Year: 2001

Heh… Louis talked. Go check it out at Halo HQ.

The Bungie Store is open! Seems not to work for Mac users (and God help those who call the 888 number listed – I’m on hold as I write this, while the rep tries to find out if they actually SELL Oni – update; he thinks they don’t, I’m going back on hold)… but hey!…

“The fun part in terms of the music playback in the game is that it won’t play the same way twice.”With this, Marty O’Donnell had me hooked. He’s a sucker for a free beer, though, so I eventually got more of the story from him:So it’s a little something I’ve been working on for years…

Thanks go out to Chris Cox, who sends in a chapter of a new work, The Prisoner, for our Fan Fiction section. He leaves ya hangin… go read it! (And remember, if you like it, follow the “more by this author” link to read the rest of his work!)

We were gonna let this pass, but we started getting mail about it – Ding’s comment yesterday, on the possibility of a simultaneous US-Europe Xbox release, was off the mark. As we noted last month, Microsoft has officially stated that there WON’T be a simultaneous release… Ding had just forgotten to take his medicine. It…

Clarification from Matt – at the Bungie Fanfest, he was quoted as sayingThe next time you see Halo, it’ll be playable.This immediately led to a rumor that a demo would be released, which Matt quickly shot down… but it wasn’t until today that someone pinned him down as to what he DID mean. According to…

The Halo SETI Marines continue to crunch along at their reduced pace, hampered by the higher processing demands of the latest SETI client. DarthFlounder, however, seems to be unaffected, continuing the 200+ units/week output that has garnered la Crunch Honneur for so many weeks. Iden, too, is shooting up the charts, leaping past 74 competitors…

Seven Deadly Xbox Rumors. Thanks to Ash whopoints out on our forum that DailyRadar have a feature article on dispelling Xbox rumors. Here’s rumor #5The Xbox is going to be launched simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe.Smoke or Fire? Red hot flamesHow’d it Start? Sony recently pushed back the release date for theEuropean launch of…

Nice spotting by Forensic, who noticed a new job listing on Bungie’s Jobs page:3D Environment Artist (Redmond)Mold majestic mountains, carve cavernous canyons, form fantastic forests… and then coat them in the blood of your enemies! The natural environments you create with the Halo team will serve as the backdrop for sophiticated combat and an epic…

Well, the Giants got creamed, so that was good… but there was no Halo commercial after all during the Superbowl. Ah, well. So it goes.

Halo commercials aren’t COMPLETELY ruled out yet – Massa, from Halonetwork.de, writes:I read over at gamestar.de that Paramount is going to show a trailer for their upcoming Tomb Raider movie. I was quite sure that they weren’t on the list and so I checked back at superbowl.adcritic.com – I was right, they aren’t.So… if the…

Thanks to Allenthar, who noticed that cortana.org is gone… or going… or something. Also, the text for the error page now matches the title of the front page .gif… which makes one wonder a little bit….all things change. We all knew it would come to this…Come to what? Don’t ask us…

$erial-ki!!A sends in a desktop for our Wallpaper page… Dr. Dre and Cortana – who’da thunk it?

Thanks to Raino Priha, who sent in a brooding desktop for our Wallpapers page. Check it out!

Eep – sleep, the enemy of the site updater. Matt Soell sent in his weekly Halo update… but we were slacking. Here, then, is the latest and greatest – or make use of our new Halo Update Database! There’s some good stuff in there today – the jeep has a new gun, there are now…

Not DIRECTLY Halo-related, but relevant, nonetheless: seems Culture Shock, a website devoted to the works of Iain M. Banks, has moved – the new URL is http://www.schmeul.com/. Thanks, Chuckg (on the R.net forum).

Thanks to Spike, who sent in another desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Check it out!

–=MAC=– writes to say that Halo Command is online. Warning: DO NOT look at this site on a mac. (IE continually reloads the page, and NS and iCab spew out raw html.) On a PC, though, it looks okay – still needs fleshing out, but it’s getting there.

Battleground: Halo is hiring – they need a video person. If you’ve got the skills, and the interest, stop by their Jobs page. (Thanks, Mike Patton, for the heads-up.)

About 3 months ago, Matt Soell started a weekly update tradition – on Friday evenings, he’d post a concise (or rambling, depending on how much drinking was involved) catalogue of halo-related items to a random fansite. There was a lot of interesting info that entered the Halo knowledgebase this way… but it wasn’t always easy…