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Just a quick update… Matt Soell confirms that development of Halo hasn’t yet moved into Single Player mode yet. Good thing they’ve got a year! 🙂

Looks like we jumped too fast. In time for the 7:00 pm GMT announcements planned today, www.xbox.com is up again. Still waiting… (Thanks to Cosmic Muffet for the heads-up.) Pax.

More fuel for the rumor mill… Microsoft’s official Xbox site, www.xbox.com, is currently nonexistent. (Well, you can visit… but the message you get is ‘No web site is configured at this address.’) A temporary problem… or a change of name?

Hmm. Seems an article at MSN Computing Central Computer Games Forum referred to the Xbox as “now officially known as the Raven”, until xbox.ign called about the reference. That line is gone now. Does this mean someone screwed up completely, and just got it wrong… or that someone screwed up a little bit, and released…

Thanks to papamarx@speakeasy.net, who writes in with news from Daily Radar, who in turn got it from Advertising Age… Microsoft will be announcing a new name and logo for the Xbox tomorrow in San Francisco. Ouch to all those sites who bought xbox domain names! Pax.

Blam! The Halo SETI Marines climb past Team Slashdot to position 43, despite the defection of a one-time bungie.org staffer (and his 400+ units). Total production is up almost 10% over last week! Darthflounder takes La Crunch Honneur, and SHARkY blasts past 74 teammates for the Frogblast Award. Full details can be found on the…

Picky sends word that Honest3d.com has an article on the Xbox, and where they (Honest3D) think the Xbox fits in the console world. One interesting quote had to do with the rumor of a RAM upgrade (to 128 MB):The Microsoft rep said flatly that in fact the X-Box was still going to be sold to…

Rob McLees, on the current state of Halo:”Halo in its current form takes the old stuff that everyone was so impressed with and holds its head under the filthy waters of a public menÂ’s room toilet.” That doesn’t sound like a disheartened art staffer… That, and more, was posted to our forum by Matt Soell…

fAt1 sends word that he’s got a new Halo site up and running: Halo Multi Player Zone. You’ll need to register with MPZ to get in, but it doesn’t cost anything. fAt1 says there’s lots of help needed, so if you’re interested in helping out on a Halo site, drop him a line!

Thanks to Bounty, who clears up the “Planet Halo” issue:The site is registered to Angellcom, and will serve to be a corporate page for their new pager 🙂 Although, it does have the words “Planet Halo” on the pager, it could be the desire of some maniacal Bungie fan, don’t expect to see any new…

An alert reader noticed this site, which was registered a few weeks ago. It might not have anything at all to do with Halo, the game (the site is registered to Angellcom, so it’s possible that it’s simply a play on the owner’s name)… or it might. (This is not Gamespy’s Planet Halo, which currently…

Crovax sends in a new wallpaper for our Wallpaper page, using (almost exclusively) old-style Marines and Covenant. If you pine for the days before the switch, take a look at this one! Pax.

Ironfist mentions on our forum that he has updated the Bungie Coat of Arms, and brought it into the Halo age. The QuickTime movie weighs inat just under 2 megs. And it looks a little better in IE than it does in Netscape (has to do with the placement of end-of-line returns). Go take a…

Psyrixx writes that there’s an interview with Durandal, Project Lead of the Marathon: Resurrection project (a project to bring Marathon to the Unreal Tournament engine) over at the Psyjnir Complex. (If you’re having trouble getting in to find it, here’s a direct link.) This is only marginally Halo-related; it’s here because of the (so far…

Sokar writes to say that HaloEmpire now has a Halo screensaver (created by GCA) for download. It cycles through Halo screenshots with various fades and cuts between them. (Windows only.) Go take a look! Pax.

Lord of flaw sends word that his new German Halo site is online: Halo Universe. Swing by and take a look!

Oh, my. I’m not even sure how to explain this. Well… first read the thread (it actually gets relevant here), then look at the picture. And then wonder about the free time Halo fans have… and be afraid. Be very afraid.

Three different X-boxes? Daily Raider UK have an interview with J Allard of Microsoft concerningX-box’s global roll-out. Here’s a quote: DR-UK: If you buy a game in Japan, will it work on a UK X-Box?J Allard: That’s up to the publisher. We’ll build three different boxes, one for each territory, and what thepublisher can choose…

In case anyone was unsure (and if you were, you should be ashamed of yourself), Matt Soell lays to rest the “Halo is ready” rumor in no uncertain terms. Turns out even the bit about Halo running on nVidia cards on Macs ain’t true. Watch that bull flying…

Geez. Thanks to Carth for the heads-up… Macrumors.com is reporting (reporting?) that “HALO for the Mac is ready but Microsoft are holding it back till at least 2 months after the X-Box is released. Although the game is ready to ship for both the Mac and the PC the game will be most marketed on…