Category: HBO

Seen at Haloplayers… a new Halo site comes on the scene, this one dedicated to down-under Halo! Halo-au (Halo Australia) is now online. Swing by and check ’em out!

The Halo SETI Marinesclose the gap in the Battle of the Teams. Team membership rises to 408 marines. SkyHook and “Dr Raw Stag Footrot FRACS” share the Frogblast award and Banzif takes top crunchin’ honors once more. Full details on the 24 hour stats page.

Wow. Those Haloplayers boys really rate. PC Gamer has put some of the content from their July print mag up on their website, before the mag is off the shelves… “as a special favour to Haloplayers”. Nice going, guys!

D’n’A posts to our forum that the July issue of PCZone Benelux won’t be out until June 22. Guess we have a bit of time to wait for that new article!

$erial-ki!! A has submitted some wallpaper which shows his feelings on the Marathon-Halo link. You’ll find it on our Wallpaper page.

Over at the Haloplayers general forum, anno domini posts that the July issue of PC Zone Benelux (a Dutch PC gaming mag) contains a four page Halo article, “as well as four previously unreleased and exclusive screenshots, differing from those in the July issue of PC Gamer UK!” We’re talking to our agent in Holland…

The July 2000 issue of PC Games also contains a Halo article, and Christoph Schmidt was kind enough to scan it in for us. We don’t have permission yet to post it… but since there are no new pictures anyway, we’re going to give you the translated text now, courtesy of Harry “Halo, Halo, Halo……

The Marathon’s Story page could be renamed the “PC Gamer analysis page” today… lots of good stuff from the new article. Great quotes, and a better scan from Jenkz of the Marathon-like symbol on the commander’s hat. Hamish has out-Haloed us!

mad.max has posted some of the highlights from the PC Gamer UK article to the R.net forum. Lots of useful little snippets… worth a read! Pax.

Total freedom is impossible? According to a forum postby Bagman PC Gamer UK is claiming that Bungie have decided that total freedom in Halo is impossible. Here’s the full quote as posted by Bagman: “Bungie have decided that ‘Total Freedom’ is impossible, so have to border their levels in natural ways (for example, mountain ranges…

The March 2001 date mentioned by Take 2 has been echoed by PC Gamer UK, who included an article entitled “Slippage Central” in the latest issue (page 37): Despite our ‘Done When It’s Done’ column reading “April” for Halo last month, a release date for Bungie’s handsome project has never been particularly clear. But Kieron…

Massa, from Halo Network, sends word that he contacted Take 2 recently to clarify the GameStar reported release date of “early 2001”, and they told him that the current date was March 2001. Ouch!

Whoa! The London offices of HBO snagged us a copy of PC Gamer UK July 2000. We’re not worthy… we’re not worthy! They also scanned in a full page Halo marine pic not previously seen on the net. Go grab it here before we’re raided! Much to our amazement they ripped the mag apart to…

No movement by the Halo SETI Marinesin the SETI league. We keep crunchin’ but so dothe other teams. It’s tough in the top 50. Team memberships still remains at 404 marines. Banzif and SkyHook take top credits again. Full details on the 24 hour stats page.

Came in last night… but we were slacking. Joseph Haake did a bit of image enhancement work on the Bob commander’s hat, posted yesterday at Haloplayers. It’s his opinion that the symbol there is not the Marathon symbol. He reminds us, though, that it was a small image, seen from only one angle. Decide for…

Another pair of screens from Private Meowman… quite the prolific screenmaker! You’ll find them on our Wallpaper page.

A “fantasy-based siege warfare title” based on the Halo engine? That’s what NextGen says Bungie is working on, according to ZeroRage on our forum. Interesting stuff…

The Marathon-Halo link again… silverfox, on the R.net forum, has noticed a Marathon-like logo on the hat in one of the new PC Gamer screens. What’s going on here?

Haloplayers has posted small scans of the new PC Gamer screenshots… these seem to be screen grabs from the E3 trailer. Take a look! (And when you’re done, swing by Rampancy.net, where Ferrex has posted a quick synopsis of the four pics.)

Jenkz of Haloplayers has posted the rest of the paragraph that Jason Jones quote came from.”One fundamental change from the game’s initial announcement concerns its viewpoint. While originally it was promised to be a third-person game, now a more hybrid approach has been chosen. The exact ration of the two modes hasn’t been finalised -…