Author: Louis Wu

Seems we flubbed. The screenshot we mentioned last night does NOT show a gun we’ve never seen before… in fact, it’s not even a shot we’ve never seen before. The same shot, mirrored, was in the PC Gamer spread recently upped to the R.net Hotline server. Here they are, side-by-side:PC Gamer, August 2000NextGen, August 2000If…

Kudos (sort of) to Freewill, who scanned in a sidebar from the latest NextGen magazine and posted it on the R.net forum. Two interesting tidbits there… the game that NextGen described in last month’s issue as ‘fantasy-based siege warfare’ is now being titled ‘Fantasy Siege’ by Ed Fries… and the gun that the commander is…

Not one to let moss grow on a rolling grenade, Ian McConville has sent in yet another weapon model. This time, he’s tackled the anti-armor rocket launcher (the double-barreled one). The diagram showing how it actually works is very intriguing. Thanks, Ian!

Thanks to Kevin Adams, who sent in a slick desktop for our Wallpaper page. Action unlimited!

Freewill is trying to get a semi-accurate count of those people planning to attend the Fanfest in New York in a couple of weeks. (If you’re not sure what this is about, check this page.) To help out, bungie.org has put up a Fanfest Forum, where folks can get more info, or just RSVP.

The Modeller’s back! Ian McConville has added another model to his collection. This time it’s the Covenant energy sword… simple model, but check out the pic of Ian wielding it! More on the way, we hope.

We asked Marty O’Donnell about the score for the E3 movie, and about what went into making it. His response made for some very interesting reading, so we’ve included it in its entirety.Scoring a movie and scoring a game are two entirely different processes. I approached the E3 movie the same way I’d approach any…

Thanks to luxor, of Halo Vault, who (with Mark Levin’s blessing) has mirrored the Halo “Whazzup” movie. If you’re finding our server slow… try the much fatter pipe over at IGN.

Flashback has sent word explaining the details of the Halo-Net shop: We’ve finally sorted out everything with the Halo-Net Shop Pete Tamte (Executive Vice President) of Bungie has been contacting me this afternoon a bit and we have cleared up everything related to the shop now. They are letting us send any orders made for…

Thanks to Dan Lacy, who sent in another nice desktop for our Wallpaper page. Worth a look… very clean.

Picky draws our attention to another Halo review, this time at SpieleCity, a German gaming site. This one contains quite a large number of screenshots from the E3 trailer, so if you’re having trouble stomaching the huge download, this is worth a look.

The folks at Cutting the Edge have put together a nice two-page analysis of the E3 Trailer, pointing out the good and bad points along the way. Well-done job, all around. Definitely worth a look.

Massa writes to tell us that Halo Network has put up a surprisingly high quality 30 MB .asf version of the E3 trailer for those who can’t manage the 160 meg version. We’ve added it to our full e3 trailer mirror list.

New Halo Fan Fiction, from Bob Brown. The mystery of the ring… solved?

Two weeks ago, we decided (after watching several big crunchers disappear) that we didn’t want to watch the Halo SETI Marines implode… so we stopped analyzing the daily statistics. We’ve gotten a bunch of mail suggesting this might not have been our most popular move… and the Marines HAVE stopped the hemorrhage, by and large.…

Running through the e3 movie again, we noticed a bizarre thing… we documented it on this page. If you have any comments about the subject, post them to our forum!

Thanks to bibendum, who submitted a nice rendition of froggy for our Miscellaneous Art page. He looks so comfortable!

The Halo-Net Shop is now selling t-shirts… and they’re taking no chances.we’re now printing the Halo Shirts, which have artwork which is fully original to Halo-Net, none of the content is by Bungie , so hopefully they can’t make any complaint about it.Go on over to the shop and have a look @ the overview…

Seems the Halo-Net Store was laboring under a misimpression… in this forum post, they suggest that the situation might not be as they’d understood it. Bungie licensing still costs money.

Matt Soell dropped into our forum to say that he seriously doubts the Halo-Net Store actually has permission to market their products. He’s looking into it… but if you were thinking about buying a sticker today, you might want to hold off a few hours, or until the issue is clarified.