Author: Louis Wu

Thanks again to Darkman, who uploaded a new, much nicer scan of the Hyper magazine interview we mentioned yesterday. It’s fully readable now. (Quite a bit larger, too – almost 500K.)

Thanks to Razorback, who sent in another desktop for our Wallpaper page. Pretty spiffy!

Kalis uploaded a funky scan (271K) of an article out of an Australian gaming mag called Hyper. Some of the text is cut off, and some is unreadable… but what’s left is pretty interesting stuff. It’s an interview with Joe Staten, and it contains some great quotes.On health:”We are never going to have little health…

Eldar-colonel sends word that CNBC Australia ran a piece recently about cheap computer prices, on the technology news program E-Generation. During the piece, the E3 2000 trailer was showing on a whole series of screens for about 30 seconds. Nice product placement!

Short but sweet – Matt’s Weekly Halo Update is at Haloplayers this week, and boy, I’m happy I’m gonna be at E3. Warthogs can hurt people – as in hit-and-run; that should make lots of our forum regulars happy. Luckily, though, the dropships no longer drop them on Marines… check out the last Halo Update…

Bongo sends in another desktop for our Wallpaper section – if only. (Grass will NOT look like this in the real game… but it’s nice to imagine.)

Often, our forum is full of flaming, and first-time visitors asking standard questions, and whimsical musings… but every once in a while a thread comes along that asks some serious questions, and brings up some serious issues. carbon started such a thread last night – he was worried about the Halo hype. (Yeah, not a…

Thanks to Lurker, who noticed (over on R.net’s forum) a Halo mention in the mainstream press: MSNBC has an article that looks at Rogue Squadron 2 for the GameCube – and it looks at Halo, in comparison:In fact, many of Microsoft’s games are shaping up nicely as the company prepares for its fall launch. Halo,…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Darwin Campa had put up 4 new desktop images – we’ve finally gotten around to adding them to the Wallpaper section here. Enjoy!

I ignored making tracks now as it didn’t matter, the appearance of body parts should be clue enough that I had been here.Neil Grattan drops us the first part of his new Fan Fiction, ‘The Great Escape’. Check it out, along with the rest of our Fan Fiction section!

Stephan writes to let us in on an ugly little secret – Halo is just a mod for Counter-Strike! Dang, those Bungie guys had us fooled…

Picky mentioned on our forum that he’s put up another 27 webcam pics, showing lots of Halo gameplay. The webcam’s quality is turning most monitor colors to shades of blue, leading PIcky to believe they’re all water shots… but even if his commentary isn’t always right, the pics are intriguing. Next week, of course, we’ll…

Funky. Bongo, our OniShots guy, has sent in a bit of wallpaper for your desktop – clean lines, uncluttered… and it promotes HBO. What more could you want?

Thanks to Picky, who noticed (and archived) a series of Bungie Webcam shots showing Halo in play. Intriguing shots, some of ’em…

Eldar-colonel writes to say that Halo HQ now has official wallpaper – swing by and check it out! The artist is Scythe, who has submitted a couple of his works to our Wallpaper section, as well…

Warrant Officer Jim Trebour Poirot rigged the last cord, drove the light tank a last dozen feet, whispered a final goodbye, and exploded in holy flame.Vector40 sends us the third (and probably final) chapter of his piece, ‘HaloStory’ – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. (It reads best all together.)

acrappa, at R.net, noticed a feature called ‘Music in Computer Games’ over at IMG. It’s mostly an interview with Mike Beckett (the man behind Nuclear Kangaroo Music, making music for Pangea Software) and Marty O’Donnell (a long-time Bungie contributor, currently a full-time employee working on Halo). It’s an interesting look at an aspect of gaming…

Thanks to all who submitted questions for the upcoming Fan-conducted interview – the submission window is now closed. (We’ve got to get through them all so that we can send what we promised.) Any questions received after 20:40:00 UTC will not be considered – sorry. As soon as we know anything about the status of…

Last Friday’s Weekly Halo Update has been added to the Halo Updates Database. word of the week is ‘shader’ – how many different types have the Halo team developed, and when did they start? Shaders can be thought of as textures that provide special effects – animation effects, lighting effects, and so on.

Thanks to Aginor, who noticed a Halo article at UGO.com – they’re pretty ho-hum about the current build. Basically, though, they’re just not interested in split-screen multiplayer:In the end, we’re still interested to see what Bungie will do with the finished version of the game; whether its vast outdoor environments can be put to good…