Author: Louis Wu

Kudos to Bagman, who found a small article about the XBox controller, posted two weeks before the Bungie/MS deal went public. Seems it’s been known for quite some time that a keyboard will not be a standard feature on the XBox… makes you wonder how Bungie thinks the fan community is going to stay together.…

I’m totally unclear on the concept… but it seems a Halo paraphernalia shop has sprung up. The Halo-Net Shop offers… well, nothing at the moment. But you can read about the shirts, stickers, and info packets (?) it WILL have for sale at some point. Seriously bare-bones site, so even if you (as I) don’t…

A bunch of scans from the August 2000 PC Gamer have been uploaded to the Rampancy.net Hotline server. (Downloads -> August 2000 PC Gamer) Quality is questionable (as is legality), but the content is very interesting, to say the least.

Seen over at Halo Center: a new French site, Halo Mystic, has come online. The site of the Mystic Angels… take a look!

Daily Radar has an interesting article with Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, about the future of gaming as he sees it. Apparently, Epic has no plans to move to a console paradigm anytime soon. A pair of intriguing quotes:We have no problem with people shifting their focus away from the PC or watering their…

King of War sends word that GCA (German Cosmonautio Army), a new German Halo clan, is now online. Check ’em out!

Matt expands on his comments of last night in this forum post. Once again, it’s not a promise to do ANYTHING, but a common sense argument that if the X-box fails, PC/Mac development is always there as a fallback. And while the inference can be made that “since it IS a fallback position, it won’t…

That Wirehead has sharp eyes. He noticed that the thumbnail included in last week’s PC Gamer buyout analysis was close, but not the same as, the thumbnail included in last month’s Newsweek article. Seems both groups had access to the base material (probably the E3 trailer). Here’s the two shots, for you to compare on…

It’s not gonna happen… but it’s nice to know it COULD. In response to a question on our forum about what Microsoft would do if Bungie decided that Halo wouldn’t work as an XBox title, Matt Soell said this:This question actually came up when we were discussing the deal. According to Alex, we’d make no…

Seen at Blue’s News: Incite, the magazine that has brought us several of the juiciest Halo bits over the past few months, is closing its doors. Who’s next?

Spotted at Halo Vault: John Carmack commented on the X-box over at Slashdot. Here’s his first post, and his second. One interesting excerpt, which might explain how Microsoft hopes to compete against PC hardware one year out:The X-Box should be able to keep up for a while, because you can usually expect to get about…

Total Halo, once a source of unique Halo news and art, has gone offline. We’ll miss you, guys. In totally unrelated news, a new site, coincidentally namedTotal Halo, has come online… not much there yet, but growing.

HazardOpC has sent in a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Good to know the artwork continues unabated!

Kudos to Yrro, at Halo Center, who noticed that PC Gamer had put up an article on the MS/Bungie issue. What is most interesting to me about this is the tone of betrayal expressed by Rob Smith, Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer:That’s right. The subject of an in-depth three page preview in the August issue of…

Mentioned on R.net yesterday, but we slipped until Douglas Long tweaked us… Viceland has put up their take on the MS/Bungie deal. Hmm. Warning: if you work at a puritanical company, don’t visit this site from there.

Man, that Crux… first he’s off by an order of magnitude on the petition (understandable, he’s using a 9″ screen, and has it set to 1600×1200), now he gets the Shirt Story wrong. Seems the Story page t-shirts aren’t sold out… they aren’t sold, period. Jon Chang isn’t allowed to sell them by mail, so…

Antares has posted part 2 of an ongoing story on our forum… you can also read it on our Fan Fiction page. And remember… the ‘More by this author’ link on that page will allow you to read all segments sequentially.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Mark Levin asked Matt Soell about the PCFormat quote on our forum… and Matt set the record straight. There’s no word yet on whether a PC version will ever come out. That’s not a no, it’s not a yes. It’s a resounding “We don’t…

PCFormat Daily, the website of British mag PCFormat, suggests that at the very least, a PC version of Halo is still on the table.Microsoft actually rang us yesterday to give us the bottom line on what’s going on. Bungie will *definitely* remain an independent group within Microsoft – getting access to the big M’s marketing…

D’n’A writes to say that the new issue of PCZone Benelux is out, with exclusive Halo stuff. The Red Covenant vehicle firing, a new sniper-rifle-type Covenant weapon, and more. Info as we get it.