Author: Louis Wu

Woohoo! Thanks to Marty O’Donnell, who found the hidden link to part 3 of the CGO Preview buried in previous links. Sorry about the lack of music coverage, Marty… seems like that’s the end, too. Interestingly, this part acknowledges the MS buyout, which the first two parts didn’t. Definitely worth a read!

Kudos to Kuniklo, who noticed (on the R.net forum) that PlanetXbox has learned that John Carmack will be on the Xbox advisory board. Interesting news, since Id has not announced any plans for Xbox games…

Once again, kudos to edge, who noticed that Computer Games Online has part 2 of their Halo preview, “Bungie dreams of rings and things.” As before, the info is quite good, and has some new tidbits; Jason Jones talks about how they decided what would go into the E3 trailer:”We were trying to capture the…

The move is underway! Both bungie.com and bungie.net are currently unreachable… this almost certainly means the machines are physically on their way to Redmond. Here’s hoping the move goes smoothly, and that everything’s back up and running soon! (Flashback noticed b.com down about 4 hours ago… so they started pretty early in the morning.)

FraxX writes to tell us about a German Halo site he’s involved in… Haloweb. Not sure how this missed going on our links page… we’ve seen it before. In any case, it’s there now! Check it out, if you speak German!

As Tursas noticed, there’s something wonky over at the petition to bring Halo to the Mac/PC. Hopefully, they haven’t lost all that data…

Frederico Giacanelli writes:I’d like to know if someone has written down all the dialogue lines of the E3 movie. While the general plot is quite clear to non-english speakers (as I am), some of the fast-paced phrases are not so intelligible.Well, Frederico… so far as I know, no one had. So I did. You can…

Kudos to Aaron Sommer, who pointed out a Robert Cringely article on our forum. It’s 5 months old… but still quite relevant, especially if he’s right. The theory’s not new, but Cringely presents it convincingly. If he’s right, will Bungie end up as a casualty of war?

Ian “No more hate mail, please” McConville updates his Needlegun model, based on the higher-res shot in the August 2000 PC Gamer. Classy stuff…

Massa writes to let us know that GameStar has a poll asking “Would you buy an Xbox just to play Halo?” While a resounding 74% (at this point) say “NO!”, a surprising 367 (5%) say “Clearly.” The poll’s in german, but Babelfish can translate well enough for you to understand what you’re voting…

Woohoo! Iku-Turso gets the “most observant of the week” award… Bungie’s Halo site has finally been updated (a tiny bit) to reflect the change in development priority; the front page now reads “Coming soon to a platform near you.”

Halo HQ picked this up last week… GameSurge has put up a new preview of Halo. A few errors, and less analysis than I’d hoped, given the beginning of the article… but a fine read nonetheless. Take a look.

This came in last night… but things got crazy. Ian M. Bayne (interesting initials, name) sent in another piece for our Fan Fiction page… check it out!

The Halo SETI Marines are back in full force! Over 2600 units crunched this week, with a total of 17 new names on the list. Welcome back to DarthFlounder and Lithion (and thanks to max.max for getting them back!), and a big hello to all the folks who’ve entered the top 400, plus Carnage, Kytis,…

Seen at BG:H… TuCows has put up a short review of the E3 trailer… bottom line, they liked it. We’ve added another link to the Trailer Mirror page.

Ian “I can’t stop modelling” McConville has pumped out yet another Halo weapon model. This time, it’s the Covenant needle gun, first seen in the E3 trailer, and most recently in the August issue of PC Gamer. Check it out!

Thanks to Damien Fransolet, who updated his desktop pic to conform to standard screen resolutions. There are now three flavors to choose from on our Wallpaper page!

The night for screens, it seems. The August issue of PC Gamer contained a number of screenshots that have already been scanned on other sites… but a couple were missed, and the quality of the rest did not really do the images justice. We’ve rescanned all of them, and placed them on our Magazine page…

Fred, of Rampancy Hotline, has upped scans from the August Computer Games Magazine, including a shot of two new Covenant. (One looks like an armored version of the stegosaurus-like creature seen in the E3 trailer.) R.net had some trouble getting them onto their web page… so Chia stepped in and made them available at VistaCartel.…

Thanks go to Damien Fransolet, who sent in another Desktop for our Wallpaper page. A somewhat non-standard size… but hey, you’ll manage, right?