Year: 2002

MacGamer has scored an E3-related interview with Bungie’s Matt Soell. Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for pointing this out.

We’ll keep getting email until this is posted, so here it is: Shacknews has an interview with Chris DiCesar, the group PR manager for Microsoft Games. Note that this interview says exactly what Bungie has been saying all along: They want Halo for computers to happen, they just don’t have any details yet. Thanks to…

Time has run out – my bad. 🙁 I’m leaving for the airport to make the final day of E3 (and the Bungie Fanfest) in about 15 minutes – there are a couple of Fan Fictions waiting in the queue that will have to continue to wait until I get back. Likewise, any art submissions…

mrmin123 submits a new desktop made a bit ago… you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Nightly Fan Fiction offerings:Into the Unknown, part 3, by Jean-Paul Allee ODST Saga, part 7, by Robo42786 Saturn’s the Best!, by Lynnada Warning: escaping convicts, part 4 and part 5, by Cap’n Keyes Enjoy!

Whoa – weird news from SonicStorm, of Battleground: Halo…I spent about an hour looking for ANYONE from Bungie yesterday, but didn’t see a soul. I was at E3 all day, and…nothing. Anyways, I asked the Microsoft people and they said Bungie isn’t presenting anything at all, and don’t have any setups, but they could be…

More Bungie trivia – deanero got a bunch of pics of Bungie employees at E3 – if you ever wondered what some of these folks look like, here’s your chance.

Two new desktops – one based on our friend the Hunter, the other not strictly a Halo desktop at all (it’s a Seventh Column desktop), but cool nonetheless. Both can be found in our Wallpaper section.

Hmm… here it is, 10:30 in the morning (Pacific Time) on the second day of E3… and not a peep from ANY Bungie fan or employee about what’s coming from Bungie! What’s up with that? (We even have some b.org personnel at the expo… but not the smallest report from them!) Could it be that…

deanero posted a brief but mouthwatering rundown of his first day at E3 – lots of Bungie personnel sightings, followed by some very fun-sounding Halo lanfesting, also involving Bungie employees. Who says gaming companies don’t enjoy mixing with their fans?

Forum changes – our forum has recently been changed over to run on style sheets – this drastically reduces the amount of text needed to render the page. (On the main index, the savings can be in the hundreds of kb per load…) The downside is that those with large monitors might have trouble reading…

Today’s Fan Fiction update consists of a pair of chapters from Jean-Paul Allee, the first and second of his ‘Into the Unknown’ series. Check ’em out! (We also got two copies of a story from Gordi… but both were corrupt upon arrival, and Gordi’s email is blocked by his ISP – mailbox is full. Maybe…

Apologies for the Fan Fiction buildup – there are now 8 new stories: Warning: escaping convicts, part 3, by Cap’n Keyes Sam’s Halo Story, part 1 and part 2, by Mr. Bobo Warrior Eternal, by Gi’Tbad’Eovad’Dvan Project-Halo, part 1, by SpikeDaDragon Operation: Risen from the Ashes, prologue, by Anthony Coronado Last Hope, part 7, by…

For anyone keeping tabs on the Console War, Nintendo finally announced its price drop (effective today) for the GameCube – it’s down to $150. Hehe – $550 will now buy you one of each of the three major consoles! (What does this have to do with Halo? Nothing. Why is it being posted here? Because…

E3 tidbits: Gamespot has an article which looks at a comment Jason Jones made yesterday with respect to Xbox Online (he said that with the service, it would be possible to “build the part of Halo that Bungie wanted to do”), and speculates on what it might mean for the future. And Team Xbox posted…

Heh – what do you do when you’re playing Counter-Strike and you need a quick virtual break? Well, you sit down and play Halo, of course! BOLL has made it possible – details can be found in our Miscellaneous Art section. Very, very fun (even if you don’t play C-S!).

News.com interviewed John O’Rourke, marketing director for Microsoft’s games division about Xbox Online. O’Rourke, as well, mentioned an online version of Halo:Microsoft is also preparing online versions of its popular Xbox titles “Halo” and “Project Gotham Racing.” They’re not expecting to have a full beta program for their online service before Autumn, however, so don’t…

Thanks to bikeman704, Team Overkill and gotenks20001@hotmail.com (name unprintable on the web) who all pointed out that IGN Xbox had a report of the first day of E3, including a ‘frustratingly casual mention of Halo 2’:As we said the next version of Halo (MS won’t even refer to it as Halo 2) will be online…

Bungie doesn’t normally get in the middle of rumor mongering… but this one was pretty big. Raelgun pointed out a forum thread over at Team Xbox which purported to describe a trailer for ‘Halo 2’ to be shown at E3 this week. Dave Candland jumped onto our forum to succinctly confirm that this is an…

The newest Bungie employee showed his face last night… Congrats to Joe Staten and his wife – they have a new baby boy! (Thanks to Marty O’Donnell for passing on the good news.)