Author: Louis Wu

A couple of mirrors have popped up for the .asf version of the TeamXbox video:FilePlanet (thanks, Battleground: Halo)thecorpse.comBoth versions are 8 meg zipped files. Additionally, FunkyJ has mirrored the 19.4 meg MPEG version on his Hotline server (details in this post)… the original, astoundingly, is still on TeamXbox’s site, as well. This one (in either…

jonki, Halo’s product planner, dropped into our forum to clarify that the first Halo ad is just now getting into production. October was the last date we heard…

We’ve put together a page of screen captures from the newest halo footage over at TeamXbox – you can see 21 shots showing some of the fun stuff in this movie.

Matt Liebhold writes to say that Penny Arcade mentions Halo today in their news post…Since I don’t remember (and it keeps changing) whether or not Halo will be available for the PC ever, I’m going to get my Halo on the only way I know how. Who knows? It’s got full co-op (Thank HEAVENS), maybe…

Wow – TeamXbox has gotten their hands on a 2 minute, 9 meg movie (.asf format) of Halo gameplay. Great new footage… and a teaser for http://www.combatevolved.com/ at the end (resolves to Microsoft’s main site at the moment). Thanks to Chanan for the heads-up!

Thanks to Uriel, who pointed out this article at Gamestar.de – apparently, they’ve gotten ‘official word’ from Microsoft that Halo WILL be coming to the PC, and that the ‘Only on Xbox’ tagline refers to other consoles, not to a PC version. (Yes, Matt Soell has said this a hundred times… but many people have…

Recently, I heard from a viewer that the Wallpaper section was difficult to navigate, owing in part to the large numbers of images and in part to the fact that only three thumbs are shown on a page. I agreed to look into the situation, and suggested that a cookie-based solution might be good -…

Thanks to Allan_X, over at the TeamXBox forums, who picked up a copy of the Official Xbox Magazine at his local 7-11 – among the many bits he scanned was this Halo ad. We’ll do our best to get a better one for you soon. (Thanks, op_ivy, for the heads-up.)

Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Microsoft’s official Halo site is back up, in all it’s Flashed glory. Check it out!

Okay, I don’t understand this at all… but it works. So here goes. I mentioned yesterday that a program called DivX Player will let you watch the movie, but not listen to the sound. Bluskale writes to say that you can get sound by selecting ‘DivX Doctor’ from the ‘Movie’ menu, and saving the resultant…

Dink!… the Halo SETI Marines fall to 53rd in the Battle of the Teams, edged out by Picard – who are pulling away rapidly. Total crunchage is up, despite the loss of two team members this week, thanks in large part to NEO, who took la Crunch Honneur with 154 units. See how YOU did…

Last week’s Halo update has been added to the Halo Update Database – now 414 tidbits of Halo goodness, spread out over 44 updates. (The total timespan is 49 weeks – there were a few missed ones in there.) The word of the week is ‘Banshee’ – check out how the first 7 months of…

Joker writes to pass along a Halo animation – sort of an animated logo thing. It’s 3.1 MB, and lasts about 20 seconds. It’s in MPG format, and you can snag it here.

Okay, the saga of the Interview movie goes on. Bravehamster has re-encoded it from his original source, using DivX. On a PC, with WMP, the sound is there, the video is there… and the filesize has been reduced to 21.6 megs. (Woohoo!) On the mac side, I was able to watch it perfectly with the…

Thanks to Psyrixx, who generously offered to mirror Bravehamster’s .avi movie – you can snag it here. No clue how the site will hold up… so if you’re getting horribly slow downloading times, maybe try and hold off for a bit. Again: this movie is 81 megs, in .avi format. On a PC, WMP plays…

Thanks wholly to Bravehamster =PN=’s conversion of the .wmv to .avi, I was able to use QuickTime (with its much more flexible manipulation tools) to grab a few more screen captures from the interview/discussion movie. There are 18 new shots on this page. Enjoy!

Man, you gotta love fans. Johann, unhappy that the boat we saw only once, as concept art, might not be in the game any more, modeled his own. You’ll find the wireframe in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Bravehamster =PN= writes to say that he’s re-encoded the interview (sorry, Harry – the discussion video) in .avi format – it’s a whopping 81 MB now, but WMP plays it without stuttering. (QuickTime, for some reason, still can’t play it.) He’s kindly made it available via HTTP and FTP… but bandwidth is limited; mirrors are…

It’s the night for Bungie explanations! Chris Butcher steps into a conversation about the quality of the latest movie… and explains thatif you look at all of the scenes outside in the snow, in the angular interiors and out on the bridge, you’ll see that the environment polygons are flat-shaded and all the characters have…

Joe Staten jumped into a discussion of ‘the Schwartzenegger shot’ to expound on Matt’s ‘cinematics are done’ comment in this week’s update, and to suggest thatHopefully we’ll be able to give you an abbreviated taste of what’s in store (i.e. a new trailer) sometime soon. Certainly before Halo is on the shelves, a date that…