Month: July 2002

Another entrant in the Xbox tunneling software category… Xbox Ladder comes onboard. It’s unclear how it works yet (the FAQ’s not up, and we have no reports from adopters), but if the other solutions aren’t working for you, give these guys a try! (Mentioned by zoe on our forum – part of the team?)

Thanks to Tirion, who pointed out a Reuters article at Yahoo which quotes John O’Rourke, MS’s director of worldwide Xbox marketing, as saying that”the company is committed to bringing out new versions of both “Halo” and “Project Gotham” in the next year, and taking advantage of Xbox Live, the new online gaming service Microsoft plans…

Man… it’s Warthog Week, or something.

It’s not really Halo-related… but the Phoenix site here doesn’t have a Wallpaper section yet. 🙂 Phoenixhunter has submitted a Phoenix-styled desktop image, which we’ve added to our Wallpaper collection. Nice job!

Team Overkill points out a Gamespotting article praising the power of Halo to convert even non-gameplayers to console gamers. A fun read.

Back from the wilds, and still in an off-road frame of mind… nice to see that in my absence, there’s been a bunch of Warthog-related action. Blackstar has created a pair of Warthog ads—I like the first better than the second, but they’re both worth watching—in QuickTime 5 format, at 6.9 mb and 7.4 mb…

The folks at Bungie are overjoyed at the number of folks that have signed up for the first Halo National Championship. At last count, the roster contains 3,665 brave men and women! Slots are filling up fast though, so if you’ve got the sack for it, sign up now!psst! Word has it that some of…

Bungie’s Truth & Reconciliation site has been updated with a bunch of new screenshots for you to caption as well as a new installment of the Legendary Walkthrough (complete with cool shots and tactics!). Pax.

Join us as we heave a collective sigh of relief: It’s been almost a whole day since our fearless leader left the premises, and there have been no problems bigger than perms that need tweaking, etc. All-in-all, things are great here! :: wonders if someone left the oven on ::

Eep… Louis forgot to give me access to HBO’s ftp so now I can’t upload new fan fiction or art. Count Zero isn’t able to do it either. So anything submitted between yesterday and Wednesday will not be posted. Sorry, all! Pax.

Wonga – what are the chances? Two misc art submissions, from two different people, with the same general idea! Razorback sent in a very cool workup of the M-12 GT, a civilian version of the military ‘hog. I LOVE that hood ornament! Not quite in the same league, but still freakily coincidental, )hog sent in…

Team Overkill, a group of four sharpshooters from Staten Island, have put up the first writeup of the end-of-Macworld Lanfest sponsored by the NYC Bungie-holics. You can find it linked from their Clan site… or you can cut to the chase and visit the Events page directly. These guys kicked ass and took names. Go…

Speaking of movies, Brian Towne has checked in after a week-long vacation… and it sounds like his movie server was not the only bad news he faced. 🙁 The good news (for HBO visitors) is that mythica.org should be back up and running in the next day or two, depending on when Brian can get…

Hnn Productions sends word that they’ve put a new movie up for you to grab. It’s called ‘Halo-Trigger Happy’, and it’s a 4:15 long .wmv that weighs in at 6.9 mb. It mostly shows solo gameplay, set to ‘Click Click Boom’, by Saliva. We’ll list it soon in our Movies database.

The Fan Fiction just doesn’t stop – here’s the stuff that’s been building while we’ve been out of town at Macworld:Halo 2: Jupiter, chapter 1, by Chi Zhang Ascendant, part 7, by Archangel’s Blade The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 1, by el_halo_diablo The saviours of man, part 1, by Shadow_hunter117 Rise To Honor, part…

This came in a couple of days ago, but we missed it because we were all at MacWorld (except for Crux, who was burning incense and hoping for salvation). Jon Bonneau has created his view of what the box for ‘Halo Next’ (OXM’s unimaginative moniker for the next Halo game) will look like. Check it…

A Halo National Championship? Microsoft, EB, and iGames (a game center company) have teamed up to offer you a nationwide competition with prizes like a 50 inch flat screen TV, amazing audio systems, and lots of Xbox-related hardware. You can read Bungie’s description at Bungie.net, or visit Xbox.com for links and a movie with some…

It’s better to change the Man’s diapers, than to be the Man… or something. The founder of Bungie Studios, Alex Seropian, has announced that he’s leaving Bungie at the end of August to concentrate on… well, life. You can read the details at Bungie.net… but I’d like to say right here and now that we’re…

A couple of days ago, Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez, master of BS, cornered Peter Tamte at Macworld New York and asked him some interesting questions about the Mac and PC ports of Halo. Read the interview here – we’ll add it to our Interviews database in the near future. (And thanks to Peter for all the…

MacGamer had a chance to catch up with Peter Tamte of Destineer to talk about Halo for Mac. When asked about system requirements, Tamte could only say:”Desktops you can buy today will be able to run Halo. We can’t make any promises about older machines, however.”Read the full article here. Pax.