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Good news for Mac gamers as Jonathan Keegan points out that nVidia GeForce 3 is coming to Macs first. Watch Halo fly on that. Of course we have to get Halo first.

Bosskiller 51 sends word of a new French Halo site called Halo’s Universe. Check it out. Parlez Vous Francais?

As seen on the Marathon’s Story page bungie.net have a new poll up about what Halo merchandise you’d like to buy at the Bungie Store. Here are the choices: Wall Poster Action Figure DVD (with cool content) Art Book (with cool pictures) Go vote!

Want to work on Halo? Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi maintainer of Oni Central for this cool heads up. Bungie are looking for a 3D Multiplayer Artist to create exciting multiplayer battlegrounds in Halo. Check this out for size: 3D Multiplayer Artist (Redmond) We are looking for a contractor to help design the site of a…

New look bungie.com on the way says Matt in a news update on our forums. Here’s the details: I’m working on some stuff for the relaunch of bungie.com, doing preliminary work for the next FanFest, meeting with various folks about various Halo-related things (websites, merchandise, etc.), and doing some other stuff that’s still a secret.…

“Who’s gonna do SETI stats this Monday?” is our usual fun game of tag at coffee time in the HBO offices. Louis lost (hey you go on holidays what do you expect?). The Halo SETI Marines added ten new members to their ranks since last Monday bringing total membership up to 569 marines. We’re ranked…

Sorry to the AoD Halo boys for not adding their site to our links page. We mention their site back in February 13th news. You can blame Louis guys… we do. 😉

We’ve added Matt’s recent Halo update to the Database(tm). Don’t forget you can search the database for all that Halo goodness. Word of the day is “levels”. Go find it. 🙂

What’s in a name? A lot according to the Financial Times. Seems a small Florida-based company called XBOX Technologies insists it has first claim on the Xbox brand and says it is prepared to go to court to protect its trademark. Mr van Leeuwen chief executive of Xbox Technologies is reported to have said: “There’s…

From Lophan, maintainer of our sister site myth.bungie.org, comes this snippet from a Wall Street Journal article on Wednesday, entitled “How Microsoft Hopes to Win With Xbox”:First, it’s taking out it’s checkbook. Since march 2000, when it announced plans to enter the multibillion-dollar video-game industry, Microsoft has bought two small game developers, Bungie Software Products…

Seven Deadly Xbox Rumors. Thanks to Ash whopoints out on our forum that DailyRadar have a feature article on dispelling Xbox rumors. Here’s rumor #5The Xbox is going to be launched simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe.Smoke or Fire? Red hot flamesHow’d it Start? Sony recently pushed back the release date for theEuropean launch of…

Matt Soell popped into our forum yesterday to clear up questions like “who is behind cortana.org?” and “when will www.bungie.com be updated?” (Read the whole thread for more nuggets – it starts here.) Where’s my Big Mac?

fire phoenix of Halo Center sends word that the XBox 365 site which ran the “Halo commercial during SuperBowl 2001” news item is using a third party image of Halo rather than an official one. What’s wrongXBox 365? Don’t have an official one? HBO Spin: We’re probably going to see alot more of this given…

Vying with BGH for the title of ‘Most Redesigned Site’, Halo Tip throws up another new design, going for the green-and-grey look. Stop by and take a look!

Kudos to Tantalum-=SUN=- for passing on the detailsof the IGN chat with Bungie.Where: Chat.Ign.ComWhen: Wednesday, December 20th at 6pm PSTWho: Lead Designer John Howard, and Matt Soell from BungieThat’s TOMORROW!

We wuz right! Haloplayers got Matt’s Halo update this week. Thanks to Tim Jenks for letting us know. The site also underwenta full redesign and content overhaul. Pretty cool!

Well the HBO staff here are playing one of their favorite games, no not resetting Louis’ desktopprefs but “Who has Matt’s Halo update?” So far we haven’t been lucky. Either Matt didn’t sendone out or it’s sitting in someone’s mailbox! WAKE UP AND LOOK!

“Bungie Chat Wednesday” says IGN Xbox. This is the big one! Next Wednesday IGN Xbox will be hosting a chat withmembers of the Bungie development team, giving you an opportunity to kick off your holiday vacations with a little Bungie cheer. We’ll be releasing details about the chat on Monday, so check back for all…

“Beware false prophets.” says Matt Soell. Matt lays down the smack on the recent Cortana scams on r.net. The “real” Cortana is not a gloryhound or smurf.Beware false prophets.HBO Spin: False prophets. They’re everywhere. Can’t stand ’em.

Bitner Blitz! Nathan Bitner returns with another posting spree. One postcaught our attention. It concerns cooperative play on Halo’s solo levels.”We REALLY like cooperative play on solo levels. REALLY like it. A lot.” But as Nathan says “Don’t count on ANYTHING until Bungie announces it”.