Year: 2001

A pretty gruesome new entry has been added to our Fan Fiction collection – Kyo has sent in Part One of ‘Prince of Angels’ for your reading pleasure (or horror, as the case may be). Don’t forget to let him know what you think!

Dink!… Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose three MORE positions (down to 60) in the Battle of the Teams… and we’ve just been challenged by an upcoming team! Doesn’t help when high-unit crunchers like SpudNYC jump ship… but that doesn’t explain how the SETI servers lost another 600 of our units. Hang on, Jim,…

The Reviews page just got a little easier to navigate – an alphabetical popup at the top of the page will bring you to the review you’re looking for. Seemed reasonable, since the review count hit 40 yesterday…

Ghost ramping… a new sport? From daedulus1187:To play you need a ghost and some stuff to ramp over. The scorpion tank works the best. All you do is just go over the ramp and hold a direction and you can do all kinds of tricks, like barrel rolls and back flips. And to get extra…

Lost Hours, a column on the Coming Attractions website, has reviewed Halo – loved the gameplay, hated the lack of a ‘boss’ (and didn’t like the fact that the main character had an ‘uncanny resemblance’ to the main character in Doom), and wished there was a level editor – the game got a 9/10. (It…

Feeling a little depressed at the end of Halo? Looks like Bungie did its job right – you cared about your Marine buddies. A thread on our forum about the weight of fighting completely without human help in the second half of the game elicited this response from Marty O’Donnell:I just want you to know…

IDMT13@aol.com sends along a new desktop (in three sizes) made from the Joypad cover last month – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Hot on the heels of our link-culling, firfin sends word of Halo Game, a French Halo site. take a look!

It was about time. Our Links page was getting rather long in the tooth… so today, I went through and pulled all pages that either 1) don’t exist any more, or 2) haven’t been touched in a while. (‘A while’ was defined, rather arbitrarily, by me, to be one month.) Makes for a much shorter…

Oh, man… Catachan, of Battleground: Halo, got his copy of PC Zone magazine today… and it contained some eyebrow-raising news:Our guess is that Halo for the PC will be out next autumn, probably to coincide with the announcement of Halo 2, which is already being worked on and a cert to arrive on Xbox first…

GiXeLz sends in a nice muted-tone desktop image, in three sizes, for our Wallpaper collection. Think of this as a nostalgic look at what Halo might have been (though there’s an awful lot of what Halo is, in there, too…).

Knight Premier writes to suggest that there’s a clear relationship between the 7th Column logo and 343 Guilty Spark, a character from Halo. (As well, of course, as the obvious relationship between Sparky and the Marathon logo…) You make up your own mind. (He’s modified the 7th Column logo a bit, to help you out.)

Halo crushed the competition in the last VoodooExtreme poll, ‘Your pick for 2001 console game of the year?’ (47% of 4140 votes, more than the next 10 games combined) – but it’s currently in third place in a new poll, ‘Which game released in 2001 had the best graphics?’ (Max Payne and Return to Castle…

Thanks to Razorback, who noticed that Halo snagged the #9 spot in IGN’s Hot 25 contest. Take a look, and enter to win the console of your choice!

Fall of Reach details… Eric Trautmann drops an interesting tidbit into the Marathon’s Story page forum – there’s been some discussion, on and off, about the outrage felt towards Dr. Halsey, and her involvement in the ‘recruitment’ of children for the SPARTAN project. The moral offense of replacing a child with a flash-clone (so that…

Matt Soell dropped into our forum with a status update about the fan-conducted Jason Jones interview:He’s trying to give in-depth answers – many of the questions are not the sort of thing he could answer quickly without being glib, which he doesn’t want to do. So he’s taking the time he needs to answer with…

Aargh! Just when you thought it was safe to go to bed! ActiveXbox posted their Halo review today… but I missed it earlier. Graphics and Sounds took high honors, Manual and Price (??) were the low votes… overall rating was 95%. The Reviews page continues to grow. (Thanks, Blue’s News, for the heads-up.)

Oops, we missed one – PC Magazine reviewed Halo on November 15. Short but sweet (appropriate, since it’s on a platform the magazine doesn’t cover)… they gave it a 5/5. Yes, it’s on the Reviews page.

We got to pokin’ again, and found 4 unnoticed Halo reviews. None of these are dated (they’re not even listed in the news sections of the sites in question)… but hey, we know they’re from the last few weeks, right? Xbox Gaming rated Halo 98%, Xbox Gamers said 9.9/10, Xbox City thought it was a…

What th… Matt Soell finally gives it up and explains his two-year-old comment about wall-hugging hippos… and you’re left with a NEW question! (They were proximity mines, that never made it into the game… or did they?)