Author: Louis Wu

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall another notch in the Battle of the Teams, thanks in large part to the disappearance of Oddot, and almost 1400 units. Welcome, though, to the new members – ReddyStupidity, Dr. Gough, OneWhoKnows – who brought almost 1000 new units with them. With work, we’ll begin climbing again… but the…

Wow… somehow we missed this last week, but it seems an image has been making the rounds, purportedly a leaked shot of an Xbox. Daily Radar has gotten word from Carrie Cowan, PR manager for Microsoft’s Game Division, that this is totally false. Ack… by the time we hear the rumors, they’ve been disproved!

TyRant has already sent in Installment Two of his Ridge series (Installment One came in less than 18 hours ago). Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

ParaDoxX writes to tell us that The Syndicate Clan, a Starcraft/Broodwar/DiabloII clan, is planning to branch out into Halo, and is looking for new recruits. (They’re specifically looking for ‘very ELITE, active and mature gamers’.) Stop by and take a look (this URL works, too, though it seems to be down at the moment).

TyRant sends in Installment One of a new fiction series – Ridge. Find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Oops, almost got lost under the leftover cranberry sauce: Griffon writes to say that Halo Command Central has put up a new halo song, incorporating sounds from the E3 video. It’s an MP3, zipped, and weighs in at 3.3 MB. Check it out here.

Maarten Edgar sends in a theory discussing possible purposes for the Halo, in the context of the closure of the universe. Intriguing stuff! Check it out in our Theories section.

At the author’s request, we’ve removed all fan fiction written by $erial-ki!!A. We’re sorry to see them go!

Hmm. We know we’ve seen this somewhere before… but we can’t for the life of us remember where. Anyway, it’s news here, so we’ll post it. Amazon.com is selling Halo: Sybex’s Official Strategies and Secrets, listed as being published on January 22, 2001. (Yeah, right.) It’s written by Bart Farkas, who wrote both the Myth…

Hmm… Joe asks (on our forum) “What’s up with bungie.org?” What’s up, indeed?

Lupus sends word that he’s got a new German Halo site up – Halo Headquarters. Check it out… quite a bit of work has been put into it!

Dink!… Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose two spots in their climb to the top (maybe more, the SETI server is a week behind compiling team stats). Didn’t help much that we lost braeden and his 788 units… All the damage can be seen on the 7 day stats page. Without better crunching, those Covenant…

Thanks to Iden, who submitted Chapter 2 of his ongoing Firestarter Squad saga today. You’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section.

Okay, we couldn’t let this pass… it’s just too convoluted. 🙂 On Thursday, Matt Soell posted a short message to our forum confirming that Bungie wouldn’t have a booth at MacWorld SF this year. Rampancy.net picked up on this post yesterday, and included a front-page news post about it. Less than an hour later, MacLedge…

Kudos to Finch, who pointed out (on our forum and by email) that Bungie has updated its Letters to the Webmaster section. Even Doug Zartman gets in on the act. (Sort of.) Bork Bork Bork. (And the winners to the poetry contest.)

Matt’s weekly Halo update (over at R.net this week) contains some juicy gameplay details:The AI is already good enough to kill Jason and Chucky, no easy task.Vehicles are almost done, buildings are huge… and soon you’ll be able to buy G.I. Joe in his ReachMobile? Check all the details for yourself.

Wow… and another one. Chris Cox has sent in a story told from the Covenant side… a refreshing change. (Nicely written, too.) As Chris said,Later entries might be decyphered and uploaded in the future, assuming this doesn’t suck :)We think there should be more… how about you folks? Check our Fan Fiction section for ‘The…

Neil Grattan submits part 3 of his story, The Sniper, to our Fan Fiction section. It’s short, but it ain’t over yet…

Kudos to Dan Rudolph, who went to a Microsoft talk on the Xbox last night, and posted some highlights on our forum. Mostly hardware stuff… but this line popped out at me:While the Xbox won’t ship with a keyboard, there may be one at some point.Seems Brian Schmidtt (Audio and Media Director for the Xbox,…

Jay Swartzfeger, maintainer of the new Mac Halo site, writes to let us know that they have a new survey up for you to vote on – ‘What platform will you purchase Halo for?’ (Given that this is a Mac-centric site, we’re not sure how scientific the poll is… but hey. 🙂 ) Swing by…