Author: Louis Wu

Kudos to The Maz, who took a digital snap of a page of the latest Newsweek in which Halo was mentioned. The lips are “buzz factor” (out of a possible 5), and the drops of blood are “gore factor” (also out of 5). Listed for Dreamcast… interesting. 🙂 (We’ll work on getting a better pic,…

Looks like we’re waiting until July for the E3 trailer. In a post on our forum, Matt Soell said thatThe trailer will first appear on the cover CD of a major PC gaming magazine. It will be their August issue, which hits the streets mid-July. It will be available for download shortly after that, at…

The Halo SETI Marines get another large infusion of WUs today, this time from thulcandra, who brought in 609 units. The fight for the next position in the Club Rankings is going to be tough, though… Jjaro Tech takes La Crunch Honneur again, and Moomjean takes the Frogblast award, climbing 8 notches. Are you doing…

Thanks to Allenthar, who has submitted a new wallpaper for our Wallpaper page, and a new banner for our Banners page. Tired of that old stuff? Grab some new stuff!

Kudos to HiddenTalon, who found yet another E3 wrapup at Outpost D-34. Here’s the Halo article. They got a couple of things wrong (they described the test machines at e3 as “PIII’s with GE Force 2’s”, while in reality they had TNT2 Ultra’s in them), but the “Tribes on crack” comment is probably right on.…

Couple of Halo sightings around the net, courtesy of Rampancy.net… first, All Games Network has a couple of Halo-related films (although none of them seem to be viewable on a mac, and only the First Impressions of Halo seem to be viewable on a Win98 box with the free version of RealPlayer installed), and Playboy…

Halo Network continues to scan in the E3 press kit… today’s installment contains pages 14 and 15. These two contain frequently asked questions… nice to see official Bungie answers to some of these, even though we’ve gotten unofficial answers along the line. Check it out! (Thanks to the Marathon’s Story page for the heads-up.)

Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines bump another team in the Club Rankings. Top 50, here they come! Today’s climb is thanks to Ashley Frost, who brought 1632 units with her when she joined. Welcome,Ashley! 139 other marines added units today… were you one of them? Check the 24 hour stats to find out!

The theories page has seen a couple of new additions; Mostafa Sadraii posts a discussion of some observations he’s made from the various films released to date, and Rony Sanchezspeculates on the Jjaro logo and its relevance to Halo. (Note: Many of the ideas presented here were first brought up on the Marathon’s Story page…

Seen at Marathon’s Story: Gamasutra has an interesting article, originally presented at the 2000Game Developer’s Conference, on ways to use cinematic techniques, developed over the past 75years, in games that need cinematic sequences in order to drive the storyline. It’s an interesting read, all by itself, and relevant here because Halo has positioned itself (or…

Bungie.net has a new poll up… “What platform do you use for gaming?” Interesting results so far…

Is Bungie planning on licensing the Halo and Oni engines for installment games? So says Computer Games Magazine, as reported by Myndreach on our forum. Give it a read!

Major kudos to Massa of the German Halo Network site for scanning in another part of Bungie’s E3 press kit. This one has a pic of the marine and the backstory of Halo. Go take a look see. Nice scoop Massa. 🙂

YA Poll… Gamedesign.net has ANOTHER “Best Game from E3?” poll. Halo is currently leading the pack… but there aren’t many votes. Tired of polls yet? (Thanks to BoySinister, at R.net,for the heads-up.)

Interesting post over at Rampancy.net… SiliconDream has provided a transcript of one of the panel discussions from E3; the subject was “What makes a good license?” and one of the questions got an intriguing answer from Peter Tamte, Executive VP of Publishing for Bungie. Remember the rumors that Bungie was working on a game from…

GameSpy’s Best and Worst of E3 Awards are up… and Halo takes Best Action Game! Nice job.

GameCritics.com posted a photo journal of E3 today. Halo caught the reviewers eye, even though he was focused on console games… nice shot! (Tip o’ the hat to Blues News, who posted the journal link.)

Uh oh… The Mad Onion has a gaming poll going at the moment, and Halo is getting hammered! (Even Unreal 2 is ahead!) You know what to do… (Thanks to medic for the heads-up.)

Mark Levin has updated the HBO FAQ in the wake of the new E3 info. Swing on by and take a look!

Thanks to Jienn, who writes to point out a short blurb at Computer and Video Games. Not a lot of info, but they DO casually mention a release date: March 2001. Seems the press is pushing that day back farther and farther… soon they’ll be reporting 2005. (Remember, a release date is not a release…