Category: HBO

Bungie’s SETI team clocks up the hours. Their total CPU time now stands at 16992 hr 00 min 17.9 sec. Pax.

Wait a minute! 16 members in the Bungie SETI team? 1 + 6 = 7. Where’s Hamish? Pax.

Take-Two Interactive Sft. closed strong yesterday up by +7.80%. Check yesterday’s news for details.

The Milita: Armies for Halo page has been redesigned. Nice clean look and new graphics.

The Halo cination page claims to know Cortana’s origin but you have to find it. A case of Halocination? Check it out!

We’re in the money! Take-Two Interactive’s European publishing and distribution subsidiary has entered into a $17 million revolving line of credit with Barclays Bank PLC. Full details here. Got shares?

MacFormat Halo preview scoop! “Bungie says there’ll be an emphasis on teamwork: multi-player network or Internet games will see several players work together against the aliens, while the single-player game will enable you to switch between characters each of whom has individual skills.” says MacFormat. Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi and Steve Campbell for sending in…

Doug Zartman (Bungie Software) says “that’s not quite correct!”: Just wanted to point out that where MacFormat says “the single-player game will allow you to switch between characters, each of whom has individual skills” – that’s not quite correct. I can see how they came to that conclusion based on seeing us do it for…

Take-two closed strong again. TTWO (Take-Two Interactive Sft.): 9 3/4 (+1/4, +2.63%) [Aug 24 ET]. At close of trade.

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“the line for BLAM! is already forming.” says Marathon’s Story page.

Take-two up! TTWO (Take-Two Interactive Sft.): 9 1/2 (+11/16, +7.80%) [Aug 23 ET]. At close of trade.

The Halo Milita page is back up. Pax.

“Something odd going down at halo.bungie.com?” says Crashed Drugal. The Milita News pages has the details. Pax.

Halo: the darkside has a new poll. Pax.

Lots of goodies in our uploads folder. Remember to include a Read Me with your submissions. Pax.

Speculation on our forums about Halo’s three alien races. Is there really three? Are the humans included? Well Peter Cohen (MacCentral) had this to say: In Halo, you assume the role of an armored cyborg scouring the surface of a gigantic alien artifact- a habitable ring in space 10,000 miles in diameter. The artifact contains…

Speculation on our forums about an official Halo movie. Is one coming? When will it be released? We don’t know when it’s coming but one is coming. Mac Gamer’s Ledge had this to say: Work is ongoing for a new Halo trailer which will highlight more of the game’s extraordinary attention to detail than was…

Marty O’Donnell (President of O’Donnell/Salvatori Total Audio) is Geek of the Week at Gamasutra. Total Audio are doing all the music, voices, and 3d sound design for Halo. Nice quote from the Gamasutra article: Favorite Geeky Dream: I dreamt that my music was played right in the middle of Steve Jobs’s keynote address at MacWorld…

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