Author: Wirehead

Take-Two closed down 3/16 (-1.95%) to 9 7/16 on a generally down day on Wall Street.

The Darkside has a new poll up… seems that a significant number of people are voting that Halo’s not even real! Go correct their impressions.

Halo Central dead? Uh uh… don’t believe everything you hear.

New upload from Edward Howard – a slightly unfinished character study. Find it on the Miscellaneous Art page. Thanks, Edward!

Take-Two just can’t stay constant. Down 5/16 to 9 5/8 (-3.14%) in heavy trading.

Too many people voting for Halo? PC Paradox’s Best Action Game poll seems to be broken. Try again later.

Yesterday’s earnings must have hit the market today. Take-Two closed up strong, +13/32 (+4.26%) today to 9 15/16.

“Rock the Vote” says the Core. PC Paradox are running a Best Action Game Poll. Go vote!

The race is on! IMG’s SETI team has a slight edge over Halo’s SETI team. 3443 hr 44 min 18.4 sec vs. 3284 hr 30 min 46.0 sec. But you can make a difference. Join the Halo SETI team.

Search the skies! Bungie’s sixteen member SETI team has a total CPU time of 16913 hr 56 min 47.2 sec.

Ben Schodek finally got an email reply from Bungie. You can read it on our forums here.

Up, down, up, down… Take-Two down 7/32 to 9 17/32 (-2.24%) at close of trading (8/25). This comes on the heels of a reported 65% increase in net sales and a whopping 215% increase in net income for the third fiscal quarter. Thanks, Next Generation.

MacFormat Halo preview scoop! “Bungie says there’ll be an emphasis on teamwork: multi-player network or Internet games will see several players work together against the aliens, while the single-player game will enable you to switch between characters each of whom has individual skills.” says MacFormat. Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi and Steve Campbell for sending in…

Doug Zartman (Bungie Software) says “that’s not quite correct!”: Just wanted to point out that where MacFormat says “the single-player game will allow you to switch between characters, each of whom has individual skills” – that’s not quite correct. I can see how they came to that conclusion based on seeing us do it for…

Take-two closed strong again. TTWO (Take-Two Interactive Sft.): 9 3/4 (+1/4, +2.63%) [Aug 24 ET]. At close of trade.

Take-two up! TTWO (Take-Two Interactive Sft.): 9 1/2 (+11/16, +7.80%) [Aug 23 ET]. At close of trade.

Speculation on our forums about Halo’s three alien races. Is there really three? Are the humans included? Well Peter Cohen (MacCentral) had this to say: In Halo, you assume the role of an armored cyborg scouring the surface of a gigantic alien artifact- a habitable ring in space 10,000 miles in diameter. The artifact contains…

Speculation on our forums about an official Halo movie. Is one coming? When will it be released? We don’t know when it’s coming but one is coming. Mac Gamer’s Ledge had this to say: Work is ongoing for a new Halo trailer which will highlight more of the game’s extraordinary attention to detail than was…

Marty O’Donnell (President of O’Donnell/Salvatori Total Audio) is Geek of the Week at Gamasutra. Total Audio are doing all the music, voices, and 3d sound design for Halo. Nice quote from the Gamasutra article: Favorite Geeky Dream: I dreamt that my music was played right in the middle of Steve Jobs’s keynote address at MacWorld…

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