Author: Crux Fidelis

Blam! Even with the loss of Soviet and his 767 units (to the MacAddict team), the Halo SETI Marines climb a notch to 47 in the Battle of the Teams. Nice going, guys! See who’s pulling their weight on the 7 day stats page. Pax.

Death and destruction everywhere! Another piece of Fan Fiction gets submitted this morning:There they were, brilliant infrared blobs in his scanner, oblivious to his presence.Check out the Fan Fiction section for the rest of Zypper’s ‘Trial Under Fire’. Pax.

Watching the sunrise over the edge of Threshold, I knew that there was a decent chance I could die in any number of ways before I got back to my HQ.Todd Hansen submits chapter 2 of his story-in-progress, ‘Vision of an Apocalypse’. Read it in our Fan Fiction section! Pax.

Oops. Thanks to Dan Rudolph, who set us to looking in our own news archives… Seems the MSNBC story we mentioned yesterday is old news – we reported on the existence of the V-Chip-like control way back in September. Blame Louis – he’s lazy. Pax.

BluR writes to say that Halo-Australia is back online again – stop by and check ’em out! Pax.

Eep. Glock writes that HaloNews.Org (which started life less than a month ago) is closing its doors due to RealLife time constraints. Ouch. We wish him the best of luck in whatever he does. Pax.

Are you a fledgling programmer? Do you dream of working on a project like Halo? Dream no longer – Tom Van Sinden noticed yet ANOTHER new job opening at Bungie – Programming Intern. They want someone…to come work, learn and write the best “What I did on my summer vacation” paper ever.If this sounds too…

“The marine breathed slowly and cautiously. The rest of his squad was scattered through the green foliage. He couldn’t help them now.” Ubiquitous kindly sent us in a short piece of fan fiction called His Home. Brought a tear to my good eye. Pax.

Ok we’ve got some confusion on our forums about what a Banshee is. Today’s Story page tries to clear up some of the confusion which a number of items from E3 2000. Hopefully Matt Soell will put all this straight when he gets back on Monday. Pax.

“Meanwhile, not far away, under the cover of protective camouflage netting, two dropship pilots sat in the sweltering semi-darkness of their cockpit.” Maszimo sends us more fan fiction. This piece is called Private Reg’s Last Day Of Combat. Just the ticket for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Pax.

Want to know what a Banshee is in Halo? Then head on over to the Marathon’s Story page to learn more.

As noted by Psyrixx on our forum the Island Four site is now working. It’s a good idea to check the HTML source code. Pax.

Well I don’t know where Ding and Wirehead are but given it was a Friday night and their youthful exuberance I think I can guess. We have alot of youthful exuberance at bungie.org. Anyway Matt Soell did send us his Halo update but he also kindly posted it to our forums. Don’t forget you can…

Finch adds more info to the bungiestudios.com mystery:about that URL, I visited it shortly after the Microsoft/Bungie thing and at that time it had a few Myth II plugins available for download. They had used a corrupted version of the Bungie logo, and I just passed it off as someone trying to use the URL…

The secret’s out! I just got back from giving my prayer wheel a spin, and noticed the Computer Dating Agency on the Marathon’s Story page. Well, I browsed around a little bit, and lo and behold – out popped a familiar face! If he’s looking for dates, I guess there’s no longer any need to…

glock writes to say that HaloNews.Org has put up a new poll – “Which group do you most look forward to playing in Halo?” Go let ’em know! Pax.

Thanks to Kharn353, who noticed another poll over at the MGON network main page, asking what game you’re waiting for. Currently Halo’s in third place, trailing Black and White and Tribes 2. What game are YOU waiting for? Pax.

MSXbox noted last night that Microsoft has issued a statement pertaining to the pending lawsuit over the Xbox name:”Despite some reports, Xbox is on track for killer launches in the US and Japan this fall and Europe in spring 2002. While there is a known trademark issue which needs to be resolved, Microsoft wants to…

Gotta hand it to Hamish – he’s keeping on top of the Bungie Webcam. A second hippo has appeared (this one’s hugging a monitor, not a wall, but…). Pax.

Thanks to Jerry Nummi, who sent in a new piece of artwork for our Miscellaneous Art page. Looks like it could be a nice web front end! Check it out. Pax.