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Whoa! The Halo SETI Marinesgain six new recruits over the last 24 hours bringing the total team count up to 472 marines. Looks like we’re heading for thatbig 5 double aught… soom(TM). Hopefully we should start to see some more climbing in the SETI team ranks. Put your computer’s idle time to good use join…

Rock the poll! Thanks to Tim Hansen for pointing us to a weekly poll at Gibchunks which asks “What game are you most looking forward to?” Metal Gear Solid 2 and Halo are presently tied for first place with 30% of votes. Oni has 7%. Go tell them Halo and Oni are coming.

InsideXbox Graphics. Want to know more about the Xbox specs? Dr. Dobb’s Journal has a detailed report by Microsoft programmer Michael Abrash. Here’s a quote: The best thing about Xbox is that it won’t change. Ever. Judging by other consoles, Xbox should have a four or five year run, and wonderful as the profusion of…

Microsoft to Spend $500 Million on Xbox Marketing. According to a news report on PlanetXbox Microsoft will spend half a billion dollars in marketing their Xbox console system in an effort to out perform Sony, Nintendo, and Sega in sales. According to Robbie Bach, senior vice president of Microsoft’s games division, this will be Microsoft’s…

Don’t forget to check out our newly updated Halo movies page. There you’ll find Bungie’s parody of the Budweiser “Whazzup” commercial. This is the high quality version (18.5 MB). Thanks to ***cough*** ***cough*** for making this available to us. We had to edit it slightly for ***cough*** ***cough*** reasons.

The Halo SETI Marinesare still some 500 units behind the TidBITS team and 1000 units ahead of team Seti Italia in the Battle of the Teams. Team membership stands at 463 marines but only a third are actively crunching which explains our slow progress. Put your computer’s idle time to good use join the Halo…

This one’s for Marty. Xbox IGN have an interview with Chanel Summers (Xbox Audio Manager) about game music on the Xbox. Here’s a quote: I see that music for Xbox is going to be amazing, and it’s going to really take off, because as I said audio for console games has not traditionally been great.…

John Carmack (id Software) provides further details about his position on the Xbox Advisory Board in a Slashdot post. John ended with these comments: In any case, talking with MS has no bearing on my development decisions. I’m still using OpenGL, and we are still planning simultaneous releases for linux and MacOS-X. If things work…

Killermac.com have posted a hilarious new lookMicrosoft/Bungie page. Yes this could be the new face of Bungie. Warning: for the humorlessly impaired this is a JOKE people… with possibly a bit of tru7h thrown in.

“…all of the Bungie team will be moving to Redmond and they will be assimilated.”Damn edge and his amazing X-ray eyes. Edge points us to aPlanetXbox news item about Bungie’s third game “Fantasy Siege” in this month’s Next-Generation magazine. While this isn’t exactly new news the quote is hilarious. Here it is: For two years…

Another gaming acquisition by Microsoft. Thanks to edge on our forumswho points out that Microsoft have acquired Kansas-based NetGames USA, a leading developer of scoring, matchmaking and other enhancements for retail and Web-based games. The acquisition will enhance the competitiveness of games on Microsoft’s Zone.com and further solidify the site as the Internet’s best location…

The Microsoft buyout of Bungie gets discussed by the “Geeks in Space” a nearly-weekly audio show hosted by Rob Malda and Jeff Bates ofSlashdot.org. It’s in their typical Geek ‘off-the-wall’ style with lines like “Myth 3 will now be known as Age of Empires 3” and “Magic Carpet by Bungie”?!!!. For Geeks only.

Playtest the Xbox and Halo?!!!MSXbox report that Microsoft is looking for volunteers to playtest its upcoming videogames for the PC and even the Xbox. Halo will obviously feature heavily here. MSXbox have the details but here are the basic requirements: You live in the Puget Sound area and are able get to the Microsoft campus…

bungie.net server relocation at the weekend says Yeroen, Here’s the details: We’re tentatively planning on moving the web and gaming servers to Redmond this weekend. This means that if all goes well we’ll shut them down Friday morning, ship ’em in cold storage, thaw them out and set them up again early next week. However,…

Well we almost overlooked this one but Mac OS Rumors have been running a “What is your reaction to Microsoft’s buyout of Bungie?” poll. While 30,000 votes have been registered the totals don’t add up correctly making the poll somewhat misleading. A majority of voters appear either “furious” or “unhappy”. Well that’s Mac people for…

Microsoft to launch the Xbox with 20 titles next fall. According to a news item over at IGN XboxEd Fries of Microsoft announced that there will be a total of 20 titles at system launch next fall (2001). While no titles were specified Halo is presently scheduled to be one of these. Long wait ahead…

PlanetXbox have posted the final results of their poll”Should Halo be Xbox Only?” 77.2% of voters said “NO” while an additional 14.3% said “Can’t we share”which amounts to the same thing. That’s a resounding 91.5% of voters out of 2031people who voted. Statements like that can’t be ignored… right?

Koen De Paus informs us of a new Dutch Halo clan called FoX. As you may remember the Dutch got an amazing Halo scoop in the latest issue of PC Zone Benelux. New Halo screenshots and some concept art. We’ll be bringing you that as soon as we get permission.

Wazzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuupppppppp… watching the Halo movie having a Bud! The Halo Wazzup.mov is now here! Thanks again to Mark Levin. True… true…

True, true… Halo Wazzup.mov created by Mark Levin is a totally hysterical parody on the Wazzup Budweiser commercial. Highly recommended. You can get it at the Bungie.Org Hotline server, at hl.bungie.org . It’s in Uploads/Temp Uploads. As soon as we get permission we’ll upload it here. Thanks Mark from brightening my day! Note: if you…