Year: 2001

Sam Kite points out a Tribes 2 preview at PC Zone UK with an… interesting screenshot. Go to the second page of the review, and check out the top left screenie.

Gabriel Bregg posted (to our forum) some thoughts about the level of technology shown in Halo – you can find them in our Theories section.

The time for battle had come at last. At last I would be able to slaughter the aliens who threatened our race. They would die, all of them.Althalus sends in a new piece of Fan Fiction, ‘Death of a Soldier’, written from the Covenant point of view. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Just in case anyone thought the desktop Wirehead mentioned this morning looked familiar, Olaf submitted a very similar version to HBO last September – looks like the text got changed. Gotta keep on your toes to get one past us!

Cleaning out our Uploads folder, we ran across a couple of desktops uploaded recently. They came from Sweden, that’s all we know. Claim ’em if they’re yours… or just download ’em from our Wallpaper section. Pax.Update: Claimed.

For Great Justice… eek. The ‘All Your Base’ phenomenon invades HBO – Zypper sends in a Windows Media movie called ‘All your Halo’, turning Cats into a Red Covenant leader. It’s about 1.2 megs, and 47 seconds long – take a look.

In honor of Matt Soell’s conjecture on the relative strengths of sharks and hippos, Banzif (current leader of the Halo SETI Marines) has uploaded a tidbit for our Miscellaneous Art page… that’s one big hippo.

Someone set up us the scans. Freewill, Master of BS, dropped into our forum to tell us that he has scanned in the whole Next Generation magazine Halo article and upped them to his site Bungie Sightings. Best get them quick in case they are pulled. All your scans are belong to us… for now…

MacDesktops has posted another top quality Halo desktop from Olaf Kasper. It comes in a large number of sizes from 640×480 to 1600×1200. It uses the old Halo marine model which I must confess to favoring.

Harry Al-Shakarchi asks What if……it were the other way around: sitting in the jeep, you are in first person view, and on foot, third person…Interesting question, Harry. 🙂 (Thanks to Shacknews for the Planetside screenshots.)

We’ve received a bunch of mail today from folks who got email notification from EB World that the PC version of Halo was cancelled, and they could have their deposit back. Nick also posted a note to our forum about this issue. Matt Soell has once again jumped into the breach, and offered some words…

Marty O’Donnell popped into the R.net forums to clarify some facts about the ign.com edited movie we mentioned yesterday.Not only is it an edit but the music was put in by the fine folks at IGN. They used the same tune for a couple other movies also. This was not released by Microsoft, nor shown…

Thanks to Pallor, and Mat Noguchi, who both sent notice that the April 2001 issue of NextGen magazine has a 5-page spread (with pics) of Halo. We’ll be doing our best to grab a copy soon… check it out for yourselves!

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out that Open Tech Support has a Grey Matter column today called ‘Microsoft Didn’t Kill Halo’. It’s a lucid argument for letting Bungie get on with their jobs, without all the whining about how Halo is ruined… and that “instead of bashing Halo just because it is associated with Microsoft,…

John the Replicant writes to say that his local newspaper, the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, reviewed up-and-coming console technologies, and focused on the Xbox:The interesting part was that even though they didn’t use a screenshot from Halo, the author wrote that Halo was by far the most popular game at the recent M$ GameStock. It…

Mike Larson writes to say that they’ve started up what aims to be the first and best dedicated Halo gaming server: HALOServer.com. There’s nothing there yet (the site redirects to phiberoptix.com, a web hosting company), but they’re configuring now. Guess it pays to get ready early!

Thanks to HiddenTalon (and to Ramses II, who noticed this last night), who pointed out that Gamespot has a poll up:Which Xbox game do you want to see on the PC?Halo is crushing the competition, with (currently) 77% of the nearly 2500 votes… its nearest competitor is Oddworld, with 7 percent of the vote. Go…

Thanks to Jjarlrmai, who noted on our forum that Jeff K has put up a console comparison, and the ‘Ex Box’ is included – Halo is mentioned:Drive a jeep around a laek and shots guns at robots BUGS and enjoy yuor commute to workNever a dull moment at Something Awful…

The rain drops are as sharp as any covenant sword, and the cold bites deeper than any needle from their weapons ever could.A poignant story of love and pain from Iden – go read ‘Marred’, in our Fan Fiction section.

Thanks to Char (IMG), who noted on the R.net forum that ign.com has posted an edited version of the Gamestock movie – it’s a bit over 4 megs in size, 320×240 in screen size, and 35 seconds in length, with a new (non-Marty-sounding) soundtrack… Char thinks it’s what was shown at the Tokyo Game Show.…