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As mentioned on R.net, Game Critics Awards planned on announcing their Best of E3 awards tonight. They’re up… and Halo got a mention or two. Best Action Game and Runner-Up for Best Game, PC, specifically. Here’s what they had to say:Shown to only a select few at E3 ’99, Halo has been building buzz all…

Another poetry thread has started up on our forum. Go and contribute! (I particularly like this one. It’s fun.)

Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines lose a spot int the Club Rankings to the fast-climbing Hardware Central team. Can they get it back? Still only a third of the team turning in units… Banzif easily takes la Crunch Honneur, and Dr. Raw Stag Footrot FRACS and PunkRocker tie for the Frogblast award. Full details on…

This has come up a few times, so it bears mentioning here. Orbit, a site which started up in early January, closed its doors on May 2nd, 2000. We neglected to mention the closure on our front page, but we DID move the Orbit link to the Static section at that point. (You can read…

Posted to our forum yesterday, but we missed it amongst the rumor-mongering and name-calling. Jex has put up a website for what seems to be the first announced Halo mod… Macross + Halo. Not much there yet… but he’s looking for lots of help. Coders, modellers, texture guys, level designers, sound guys… and someone to…

Mhaddy, of the Junkyard, has submitted a wallpaper for our Wallpaper page. Not strictly Halo… but then, neither is the Junkyard. Available in more sizes than you’ll know what to do with.

More Halo font impropriety spotted over at the Marathon’s Story page. Harry “the Tome” Al-Shakarchi found a German web page forAxe Phoenix deodorant which uses the Halo font. The Story page has been reporting about this flagrant abuse of Bungie’s Halo font for some time now. Go get ’em Bungie!

The Halo SETI Marineshang on to position #48 in the Battle of the Teamsbut HardwareCentral are right behind us. Some good crunchin’ by one third of the team but is it enough? Can we hold out?Team membership rises to 414 marines. Banzif and SkyHook take top honors. Full details on the 24 hour stats page.

Thanks to our HBO offices in Berlin (Germany) we’ve got some German Halo news for you.First off HaloNews noted a Halo preview at Krawall Gaming Network. Three pages long and quite detailed but no new screenshots and some are actually scans taken fromHaloplayers. What’s Jenkz going to do about that?Halo Network report a German Halo…

More interesting rumors. Roger Maxwell has posted a couple of idea-filled missives on our forum, postulating that Pixar and Bungie are working together to release an animated movie to complement the game’s storyline. You can find the original post here, and Roger’s followup (with more details) here. Intriguing stuff!

Even with all the rumors flying around the Marathon’s Story page is still churning out the Halo theories. Jjaro textures (Marathon Infinity) in Halo? The parallels may be more coincidental than anything but nice work by Alan Greene.

There’s a small blurb about Halo and Oni in the latest (July) MacAddict, titled “Bungie almost got game”. While they are excited about both titles, they feel that “Bungie has left us hanging” too long without a release. As they say, though… “strangely enough, your mom was right – patience is a virtue, and good…

Looks like the Halo SETI Marinesare going to lose their 48th spot in the Battle of the Teams. HardwareCentral are chasing our tail. Only a major all out effort can stop those hardware crunchers! Big welcome to Twizzler who brings 204 badly needed units to the war effort. While we’ve got over 400 marines in…

Tycho has posted another fan fiction piece on our forum. We’ve added it to the Fiction page. If you’re in a vengeful mood, this is a good story for you.

We would be remiss if we ignored this altogether, since it’s potentially very big news. We want to stress, however, that it’s nothing more than rumor at this point. A rather large thread is running on our forum, revolving around a potential deal between Bungie and Microsoft. If true (even in part), it means major…

septimus posted a link to a Something Awful article on Halo on our forum… definitely worth a read. Inside Bungie… deep and dirty!

Daily Radar put up a list of developers currently supporting the X-box, and those who Daily Radar think will support it. Bungie’s on the second list.

The Halo SETI Marines are closing in on spot 97 on the overall Teams Rankings… tomorrow? Banzif and Skyhook take top honors today in the 24 hour stats.

“Short Bungie Blurbs in NextGen” says Strykerin our forums. Here’s the full quote from page 19:Bungling Bungie:The smarty-pants developer behind Halo and Oni planned to announce a third title at E3, but then changed its mind and opted not to. Still, Next Generation learned that the game would be a fantasy-based siege warfare title that…

Thanks to Joedaphish, who cleaned up our “Bobs in action” shot from a couple of days ago for us. We’ve posted it (and the other unique PC Gamer screen) in our Screenshots section. Looks nice, Phish!