Author: Crux Fidelis

Aginor started with the flamethrower pic from the new OXM preview, did a bit of judicious pixel pushing to remove the text (and fill in the remaining space), added a Halo logo… and ended up with this bit of Miscellaneous Halo Art. Nice job! As he says, it’s a shame the original pic was low-res,…

The Halo SETI Marines have a new top cruncher today – Niklas Brunberg processed 150 units to claim La Crunch Honneur. This pulled him within 11 spots of the top 100 team members, and gave him second place in positions climbed, as well – beaten out by Croz, who leapfrogged 61 teammates to take the…

The Junkyard Gaming Site Interview series continues… and today’s contestant is our own Louis Wu. Looks like he’s been taking brevity lessons at the monastery… his answers are pretty short. You can tell how old he is, though.. just check out question 15. Pax.

Mac Halo has put up a translation of the voiceover on the Gamestar E3 video – if you don’t speak German, this is a good way to find out what’s being said. Pax.

Tom Van Sinden noticed that the newest Bungie.net poll asks, “If Bungie were to support a FanFest in only one of these US cities, which would you choose?” Go check out the choices. Pax.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews lets us know that Day 3 of their Gaming Site Interviews series highlights Matt ‘Acrappa Martinez, newshound for Rampancy.net and maintainer of bungie.org’s own OniRes. Check it out! Pax.

Ph.D. writes to point out that the Xbox Japan calendar for July features Halo – it’s available in 800×600 or 1024×768. (Thanks, MSXbox.) There’s more Halo stuff listed here… but it’s hit and miss if you don’t read Japanese. Pax.

Oops – we missed this a few days ago. Mac Halo, an Inside Mac Games affiliate that has had on-again, off-again webmastering over the past several months, seems to have been revived. Welcome to Matt Malinowski, the ‘new guy who will be bringing you the news now, only several days later’. Let’s hope they’re back…

Bosskiller51, of Halo’s Universe, writes to say that they’ve added the minigun to thier collection of 3d-modeled weapons. (It’s not clear if the minigun is still in the game – or if it still looks like this – but it’s still worth a look.) Pax.

Gothmog points out a new poll over at Dream Machine, an Xbox site we’d never heard of. “What Xbox game are you most looking forward to?” We took a look around the site, and found a Halo preview, written about 3 weeks ago in an… um… interesting style. Either the author consumed a massive amount…

Ph.D. pointed out a nice little article over at xbox.ign.com, which wonders what really got shown last week. After reading it, Ph.D. pondered the sagacity of forcing Halo to be a launch title. Do you agree with him? Talk it over on our forum! Pax.

Well we’re all back from E3. Louis is sleeping off his jet lag, that happens when you get old. We’ll be posting a big Halo update later today. Pax.

Thanks to Massa and Harry for sending us word that Xbox.com have a short Halo interview with John Howard from Bungie. It’s in Windows Media Player format. Pax.

In the rush for E3, little things get forgotten… we’d like to wish Jaime Griesemer a very Happy Birthday today! Pax.

Blam!… Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines climb two notches to put themselves back into the top 50 in the Battle of the Teams (thanks in large part to Tharkhaad, who has added more than 8800 units to the team – welcome, Tharkhaad!). Total team output continues to be disappointing – only a quarter of the…

Woohoo! Sapwood just wrote to tell us that HBO made ‘Site of the Month’ at Blam Gaming. Thanks, guys. Pax.

To round out the goodies extracted from the May 2001 NextGen magazine, we’ve added their cover concept art of the trooper to our Concept Art page. Man, that’s a nice looking model… Pax.

Took a couple of days, but we’ve put up the new screens from the NextGen May 2001 article (in higher-res beauty than you’ll find in the press scans) in our Screenshots section. Check ’em out. Pax.

Thanks to fate, who noticed an interview with Matt Soell over at CoreMagazine.com. It’s a pretty nice read – there are some comments that should put to rest fears of some PC gamers, and some discussion of the Xbox capabilities: CoreMagazine.com: This is always a hard one to estimate, but can you roughly guess what…

Halo “Sci-Fi epic with all the right moves”. Menalaus Khan lets us know that Gamespot have a High-Tech Games article in which Halo is mentioned. Go check it out. Pax.