Year: 2002

Tom Murphy releases two Fan Fiction articles; the third installment of Pride and Honor (depressing) and a satire called ‘Halo: A Comedy’ (a little depressing, as well, for how close to reality it comes). Check ’em out in our Fan Fiction section!

More new content hits Truth & Reconciliation! Outtakes and concept art for Covenant craft hit the site. Pax.

For those who didn’t notice, the Halo Story Page processed a slew of submissions yesterday… several sections got updates. Make it a daily (or almost-daily) stop!

Gaming Age has a Quick Poll – Game of the Year? Halo is currently leading (with Grand Theft Auto 3 close behind). Go vote! Thanks to op_ivy for the heads-up.

Get Into The Game has put up the transcript of the chat with Chris Butcher… and it’s a great read! Lot’s o’ good technical info… and some silliness:i am tyler durden does the Master Chief wear boxers or briefs? chris butcher [peeks] let’s just say he’s the ultimate commando Go read the rest; chock-full of…

Forum regular *Ar-Isildur of *WP* is hosting an end-of-chemo party that focuses on Halo – read the details here. 24 hours of Halo goodness… it’s gonna be worth the trip.

Miguel Chavez points out that Bungie.net has put up a new QuickPoll – who do you think is going to win the Bungie Pentathlon this Friday? Before you vote for the best-named team (Online Cinematesticle – made up of the Online, Cinematics, and Test teams), remember that multigenarian Marty O’Donnell will be anchoring the tug-of-war.

Images dance past, flashing by at increasing speed until he cannot begin to decipher what they might be. Next come the lights, expanding into thin lines stretching endlessly, arcing behind some unseen horizon. As he watches, they bend and ripple against each other, dissolving amongst the rainbow spectrum like the pattern of waves crisscrossing one…

Interesting MacWorld tidbit: During downtimes at the MacOSX Gaming presentation area, a movie looped all day, showing footage from current and upcoming Mac games. One of the clips showed Halo… footage from the E3 2000 movie. At the bottom was written ‘Halo: Published by Bold by Destineer’. Luckily, Peter Tamte of Bold was on hand…

The chat with Chris Butcher just ended. Some nice questions were asked and getintothegame.com will be posting a transcript of the chat by tomorrow morning. I’d have a transcript myself but I foolishly chose Java for the chatroom and that didn’t allow me to copy text. Oh well. Pax.

Inside Mac Games caught up with Peter Tamte here at MacWorld yesterday… and one of their topics of conversation was Halo. As for Halo, Tamte confirmed what Microsoft has been saying: Halo will come to the Mac. Other than that, no details were forthcoming whether Bold will publish it. Not a lot of info… but…

In an uncharacteristically patient (for this subject) post, Matt Soell elaborates on the reasons that information about the PC version of Halo hasn’t been forthcoming – definitely worth a read for those impatient for new info or confirmation of the project’s continued existence. Thanks, Matt!

That’s a lot of copies… Halo sales, according to information released by Microsoft at the Computer Electronics Show (via Wired Magazine) have topped 750,000 copies in the first 2 months of availability. Not too shabby! Thanks to Mr. Yun for the article heads-up.

Don’t forget that getintothegame.com is holding their chat with Chris Butcher at 4 PM CST today. There you can ask a multitude of questions about Halo. Yes, even the “will there be a PC/Mac version?” question. Register now if you haven’t already! Pax.

Heads-up to all: I’m finally (after a pretty long day on planes) in San Francisco… until tomorrow, I don’t have much of an internet connection, so don’t expect too much in the way of updates. (Crux is around, though…) Tomorrow should be better.

Psyrixx needs more sleep. Definitely. (Preferably without dreams…)

Bungie is holding yet another Q&A session, this time with Rob McLees. Head over to this page for the details and get some art-related questions in! (Please no “is there a PC version coming?” I mean, c’mon. There are more interesting questions that can be raised especially about various things in Halo alone. The PC/Mac…

We’ve added the 65 screenshots (LADEN with spoilers) from the GamePro Strategy Guide we mentioned a couple of days ago to the Screenshots Database. Enjoy!

The Halo Story Page gets its first submission… Biblical connotations everywhere! Check it out.

Heh – turns out the Editor of Amazon.com’s ‘Xbox Delivers’ feature (a newsletter delivered to over 100,000 Amazon visitors) is a Halo fan – this week’s note is devoted to Halo, and all the goodies you can get with it. Take a look!