Category: HBO

Two more mirrors for the nVidia movie have popped up: Halo Center now has a copy, and so does HaloCenter.de (no relation to the American site). In fact… it doesn’t look like we’ve ever seen HaloCenter.de before, so we’ll take this opportunity to announce it. Looks like it’s a GameszPlanet affiliate.

Thanks to Olaf, who sent in a pair of high-quality desktops for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Sokar writes to say that the nVidia movie is available on the HaloEmpire server, which is probably a good choice for European visitors. That makes 4 locations we know of… the one above, Stomped, VoodooExtreme, and here at HBO.

Took a whole day to get these onto the server, but they were calculated on time, Monday. The Halo SETI Marines hold steady at number 43 in the Battle of the Teams, pulling farther ahead of Team Slashdot. A couple of Marines went AWOL this week… maybe we’re not pushing the team enough. 🙂 DarthFlounder…

First seen at HaloCenter: looks like Halo HQ is coming back online. Nothing there yet… but it’s nice to see it’s not dead permanently!

AAARGHHHH!! For two months, we’ve been working on getting Bungie to release the nVidia promo movie that was shown at the Bungie fanfest at MacWorld NY 2000 in July. It finally came through last night… in the middle of the first network outage of merit we’ve experienced. Ah, well… and so it goes.Anyway, this film…

No internet browsing on Xbox!Gamecenter has posted aninterview with Seamus Blackley,manager of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft. Blackley explains in theinterview that there are no plans for internet browsing on Xbox. Here’s the quote:GC: There’s no browser on this still, right?S.B.: No! Nobody wants a browser on a game box. And I’m not…

Wow. That was the longest outage since we moved the servers here. Ouch. Anyway, we’re back up. (We think.) Sorry for the downtime! Look for more updates later today or early tomorrow.)

We want to apologize for the downtime today… an underground cable broke somewhere, and it took the Telco over 8 hours to find the problem. I’m still not 100% sure it’s solved… but we should be back up for good, soon.

Slow Halo day… so we’ll pass on some interesting Xbox tidbits. J Allard was interviewed over at GameSpot, and had some interesting things to say. Worth a read. (The bit on why they stuck with ‘Xbox’ is intriguing.) The Xbox specs have been finalized, and you can find them here, also at GameSpot. Sharky Extreme…

Budd Morris sends word that he’s starting up a new Halo clan, Halo Division. Currently, he’s not looking for standard recruits… he’s looking for staffers. If you’re insterested, stop by the site and read the job opening list.

Tempest in a Teapot, Part Deux: Okay, this has nothing to do with the other rumor discussed recently… but it sure is silly. Recently, Matt Soell went on an answering spree at Rampancy.net… and tossed out this comment, in response to a question about what operating system the bungie.net servers might move to: We’ve spoken…

Thanks to Pr@iler, who sent along a desktop combining the Xbox logo and a modified Halo logo for our Wallpaper page. Pax.

Thanks to Nights, who, although particlurly tactful about it, uncovered another French Halo site, Clan Highlanders. Through this site, we’ve added a number of French sites to our Links page: Halo Zone (site of the Halo Mystics), Addiction Halo (very nicely laid out), C.I.R.C.E. (all Flash, very little substance), and Fragger’s Halo (who we’d left…

Thanks to Jon Kimmich, product planner for MS Games, who wrote to say that the reason Halo was left off the list of announced titles was becauseThis announcement was just to announce “3rd party” (ie. non-MS) publishers. All titles published by MS are “1st-party” titles, and we’ll make some announcements about them at a later…

Okay, so MS bought Bungie specifically so that Halo could be an Xbox title, right? And Halo’s been shown, in one form or another, for months. (It was demonstrably playable at E3, for example.) So Microsoft had a huge global press conference yesterday, at which they showed a bunch of titles, including Unreal Tournament, Max…

Whoa. We got an email today…”Through the instruments of the Muse, we shall sing the nameless their endsong.” “Silence will end their dirge.””Beat we the rythym, their filth in a blaze will cease. They are flat, andno deeper deafness could their have, than to not see the song that has beenwritten for them.”        -Speaks the…

Thanks to Mojo, who dug out an old (but very nice) wallpaper for our Wallpaper page. Makes me pine for the old Marine!

Kudos to Picky, who found this page at Computer and Video Games… THIS is what the new Xbox logo looks like. Hmm… I still like the old one. 😉 Heh… and check the official Xbox page – now ‘The Word’ section contains not only ‘News’ and ‘Noise’ but also ‘Rumors’!

Tempest in a Teapot Dept: FGN Online is reporting thatDisappointingly Microsoft did not unveil the console itself. However the name of PlayStation 2’s big rival has been confirmed as… Xbox.So whether the form changes or not, the name stays the same. Note to self: stop reading so much into internet outages and misconfigurations.