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Thanks to TomeOne (via email) and edge (via our forum) for pointing out an interview with Marty O’Donnell at MacCentral. A snippet:MG: What’s involved in creating the alien language we hear in the trailer? It certainly manages to sound otherworldly, but also feels like there’s dialogue and meaning, as opposed to just cool sounding noise.MOD:…

Oops, nearly missed this one. Matt answered a few questions about gameplay on our forum… solid info about the mounted gun on the jeep, on the jeep’s winch, and on the player’s interaction with the dropship. Read it for yourself! Thanks, Matt.

Bad news for ultramarathoners… the old pledge of being able to circumnavigate the entire Halo gets shot down by Matt in our forum. Too good to be true, anyway. Nice to hear that Nathan’s promise of no computer-generated terrain is still good, though…

The Halo SETI Marines continue to dog the heels of the TidBITS team… 500 units still separates them from position 46 in the Club Rankings. Welcome to new team members Marvin, Master X, and MKULTRA… hopefully, with these (and several others that didn’t make the top 400 this time around) we can pass them soon!…

We’d like to take a moment to wish luxor, of Halo Vault, all the best in whatever he chooses to do… it seems he’s leaving IGN. Good luck, luxor!

Dispatcher has pointed us to another pair of images (that he made, this time) pertaining to the celestial positioning of the Halo. You’ll find them here (a view of the close galaxy, showing the relative positions of Iota Horologii and the Galactic Core) and here (an enhanced terminal pic from Marathon 2, showing (sort of)…

Okay, we haven’t asked permission for this, and you should really read the original post for explanations of all the details… but we’ve received a number of notes that the starmap SiliconDream posted yesterday is unreachable in its original location, so we’ve taken the liberty of mirroring it here. (If this is a problem, Sili,…

Thanks to luxor of Halo Vault, who has mirrored the Wazzup movie… if you’re having trouble getting it from our servers, try their (much) bigger pipes. Absolutely worth a look…

Well, quality has dropped a bit, but FINALLY it’s viewable on PCs. Sorry for the delay, and sorry for the quality drop. One of these days, we’ll figure out why moving video files from PCs to Macs and back is so difficult… in the meantime, enjoy this spoof of the famous Budweiser ad. (15.4 MB,…

Harry Al-Shakarchi sends in this link to a Daily Radar article about the Xbox XDK (Xbox Development Kit), which includes the current version of what the Xbox looks like. GM J. Allard warns that this won’t be the final version of the product, though. Still, interesting to see where it stands now! Pax.

It’s full of stars! SiliconDream has put together a starmap showing Earth, Tau Ceti, iota Horologii and HD 177830, plus the directions and distances from Earth of the Galactic Core and the Pfhor homeworld. Head on over to his site to see the systems.jpg. More details can be found here. You can blame Miguel and…

You heretics will burn! Daniel points us to an I, Cringley report from The Pulpet about X Blocks… that’s Xbox for you faithless lot. Olde Bob knows a thing or two though and rightly confesses that Xbox will only deliver if it has “kick-ass games that appear first on the X-Box”. Here’s the quote: Of…

Matt Soell wades in on our forums about an overzealous Apple employee with vague memories of timelines… sounds a bit Marathonish to me. Matt obviously hasn’t got his G4 Cube yet… just like the rest of us. Power to the Cube baby.

Kudos to fire phoenix, who wrote to Matt Soell for clarification of yesterday’s eNews tidbit (suggesting that the Mac version would be released simultaneously with the Xbox version). You can find Matt’s answer here at Halo Center.

Daniel Chace sends us this word: Here is a little quote from an apple eNews email I received today. It seems (according to this) that at least the Macintosh Version will be released the same time as the X-Box version. Here is an excerpt. 3. More Games Coming to the Mac …………………………. Game enthusiasts didn’t…

According to Matt Soell in aforum post there is no answers as yet to the questions about the creation and use of Halo Mods. There is also noanswer to the question about the inter-playability between PC/Mac and X-Box systems

More Halo Center news… Yrro decided to return as site maintainer. A short break was all that was needed.

Haloplayers announced yesterday that due to server load, they’re going to discontinue their site hosting services for new applicants for the time being. This does not affect existing sites (nor does it affect any sites already accepted but not up yet). And Halo Center would like to remind you that they have their own hosting…

Kudos to Picky, who noticed that Discreet, a division of Autodesk, announced at SIGGRAPH a couple of weeks ago that they’d be releasing a pared-down version of 3d studio max, called 3d studio gMAX, free to gaming communities everywhere, for modmaking. Halo mods just got easier! The full press release is here. Pax.

Fire Phoenix wanted to make it clear that he was still working on Halo Center (although not as site maintainer)… the site’s not closing down, it’s just lost its site maintainer. Apologies to anyone who misinterpreted my comment about there being noone in the position of maintainer as meaning there was noone working on the…