Author: Louis Wu

Friday’s weekly Halo Update, posted over at Haloplayers, has now been added to the Halo Update database. Search term of the week is ‘chain gun’… follow the progress since it was first introduced, 6 weeks ago!

MSXbox has put up their own preview of the Gamestock event which happens tomorrow. The Halo mention:Bungie Software’s Halo is quite possibly one of the most anticipated titles of the past few years. Halo is a third-person sci-fi action game in which all the action will take place in the sky, on land, under the…

Interesting. Physalis notes on our forum that Cortana.org has more content, currently, than the simple placeholder it’s had for a while. The top graphic incorporates a bit of an old Halo screenshot, and the navigation links (as yet unlinked) refer to players in the Marathon, Myth, and Halo universes. As Physalis notes, cortana.org is delineated…

Bastard sends in what we hope is the start of a multipart piece of Fan Fiction – The Tides of War. Wolmak doubted they would make it far into the forest today, as he was being cautious about Svith’s warning. Only a mile into the forest and they could all sense that something about the…

Ricardo Rosado sends word that yesterday’s Gamespy newsletter (he sent it hours and hours ago – it was still current then) has a poll asking you to choose the ‘Team-Based Action FPS Game’ you’re looking forward to the most. Halo was third, following Team Fortress 2 and Tribes 2. Worth subscribing to to let ’em…

Last June, when the news of the Microsoft buyout first went public, there was quite a bit of discussion about the possibility of Halo being the Xbox’s ‘killer app’ – a game so good that gamers will buy an Xbox just to play it. (In fact, In October, 2000, Daily Radar wrote a piece suggesting…

Heh… for those who want to play with the Halo marine’s armor NOW (the original Halo marine, that is), check out this page. Holiday calls it HaloArmor. Looks pretty good to us! All you need is a copy of Rune… (Originally pointed out on our forum.)

PlanetXbox has a ‘preview’ of next week’s Gamestock event… info is a bit sketchy, but here’s what they say about Halo:Jason Jones of Bungie Studios should be on hand to show off Halo in one form or another. We’re hoping to see a playable version of the title at this point but it may be…

Oops! Apologies to Scythe, who uploaded a new desktop for us about a week ago – but we never noticed it in our upload folder. (Folks – if you want to be sure we see it, drop us an email. 🙂 ) Anyway, it’s up now, and you can see it on our Wallpaper page.

Thanks to Zypper, who pointed out that this week’s Halo Update is over at Haloplayers… and it sounds like they might just be ready for Gamestock. New music (this might be the bestest part), better AI, and lots of gameplay tweaks. Go read it for yourself… and brace for Monday/Tuesday’s impact!

Thanks to MoBill, who pointed out the (future) link of Microsoft’s Gamestock 2001 page. There’s nothing there yet… but there will be, on Tuesday.

black flag and a red star posts his second weekly (well, sort of) HBO Forum Update (not to be confused with Matt Soell’s weekly Halo Updates), and the big question is, can he keep it up? (Matt’s been going for 17 updates now, over a 22 week span – it’s a tough act to follow.)…

Heh – Jack, on our forum, points us to an image that seems to sum up the feelings of a lot of Halo fans about the upcoming MMORPG, Planetside. It’s all in fun…

Kudos (hehe… he said kudos) to Paul Collette, who spotted a Halo mention in the March 2001 issue of Computer Gaming World:Halo: “Graphics” is the focus of the Halo team. Most of the developer updates from Bungie have been discussing graphical tweaks and accomplishments, which is a bit worrisome. We still have faith, due to…

Thanks to both Daedalus and EvilBastard, who sent us closeups of the Halo shirt (a pic which will probably remain on the Bungie Webcam all night) within 10 minutes of each other. No more, please. 🙂

Thanks to Zypper, who sent in this Bungie Webcam shot of Mat Noguchi modeling a new Halo t-shirt. This is the same Mat who said that the entire Bungie/Halo/Online team was concentrating 100% on Gamestock? Looks like they’re ready…

I saw a fireball erupt behind the main body of troops and the communication tower leaned slowly and crumpled in a heap of rubble.Todd Hansen sends in the first chapter of a Fan Fiction piece that ‘has grown quite colossal’… if you’re interested in seeing the rest, send him mail! (Read the beginning of ‘Vision…

Interesting. Hot on the heels of a query on our forum about the playability of Halo over a modem comes a news article at Daily Radar about a company (Xtech) who’s producing a narrowband solution for the PS2 and Xbox. Details are sketchy at the moment, but Xtech says that they’re aiming to bridge the…

Thanks to Pallor, who noticed (on R.net’s forum) that MSNBC has an article about a V-chip-style control to be included in the Xbox. It’s not clear how this will affect Halo, since without the chip, parents concerned about violence levels would simply not buy it anyway, but it’s possible that overall, more units of the…

Something other than ‘mere screenshots’, says Matt of the Halo offerings at Gamestock. Also, the bungie.com website (not just the Halo page) is about to undergo testing, prior to public display. Good stuff a’comin’!