Author: Ding

fire phoenix informs us that Halo Center is now undernew management. Yrro left and fire phoenix is the new site manager.

According to a report over at the Marathon’s Storypage Jason Jones and John Howard will be talking about Halo at the Game Developers Conference 2001. Their talk is entitled Halo: A Case Study. No other details are available yet but an abstract is forthcoming. Kudos to Sean Phelps who sent this in to the Story…

Kaidu informs us that the Halo Tip site has changed their URL to http://www.halotip.com.

With all the palaver over bungie.net voting, the identity of the Bungie Webmaster and Nathan’s Island Four gaming company weforgot to mention an interesting article over at MSXbox on the subject of keyboard and mouse for the Xbox. Microsoft has said no in the past… but people are still asking. I guess we’ll have to…

You can tell that Wirehead hasn’t posted news in awhile can’t you? He got the links mixed up. Nathan expounds on “water, textures, guns” HEREand on Halo’s tools HERE. Sorry people.

Not all of us at HBO think that votingfor Louis in the bungie.netpoll is a good idea. I mean Louis hasn’t paid us any wages yetand we’re up to here with his stock options BS. So my vote goes to Hamish.

For a long time now the HBO crew have been systematically searching the Bungie trash cans forclues to the identity of the Bungie Webmaster. Since the move to Redmond howeverwe’ve had to wait in line to get at them. But today we edge that bit closer to the tru7h! Hamish *insert Souless death cry here*…

Nathan Bitner (former Producer and Creative Developer of Halo) sent us along this cryptic note:I haven’t forgot about you or your gifts, but have been waiting for theannouncement that I made at approximately 6 a.m., Sunday Morning, December3, 2000.The message was sent only to Hamish, but you are the only other “entity” whoknows it’s coming…

In a reply to a reader’s letter at the MSXBox site it was reported that Halo might be one of the titles to accompany the Xbox launch. Here’s the fullreply to the readers question:The Xbox will hit the UK around the same time it is released to the rest of the world. No more reading…

According to a news report over at PlanetXbox Microsoft is planningto put $500 million towards marketing the Xbox. The plan is to literally take over entireretail floor areas. For next year’s E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center in MayMicrosoft have asked for at least twice as much floor space as Sony. According to…

Bungie to show at next year’s E3 Expo? According to Matt Soell in a forum post it’s very likely. Matt said: At the absolute least we should show up at E3. E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo)

Matt be testing us in his latest forum post! The “weapon ideas” comment was intentionally super-ultra-mega-vague, even for me. Think in terms of secondary abilities and that may help narrow it down a bit. 🙂 Help narrow it down a bit?!!! Who we gonna call?

Kudos to Tomeone for sending us news about a Ringworld movie in the works.

Halo marine in early Oni movie? Some say yeah… some say nay. The Marathon’s Story page has a shortclip of a rare Oni movie seen briefly on the web in ’98. It shows what looks like a guy in aHalo marine helmet. It has been discussed before on the Oni forumsbut some Oni folk didn’t…

No internet browsing on Xbox!Gamecenter has posted aninterview with Seamus Blackley,manager of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft. Blackley explains in theinterview that there are no plans for internet browsing on Xbox. Here’s the quote:GC: There’s no browser on this still, right?S.B.: No! Nobody wants a browser on a game box. And I’m not…

Three different X-boxes? Daily Raider UK have an interview with J Allard of Microsoft concerningX-box’s global roll-out. Here’s a quote: DR-UK: If you buy a game in Japan, will it work on a UK X-Box?J Allard: That’s up to the publisher. We’ll build three different boxes, one for each territory, and what thepublisher can choose…

Daniel Chace sends us this word: Here is a little quote from an apple eNews email I received today. It seems (according to this) that at least the Macintosh Version will be released the same time as the X-Box version. Here is an excerpt. 3. More Games Coming to the Mac …………………………. Game enthusiasts didn’t…

According to Matt Soell in aforum post there is no answers as yet to the questions about the creation and use of Halo Mods. There is also noanswer to the question about the inter-playability between PC/Mac and X-Box systems

The PC vs. Console Debate. GameSpy have a report on John Carmack’s (co-founder and lead programmer of id Software) annual QuakeCon speech which covered among other things the PC versus console debate, mod making, and the new DOOM game. Here’s a quote: “Is the PC dead?” It was a question Carmack had been asked several…

As seen on the Marathon’s Story page Robert McLees (Halo artist) and Lorraine Reyes (Bungie artist) have got engaged. Congratulations to Rob and Lorraine from all staff here at HBO. Woot!