Author: Louis Wu

The rumor mill cometh… Justin Lambert sends in notice that ps2.ign.com is reporting a rumor that the Xbox will be delayed until mid-spring of 2002… could this be real, or just sour grapes from a site that covers a rival console?

Thanks to Darwin Campa, who sent in a new desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Stay tuned – there might be new images made from the hi-res stuff found on the Xbox press site.

Our cup runneth over. Fain though I am to receive new information, I bemoan the displacement of older erudition. Okay, enough of that. While we hate to see gems like the second round of Matt’s Gamestock Q&A get bumped off the front page, we need to make room for this week’s Halo Update:There’s a new…

Took a few days, but Matt’s sent along the second round of answers to some of the questions you guys asked with regard to the Gamestock material. Some good news, some bad news, some just plain silly news. An interesting tidbit:For Gamestock we put in an artificial framerate cap at 30 FPS because we didn’t…

B5RobMan@aol.com sends word that the May 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly contains an article on the Xbox version of Halo. The screens all use the original marine… but apparently, there’s some additional coverage. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙂

The official Xbox.com Halo site has added streamed versions of both the hi-res and lo-res versions of the newest Gamestock movies… the format is Windows Media, but I couldn’t get the links to work on any mac-based browser. They both work fine on a Win98 box with WMP 7, though. Links have been added to…

SimplyDave has taken a close look at the new press pics, and has come up with some nice discussion fodder. Read. Discuss.

Poll updates: Halo still trails several games, including even Doom, in VoodooExtreme’s ‘what game would make the best movie’ poll… and it continues to be beaten by WWF and Pro Skater 2x in UGO’s drool factor poll. Heh… you guys have forgotten how to smash polls. 🙂

As a few thousand of you seem to have noticed, we came back online around 4 hours ago – hopefully, the telco guys found and solved ALL the problems. In the meantime, catch-up. Poking around on the Xbox press site turns up some other very interesting information… worth a look, until they turn off access.

Well, even though nobody can see this, we can still add it to the archived knowledgebase… Hamish Sinclair dug out and sent to us the jeep pictures we alluded to on Sunday… the ones that had been posted a bit over a year ago, but had disappeared from the net. One of these jeeps is…

fAt1, of MPZ Halo, writes to say that the latest copy of PC Gamer UK has a teaser for the next issue:Exclusive, Halo: It’s back, we visit Bungie to get all the latest news and incredible screenshots of this stunning new tactical shooter!That issue should be on the stands on April 19th, and possibly in…

lookout lad noticed that Voodoo Extreme is running a new poll, asking which game would you like to have a movie made out of. Halo is currently running well behind the leaders. While we think that the Bungie Sin-O-MatiXXX team deserves your support, remember the last VE poll, and try to vote honestly.

Thanks to omer and Bongo, who told us about Blue’s News’ hi-res movie mirror… and then to Blue’s, for the listing of 3D Gamers’ hi-res mirror. The hi-res mirror list here has been updated. Additionally, Halo Center has added the low-res movie, and hopes to add the hi-res version today.

It’s small, yeah, but we try to be complete – we’ve added the latest banner displayed on Bungie’s Halo page to our Banners page.

And the questioning begins… Tom Van Sinden writesA couple of observations: (Sat Mar 10 15:26) That glowing red light is a Microsoft Optical mouse. (Sat Mar 10 15:47) THAT looks like four-way split screen… hmm…We just report what gets sent to us, folks…

Massa wrote to let us know that the lo-res version of the new movie is now available at Halo Network… and he hopes that the hi-res version will be up by tomorrow.

Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who gave us the heads-up that bungie.com is once more accessible, with the movies moved to a nameless (IP-address-only) MS server. Go on in and see the pics! (And maybe even get the movies…)

Thanks to Pallor for the heads-up – Max Hoberman jumped on to the R.net forum a few minutes ago to suggest that there’d be some relief for the movie congestion problem coming very soon. Great news!

More behind-the-scenes stuff… Marty O’Donnell explains a bit about how the sound worked during the demo. To set the scene, Joe Staten said this in his reply to Mark Levin’s post:If my shooting style seemed erratic, it’s because I was trying to stay in sync with the music. Notice how the last Grunt in the…

Mark Levin posted a long and detailed analysis of the new movie, and cross-posted it to Rampancy.net… where he got a reply from Joe Staten, who clarifies a few tidbits. Both posts are definitely worth a read!