JosephAW, who brought you low-bandwidth streaming versions of the bTV broadcasts, now brings you a low-bandwidth streaming version (removed) of the E3 teaser. Thanks, Joseph!

Happy Happy Halo Halo 4th July. Madfishwrites to tell us that the August issue of PCGamer will be out on the 4th July. We should have the full Halo movie… soon(tm). Thanks Madfish.

Halo wins Blue’s News Best of E3 2000. Thanks to Kamikaze who posts to our forums thatBlue’s News have posted their Best of E3 2000awards. Halo won “Best of Show”. This is what Stephen “Blue” Heaslip had to say:

Best of Show
Halo. Combining state-of-the-art graphics, with state-of-the-art teamplay, this is TRIBES meets Quake III Arena, and more. If gameplay lives up to this year’s demonstration, then the only thing that stands between Halo and being the all-time great multiplayer game is how the netcode turns out.

The Characters section in our FAQ has been up updated to reflect the new info from the Halo movie trailer. If you’ve got comments/suggestions about the FAQ please send them to halofaq@bungie.org. Thanks.

$erial-ki!!A has added another chapter to his work-in-progress about the Halo Marine. You can check out ‘Awakening’ on our Fan Fiction page. Remember, the “more by this author” link at the end of each entry is a convenient way to read all the chapters sequentially.

Weird goings-on at the SETI server… Club Rankings haven’t been updated in 3 days, and the Halo SETI Marines are being consistently credited 200+ fewer units than what’s actually crunched. No matter, the crunching goes on! Jjaro Tech and Rival take top honors today. Check the 24 hour stats for details.

Yrro writes to say that Halo Center has put up the teaser, as well… the mirror list grows some more. You can get the file here. Pax.

Stryker sends word that Halo HQ, an early Halo site that closed a while back, is up and running in its new digs at haloplayers.net. As he says,

Halo HQ is dedicated to the Halo team community, allowing Halo fans an instant link to many Halo teams.

Stop by and sign up today! Pax.

Matt Martinez writes to let us know that for those of you on a slower connection, there’s now an alternative to the multi-meg movies for getting your Halo fix. He’s snapped 35 screenshots from the trailer for you to drool over. Go check ’em out!

Oops, we missed this… thanks to R.net for noticing. The Daily Radar Teaser page specifies that it’s PC Gamer that will have the E3 Trailer on its cover CD, ending speculation about which gaming mag would host the US version.

Luxor writes to tell us that Halo Vault can be added to the fast-growing list of mirrors for the teaser. In his words, “awesome bandwidth (for now).” 😉

SiliconDream =PN= points out on the R.net forum that one of the scenes in the teaser was NOT in the E3 trailer… so we can probably look forward to footage that even those at E3 didn’t see. Thanks, Sili!

More mirrors for the Hi-res version of the E3 Trailer Teaser: Rampancy.net reports that they have it on their hotline site, under Uploads ->Halo->halo_e3_preview_hires[1].mpg, and Battleground: Halo reports that they’ll be putting a copy up as soon as they get it downloaded.

Battleground: Halo is reporting that Doug Zartman answered Planet X-Box about the Microsoft/Bungie rumors. Visit BGH to read the quote for yourself.

Clarification: Seems what Daily Radar and 3D Action Gamers are distributing is a teaser for the full trailer, not the Trailer itself. Still pretty awesome, though… Absolutely worth the download.

Halo Trailer Available: Jeremy Roush sends word that Daily Radar has put up the E3 Trailer. It’s quite small, compared to what we were told… there’s a 26 meg version and a 13 meg version. Go grab it now! And we just received word that 3D Action Gamers has put up a mirror for it, if traffic gets too heavy at DR. GET THIS!

You want fat rumors, go to fatbabies.com. Seems the MS buyout rumor has made it out of the Bungie fansite community. (As fatbabies says, “Bungie has not commented on the rumor.”) Thanks to Darcy Brockbank for the heads-up.

The Halo SETI Marinesare 50 units behind HardwareCentral in the Battle of the Teams. A big push and we can take them. The team lost a marine today ReddyStupidity[Moof!][G3] (290 units). If you find him report him to your nearest Halo fire base. Jjaro tech and Nick-Danger take top honors. Full details on the 24 hour stats page.

More submissions from fire phoenix… this time, it’s a pair of nice desktops for our Wallpaper page. These were originally created for Halo Center… but he can’t find them there. Tasty!

Thanks to Banzif, who points out on our forum that the personal stats pages on the SETI@Home server have been vastly improved. You can now see your last 10 workunits submitted (including spikes and gaussians found). Very cool! Maybe this will energize those team members who haven’t been submitting units? Pax.