Author: Louis Wu

Picky informs us that he’s put a couple of Halo WinAmp skins up for grabs here – to get them, you’ll have to log in to the MSN network, but they should be up at WinAmp.com as soon as they’re reviewed.

Thanks to Ph.D., who pointed out a new Halo preview at Gamespot – there’s not really any new info there, it seems to be a pre-E3 prep piece, but press is press, right? (Well, don’t tell that to Daily Radar, who went under yesterday…)

Dink!… despite the infusion of 16 new members, the Halo SETI Marines lost a position in the Battle of the Teams, dropping out of the top 50 for the first time in almost a year. Ouch! Part of the blame can be placed on the four deserters, who, between them, pulled almost 2000 units out…

Woohoo – the mail guy’s back! For all those who wrote in the past week and a half, and expected a reply, I’ll be getting to them in the next day or two. Meanwhile, I’ve added Friday’s Weekly Halo Update to the Halo Update Database; the word of the week is Cortana. How long did…

Whoa… looks like (if I’m reading it right) Tyson Green, AKA Ferrex, of Rampancy.net, has been hired away by Bungie for who knows what… I think he just took the job to get out of Canada, but you never can tell. Congrats, Ferrex! (Don’t let this stop you from reading this week’s Halo Update from…

Thanks to Matt Soell, who didn’t hold our feet to the fire TOO long for Marty’s update last week – he sent us this week’s update as scheduled. And it’s a tasty one. So tasty, in fact, that I logged in from a place where I have to PAY by the minute for my internet…

Family obligations take me out of town this week – I’ll be heading to one of those parts of the US where the nearest dialup internet access is a long-distance call. (Betcha didn’t know those places still existed, eh?) Looks like Wirehead’s already on the ball, posting wallpaper this morning, and hopefully, Ding and Crux…

Okay, so it’s not Matt… but Marty O’Donnell is part of the Halo team, as well, and he’s kindly offered his own Halo Update in lieu of Matt’s, who had to go to Chicago for a wedding or something. (Now we REALLY know who’s devoted to Halo, and who just SAYS they are…) Oh, and…

Though Matt has already posted that there will be no Halo Update this week… you might want to check back in a bit anyway. You never know, sometimes odd things happen.

Speaking of new uploads, we received ANOTHER anonymous upload, this time of a modified screenshot – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Someone should claim this, as well.

A large collection of logos were upped to our ftp uploads directory a couple of weeks ago – I’ve been holding off on posting them, because there were so many (7, in fact), and were all so similar… but Zypper prodded us via email, and Crux told me it was time… I’ve put the two…

Thanks to Sun Pak, who dropped us a new desktop for our Wallpaper section. Bright…

Matt Soell dropped into our forum to announce that most of the Bungie crew would be heading back to Chicago in the next day or so to attend the wedding of Lorraine Reyes and Rob McLees… and therefore, he’d be unable to post a Halo update this week. We’ll take this opportunity to wish Lorraine…

Griffon, of Halo Command Center, writes to express his anger at Daily Radar, who put up a piece on the ‘Top 15 Xbox games we’ve seen so far’. Halo’s on the list… but at number 4. DR puts Munch’s Oddysee, DOA3, and Kakuto-X (‘Microsoft’s secret fighting game’) ahead of it. Why?Halo didn’t exactly overwhelm us…

The shiny floors of the shaft demonstrated how new the halo must have been, the small room was a flurry of activity with many builders encircling the symbol on the floor. One of them spoke, or at least its mouth moved and the machine translated its words into English for us.Time paradoxes… someone uploaded an…

Mark Levin, our friendly neighborhood FAQ maintainer, has given the Frequently Asked Questions section a much-needed facelift – lots of little stuff, here and there. Feel free to browse through – you might learn something!

Gamecritics.com has put put up a Halo preview that’s worth reading. There’s one new screenshot (pretty nice, though unfortunately small), and a reasonbly good analysis of the current position of Halo. There a couple of notable problems with the review, however, which make you wonder… for example, on Page 4, there’s this passage:It’s also worth…

Last Friday’s Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – the word of the week is ‘pathfinding’; see the progress made in the past few months!

Blackfly dropped us a line to tell us that Jack of All Games is the bargain bin distributor (games under $25) for Take 2/GoD. They’re on their way out of business, though… I think PlayNOW was just confused. Me too, now…

Thanks to Aginor, who noticed another preview of Halo at PlayNOW. It’s generally on-target… though the screenshots are 18 months old (again), the system is listed as ‘PC’ (though the article itself focuses on the Xbox), and the Publisher is listed as ‘Jack Of All Games’. I thought that maybe they were an Australian distributor…