Category: HBO

The Halo-Net Shop is now selling t-shirts… and they’re taking no chances.we’re now printing the Halo Shirts, which have artwork which is fully original to Halo-Net, none of the content is by Bungie , so hopefully they can’t make any complaint about it.Go on over to the shop and have a look @ the overview…

Marty O’Donnell of Total Audio offers some points of clarification about the E3 Halo movie on our forums. Here’s what the had to say: A few points of clarification: 1. The movie on the PCG CD is a copy of the full DVD movie from E3. The show at E3 also included Joseph Staten doing…

Dink! The Halo SETI Marinesdrop two places from #46 to #48 in the Battle of the Teams. While we’ve got 436 recruits we’ve also lost some big crunchers. Banzif is the latest to stop crunchin’. Unless we get more marines crunchin’ units we’re going to start losing out big time. Don’t let the team down……

John Carmack gives his views on Xbox and the future of gaming on the PC in an IGN Xbox interview. Here’s a snippet: IGN Xbox: Would you ever consider doing original content for a console? JC: There are some pleasures to developing on a console that you don’t get on a PC, but I Would…

Xbox technology-head, Seamus Blackley, discusses console hard drives and why developers are having an Xbox love affair in an IGN Xbox interview. Here’s a snippet: IGN Xbox: Did you have the same problem convincing developers of themerits of the Xbox that you did convincing the general public? SB: No, I think that the main problem…

Alan Stott of Halo Centerwrites to say he has posted a full explanation of events in the Halo-Net Shop Controversy. Having said all this they are still taking pre-orders for the Halo Stickers it seems?

Matt Soell has a few words to say about the XBox, keyboards and the future of the online Bungie fan community on the Marathon’s Story page. Will the Xbox have a keyboard? The PS2 will have one. As Hamish would say ‘Veritatem Dies Aperit’ or something.

Nate Birkholz airs his views on the situation between Bungie and Microsoft in a MacCentral article called Game Guru: Reflections on Bungie and Microsoft. Here’s a great quote:Large publishers are, by nature, somewhat conservative, and they prefer to maintain a healthy measure of control. Most developers hear at first that things aren’t going to change,…

More Halo movie mirrors:3D Action Gamers (Thanks Frans)Meccaworld (Thanks luxor)3D DownloadsStompedJosephAW’s site 18MB version for 56k users (gone now)

Haven’t grabbed the Halo movie yet? Then never fear Bravehamster is here! Kudos to Bravehamster who sends the following good news:I brought the E3 halo movie into WMP and managed to get 30+ screenshots taken. Some pretty good ones in there, got all the major points of interest. Anyways, here’s the link, for your readers…

Mirror mirror on the net… The E3 Halo movie has appeared on the net in a number of locations. Try here for now:Fileplanet. (Thanks Charles Fitzhugh)Battleground: Halo (Thanks Bounty)Halo Vault (Thanks luxor)Halo Center (Thanks Yrro) More as we get them.

Some good stuff going down over at the Marathon’s Story page. A review of Iain M. Banks’ new novel Look To Windward. Halo is clearly influenced by Banks’ scifi novels. There’s also more Halo backstory, some comments on Bungie’s third game Phoenix, the Xbox keyboard or lack of it,the amusing The Official SA Guide to…

The full E3 Halo movie release confirmed! Thanks to nikozomofor writing to tell us that his issue of PC Gamer (Aug 2000) arrived and the cover CD contained a 160 MB Halo movie (9 mins 42 seconds long).

Seems the Halo-Net Store was laboring under a misimpression… in this forum post, they suggest that the situation might not be as they’d understood it. Bungie licensing still costs money.

According to a Hard|Forum post the full E3 Halo movie has been released. It’s claimed to be 150MBs and 10mins long. HBO staff haven’t been able to verify this yet though.

Matt Soell dropped into our forum to say that he seriously doubts the Halo-Net Store actually has permission to market their products. He’s looking into it… but if you were thinking about buying a sticker today, you might want to hold off a few hours, or until the issue is clarified.

Kudos to Bagman, who found a small article about the XBox controller, posted two weeks before the Bungie/MS deal went public. Seems it’s been known for quite some time that a keyboard will not be a standard feature on the XBox… makes you wonder how Bungie thinks the fan community is going to stay together.…

ARMAGEDDON informs us on our forumsthat he has made the Halo scans from PC Gamer (Aug 2000) available on the web at http://armageddon.gamehappy.com/halo/. These scans were originally from the Rampancy.net Hotline server, scanned and upped by Isolder. Thanks ARMAGEDDON and thanks Rampancy.net.

I’m totally unclear on the concept… but it seems a Halo paraphernalia shop has sprung up. The Halo-Net Shop offers… well, nothing at the moment. But you can read about the shirts, stickers, and info packets (?) it WILL have for sale at some point. Seriously bare-bones site, so even if you (as I) don’t…

SETI techs update their team rankings page and the Halo SETI Marines find themselves still holding on to position #46 in the Battle of the Teams.Banzif hits 7777 units and knocks Jjaro tech off the #1 spot. Team membership rises to an all time high of 432 recruits. We need more marines though to replace…