Author: Louis Wu

Sterling “DwK” Kaliba writes to say that Roleplay.halowar.com is back up after a long hiatus. New games, new site design. Go visit.

Over the past year or so, since Halo for the Xbox was announced, a large number of people have publicly worried that ‘the Xbox is just a PC’. Response to this has been either agreement, or some vague ‘it’s completely different, due to the way the Xbox puts the pieces together’… but for the first…

Eldar-colonel, of Halo HQ, writes to point out a new Halo preview over at TotalGames.net. It’s a tad short on information – in fact, what little they have is questionable:For the indoor areas, other more suitable weapons come into play, such as alien blades and plasma-swords.(And don’t forget the foreign cutlasses and the xenolithic falchions.)…

arcarsenal sends in a couple of files you might be interested in – the first is the small icon you see here, for use as a system icon (you can either grab it right off this page, or download a stuffed (mac-format) folder (2k) that uses it as a custom icon). Additionally, he’s modified the…

Thanks to Maestro, who sends in this link from CNN.com, discussing game testing. The last third of it is about Halo.[…] Creamer’s team created a written overview of its various elements, assigning a tester to each of them. One tester, for example, is responsible for the game’s multiplayer aspect, making sure that different types of…

Important: You guys get another shot at questioning the team. We were contacted by a representative of a company that “helps Microsoft keep in touch with the online communities”… and they want questions for a fan-conducted interview. You guys send us questions that cover what you’d like to learn from the Bungie team, and we’ll…

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out an interview with Cliffy B over at XGR.com. In five large MP3s, he expounds at length on game design, platforms, and the future of gaming… Part II (a 9 MB chunk) contains a discussion about the Xbox (“Xbox is either gonna be Titanic or Heaven’s Gate”) and then a…

Pelican? Matt’s weekly Halo Update went to Battleground: Halo this week – and there’s lots of tasty stuff there. Multicolored cyborgs for netgames, some Halo moments, and speed increases… but the one that got me was this:The Pelican and the Covenant dropship are working in-game, and now have ground effects (i.e. when taking off they…

A new wallpaper from Bongo, of Onishots – check it out in our Wallpaper section. Blam.

Okay, it didn’t take so long – the new screenshots from the GamePro May 2001 Halo article are now in our Screenshots section, in higher resolution than you’ll find in the scanned article mentioned below. NextGen coming soon. 🙂

Speaking of adding dead tree articles, we’ve also scanned in last month’s GamePro article (it’s only one page, but weighs in at a hefty 382K) – short, but again, there are new shots, and the info is mostly on target. If only they hadn’t used that nasty ‘X’ background… Higher-res versions of the new shots…

Don’t take this as a shot at Free… but we rescanned the May NextGen article, in a size that’s intermediate to the two he offers on Bungie Sightings, and at a higher image quality level. You’ll find it on our Press page. (We’ll be adding hi-res versions of the actual new screens to the Screenshots…

Well, almost buried in the 100-odd posts of the most amusing flamewar to happen on our forum in a long time, Anonymous Coward has posted the first four paragraphs of what he calls ‘Work in progress…’. I’m gonna hold off adding it immediately to the Fan Fiction section, in the hopes that he’ll add to…

Seems there’s a new Halo site out there – The Coalition of the Ring. Check ’em out.

Woohoo! Our first mention in a fan’s wallpaper (I think). Dinosurfer has sent along ‘Joyride’ for your perusement – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. Nice and clean…

arcarsenal dropped us a line to let us know that Halo made Rolling Stone magazine – it’s just a tiny blurb, describing Halo as a ‘long-awaited 3d shooter’ on the Xbox, and displaying the flying jeep screenshot recently released… but hey, mainstream press is mainstream press!

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to say the Junkyard is finally back up – and will be posting one new exclusive item per day for the next two weeks. Dunno how many of those will be Halo-related… but stop by and take a look!

Thanks to Iden, who pointed out to us that Xbox.com has an article describing a team meeting a couple of months ago in which the first prototypes of a real, working Xbox were demoed… and the statement thatProgress has been great since then and we’re poised to deliver the first kits to game developers before…

Early last week, we got a Fan Fiction submission with a subject line of ‘stupid fanfic I wrote’. Wirehead figured, if the AUTHOR thinks it’s stupid, how good could it be? It got resubmitted a couple of days ago, with an altered subject line, and I found it this morning. Moral of the story -…

We’ve added a couple of new wallpapers that have been sitting for a bit in our uploads directory – there’s one from Scythe, and one from B-Sharp. Check ’em out!