Author: Ding

Another new alien? Kudos to Davin for spotting what’s looks like a new Halo alien in Computer Games Magazine. We’ll let Davin tell it: I just got a copy of Computer Games Magazine No#117 August 2000 www.cdmag.com. There is a good 5 page spread in there about HALO. The most interesting thing however is that page…

Dave “Chia” Pindrys of Vista Cartel points us to a Dr. Dobb’s article on Xbox called A powerful game platform waiting in the wingsby Michael Abrash a Microsoft programmer working on Xbox graphics. Want the inside skinny on the Xboxthis is it. Well worth reading. Thanks Chia. Oh and don’t forget to visit Vista Cartel…

Just an update on that “First Ever Xbox Console Shot” at MSXBox. According to Microsoft the image was put together to only “represent” the Xbox. The final Xbox design has yet to be determined.

If you have an hour to spend and high bandwidth head on over to Soon(tm) and read the Redmond Riots. A series of bungie.net reactions (some serious, some amusing, some gagable) to the Microsoft buyout of Bungie. Warning parental guidance advised.

Are the Covenant and Halo ring builders connected? Hamish over at theMarathon’s Story page cranks out oodles of speculation on the Covenant and their mission. Is messing with Jjaro tech heresy and could the Halo marine really be Salman Rushdie? And while you’re there check out that 7 reference on the side of the dropship.…

What every Halo marine should carry – the Halo knife. Thanks to Greg Koenig for this item of information. Parental guidance advised.

Guns. Lots of guns. Halowar has added a Weapons Guide to their site. Just the ticket for a rainy Sunday. The Covenant Sniper Rifle isn’t featured yet in their Guide though. For more guns action check out the updated weapons page in our FAQ and there is also our Guns Analysis page from some time…

The future of PC games development is the subject again in a Daily Radar interview with Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. Chris offered the same views as John Carmack (see yesterday’s news). Here’s a snippet: DR: Recently, a lot of high-profile PC developers have said that they are shifting their focus to next-generation consoles…

Battleground Halo has upped two higher quality scans from the Halo preview in PC Gamer Aug2000. You can now get a clearer picture of the new red Covenant craft and the Covenant sniper rifle. Thanks BGH.

Just a heads up on some interesting posts in our forums: Anthor posts an interesting list of rants and raveson the E3 Halo movie. Thanks to SkyFire360 for pointing us to this one.TOPGUNN123 notes disappearing bodiesin the E3 Halo movie. It’s not clear how persistent objects will be in Halo but I did find dead…

Marty O’Donnell of Total Audio offers some points of clarification about the E3 Halo movie on our forums. Here’s what the had to say: A few points of clarification: 1. The movie on the PCG CD is a copy of the full DVD movie from E3. The show at E3 also included Joseph Staten doing…

Alan Stott of Halo Centerwrites to say he has posted a full explanation of events in the Halo-Net Shop Controversy. Having said all this they are still taking pre-orders for the Halo Stickers it seems?

Matt Soell has a few words to say about the XBox, keyboards and the future of the online Bungie fan community on the Marathon’s Story page. Will the Xbox have a keyboard? The PS2 will have one. As Hamish would say ‘Veritatem Dies Aperit’ or something.

Nate Birkholz airs his views on the situation between Bungie and Microsoft in a MacCentral article called Game Guru: Reflections on Bungie and Microsoft. Here’s a great quote:Large publishers are, by nature, somewhat conservative, and they prefer to maintain a healthy measure of control. Most developers hear at first that things aren’t going to change,…

More Halo movie mirrors:3D Action Gamers (Thanks Frans)Meccaworld (Thanks luxor)3D DownloadsStompedJosephAW’s site 18MB version for 56k users (gone now)

Mirror mirror on the net… The E3 Halo movie has appeared on the net in a number of locations. Try here for now:Fileplanet. (Thanks Charles Fitzhugh)Battleground: Halo (Thanks Bounty)Halo Vault (Thanks luxor)Halo Center (Thanks Yrro) More as we get them.

Some good stuff going down over at the Marathon’s Story page. A review of Iain M. Banks’ new novel Look To Windward. Halo is clearly influenced by Banks’ scifi novels. There’s also more Halo backstory, some comments on Bungie’s third game Phoenix, the Xbox keyboard or lack of it,the amusing The Official SA Guide to…

The full E3 Halo movie release confirmed! Thanks to nikozomofor writing to tell us that his issue of PC Gamer (Aug 2000) arrived and the cover CD contained a 160 MB Halo movie (9 mins 42 seconds long).

According to a Hard|Forum post the full E3 Halo movie has been released. It’s claimed to be 150MBs and 10mins long. HBO staff haven’t been able to verify this yet though.

IGN Xbox have posted an interview with J. Allard, General Manager of Xbox. Allard’s insights into the Xbox are quite revealing. Here’s a piece that caught our attention:IGN Xbox: So first critics were saying that Microsoft was going to create a mini PC in the living room, and then it switched to a console that…