Author: Wirehead

Kudos to Char over on the Rampancy forum for spotting an archive of high quality Halo screenshots (TIFF format) over at xbox.com. The screenshots are the nine most recently released ones. Judging from the URL this is the Halo press material from the Games Developers Conference (GDC) 2001. The screenshots are huge so if you…

Press page updated, with most of the bigger stories from the last couple of days. Also a few that fell through the cracks earlier. Go back and read the GlobalXbox article we mentioned this morning. It’s hilarious.

Woohoo! Useless, am I? Was visiting Microsoft’s Game section, and ran across a release estimate for Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee… ‘Holiday 2001’. That’s a tighter timeframe than ‘Q4 2001’ – by at least a month. Presumably, Halo and Oddworld should be coming out at the same time (they’re both supposed to be launch titles for the…

“Then I realized that Bob, whom I personally felt was in cahoots with the Covenant to kill me…” Maszimo sent us in another piece of fan fiction. This piece is called ‘War Thoughts’. Maszimo also wrote ‘The Second Fall’.

Spotted this over at the Story page. Made Crux laugh anyway. The funny thing is it kinda fits with the Covenant theme.

Poll smash! Clark Williams-Derry sends word that there is a poll at PC Game Review that asks what game are you most looking forward to. Halo is on the list but not doing so well. Let’s tell them about Halo. Go vote!

eldar-colonel of Halo HQ dropped us a note to say: We’ve just posted a community interview with bungies matt seoll, you can view it at this link: http://halohq.hqgaming.com/views/matt_seoll.shtml There’s also some news on our front page below the latest stuff that you might wanna check out, it’s about PcPowerplays poll and Halo comment. Check out…

Diogo Barbosa’s second wallpaper is now up. It’s called called Rock (328K).

Diogo Barbosa kindly sent us in some nice wallpapers. Here’s the first one called Desert. It’s a biggie 509K.

“He remembered his pistol. Not much, only a 9mm Glock. He pulled it out. He jammed it against the alien’s face.” NevinNiven sent us some fan fiction. The piece is called “Halo Offshoot”. This is the second piece submitted by NevinNiven.

Blam!, a new Halo order goes live. Thanks to Wodasini for the heads up. The page is still under construction. So contact Wodasini if you want to join up. For a full list of Halo clans see our ever expanding Links page.

“As I leapt off the cliff, the Covenant roared and got off a final shot that sizzled over my head as I fell.” Maszimo sent us some fan fiction. The piece is called “The Second Fall”. We printed it out and slipped it under Crux’s cell door. He’s been silent ever since. So for pity’s…

Early this morning we got an email from Allenthar telling us that cortana.org was in the process of being redesigned. We checked it out and went back to sleep. Now fire phoenix over at Halo Center has posted a news item about it. The new look cortana.org however has vanished and the old look is…

Kaidu webmaster over at Halo Tip tells us that they are changing their URL again. It’s changing from http://www.halotip.com to http://halo.tip.nu. http://www.halotip.com will not work after March 2, 2001. Please adjusted your links.

Hey who needs Louis! We put our collective heads together and figured out how to add Wallpaper to the database thingie. This new piece is by Kaidu webmaster over at Halo Tip. We printed it out and shoved it until the door of Crux’s cell. You should have heard the howls!

Just great! Louis heads off to the sun and pina coladas leaving me here with a mad monk and an aging packet router for company. Didn’t bother to leave the keys to Crux’s cell either. Damn monk is starting to count out primes again. Louis won’t let us answer your HBO mail either not after…

Heh… Louis talked. Go check it out at Halo HQ.

As noted on the Marathon’s Story page”Halo: A Case Study” is no longer listed as a presentation at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Jason Jones & John Howard of Bungie Studios were originally scheduled to give thistalk under the Game Design category. See our earlier news item on this.

We hope you like to re-read. IGN Xbox have posted a Halo article which traces the development of Halo. Actually it’s a collection of old Halo previews dating from 1999. The screenshots are really old too. Here’s a piece of the intro:The whole development cycle has been more akin to Gone With the Wind than…

“We actually modeled the black off of a Glock 9mm.” In anIGN Xbox interview J. Allard, Xbox General Manager, describes how the Xbox casing is made from left over German munitions. No wait I think I read that wrong. 😉