Author: Louis Wu

Weird goings-on at the SETI server… Club Rankings haven’t been updated in 3 days, and the Halo SETI Marines are being consistently credited 200+ fewer units than what’s actually crunched. No matter, the crunching goes on! Jjaro Tech and Rival take top honors today. Check the 24 hour stats for details.

Matt Martinez writes to let us know that for those of you on a slower connection, there’s now an alternative to the multi-meg movies for getting your Halo fix. He’s snapped 35 screenshots from the trailer for you to drool over. Go check ’em out!

Oops, we missed this… thanks to R.net for noticing. The Daily Radar Teaser page specifies that it’s PC Gamer that will have the E3 Trailer on its cover CD, ending speculation about which gaming mag would host the US version.

Luxor writes to tell us that Halo Vault can be added to the fast-growing list of mirrors for the teaser. In his words, “awesome bandwidth (for now).” 😉

SiliconDream =PN= points out on the R.net forum that one of the scenes in the teaser was NOT in the E3 trailer… so we can probably look forward to footage that even those at E3 didn’t see. Thanks, Sili!

More mirrors for the Hi-res version of the E3 Trailer Teaser: Rampancy.net reports that they have it on their hotline site, under Uploads ->Halo->halo_e3_preview_hires[1].mpg, and Battleground: Halo reports that they’ll be putting a copy up as soon as they get it downloaded.

Battleground: Halo is reporting that Doug Zartman answered Planet X-Box about the Microsoft/Bungie rumors. Visit BGH to read the quote for yourself.

Clarification: Seems what Daily Radar and 3D Action Gamers are distributing is a teaser for the full trailer, not the Trailer itself. Still pretty awesome, though… Absolutely worth the download.

Halo Trailer Available: Jeremy Roush sends word that Daily Radar has put up the E3 Trailer. It’s quite small, compared to what we were told… there’s a 26 meg version and a 13 meg version. Go grab it now! And we just received word that 3D Action Gamers has put up a mirror for it,…

You want fat rumors, go to fatbabies.com. Seems the MS buyout rumor has made it out of the Bungie fansite community. (As fatbabies says, “Bungie has not commented on the rumor.”) Thanks to Darcy Brockbank for the heads-up.

More submissions from fire phoenix… this time, it’s a pair of nice desktops for our Wallpaper page. These were originally created for Halo Center… but he can’t find them there. Tasty!

Fire Phoenix sends along another logo for us… pretty spiffy, I’d say! Check it out on our Logos page.

You knew the world loves ’em, but it never hurts to hear it again. Massa, of Halo Network, sends along word that the July issue of GameStar magazine (in Germany) contains a small feature, in which 50 top developers were asked “What game are you looking forward to?” Halo placed third, with 6 votes… beaten…

$erial-ki!!A has submitted the first three chapters of what looks to be a very long work of fan fiction… you’ll find them on our Fan Fiction page. (You can read them sequentially by following the “More by this author” link at the end of each entry.) If you like it, send him mail… he’ll release…

The Halo SETI Marines crunch valiantly, but lose almost 250 units to the SETI Black Hole. Banzif and Dash take top honors… details on the 24 hour stats page.

Haloplayers has gotten confirmation from PCGamer UK that the September issue (on sale July 31) will contain the E3 trailer. UK Halo fans now know where they’re getting the trailer from! (No word yet on the US carrier.)

As mentioned on R.net, Game Critics Awards planned on announcing their Best of E3 awards tonight. They’re up… and Halo got a mention or two. Best Action Game and Runner-Up for Best Game, PC, specifically. Here’s what they had to say:Shown to only a select few at E3 ’99, Halo has been building buzz all…

Another poetry thread has started up on our forum. Go and contribute! (I particularly like this one. It’s fun.)

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose a spot int the Club Rankings to the fast-climbing Hardware Central team. Can they get it back? Still only a third of the team turning in units… Banzif easily takes la Crunch Honneur, and Dr. Raw Stag Footrot FRACS and PunkRocker tie for the Frogblast award. Full details on…

This has come up a few times, so it bears mentioning here. Orbit, a site which started up in early January, closed its doors on May 2nd, 2000. We neglected to mention the closure on our front page, but we DID move the Orbit link to the Static section at that point. (You can read…