Author: Crux Fidelis

The Characters section in our FAQ has been up updated to reflect the new info from the Halo movie trailer. If you’ve got comments/suggestions about the FAQ please send them to halofaq@bungie.org. Thanks.

Yrro writes to say that Halo Center has put up the teaser, as well… the mirror list grows some more. You can get the file here. Pax.

Stryker sends word that Halo HQ, an early Halo site that closed a while back, is up and running in its new digs at haloplayers.net. As he says, Halo HQ is dedicated to the Halo team community, allowing Halo fans an instant link to many Halo teams. Stop by and sign up today! Pax.

Thanks to Banzif, who points out on our forum that the personal stats pages on the SETI@Home server have been vastly improved. You can now see your last 10 workunits submitted (including spikes and gaussians found). Very cool! Maybe this will energize those team members who haven’t been submitting units? Pax.

Tim Jenks PR Officer at Haloplayers sends us this PR snippet:After noticing a large increase in European based Halo squads, we’re just reminding people of the European Halo League – a league ready to go as soon as the game is here. – We currently have a large number of European squads already signed up…

mad.max has posted some of the highlights from the PC Gamer UK article to the R.net forum. Lots of useful little snippets… worth a read! Pax.

Over at the Marathon’s Story page, another interesting picture has surfaced. An alternate cover of a book called “Armor” (one of the original codenames for Halo) has an image of soldiers dropping from a dropship with no parachutes… quite a lot like we understand Halo works. Hmm… Pax.

New Fan Fiction today from Tycho [OSC]. Short, but sweet… there is already feedback on our forum asking for more! Enjoy. Pax.

The logo on the right side of the new Halo pic scanned by R.net was mentioned by them last night… but the weird glyphs along the bottom were not. They look vaguely mesoamerican… can anyone place them? Does this suggest that Aztec or Mayan glyphs were created by non-earth-dwellers? Thanks to The Marathon’s Story page…

Mentioned a couple of days ago at Battleground: Halo, but we slipped until Edgecrusher sent us mail: TiberiumSun.com has a poll up… “What caught your eye at E3?” Red Alert is still in first place (not surprising, given where the poll is), but Halo is a close second. See what you can do, okay? Pax.

30 units behind alt.comp.hardware.overclocking… will the Halo SETI Marines climb another notch tomorrow? Even though the SETI servers seem to be losing several hundred of their units every day, they still persevere… It’s CRUNCH TIME! Jjaro Tech knows it… do you? A warm welcome to Forty-Two and Psyche911… and welcome back to WA2FAST! Check the…

SoonTM seems to have gotten their hands on a trailer for the E3 trailer. (Not the trailer itself… a trailer for it.) Or something. Go take a look. (Thanks to Sibrax, for posting this at the R.net forum. Pax.

SciFi.com (the site of the Sci-Fi channel) has put up an e3 preview report… and Halo was included. They liked it. 😉 (Thanks to Cpt. Squeky, who posted this to our forum.) Pax.

Yesterday, we mentioned an article at Gamecritics.com about Halo. Several readers took offense at a line in the introduction: “… Bungie, who made a name for themselves making killer games on the abysmal MAC platform.” Dave Finlayson (among others) wrote to the article’s author… and his post to our forum shows that it CAN be…

Seen on the Marathon’s Story page: Utterer.com has scooped us all! They have proof that Bungie used Elian Gonzalez (the cuban refugee) as the motion capture actor for the Halo marine! Is Bungie in bed with Castro? Pax.

Halo scoop! The May 29 issue of Newsweek arrived… and here’s the Halo review, in all its glory. Would you check out the tires on that baby? Just for the fun of it, here’s a bigger version of the actual screenshot. Newsweek Online has most of that issue on their website… the only thing they’re…

Apple’s Quicktime Trailer page lists four Game Trailers. One of these is Halo with a big [NEW] following it. Unfortunately this is still the old MacWorld Expo movie from July 1999. So why is it called new?

Edward Edelen reminds us of a poll over at3D Action Planet… Halo is trailing Tribes 2 by about 20 votes. Can you fix this? Pax.

HBO offices hit by meteor! Sorry for the downtime folks. Pax.

Seems Stomped might have gotten upset over ballot-box stuffing… There was a furious spate of activity at roughly 6:30 UT today, in which the Giants vote increased by over 2000, and the Halo vote by about half that… then the poll was reset, and soon after, the Stomped E3 site became unreachable. Stomped! Pax.