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Hamish Sinclair writes to point out that in our holiday preparations, we missed an official reply from Microsoft on the EU Xbox release issue (we mentioned the problem here, but at the time it was a rumor). Late last week, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying the issue – the delay IS real, and the reason…

eldar-colonel, of Halo Hq, sends along a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. A mixture of the old and the new… Pax.

Our forum has moved – the URL is the same, but the machine upon which it resides is different. This means that until your local DNS catches up with our change, you’ll be seeing the old forum. When you don’t see a “Forum is moving” note on the top, you’ll know you’re looking at the…

And the SETI Halo Marines make a reappearance! Some weird goings-on, though… although the individual stats are increasing normally, the team numbers haven’t changed an iota in the past 24 hours, making one wonder about the accuracy of the Team Standing values. Nevertheless, the Marines have been valiantly plugging away at incoming data, and whether…

M E R R Y    C H R I S T M A S ! From the HBO crew and our families, to you and yours, we wish you the merriest of holiday seasons. Pax. (We’ll be back updating on Tuesday, the 26th.)

General Cicero says on our forum that the position of Pilot is open under the Staff of Caesar at the Roman Federation, a large Halo army. Stop by or email him for details.

No Halo update this week says Matt on our forums. No Halo update next week too. Doesn’t look like we’ll get one on Friday January 5th either. Matt hints at a possible live Halo update at the Bungie fanfest. Go read his full posthere.

Wow. This blows me away. Xbox 360, an Xbox news site, has recently (December 16, 2000) put up a preview of Halo. Given the date, and the focus of the site, you’d think they had current info, right? You’d be wrong. The few screenshots up are all using the pre-E3 models, the background (while nominally…

eldar-colonel writes to tell us that he’s put up a stocking for Santa… and thoughtfully saved Santa a bit of work by filling it himself. You can see the original at Halo HQ. He told us that it might go with our Christmas decorations… it looks like Wirehead did a bit of editing before I…

Griffon writes to tell us that Halo Command Central will be closing for the holidays. They hope to be back up soon with new features. Have a merry one!

fAt, of MPZ Halo, sends word that FGN Online has an article suggesting that the Xbox will be delayed in Europe for as long as 3 months past the US release. There must be a big router out between FGN and here, because I can’t reach the site at all… but Daily Radar has a…

If Hamish can do it, so can we. We’ve put up our holiday decorations, in honor of the first day of Winter (in the northern hemisphere, at least). Now I just need to finish hanging those lights on my REAL house…

Heh… seems Matt agreed with my dissatisfaction with the chat… he posted this note a few minutes after it ended. 🙂 More prep next time…

An hour late, but better than never. The log from the IGN chat this evening on IRC has been cleaned up a bit, and formatted for slightly easier reading. The format of the chat left quite a bit to be desired… but there’s some nice info nonetheless. Give it a read… and be ready with…

The Land of the Xbox… where rumors are killed faster than we can propagate them! Monday, Gameweek.com reported that Microsoft might be bumping the processor in the Xbox up to 1 GHz, or even higher. We missed it, until this morning… and now we’ve noticed that Daily Radar contacted MS yesterday, and got a resounding…

If you can’t invent it yourself, find someone who can. That seems to be the theory behind the wing contrails in this Tribes 2 screenshot… though I think even the July 99 Halo versions were more believable. Thanks to MakeMineRed, for the forum heads-up.

POLL SMASH! Kudos to Simon for pointingout another poll this time at MacAddict.”What’s the best first-person shooter of all time?”Marathon is listed along with UT, Quake 3 Arena, and Doom. Quick someone tell Hamish. 😉

YABR over at the Marathon’s Story page. FWIW Yet Another Blam Reference. This one appears in Oni’s ‘crash’ dialog box. FYI Blam was the codename for Halo and has featured in many Bungie games! BYMD. Pax.

Kudos to Tantalum-=SUN=- for passing on the detailsof the IGN chat with Bungie.Where: Chat.Ign.ComWhen: Wednesday, December 20th at 6pm PSTWho: Lead Designer John Howard, and Matt Soell from BungieThat’s TOMORROW!

Is Louis back?