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New Logos available
A large collection of logos were upped to our ftp uploads directory a couple of weeks ago – I’ve been holding off on posting them, because there were so many (7, in fact), and were all so similar… but Zypper prodded us via email, and Crux told me it was time… I’ve put the two color variations on the Logos page, and made the remainder available as a single zipped download. Enjoy! (And if you made these, let us know.)
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Wallpaper section hits 150!
Thanks to Sun Pak, who dropped us a new desktop for our Wallpaper section. Bright…
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No Halo Update, wedding instead
Matt Soell dropped into our forum to announce that most of the Bungie crew would be heading back to Chicago in the next day or so to attend the wedding of Lorraine Reyes and Rob McLees… and therefore, he’d be unable to post a Halo update this week. We’ll take this opportunity to wish Lorraine and Rob all the best!
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Daily Radar rates Xbox games
Griffon, of Halo Command Center, writes to express his anger at Daily Radar, who put up a piece on the ‘Top 15 Xbox games we’ve seen so far‘. Halo’s on the list… but at number 4. DR puts Munch’s Oddysee, DOA3, and Kakuto-X (‘Microsoft’s secret fighting game’) ahead of it. Why?Halo didn’t exactly overwhelm us at Gamestock
Ouch. Beaten out by a couple of fighting games (one of which has gameplay they’ve never even seen)?
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Fan Fiction section updated
The shiny floors of the shaft demonstrated how new the halo must have been, the small room was a flurry of activity with many builders encircling the symbol on the floor. One of them spoke, or at least its mouth moved and the machine translated its words into English for us.
Time paradoxes… someone uploaded an anonymous story for our Fan Fiction section – if this is yours, let us know. If not, read what the Halo might be…
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A FAQ for every season
Mark Levin, our friendly neighborhood FAQ maintainer, has given the Frequently Asked Questions section a much-needed facelift – lots of little stuff, here and there. Feel free to browse through – you might learn something!
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Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall another notch, to 50, in the Battle of the Teams – overall crunching was down this week (due to the holiday?). DarthFlounder takes over 3rd place, pushing his way to the top… how long until there’s a new top dog? See how YOUR stats measure up on the 7 day stats page. (What? You’re not crunching units for the Halo SETI Marines? Ooh… you should be.) Pax.
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Halo Preview at Gamecritics.com
Gamecritics.com has put put up a Halo preview that’s worth reading. There’s one new screenshot (pretty nice, though unfortunately small), and a reasonbly good analysis of the current position of Halo. There a couple of notable problems with the review, however, which make you wonder… for example, on Page 4, there’s this passage:It’s also worth mentioning that many of the weapons won’t actually look like guns. As a Microsoft rep has said, “In order to be sensitive to the needs of the mainstream consumer market and curb recent trends towards violence.”
Readers with good memories will recognize this information as coming from R.net’s April Fools Day post… if the author was taken in by THIS info, what ELSE is wrong? Go read it and decide for yourself. Update: d-trexx writes to say that our ‘new screenshot’ isn’t new at all – PlanetXbox has had it in their archives since Gamestock. Guess we just missed it… Update 2: DOH! It’s been in OUR screenshots section since March 20 – I put it there myself! It came from Bungie’s new Halo site. I gotta stop using those aluminum pots to cook my tomato sauce in…
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Bumblebee is aloft
Last Friday’s Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – the word of the week is ‘pathfinding‘; see the progress made in the past few months!
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New Halo preview at PlayNOW
Thanks to Aginor, who noticed another preview of Halo at PlayNOW. It’s generally on-target… though the screenshots are 18 months old (again), the system is listed as ‘PC’ (though the article itself focuses on the Xbox), and the Publisher is listed as ‘Jack Of All Games’. I thought that maybe they were an Australian distributor (PlayNOW is an Australian site), but they seem to be based in Ohio. My guess is PlayNOW’s review posting script is a bit… messed up.
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PC Gamer UK article a bust
Our UK Connection finally got to a newsstand today, to pick up the PC Gamer UK issue fAt1 mentioned a few days ago… and decided there was nothing new. The concept art mentioned is actually already in our Concept Art section (and has been since July 15 of last year). In fact, he put the rather large sum of money the newsstand wanted for the mag towards a bottle of wine… looks like we need to get ourselves a new UK Connection.
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That Pesky Symbol
It’s the symbol that just won’t go away. Joseph Haake has sent in yet another enhancement of that Halo symbol on the back of the Red Covenant in the E3 trailer (though he says he doesn’t “see the point in determining the actual shape of this specific covenant symbol”…). Nice enhancement, in any case, Joseph – thanks!
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Halobase comes online
Christian Bender writes to say that a new Halo fansite is online – Halobase. (It’s German.) Go take a look!
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Al SackMaster rides again
Woohoo! A kilometer-long Pillar of Autumn, grenade-hopping, functional teleporters, And the Bumblebee… and MORE! This week’s Halo Update is at Rampancy.net, and it sounds like an extremely productive week. Go read it!
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More symbology
Josh Laird took a closer look at the symbol on the back of the red Covenant (the one that Mike Sholl abstracted a few days ago), and decided that Mike’s drawing might be a bit off. He sent us this one, instead (42K). What’s your call?
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Preview (sort of) at eUniverseGames
Thanks to Aginor, who noted (on our forum) that there’s a new Halo preview over at eUniverseGames.com. Pretty clearly written by someone who didn’t do their homework – screenshots are 18 months old, team list more than a year out of date (and not attributed to its source), and comments like this:For instance, say some annoying fool is snipering your teammates you from a nearby hill, you jump in the nearest truck and drive up to the sniper, get out of the car and cut him up with your knife or shoot him with your AK-47. Then you get back in your ride and a teammate sees you, he jumps in the car and becomes the gunner and takes down other peeps who are in range or enemy aircrafts.
– it’s still a pretty positive review of a game we’re ALL waiting for.
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New Halo preview in PC Gamer UK
fAt1 informs us that he finally got his subscription copy of PC Gamer UK (general release on the 14th) which has a new Halo preview. While there are no new in-game screenshots there is a piece of concept art of the human dropship (woohoo!). Here are some juicey quotes from the article courtesy of fAt1:“As with Half-Life and the other great leaps in gaming, it’s attention to detail that’ll inspire knowing glances among gamers.”
“Stealing their technology isn’t just going to give you some cool ways to blow them to space-chunks, it’s going to be essential to you success in the game.”
“While levels are big, they’re basically designed for recapturing that pillar-to-post fighting feel that was so inspiring in Half-life”
Finally:
“Well, sex sells and Halo, in an eye-meets-game and make beautiful love kind of way, is digital sex… It’s going to be a feverish wait”
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It’s all about the notes
Um… someone who can read music better than I can… is this what it purports to be? Update:SiliconDream says it’s from the Myth TFL level, ‘The Siege of Madrigal’. Shoulda known…
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open-sourced xbox closed down
Loren Petrich notes on our forum that the Indrema is dead. Loren first brought the Indrema to our attention in June of last year – it was to be a linux-based Xbox clone, available before the Xbox. Funding, however, has dried up, and the team has called it quits. You can read the details at Video Business.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
