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Haloplayers reports that someone from Barrysworld talked to Take2 yesterday, and was told that Halo won’t be out before 2001. Not a huge surprise, but Take2 should probably be in the loop here. As this news post was being put up, word came from Massa, at Halo Network… apparently, GameStar is also suggesting a date…

Wow! Thanks to Allenthar, who points out that the recent advance of the Halo SETI Marines not only propelled them into the top 50 Club Teams… but into the top 100 Teams of any kind! Congrats, folks.

For A Few Units More. The Halo SETI Marinesneed an extra 200+ units to take out Team 3DNow! in the Battle of the Teams. They’re going down! 😉 Banzif and JackMech take the La Crunch and Frogblast awards. Find out more on the24 hour stats page.

Noctavis, over at R.net, has scanned in a beautiful shot of the E3 Banner, which showed up in the July 2000 issue of Incite Magazine. Look at the detail of that shot! Gotta go out and buy me one of those tomorrow.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. who own a 19.9% equity interest in Bungie Software have announced a 60% growth in net sales for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2000. For the three months, net sales were 70 million U.S. dollars, a 34 percent increase from 52million for the quarter ended April 30, 1999. Net…

Mentioned a couple of days ago at Battleground: Halo, but we slipped until Edgecrusher sent us mail: TiberiumSun.com has a poll up… “What caught your eye at E3?” Red Alert is still in first place (not surprising, given where the poll is), but Halo is a close second. See what you can do, okay? Pax.

The Halo SETI Marines dig in in their push to be top dog. A solid effort today… 463 units crunched, almost all accounted for. Welcome to SeanA, and congratulations to JackMech,who vaulted over 26 teammates to take the Frogblast award. Congratulations, too, to Banzif,who crushed the competition for La Crunch Honneur. How are YOU doing?…

Well-Rounded Entertainment has posted their E3 Awards, and Halo garnered a Runner-up award in the Action category. (The category was won by Alice.) In addition, they came in second (with 44% of the vote, compared to Deus Ex’s 46%) in the Reader’s Choice awards. Thanks to R.net, who noticed the awards.

Seen on the Story page… seems the report a few days ago of a bomb with a nickname of “Kortana” might not be true after all. The makers of the bomb in question have said that no nickname has been given to it either by them or by the USAF customer. Hmm… oh, well, it…

Serious modification, and weather… Vector, at Battleground: Halo, asked Doug Zartman anotherfew questions, and got a couple of useful answers about topics of high fan interest. Want to know the latest about game alteration, or environmental effects? Head on over and read Doug’s answers!

Blam!… another team bites the dust as the Halo SETI Marines climb to position 49. Woohoo! 48 coming soon… depending on when SETI decides to give back the units lost every day. (Over 200 units crunched today unaccounted for.) Check the 24 hour stats for details!

Thanks to Claude Errera for passing on this link to a Halo page at MeccaWorld. Nothing much new other than a small poll which asks “What do you think of Halo?” So far 22% think that “Halo bites, don’t even bother!” Time to rock the poll!

For those not up to downloading the large image files of yesterday’s PCXL scans, we’ve transcribed the text from both articles. “Tired of Playing WIth Yourself?” (from the May issue) focuses mainly on multiplayer, while “Mission: ‘The Angels Sing'” concentrates on solo play. There were two new screenshots, which can be found in our Screenshots…

Hugh Hancock points us to a post-E3 report with a different flavor than most… what impressed the folks at Machinima.com most about Halo was its potential for use as a movie-making tool. This has been a topic of interesting discussion on our forum, and others… here’s a group that wouldn’t normally be interested in Halo,…

Took us a while, but we’re finally able to bring you the Halo articles in the May and June issues of PC Accelerator. Mike Salmon, Editor in Chief (okay, ex-EIC… PCXL has officially closed down), has given us permission to put these up for your viewing pleasure. Without further ado:May 2000: Page 1 (244K), Page…

More info on the alt.games.halo newsgroup mentioned by Simon Brownlee… seems someone screwed up royally. There was no proposal posted to alt.config, which means that many newsservers will ignore the group as “unofficial”. There’s no valid “Approved” line in the newgroup control post (the post that actually starts the group), which means that MOST servers…

30 units behind alt.comp.hardware.overclocking… will the Halo SETI Marines climb another notch tomorrow? Even though the SETI servers seem to be losing several hundred of their units every day, they still persevere… It’s CRUNCH TIME! Jjaro Tech knows it… do you? A warm welcome to Forty-Two and Psyche911… and welcome back to WA2FAST! Check the…

A bit earlier than some expected… but an alt.games.halo newsgroup has been started.(It may or may not have propagated to your local server by now… be patient, if it hasn’t.) Yet another place to discuss the nooks and crannies of the Halo universe! Thanks to Simon Brownlee for the heads-up.

=NAV=Shadow writes to let us know that he hopes to put together a short 3D movie of Halo this summer… but he won’t be able to manage it alone. He’s looking for 3DS MAX modellers who might be willing to help out… contact him if you think that’s you!

CUTS has submitted an interesting piece of fan fiction… who is the marine, really? Go read his thoughts on the Fan Fiction page!