Category: HBO

Halo in PCGamer (UK). Haloplayers have posted a small pic of the cover of the July edition of PCGamer (UK). It sports the Halo marine in action. According to Jenkz of Haloplayers the July edition will have some exclusive Halo coverage.

Daily Radar weighs in, too.

Speculation intensifies about the Microsoft rumors. GameSpy devoted almost its full news page to the conjecture. (Thanks to ax for the heads-up.)

Halo in MacFormat (UK). Kudos to Phish who sends word that Halo features in the latest issue of MacFormat (UK). Not only that but Phish scanned in the front cover and transcribed the text. We can’t put it all up but here’s the first paragraph:The game that generated the most excitement at last month’s E3…

Edgecrusher sends word that pcgames.de have a gaming poll to crush. Lots of games to choose from but there can be only one!

Louis did some HBO server stats and posted the percentage of Windows and Mac OS users to theforums. We felt the figures were worth repeating here:45.4% MacOS50.8% Windows (31% Win98, 11% Win95, 7% NT, 2% Win2000)The remainder is various flavors of Unix, and 6 WebTV hits, and 3 Amiga hits. (!!) Ok who has the…

The SETI team ranks still haven’t been updated so we don’t know where the Halo SETI Marinesare placed at the moment. Some fine crunchin’ by Jjaro tech and ABordner takes the Frogblast award. Still only a third of marines are doing active service. We could do with some back-up people. Full details on the 24…

Believe it or not! Matthew Liebhold reports thatmacslash.com claim they were hacked last night and their Bungie-MS buyout details were deleted from their server. Yeah right. Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em.

Joel Page (aka Ironfist) has written an interesting article on the MS rumors. Worth a read, just for the level-headedness.

The MS rumors have made it as far as MacAddict, a major Mac print magazine. No new info, but they point to As The Apple Turns for a distinctly Mac viewpoint on the potential truth to the rumors. Thanks to Formerly Wu, over at the R.net forum, for the heads-up.

The Movies page has been updated with a list of mirrors for the E3 teaser. All locations currently known, in one convenient place! Enjoy.

Fire Phoenix drops us a line to let us know that PCGameWorld is also mirroring the teaser; both the hi-res and low-res versions are available.

Manuel Blaschek has sent in another wallpaper for our Wallpapers page. Does it seem like the Halo-Marathon links are getting stronger?

Geez… first Macintouch, now MacSlash… the MS rumor is spreading.

JosephAW, who brought you low-bandwidth streaming versions of the bTV broadcasts, now brings you a low-bandwidth streaming version (removed) of the E3 teaser. Thanks, Joseph!

Happy Happy Halo Halo 4th July. Madfishwrites to tell us that the August issue of PCGamer will be out on the 4th July. We should have the full Halo movie… soon(tm). Thanks Madfish.

Halo wins Blue’s News Best of E3 2000. Thanks to Kamikaze who posts to our forums thatBlue’s News have posted their Best of E3 2000awards. Halo won “Best of Show”. This is what Stephen “Blue” Heaslip had to say:Best of ShowHalo. Combining state-of-the-art graphics, with state-of-the-art teamplay, this is TRIBES meets Quake III Arena, and…

The Characters section in our FAQ has been up updated to reflect the new info from the Halo movie trailer. If you’ve got comments/suggestions about the FAQ please send them to halofaq@bungie.org. Thanks.

$erial-ki!!A has added another chapter to his work-in-progress about the Halo Marine. You can check out ‘Awakening’ on our Fan Fiction page. Remember, the “more by this author” link at the end of each entry is a convenient way to read all the chapters sequentially.

Weird goings-on at the SETI server… Club Rankings haven’t been updated in 3 days, and the Halo SETI Marines are being consistently credited 200+ fewer units than what’s actually crunched. No matter, the crunching goes on! Jjaro Tech and Rival take top honors today. Check the 24 hour stats for details.