Joe Staten, and it contains some great quotes.On health:”We are never going to have little health…

Eldar-colonel sends word that CNBC Australia ran a piece recently about cheap computer prices, on the technology news program E-Generation. During the piece, the E3 2000 trailer was showing on a whole series of screens for about 30 seconds. Nice product placement!

Short but sweet – Matt’s Weekly Halo Update is at Haloplayers this week, and boy, I’m happy I’m gonna be at E3. Warthogs can hurt people – as in hit-and-run; that should make lots of our forum regulars happy. Luckily, though, the dropships no longer drop them on Marines… check out the last Halo Update…

Bongo sends in another desktop for our Wallpaper section – if only. (Grass will NOT look like this in the real game… but it’s nice to imagine.)

Often, our forum is full of flaming, and first-time visitors asking standard questions, and whimsical musings… but every once in a while a thread comes along that asks some serious questions, and brings up some serious issues. carbon started such a thread last night – he was worried about the Halo hype. (Yeah, not a…

Thanks to Lurker, who noticed (over on R.net’s forum) a Halo mention in the mainstream press: MSNBC has an article that looks at Rogue Squadron 2 for the GameCube – and it looks at Halo, in comparison:In fact, many of Microsoft’s games are shaping up nicely as the company prepares for its fall launch. Halo,…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Darwin Campa had put up 4 new desktop images – we’ve finally gotten around to adding them to the Wallpaper section here. Enjoy!

I ignored making tracks now as it didn’t matter, the appearance of body parts should be clue enough that I had been here.Neil Grattan drops us the first part of his new Fan Fiction, ‘The Great Escape’. Check it out, along with the rest of our Fan Fiction section!

Stephan writes to let us in on an ugly little secret – Halo is just a mod for Counter-Strike! Dang, those Bungie guys had us fooled…

Picky mentioned on our forum that he’s put up another 27 webcam pics, showing lots of Halo gameplay. The webcam’s quality is turning most monitor colors to shades of blue, leading PIcky to believe they’re all water shots… but even if his commentary isn’t always right, the pics are intriguing. Next week, of course, we’ll…

Funky. Bongo, our OniShots guy, has sent in a bit of wallpaper for your desktop – clean lines, uncluttered… and it promotes HBO. What more could you want?