Author: Louis Wu

Very nice new art from Stas “Shizo” Tsires for our Miscellaneous Art page. (Jump to the Bungie Mods section, then back up.) Thanks, Shizo!

Demand for the Halo-only footage from bTV’s Day 3 broadcast has swamped us! Luckily, others are coming to the rescue… Aaron Sommer is the first with a mirror. Think you have the bandwidth? Let us know! We’re serving something over 100 megs/hour of this movie, we could use your help!

For those of you who can’t handle a 211 megabyte download, we’ve cut out the 15 megs that’s pure Halo, and put it up for you to see. We’ve also added the transcription of Joe Staten’s intro, so that you know exactly what you’re getting. Go take a look!

And it keeps on pouring in… Stryker writes to let us know that Halo HQ is a new site dedicated to Halo rings. They envision this site as a meeting place… and are soliciting feedback, at an early stage. Stop by and let ’em know what you think!

Matt Gilford writes to let us know that The Oxygen Tank has put up another transcript of Joe Staten’s Halo backstory narration from Day 2 of bTV. Loads a lot faster than the 177 meg quicktime movie!

Some sort of strangeness going on over at iHALO… cryptic messages seem to be the order of the day. What are they planning?

Very cool new original art on our Miscellaneous Art page, from Ian Mankowski. (We apologize for the delay in posting this… blame MacWorld.) It’s at the end of the Original section… try jumping to the Bungie section, and backing up. Thanks, Ian!

Thanks to peapon, who sent in a clipping from his local paper (he neglected to tell us which paper that is, unfortunately). No new info, but pretty interesting to see Halo in a newspaper! Thanks, peapon.

Apologies to everyone out there trying to follow forum links on our front page news… the rate of forum posting is so fast that posts are moved off to the archives almost before they have time to be pointed out! I’ll be fixing as many of these as possible in the next little bit… let…

Woo-hoo! MacWorld is over, but I won’t be home for two more days. In the meantime, though, check out the bTV archives if you missed Saturday’s live broadcast. An amazing couple of minutes of Halo footage… the harpoon gun (Justin Garcia sent in a screenshot, but you can’t actually see the gun), some very interesting-looking…

Kudos to SiliconDream, who added a slew of details to the info below. (And shame on him for not introducing himself.) Who else was there last night?

MacWorld Helps Unveil Some Storyline Freewill threw a party at Club-I on Wednesday night, and lots of Bungie folk showed up. One side benefit for Halo fans: a goodly chunk of the backstory got fleshed out. Kudos to Xzzy for the synopsis, since I actually didn’t make it there in time to hear it firsthand…

Thanks to Forensic, who posted to our forum that Etherlife has a new Halo-related comic. (For those who can’t find it, because we’re so tardy reporting this, the actual strip is here. Worth checking out the whole site, though…)

Another strange message from the Nether Legion: :::Recent update on Halo quadrant 25::: recieve waystation four identify transmission type: Mjolnir comm laser begin: We are…ving fire from sever…too…falling back to regroup–some kind…alien…attacks com…from all around… end. advise: units 3 and 4 not responding 223.43.213.01 7.7.7.. Again, The digits at the bottom could be interpreted as…

Kudos to Timothy Wilson, who was the first of many to point out that Bungie will be webcasting from MacWorld this week. (Tim got it from Voodoo Extreme, but the original press release seemed to be sent out by Bungie itself.)

We received a rather strange message tonight, from Halo-Net and the Nether Legion: Intercepted incoming transmission… decode: 233.43.223.01 message subject: You really need to stop your struggling… Hello again, you know, I’ve been talking to the zealots and your little encampment may be doomed, of course that depends on just how willing you are to…

SETI stats are back, and the SETI servers are keeping up with us. Check out the 24 hour stats! (Our club standing continues to fall… we’re down to 128 now.)

Jon Chang writes to let us know that DEHc-3 Halo has gotten a complete overhaul. Easy to read, still the best place to go for Culture info! Thanks, Jon.

John from EuroGamer writes to tell us that Halo is featured in their “Picks for 2000” article, available yesterday. Nice to see Halo recognized! Thanks, John.

And they all said we’d have problems when the clocks ticked over last night. Pshaw.