Author: Louis Wu

Cortana.org gets another update… astrology, new furniture, and a pointed shot taken at those who mock. The game continues… (Thanks to black flag and a red star for the heads-up.)

Symbols, revisited. Starting back in October of 1999 (yeah, a long time ago), there was a bit of discussion about symbols found on various surfaces in Halo. Steve Campbell found some Marathon symbols… Hitman =PN= thought they might be something else… There was much speculation about Marathon logos, and flagstaffs. There was a lot of…

wod`asini writes to tell us that he’s formed a new Halo order called Blam! Right now, you can find info on his personal page… but they’re putting up a new site soon. They’re looking for players “who will really want to participate in the Halo community and at the same time dominate ranked halo.” If…

$erial-ki!!A writes to let us know that a new Halo mailing list has been started up at theglobe.com. Swing by and take a look!

Hawk, from Halo Center, sends along an interesting rumor from XBO365. Seems one of the commercials for the Xbox to be shown during the Superbowl (January 28, 2001) will focus on Halo:The second commercial pushes a lot of Promo for Halo but I don’t have the details on that one yet. I’m told they do…

Wow… you think you’ve gone through every screenshot ever released a million times… you think there’s nothing left to find. You’re wrong. 🙂 Khaine pointed out to us that the second covenant rifle, which has been discussed recently on our forum, has, indeed, been seen fired… almost 8 months ago! We’ve put together a quick…

Xerxes writes to tell us that Halo Orbit (the German one) has been totally redesigned. It’s utterly broken in NS… but looks quite nice in IE. Go and take a look!

Rony Sanchez writes to tell us that Compuexpert.com, a software retailer, lists a Halo release date of 5/29/01. While this would normally not be worth a mention (release dates that don’t come from Bungie aren’t worth the pixels it takes to display them), this one’s intriguing because of the Halo page itself. In the bank…

Thanks to Chris Cox, who dropped in yet another chapter in the ongoing Warrior saga, told from the Covenant perspective. You’ll find this latest intriguing work in our Fan Fiction section. Remember – you can always read the entire saga, in order, by following the ‘More by this author’ link in the entry. Chris got…

Speaking of seasons… Happy New Year to all of you! And while we’re at it, we hope the end of the second millenium was good for you… and that you find plenty of Covenant to beat up on in the next one!

Mikkel Eriksen writes to tell us that our latest posted theory (No Seasons on Halo) is incorrect. Read his reasoning in our Theories section.

Xbox tidbit – last week, Microsoft downgraded its performance sheet with a 250 MHz graphics processor instead of a 300 MHz one, which drops its polygon performance from 150 M/sec to 125 M/sec. (This is still twice the performance of the PS2.) For reference, here’s the old spec card, distributed to dealers recently. The spin…

Thanks to Brian Norton, who sent in a treatise on offplanet seasons, explaining why Halo won’t have any. You can find it in our Theories section.

Thanks to fAt1, of MPZ Halo, who sent along a link to this Video Business article containing Xbox details. Though some of the info is a little confused (they mention a 64 MB hard drive), much of it looks solid. Among the more interesting tidbits: the current launch window is reportedly September 15 to November…

[FMJ]Phönix[BP] drops a note on our forum mentioning a new German Halo clan, Full Metal Jacket. They seem to be a Sudden Strike clan with a Halo offshoot… I couldn’t get the provided link to connect me with a Halo page, so here’s a direct link.

Bungie’s on the move! Today’s the day… Bungie’s moving out of their temporary digs in the Encarta building, and over into their posh new Gaming Division offices. A Microsoft employee reports almost being crushed in the elevator by a guy carrying a 6-foot cardboard Trow… (Thanks, Aaron.)

Hamish Sinclair writes to point out that in our holiday preparations, we missed an official reply from Microsoft on the EU Xbox release issue (we mentioned the problem here, but at the time it was a rumor). Late last week, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying the issue – the delay IS real, and the reason…

Our forum has moved – the URL is the same, but the machine upon which it resides is different. This means that until your local DNS catches up with our change, you’ll be seeing the old forum. When you don’t see a “Forum is moving” note on the top, you’ll know you’re looking at the…

And the SETI Halo Marines make a reappearance! Some weird goings-on, though… although the individual stats are increasing normally, the team numbers haven’t changed an iota in the past 24 hours, making one wonder about the accuracy of the Team Standing values. Nevertheless, the Marines have been valiantly plugging away at incoming data, and whether…

General Cicero says on our forum that the position of Pilot is open under the Staff of Caesar at the Roman Federation, a large Halo army. Stop by or email him for details.