Author: Ding

Even with all the rumors flying around the Marathon’s Story page is still churning out the Halo theories. Jjaro textures (Marathon Infinity) in Halo? The parallels may be more coincidental than anything but nice work by Alan Greene.

“Short Bungie Blurbs in NextGen” says Strykerin our forums. Here’s the full quote from page 19:Bungling Bungie:The smarty-pants developer behind Halo and Oni planned to announce a third title at E3, but then changed its mind and opted not to. Still, Next Generation learned that the game would be a fantasy-based siege warfare title that…

Total freedom is impossible? According to a forum postby Bagman PC Gamer UK is claiming that Bungie have decided that total freedom in Halo is impossible. Here’s the full quote as posted by Bagman: “Bungie have decided that ‘Total Freedom’ is impossible, so have to border their levels in natural ways (for example, mountain ranges…

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. who own a 19.9% equity interest in Bungie Software have announced a 60% growth in net sales for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2000. For the three months, net sales were 70 million U.S. dollars, a 34 percent increase from 52million for the quarter ended April 30, 1999. Net…

Hugh Hancock points us to a post-E3 report with a different flavor than most… what impressed the folks at Machinima.com most about Halo was its potential for use as a movie-making tool. This has been a topic of interesting discussion on our forum, and others… here’s a group that wouldn’t normally be interested in Halo,…

Thanks to Beamish for posting scans of the E3 Halo movie flyer and the E3 Halo game flyer. Ok we’ve seen these before but the quality of the movie flyer is better than we’ve previously seen (you can easily read the text). E3 Halo game flyer is a biggie (1.9MBs). Grab them here:E3 Halo movie…

The German GameStar site has a Special E3 Report with a number of game developers. While Bungie aren’t represented some of the pics of the developers’s are taken withGameStar’s Halo cover in the background. Nice one! :)GameStar do have a short E3 Halo report herethough.

Marathon’s Story has got a set of links to some great Bungie booth E3 pics at MacGamer’s Ledge. Bungie like you’ve never seen them before. Who needs booth babes when you’ve got guys like this… erm. Go check the Story page for the full set of pic links or go direct to MacGamer’s Ledge E3…

Halo Needs Women! According to Matt Soell in a forum post the possibility of female characters in the game has not been ruled out. Equal opportunities please. 🙂

Small Halo snippet in Jim’s E3 Post-Op at Daily Raider. Halo is the game other developers are now trying to beat! Mark Rein (Unreal 2) was reported to have said: But Rein simply hinted at the amazing things around the corner (vehicles, super-high poly character models), and we were desperate for any niblet on Unreal…

Bungie to earn $634 billion dollars from sale of Halo DVD. According to Max on bungie.net 75% of voters in the DVD poll were willing to pay $5.95 or more for the Halo movie. While Bungie aren’t promising a DVD things DO look optimistic.

Our good friend Jenkz over at HP came up trumps with a Halo preview in the online version of PC Gamer UK. It’s from the June edition of the hardcopy version. They claim the minimum specs for Halo will be:Minimum specs:PII 266, 64Mb RAM, 3D card.Amazing!