Author: Wirehead

New Official Release Dates? Kudos to Georg for the following heads-up from Take 2 Interactive in Europe: If you go to http://www.macnews.de/_macgames/ you’ll read at “Dienstag, den 25. Januar 2000 – 20.44 Uhr” this: Neue Erscheinungstermine Take 2 Interactive, Distributor für Bungie’s Halo und Oni hat die Erscheinungstermine beider Spiele “korrigiert”. Demnach soll Oni im…

Halo Movie Special Edition! Kudos to Courtney Evans (aka lustygoat) for pointing out that Tritin Films have added over 200 sound effects to the current Halo trailer for the ultimate Halo experience. Download their Halo Remake movie (30MBs).

Halo SETI marines gain a new recruit and climb to position 115 in the overall team rankings. Welcome aboard Pico. Check the crunching power of the Halo marines on the 24 hour stats page. They’re out there!

SETI Checker 2.1.6 is out. Analyze and display SETI@home team statistics without having to launch a web-browser. Draw charts containing statistical information about different teams. SETI Checker is PowerPC-only. Grab it now!

You can call me Husk! Think 640 x 512 is big screenshot size? Well we got news for you! The German GameStar magazine site has a Halo preview with two awesome Halo screenshots at 1279 x 1024. This is the real stuff folks. You can make out that luscious detail… such as player name tags!!!…

Say hello to Husk! Bungie’s latest Halo marine screenshot has been digitially enhanced using Jjaro(?) technology to reveal a Halo player name tag! The player sports the name “husk”. Could this be the way of identifying players in net games? No this isn’t a fake as will be revealed later today in a HBO exclusive.

“Spot the Blam in Halo” says Marathon’s Story page. An observant fans notes a Blam (codename for Halo) reference in the recent Halo footage from Bungie TV.

The Halo SETI marines gain a new recruit and climb one place in the overall team rankings. Check the latest results on the 24 hour team stats page. Let’s get’em.

“Is the Halo marine a cyborg?” Another thought provoking thread on our forums. Join in on the discussion.

Not sure if this is official yet but version 2.0 of the SETI@home client is now available for download at Berkeley’s ftp site at ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/. Scroll down to the end of the list to find the right client for your computer. This should speed up the Search for the Covenant. Go get it Marines!

Well I was trying to pre-order my third copy of Halo to avoid the rush and found a Halo-like symbol on this gaming software page. No this is not an advert!

“I think we’ll take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” Interesting thread on our forums about why the Covenant just don’t nuke the humans on the Halo instead of engaging them on the surface? Want to air your views?

Another Marathon reference in Halo. Thanks to Freewill for scanning in the cover of the bTV Guide. We have two versions small and large. For those who are not familiar with Bungie’s Marathon series the game’s opening line was “Somewhere in the Heavens… They Are Waiting…”

Ooops Halo SETI marines slip back to position 117 in the team rankings. Looks like we have a fight on our hands. Were you crunching yesterday?

Stop your coding and grab your… err… Bounty of Battleground: Halo informs us that they are setting up a Halo community newsletter. Interested in helping out? Got an announcement to make? Then drop them a line.

Whoa! Halo SETI marines continue to climb higher in the Top Team Rankings. Find out who is doing their bit on the 24 hour team stats page.

Massa of Halo Network sends word that Day 4 bTV Halo footage is available in .mov and .asf (only 633kb) formats at http://halo.gamesweb.de/downloads.shtml. Thanks.

Freewill asks you to head on over to bungie.net and take a look at the Bungie Gathering of Fans group shot. Fifty faces to put a name to.

Hamish “I walk through mindfields and watch your head rock” Sinclair of Marathon’s Story has put up a new page about… well I’m not exactly sure WHAT it’s about cause my head hurts but possible Halo’s influences are discussed. Warning though it’s long. Open up your head, feel the shell shock.

The Halo SETI marines gain some new members and increase their unit crunching. Halo SETI team are going places. Don’t get left behind. Join now!