Category: HBO

A post on our forum which announces a new mod team for Halo contains this phrase: “After […] a e-mail from Doug Zartman saying Halo ships with everything needed to make a mod…” Bad grammar aside, confirmation that tools WILL ship with Halo is a positive thing. 🙂

Haloplayers has gotten their hands on the latest issue of PCGamer UK… with a 5-page Halo spread inside. Four new screenshots, and some interesting info, including this quote:”Jason [Jones] believes that the balance is moving increasingly towards the first person model.” Now THERE’S a switch. Here’s hoping Haloplayers gets permission to post this soon.

Christoph Schmidt points out that the latest (July) issue of the German PC Games is devoted to E3, and will contain a preview of Halo. Looking forward to seeing this!

An impressive piece of fiction showed up this morning… took a while to format it, but it was worth it. Take a look at Storm, from Alan Seawright, on our Fan Fiction page! We’re loving that the fan fiction section has come alive again.

The Halo SETI Marinesare 2189 units behind the SETI-Hispano team in the SETI team ranks. Got some crunchin’ to do to get past these guys. Team memberships remains at 404 marines. Banzif and SkyHook takes top credits this time round. Full details on the 24 hour stats page.

Another pair of desktops from Joel Loukus… nice space-type pics. You can find them on our Wallpaper page.

Uros Jojic (IGNPC European Content Editor) sends us word of a new Halo preview at ActionTrip.com. The basis for the preview is the E3 trailer, so the info’s not that new… but the perspective is. Here you have a review written by a hardcore gamer who’s excited not because Halo looks great or has kickass…

Over at the Marathon’s Story page, another interesting picture has surfaced. An alternate cover of a book called “Armor” (one of the original codenames for Halo) has an image of soldiers dropping from a dropship with no parachutes… quite a lot like we understand Halo works. Hmm… Pax.

The Halo SETI Marines dig in at position 48 on the Club Rankings… but with the growth of the team (three new members today), it won’t be long! Jjaro Tech crunches again, Skyhook frogblasts past another 28… Where are YOU? Check the 24 hour stats!

Goodness, we missed one. There was ANOTHER fanfic posted to the forum this morning… Thanks, Octavio! We’ve added it, as well, to the Fan Fiction page.

The field is alive again! Tycho has posted another piece of fan fiction, on our forum, which has been added to our Fan Fiction page. Take a look!

arctic wolf submits another piece of Fan Fiction, via our forum. The field is warming up again!

Joel Loukus sends in another desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines crash into 48th place in the Club Standings, and 98th place in overall standings… and the SETI server begins to return a few lost units. Jjaro Tech proves once again that weekends are more reliable times to find aliens, handily taking La Crunch Honneur. Skyhook vaults past 21 teammates to…

New Fan Fiction today from Tycho [OSC]. Short, but sweet… there is already feedback on our forum asking for more! Enjoy. Pax.

Rampancy.net has made note of another poll to smash… Gamertech is asking “What game are you most looking forward to?” (Gee, where have we heard that question before?) Currently, Halo holds a commanding lead, but only 60 people have voted. Do your part to keep Halo where it belongs!

Blam!… but they just don’t know it yet! The Halo SETI Marinestake down Team 3DNow! but the SETI team ranks server hasn’t recorded it yet. Team membership rises to over 400 marines! A big welcome to Shard (208 units), Josh S (192 units), Agent Cooper (111 units), Fred (17 units), and Psyjnir Complex (12 units)who…

The logo on the right side of the new Halo pic scanned by R.net was mentioned by them last night… but the weird glyphs along the bottom were not. They look vaguely mesoamerican… can anyone place them? Does this suggest that Aztec or Mayan glyphs were created by non-earth-dwellers? Thanks to The Marathon’s Story page…

Matt Soell once again clears up the “Halo is just Myth III repackaged” rumor, with some history of Armor, the codename of the game that Halo evolved from. Thanks, Matt!

Also from Massa: GameStar has released a large E3 report (I couldn’t find it on their web page, so it must be in the print edition) which fingers Halo as the best thing they saw at the show. Massa points out that Tribes2 wasn’t even in the top 10.