Author: Louis Wu

Turbine Entertainment Software, “the technology-leading developer of massively multiplayer Internet-based persistent virtual worlds for PCs and videogame consoles,” put out a press release on August 17 announcing that they’d hired David Bowman, formerly of Bungie Software, “where he designed for their hit series Myth and Fantasy Siege, the forthcoming hit based on BungieÂ’s Halo engine.”…

Another old name hangs up his hat: Stryker writes to say that Halo HQ is closing down, due to “time contraints and lack of Halo-related information.” (There’s a full resignation letter at Halo HQ, but unfortunately, that’s unreachable from here at the moment.) That’s two of the oldest Halo sites gone, in one day! Ouch.

Wow! It looks like there’s been a full server reset over at SETI… the Halo SETI Marines have been credited with over 10,000 units sometime in the past day. (These were units submitted by team members that may have been completed for other teams. Currently, the total for the Halo team is equal to the…

Alan Stott writes to say that due to problems finding a free server that allows server-side includes, Halo-Net is going down, but he made this offer:The domain is up for grabs and is paid off until next August, and if someone has a server with Server Side Includes, they can have the new unseen site…

Thanks to Ben Evans, who sent in a pair of desktops for our Wallpaper page. They’re composited screenshots… one with the old graphics, one with the new. Take your pick!

Thanks to John Boscia, who submitted a new story, The Book of Halo, to our Fan Fiction page. Check it out!

Thanks to Mark Levin, who found another Bench comic relating to Halo. (Xian noticed one way back in early March, on our forum.) This one’s pretty old, too… it went up in early February. However, I couldn’t find any record of it either in our forum archives, or in the r.net forum archives, or on…

Woohoo! Bungie’s updated the Letters to the Webmaster section! Dog intestines, Tauntauns, and Joan Crawford, oh, my. (Halo’s even mentioned a couple of times, which makes this post (just barely) on topic.) Go read ’em! Thanks to Tursas for the heads-up on this one.

Psyrixx writes to tell us that the Psyjnir Complex will be relaunched on September 10th, in all its glory. Mark your calendars!

Halo news is at an all-time low right now… but that didn’t stop Halo Center from bringing on two new staffers, and welcoming back an old one. With a crowd like that, they should be able to make up news, when there isn’t any. 😉 Welcome (or welcome back), guys!

Xbox, Xbox über alles… Wagner James Au has written a long rationalization on why the Xbox will succeed next year over at Salon.com. Lots of tasty morsels here… Kevin Bachus points out the difference between the target Xbox gamer and other console targets:”We’re going after an 18-year-old guy away at college for the first time.…

“I can go in… I can go out. In… out. In… out.” xbox365 is reporting that “a good source” is claiming that Microsoft Developers have been informed that the Xbox spec has been upgraded to 128 megs of RAM. Who really knows, with a product still 12-18 months from release? Good news, though, if it’s…

Due to an infusion of new blood, the Halo SETI Marines have closed the gap with the TidBITS team to just over 500 units again. At this rate, they’ll pass them up by early October. The bad news is, the Austrian SETI Club has stepped up and passed the Marines! Can these new crunchers make…

More contradictions to the Daily Radar UK bit last week: xbox.ign.com interviewed Kevin Bacchus, Director of Third Party Relations, about how he sees outside publishers fitting into the Xbox scene. One unhappy thought:”For some publishers though, there’s a conversation we need to have about how you make use of a system that has no mouse…

More Xbox news… in contradiction to speculation by Daily Radar UK last week, MSXbox asked Michael Abrash, Microsoft programmer, about his statement that the Xbox will ship with 64 megs of RAM. Michael said”… I would have liked to have seen 128 Mb myself. […] Anyway, the decision is made, and it’ll be interesting to…

For those still confused as to why Bungie programmers (and many others) are so excited about the Xbox, when it seems it’s just a box with a bunch of PC parts that will be nowhere near cutting-edge by the time the Xbox is released, XboxFaction has put up a small feature on fixed-spec (console) vs.…

Thanks to Trask, who submitted a new background for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Halo Center is currently looking for newsies… if you’re interested, send Yrro some mail. Not that there’s a ton to do right now… but who knows, things change.

Yesterday, we posted a news item about an interview with Seamus Blackley, the Director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Team, and we got both email and a forum post lamenting the inclusion of Blackley on the Xbox team. He’s best known for his involvement in the development of Trespasser, a game released in October 1998…

Mojo reminded us that we’d forgotten his comic site, Bungie Jumping, in our links round-up yesterday. Heh… his latest comic pokes fun at a pillar of the fan community… stop by and take a look! (Bungie Jumping has been added to the Funnies section of our Links page, as well. Sorry, Mojo.)