Author: Louis Wu

IDMT13@aol.com sends along a new desktop (in three sizes) made from the Joypad cover last month – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

Hot on the heels of our link-culling, firfin sends word of Halo Game, a French Halo site. take a look!

It was about time. Our Links page was getting rather long in the tooth… so today, I went through and pulled all pages that either 1) don’t exist any more, or 2) haven’t been touched in a while. (‘A while’ was defined, rather arbitrarily, by me, to be one month.) Makes for a much shorter…

Oh, man… Catachan, of Battleground: Halo, got his copy of PC Zone magazine today… and it contained some eyebrow-raising news:Our guess is that Halo for the PC will be out next autumn, probably to coincide with the announcement of Halo 2, which is already being worked on and a cert to arrive on Xbox first…

GiXeLz sends in a nice muted-tone desktop image, in three sizes, for our Wallpaper collection. Think of this as a nostalgic look at what Halo might have been (though there’s an awful lot of what Halo is, in there, too…).

Knight Premier writes to suggest that there’s a clear relationship between the 7th Column logo and 343 Guilty Spark, a character from Halo. (As well, of course, as the obvious relationship between Sparky and the Marathon logo…) You make up your own mind. (He’s modified the 7th Column logo a bit, to help you out.)

Halo crushed the competition in the last VoodooExtreme poll, ‘Your pick for 2001 console game of the year?’ (47% of 4140 votes, more than the next 10 games combined) – but it’s currently in third place in a new poll, ‘Which game released in 2001 had the best graphics?’ (Max Payne and Return to Castle…

Thanks to Razorback, who noticed that Halo snagged the #9 spot in IGN’s Hot 25 contest. Take a look, and enter to win the console of your choice!

Fall of Reach details… Eric Trautmann drops an interesting tidbit into the Marathon’s Story page forum – there’s been some discussion, on and off, about the outrage felt towards Dr. Halsey, and her involvement in the ‘recruitment’ of children for the SPARTAN project. The moral offense of replacing a child with a flash-clone (so that…

Matt Soell dropped into our forum with a status update about the fan-conducted Jason Jones interview:He’s trying to give in-depth answers – many of the questions are not the sort of thing he could answer quickly without being glib, which he doesn’t want to do. So he’s taking the time he needs to answer with…

Aargh! Just when you thought it was safe to go to bed! ActiveXbox posted their Halo review today… but I missed it earlier. Graphics and Sounds took high honors, Manual and Price (??) were the low votes… overall rating was 95%. The Reviews page continues to grow. (Thanks, Blue’s News, for the heads-up.)

Oops, we missed one – PC Magazine reviewed Halo on November 15. Short but sweet (appropriate, since it’s on a platform the magazine doesn’t cover)… they gave it a 5/5. Yes, it’s on the Reviews page.

We got to pokin’ again, and found 4 unnoticed Halo reviews. None of these are dated (they’re not even listed in the news sections of the sites in question)… but hey, we know they’re from the last few weeks, right? Xbox Gaming rated Halo 98%, Xbox Gamers said 9.9/10, Xbox City thought it was a…

What th… Matt Soell finally gives it up and explains his two-year-old comment about wall-hugging hippos… and you’re left with a NEW question! (They were proximity mines, that never made it into the game… or did they?)

Cesar Berardini, of TeamXbox, dropped us a note telling us that Amazon.com had informed him that Halo was not available: We’ve recently learned from our supplier that the item you requested to be notified about, HALO, will not be available in the foreseeable future.Whoa – a huge reseller like Amazon can’t get more… does this…

Pallor writes to say that a local radio station in Nashville, 102.5 WQZQ, is running a contest – they’re giving away an Xbox a day until December 25. (They’re calling it ‘Putting the Xbox in Xmas’.) Since WQZQ is part of the Dickie Brother Broadcasting Network, there might be a radio station in YOUR town…

Two new Halo reviews out there: The Armchair Empire gave Halo a 9/10 (citing framerate drops and a ‘B-movie science fiction’ plot), while GameOver gave it a 97%, even though they had a problem with a protagonist who could flip a tank over with his bare hands, but not kill instantly with a melee attack.…

Thanks to Acrappa, who noted on Rampancy.net that IGN Xbox has put up a PDF Halo Guide for its Insiders. This is just the previously posted Halo Walkthrough, packaged up as a PDF document – in fact, the HTML version (available to all, not just insiders) has screenshots the PDF version doesn’t have. Still, the…

We received a wet-looking Halo logo from Rob Cox – we’ve added it to our Logos collection.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, curator of the JunkYard, points out that VoodooExtreme is hosting a new poll: ‘Your pick for 2001 console game of the year?’ Currently, Halo has 690 of 1591 votes (or 43%, handily outdistancing the second-place Grand Theft Auto 3, with 15%). If you haven’t voted, make sure you do!