Author: Louis Wu

A couple of days ago, Xian posted a request on our forum for people to describe the game as they envision it. He was looking for gameplay descriptions, but more people decided to get creative with the Halo world. Here’s one of the latest (and more interesting) posts.

According to Macintosh Gamer’s Ledge, Bungie plans to release the source code to Marathon 2. (This is the much-anticipated #2.) It was supposed to be available on Bungie’s FTP site at 7 pm CST this evening… but that box is swamped at the moment, and even those getting in report no code. Give ’em some…

The Halo SETI Marines are falling back… only 75% of the units crunched on Friday. The long weekend causing computers to be turned off? Check the 24 hour team stats.

Even over the weekend, the Halo SETI Marines crunch away prodigiously. The 24 hour team stats tell all! (They’ve climbed another two notches, to 117, in the Club Team standings.) Congratulations!

It’s official… the Psyjnir Complex has moved to its own domain. Check ’em out! Pax.

Doug Zartman goes in-depth on space colonization, and who might be doing it. Read about it on our forum!

Hmm… it can be ugly out there. A anonymous email points out that the text and images on the General Info page of Halo HQ (the first one, according to Wednesday’s news) was lifted word for word from Halo Command. (Note that if you want to see Halo HQ’s page, you’ll need to turn Javascript…

Bad day to step away from the screen… Battleground:Halo opens its doors. Lookin’ good! (They’re also mirroring the Day 4 bTV halo footage.)

The Halo SETI Marines are kicking into high gear… check out the 24 hour stats! Way to go, guys!

Hot off the cutting board, the (much smaller, but easily as cool) Halo footage from bTV’s Day 4 is now available. Go get it! (And if you can mirror it, let us know… we’ll add you to the page.)

)Sphere( writes to let us know that the Mystikal Posse site has been redesigned… stop on by if you’re interested in joining!

The downloads page for the Day 3 clip is up to 6 mirrors… we actually stand a chance of keeping up with demand. 😉 Looks like as soon as we can get that nearly 300-meg monster of a Day 4 hacked up, we’ll put it up, as well.

If the Day3 Halo clip wasn’t enough for you, Joseph Staten tells us that the Day 4 Archive was just posted. 270 megabytes… wow! (We’ll do our best to get a clip up… but remember, our lines are already swamped serving the day 3 version. It might be a while.)

Massa writes to let us know that the German Halo Network has added two versions of the Day 3 clip: the standard 15 meg file, and a 1.7 meg ASF (WindowsMedia) version. Grab the one you want! Thanks, Massa!

Georg sends word that he’s put up a German mirror for the Halo day 3 footage… thanks, Georg! (All mirrors are now listed on our local Day3 page.)

Jonathan Pearce updates us with a corrected url for his Halo clip mirror. “And this time, I guarantee that it works. ;)” We’ll take you up on that, Jonathan…

Aaron Sommer writes to let us know that his 15 meg Halo clip mirror is now distributed over three servers, so it’s probably a bit more stable. Thanks, Aaron!

A day for contemplation… Andreas Nasri speculates on the Covenant, and raises some interesting questions as to their motivations. This, too, can be found on our Theories page. Thanks, Tycho!

Kudos to Damien Sorresso, who sent us some thoughts on the possible connections between Marathon and Halo. You can find them on our Theories page. Thanks, Damien!

Aaron Sommer writes to say that his mirror of the 15 meg Halo clip is getting hit really hard (as are we). Please-if you have a really fast connection (DSL/Cable Modem/School Tx), download the full file from the bTV archives… leave the “little” file for slower-connection folks who can’t get the big one. (And if…