Year: 2001

Woohoo! NEW SHOTS! Thanks to Scott Cline who noticed 5 of ’em at MSXbox, and to Zypper, who hollered in the Xbox site (which has the same five shots, plus this one). Commentary later, maybe… right now, we’re droolin’. 🙂

The Marathon’s Story page had an interesting hypothesis this morning – that one of the business cards that showed up on the Bungie Webcam last night was Halo-related, due to its shape. Thanks again to Pallor and Mat Noguchi, who collaborated to bring us this closeup of that card – it’s clear that 1) it’s…

Now HERE is an interesting theory. Foxhound puts forth a novel suggestion for the origin of ‘Pillar of Autumn’, the ship that brings the humans (and, indirectly, the Covenant) to the Halo. Have your own ideas? Add them to the thread!

xbox.ign.com weighs in with their preview of tomorrow’s events… the Halo comments are interesting:Halo: Well, uh, “duh”. Anyone who had doubts about this puppy being shown, shouldn’t even be calling themselves an Xbox fan. Supposedly, the latest version running off the NV20 chipset will be there, and that is said to look much better than…

Thanks to Pallor, who sent in the first mail we got with the new Bungie business cards (as seen on the Bungie Webcam). There are more now…

Blam! Even with the loss of Soviet and his 767 units (to the MacAddict team), the Halo SETI Marines climb a notch to 47 in the Battle of the Teams. Nice going, guys! See who’s pulling their weight on the 7 day stats page. Pax.

Death and destruction everywhere! Another piece of Fan Fiction gets submitted this morning:There they were, brilliant infrared blobs in his scanner, oblivious to his presence.Check out the Fan Fiction section for the rest of Zypper’s ‘Trial Under Fire’. Pax.

The large Covenant tank fired its huge weapon, filling the pass with aqua radiance.Another grim tale is submitted to our Fan Fiction section – check out Dredwing’s ‘Night Assault: The Mystic Savior’!

Friday’s weekly Halo Update, posted over at Haloplayers, has now been added to the Halo Update database. Search term of the week is ‘chain gun’… follow the progress since it was first introduced, 6 weeks ago!

MSXbox has put up their own preview of the Gamestock event which happens tomorrow. The Halo mention:Bungie Software’s Halo is quite possibly one of the most anticipated titles of the past few years. Halo is a third-person sci-fi action game in which all the action will take place in the sky, on land, under the…

Interesting. Physalis notes on our forum that Cortana.org has more content, currently, than the simple placeholder it’s had for a while. The top graphic incorporates a bit of an old Halo screenshot, and the navigation links (as yet unlinked) refer to players in the Marathon, Myth, and Halo universes. As Physalis notes, cortana.org is delineated…

Bastard sends in what we hope is the start of a multipart piece of Fan Fiction – The Tides of War. Wolmak doubted they would make it far into the forest today, as he was being cautious about Svith’s warning. Only a mile into the forest and they could all sense that something about the…

Ricardo Rosado sends word that yesterday’s Gamespy newsletter (he sent it hours and hours ago – it was still current then) has a poll asking you to choose the ‘Team-Based Action FPS Game’ you’re looking forward to the most. Halo was third, following Team Fortress 2 and Tribes 2. Worth subscribing to to let ’em…

Last June, when the news of the Microsoft buyout first went public, there was quite a bit of discussion about the possibility of Halo being the Xbox’s ‘killer app’ – a game so good that gamers will buy an Xbox just to play it. (In fact, In October, 2000, Daily Radar wrote a piece suggesting…

Watching the sunrise over the edge of Threshold, I knew that there was a decent chance I could die in any number of ways before I got back to my HQ.Todd Hansen submits chapter 2 of his story-in-progress, ‘Vision of an Apocalypse’. Read it in our Fan Fiction section! Pax.

Heh… for those who want to play with the Halo marine’s armor NOW (the original Halo marine, that is), check out this page. Holiday calls it HaloArmor. Looks pretty good to us! All you need is a copy of Rune… (Originally pointed out on our forum.)

PlanetXbox has a ‘preview’ of next week’s Gamestock event… info is a bit sketchy, but here’s what they say about Halo:Jason Jones of Bungie Studios should be on hand to show off Halo in one form or another. We’re hoping to see a playable version of the title at this point but it may be…

Oops! Apologies to Scythe, who uploaded a new desktop for us about a week ago – but we never noticed it in our upload folder. (Folks – if you want to be sure we see it, drop us an email. 🙂 ) Anyway, it’s up now, and you can see it on our Wallpaper page.

Thanks to Zypper, who pointed out that this week’s Halo Update is over at Haloplayers… and it sounds like they might just be ready for Gamestock. New music (this might be the bestest part), better AI, and lots of gameplay tweaks. Go read it for yourself… and brace for Monday/Tuesday’s impact!

Thanks to MoBill, who pointed out the (future) link of Microsoft’s Gamestock 2001 page. There’s nothing there yet… but there will be, on Tuesday.