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Gettin’ ready for Gamestock…
Thanks to Pallor, who sent in the first mail we got with the new Bungie business cards (as seen on the Bungie Webcam). There are more now…
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Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Blam! Even with the loss of Soviet and his 767 units (to the MacAddict team), the Halo SETI Marines climb a notch to 47 in the Battle of the Teams. Nice going, guys! See who’s pulling their weight on the 7 day stats page. Pax.
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And MORE Fan Fiction
Death and destruction everywhere! Another piece of Fan Fiction gets submitted this morning:There they were, brilliant infrared blobs in his scanner, oblivious to his presence.
Check out the Fan Fiction section for the rest of Zypper’s ‘Trial Under Fire’. Pax.
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Fan Fiction section updated
The large Covenant tank fired its huge weapon, filling the pass with aqua radiance.
Another grim tale is submitted to our Fan Fiction section – check out Dredwing’s ‘Night Assault: The Mystic Savior‘!
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Halo Update database updated
Friday’s weekly Halo Update, posted over at Haloplayers, has now been added to the Halo Update database. Search term of the week is ‘chain gun‘… follow the progress since it was first introduced, 6 weeks ago!
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MSXbox puts up Gamestock preview
MSXbox has put up their own preview of the Gamestock event which happens tomorrow. The Halo mention:Bungie Software’s Halo is quite possibly one of the most anticipated titles of the past few years. Halo is a third-person sci-fi action game in which all the action will take place in the sky, on land, under the earth, indoors, or outdoors. New screenshots haven’t been released for this game for several months now, and this new round should blow the others away.
Heh – they forgot underwater. 🙂 We’re looking forward to new media, as well, though…
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cortana.org begins to awaken
Interesting. Physalis notes on our forum that Cortana.org has more content, currently, than the simple placeholder it’s had for a while. The top graphic incorporates a bit of an old Halo screenshot, and the navigation links (as yet unlinked) refer to players in the Marathon, Myth, and Halo universes. As Physalis notes, cortana.org is delineated in morse code at the top, and there are a few tidbits in the source. Currently, the only things available for download are a movie and an image involving the second Oni movie ever to hit the net (thereby rounding out the major Bungie games referenced on the page). The possibilities are intriguing…
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The tides… the tides…
Bastard sends in what we hope is the start of a multipart piece of Fan Fiction – The Tides of War.Wolmak doubted they would make it far into the forest today, as he was being cautious about Svith’s warning. Only a mile into the forest and they could all sense that something about the area was different… something that set their nerves on edge.
Swing by our Fan Fiction section to read it.
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T2 and TF2 ahead of Halo in Gamespy newsletter poll
Ricardo Rosado sends word that yesterday’s Gamespy newsletter (he sent it hours and hours ago – it was still current then) has a poll asking you to choose the ‘Team-Based Action FPS Game’ you’re looking forward to the most. Halo was third, following Team Fortress 2 and Tribes 2. Worth subscribing to to let ’em know which of those should be first?
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The World is Not Enough
Last June, when the news of the Microsoft buyout first went public, there was quite a bit of discussion about the possibility of Halo being the Xbox’s ‘killer app’ – a game so good that gamers will buy an Xbox just to play it. (In fact, In October, 2000, Daily Radar wrote a piece suggesting that Halo was just that app.) In a new DR piece, though, discussing the biggest hurdles the Xbox needs to clear, they suggest that far from being the Xbox’s ‘killer app’, Halo is just a PIECE of the success puzzle:…[Microsoft] also needs some blockbuster exclusives to bolster anticipated titles such as Halo.
Ah, well… foolish consistency, and all that. Who said journalists can’t be flexible in their thinking? (Thanks to S’phtman for the heads-up on the new article.)
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Fan Fiction section updated
Watching the sunrise over the edge of Threshold, I knew that there was a decent chance I could die in any number of ways before I got back to my HQ.
Todd Hansen submits chapter 2 of his story-in-progress, ‘Vision of an Apocalypse’. Read it in our Fan Fiction section! Pax.
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PlanetXbox looks ahead
PlanetXbox has a ‘preview’ of next week’s Gamestock event… info is a bit sketchy, but here’s what they say about Halo:Jason Jones of Bungie Studios should be on hand to show off Halo in one form or another. We’re hoping to see a playable version of the title at this point but it may be another video. In a recent Halo update from Bungie it was said “Halo” was being prepared for a Gamestock showing.
Even though Matt said at the Bungie Fanfest that the next time we saw Halo, it would be playable… we’re betting on the video, too.
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Wallpaper page udpated
Oops! Apologies to Scythe, who uploaded a new desktop for us about a week ago – but we never noticed it in our upload folder. (Folks – if you want to be sure we see it, drop us an email. 🙂 ) Anyway, it’s up now, and you can see it on our Wallpaper page.
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Rifle-butting the aliens
Thanks to Zypper, who pointed out that this week’s Halo Update is over at Haloplayers… and it sounds like they might just be ready for Gamestock. New music (this might be the bestest part), better AI, and lots of gameplay tweaks. Go read it for yourself… and brace for Monday/Tuesday’s impact!
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MS’s Gamestock 2001 placeholder up
Thanks to MoBill, who pointed out the (future) link of Microsoft’s Gamestock 2001 page. There’s nothing there yet… but there will be, on Tuesday.
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what’s with the bippin’ and the boppin’?
black flag and a red star posts his second weekly (well, sort of) HBO Forum Update (not to be confused with Matt Soell’s weekly Halo Updates), and the big question is, can he keep it up? (Matt’s been going for 17 updates now, over a 22 week span – it’s a tough act to follow.) And bf… some of us DO know what the jazz is all about.
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Gotta love those suits…
Heh – Jack, on our forum, points us to an image that seems to sum up the feelings of a lot of Halo fans about the upcoming MMORPG, Planetside. It’s all in fun…
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CGW wonders, when’s dessert?
Kudos (hehe… he said kudos) to Paul Collette, who spotted a Halo mention in the March 2001 issue of Computer Gaming World:Halo: “Graphics” is the focus of the Halo team. Most of the developer updates from Bungie have been discussing graphical tweaks and accomplishments, which is a bit worrisome. We still have faith, due to their past history, that they have their design chops. But when will we read more about gameplay and less about the cinematronics or the kinematics?”
Heh… the question couldn’t have come at a better time. Will they see something they like on Monday?
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Schwag for Meg
Thanks to both Daedalus and EvilBastard, who sent us closeups of the Halo shirt (a pic which will probably remain on the Bungie Webcam all night) within 10 minutes of each other. No more, please. 🙂
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
