Author: Louis Wu

Thanks to Aginor, who noticed another Cliffy B (audio) interview on XGR.com – this time he’s giving his thoughts on E3. The second part has a tiny quote on Halo:Well, Halo looked very solid, I wonder if a first-person shooter can sell a console from a launch. The markets are tricky out there.(He immediately moved…

A new section has opened up at HBO – the Bungie Research Center Photo Archives. You know as much as we do.

Anrkey sends in the story of Private Ryles – ‘Close Combat: Infiltration’. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section. Nice to see the area is hopping!

We hesitate to point this out, given how some folks tend to overreact to the words of Bungie employees… but it seems pretty clear from here. Matt Soell weighs in on the possibility of internet play for Halo – looks like it won’t happen, at least for the initial release, on the Xbox. NOTE: He…

E3 articles: hoslap.com was mostly unimpressed by Halo, but thought it nicely showed off the power of the Xbox:At the booth where they were demoing it, they had set up a multiplayer game between two consoles with 4 players on each console for a total of 8 players. The fact that the graphics were decent…

Aginor pipes up on our forum, pointing out a GamePC E3 report, which gave Halo their ‘Most Disappointing’ award for the show (tied with the Xbox, in general). They didn’t even like the single-player:Their flagship game, Halo, was displayed in a four-way split screen (a la Golden Eye). The graphics were choppy and the resolution…

In what’s quickly turning into Ph.D. day here at HBO, he points us to an MSXbox.com article that showcases some of the screenshots we took for the Fanfest V page and our E3 2001 coverage page. One that’s worth a second look – the Xbox controller diagram. Never mind the errors… the diagram makes it…

Whoa – not sure how we (and every other Halo site out there, it seems) missed it, but Ph.D. posted an interesting link to our forum last week – xbox.ign posted a direct feed video (not filmed off a screen with a camcorder) of some Halo gameplay last Friday. It’s in QuickTime format, and it’s…

Koontzy has submitted part 3 of his ‘Land of the Unknown’ story to our Fan Fiction section – remember, you can read the story in order by using the ‘More by this author’ link on the Fiction page.

Harry “Organizer Man” Al-Shakarchi sends word that several new mirrors have turned up for the Fanfest movies, including two that have put up the new MPEG versions. (These scale up better than the QT versions – they look better doubled. The tradeoff is their very large size.) Battleground: Halo has mirrored the .mov versions: 1…

Koontzy has submitted the second of his multi-part story, Land of the Unknown. You can find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Thanks to Gecko_2k2, of Xbox Campus, who sent in a new desktop for our Wallpaper collection. It’s available in an awful lot of sizes – you should find one that fits your desktop.

Kudos to Aginor, who noticed that CoreMagazine.com posted a Halo impressions article, complete with movies. They had a bit of trouble with the jeep, but overall loved the game. There are three movies, all filmed with a camcorder off the plasma screens above the gaming rigs. The first two are solo play, the third is…

Freewill has crunched down four days worth of conventioneering into a single first-person perspective, and posted it to the Bungie Sightings Fanfest V page. Goodly chunks of it deal with Halo – though there’s a lot of other stuff in there, too. Check it out!

Char drops us a line to let us know that Xbox Campus has confirmed with Matt Soell that some of the problems folks at E3 saw with Halo are due to a weird mistake:”For some reason the build we brought along was the one from last Thursday (I think). Definitely not the most recent build…

Amazingly, the Halo SETI Marines didn’t lose any ground this week – but it’s coming. Three important team members – SHARkY (1927 units), baldrik (1621 units), and blitcz (552 units) have gone AWOL – we haven’t been penalized for their absence yet, but experience says it’s coming. The addition of Noah (1712 units), NEO (272…

And another clan site pops up – The Lords of Divinity make their debut. The site looks great in IE, but for some reason, Netscape is showing me source code only. Lixtrim says they’re working on it. Check ’em out!

Oops, we’d like to apologize – this got lost in the E3 crush. Last week, Bosskiller51 sent us a note about a new French Halo Clan – Halo French Clan (HFC), in fact. There’s not a lot there right now… but we’re sorry we missed the link anyway. (Blame Crux.)

Thanks to XNOR, of HaloPlayers, who mentioned (on our forum) that the Tritin Films remake of the original Halo trailer (dated now, but still very fun to watch) has been redone in Real format. The filesize on the .rm version is 7 megs – less than a quarter of the original .mpg. If you’ve never…

Sometimes, they just don’t stop. I was about to call it a night, when a short but sweet fanfic dropped into our inbox – Chess, by Jasper. Check it out.