Author: Louis Wu

Gamecenter.com interviewed Seamus Blackley, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Team, about where Microsoft sees themselves fitting into the console market.GC: How confident are you about Microsoft’s foray into console gaming? S. B.: We try to put 300 percent into everything we do. We’re here until 10 p.m. every night. I’m never home. We have…

Thanks to all the folks who’ve told us how broken our news archive is… it’s been fixed. Not only that, but searching has gotten easier. You can still use the search box on this front page… or you can jump over to the archive and grab a particular day, or a particular month. Finding old…

Woohoo! Shame on us for not noticing sooner. Battleground: Halo, dormant for a bit, is back in the saddle, with new updates, a comic, and a new bit of fan fic. We were getting nervous there… 😉

Thanks to Haloplayers, who noticed an article at Daily Radar UK detailing the (current) specs of the Xbox. On the plus side: a scaled-down, stable version of Windows 2000, (maybe) 128 MB RAM, and a keyboard and mouse standard… This is all speculation on DR’s part, but it’s backed up by some educated guessing, and…

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we missed our SETI update yesterday. We’ll do a 2-week update next week. In the meantime, however, the SETI Halo Marines need to realize that they’re falling behind the TidBITS team… after weeks of being 4-500 units behind, the gap has now grown to over 600 units, and continues…

Thanks mightily to Mark Levin, who has updated the HBO FAQ to reflect recent information. Tons of good stuff… stop by and take a look! (If you want to nitpick, do so in this thread on our forum.)

Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who snagged this from ShugaShack (who, in turn, got it from Telefragged)… The latest issue of the British gaming mag Edge has an article on the Xbox, and a sidebar contains comments from developers about the platform. Joseph Staten was quoted as saying the following:”Throughout Halo’s design process, we’ve had to…

Rockhound sends word of a new Clansite, Germany Clan. This one’s a bit different from other clansites… it seems to be a meta-site, a gathering place for German clans in preparation for clanwars against other nationalities. Divisions are to be 6 to 8 soldiers… if you speak German, feel free to correct any misimpressions I’ve…

Thanks to Pr@iler, of Halo.ch, who gently reminded us that we’ve mentioned quite a few new Halo pages in our news in the past couple of months, but have been lax about adding them to the Links page. Hopefully, we’re updated now. (The General Sites section has been alphabetized, as well.)

Thanks to fire phoenix, who whipped up a new banner for our Banners page. Nicely done… go check it out!

Thanks to MrEiffel65, who posted on our forum about a new German Halo site, CoD Halo-News. (No relation to the German site HaloNews.) Looks an awful lot like Battleground: Halo to me… Check it out!

Thanks to Brad Custer, of Custer’s Corner, who sent in a new desktop for our Wallpapers page. This one comes in more resolutions than any I’ve seen yet, you should find a version that fits your desktop.

$erial-ki!!A is back in the writing game, and has released chapter 6 of his Halo work-in-progress, this one titled “Mutiny and Dissension.” You’ll find it on our Fan Fiction page. Enjoy!

Last week, we mentioned an upcoming product called 3d studio gMAX, a 3D modelling program that Discreet (makers of 3d studio max) plan to distribute free to modmaking communities. Thanks again to Picky, who noticed that Stomped interviewed a Discreet exec about gMAX at QuakeCon earlier this month, and quite a bit more info about…

People are still whining about Bungie selling out to Microsoft, and for the most part, Bungie is still being good-natured about it. Every once in a while, though, they feel the need to respond to a particularly egregious attack. This attack was made on the Rampancy.net forum a couple of days ago… and after a…

Thanks to Chris Hanel, who sent in a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Nice compositing job!

Mhaddy =PN= writes to let us know that he’s put up scans of a Halo article from the September 2000 issue of Computer Gaming World at the Junkyard. (There are also scans of a Tribes 2 article, and a funny column that should be appreciated by gamers who are parents everywhere.) The information isn’t new…

Thanks to TomeOne (via email) and edge (via our forum) for pointing out an interview with Marty O’Donnell at MacCentral. A snippet:MG: What’s involved in creating the alien language we hear in the trailer? It certainly manages to sound otherworldly, but also feels like there’s dialogue and meaning, as opposed to just cool sounding noise.MOD:…

Oops, nearly missed this one. Matt answered a few questions about gameplay on our forum… solid info about the mounted gun on the jeep, on the jeep’s winch, and on the player’s interaction with the dropship. Read it for yourself! Thanks, Matt.

Bad news for ultramarathoners… the old pledge of being able to circumnavigate the entire Halo gets shot down by Matt in our forum. Too good to be true, anyway. Nice to hear that Nathan’s promise of no computer-generated terrain is still good, though…