Author: Louis Wu

The Halo SETI Marines continue to dog the heels of the TidBITS team… 500 units still separates them from position 46 in the Club Rankings. Welcome to new team members Marvin, Master X, and MKULTRA… hopefully, with these (and several others that didn’t make the top 400 this time around) we can pass them soon!…

We’d like to take a moment to wish luxor, of Halo Vault, all the best in whatever he chooses to do… it seems he’s leaving IGN. Good luck, luxor!

Dispatcher has pointed us to another pair of images (that he made, this time) pertaining to the celestial positioning of the Halo. You’ll find them here (a view of the close galaxy, showing the relative positions of Iota Horologii and the Galactic Core) and here (an enhanced terminal pic from Marathon 2, showing (sort of)…

Okay, we haven’t asked permission for this, and you should really read the original post for explanations of all the details… but we’ve received a number of notes that the starmap SiliconDream posted yesterday is unreachable in its original location, so we’ve taken the liberty of mirroring it here. (If this is a problem, Sili,…

Thanks to luxor of Halo Vault, who has mirrored the Wazzup movie… if you’re having trouble getting it from our servers, try their (much) bigger pipes. Absolutely worth a look…

Well, quality has dropped a bit, but FINALLY it’s viewable on PCs. Sorry for the delay, and sorry for the quality drop. One of these days, we’ll figure out why moving video files from PCs to Macs and back is so difficult… in the meantime, enjoy this spoof of the famous Budweiser ad. (15.4 MB,…

Kudos to fire phoenix, who wrote to Matt Soell for clarification of yesterday’s eNews tidbit (suggesting that the Mac version would be released simultaneously with the Xbox version). You can find Matt’s answer here at Halo Center.

More Halo Center news… Yrro decided to return as site maintainer. A short break was all that was needed.

Haloplayers announced yesterday that due to server load, they’re going to discontinue their site hosting services for new applicants for the time being. This does not affect existing sites (nor does it affect any sites already accepted but not up yet). And Halo Center would like to remind you that they have their own hosting…

Fire Phoenix wanted to make it clear that he was still working on Halo Center (although not as site maintainer)… the site’s not closing down, it’s just lost its site maintainer. Apologies to anyone who misinterpreted my comment about there being noone in the position of maintainer as meaning there was noone working on the…

Yrro has resigned as site maintainer of Halo Center. At the moment, that leaves… nobody there. Ouch. All of us at HBO wish Yrro good luck in whatever he chooses to do next.

This page was compiled yesterday, but I ran out of time before I could upload it… the Halo SETI Marines continue to hold steady at about 500 units behind the TidBITS team, although SETI hasn’t updated the Club Rankings. Darth Flounder takes la Crunch Honneur, and abotani rockets 51 positions to snag the Frogblast award……

To vepa, who has now sent the same desktop image twice… please send along a valid email address, I have some questions about your art before I can put it up. Thanks. vepa@microsoft.com bounces.

Jason Rachford writes to tell us of another new Halo site on the scene… Halogame.com. Still being worked on… but it’s fast and lean. Worth a look!

Oops, we missed another Dutch clan (thanks again to HP): Clades. They claim to be the FIRST Dutch Halo clan… seems like a fine claim to me.

Seen at haloplayers… Seems there’s a Dutch Halo squad called Death ‘n Destruction, and they’re recruiting. Stop on by!

Christoph Schmidt writes to tell us that Halo has moved up to the number 3 position in the “Most Wanted Games” list in the September 2000 issue of the German edition of PC Games. Guess the buyout didn’t affect German gamers as much as American ones… (That issue went to press after the buyout news,…

The old Halo Command (which was declared dead a couple of months ago) got revived yesterday… just in time to compete with a NEW site called Halo Command, in the UK. The UK site has no relation to the US one, and seems to have had a bit of work put into it. Take a…

The Bungie crew seems to be settling in comfortably in their new digs, as evidenced by the banter in this thread. Good to see Matt and Marty back at each others’ throats!

SAF WarMinion points out on our forum that Stealth Assault Force, a Halo squad, is now recruiting. Looking for a Human squad? Check ’em out.