SciFi.com (the site of the Sci-Fi channel) has put up an e3 preview report… and Halo was included. They liked it. 😉 (Thanks to Cpt. Squeky, who posted this to our forum.) Pax.

Gamersyndicate.com has a Halo preview online. No new info (they start with the text from the E3 Halo movie brochure, and move on to some basics about the gaming environment), but the presentation is pretty nice. Worth a look.

The first Halo mod team? Hmm. DwK posts to our forum about MonKeY MoD… very little info in the post or on the MonKeY MoD website, but the pic looks familiar… oh, wait. That’s my cousin. Never mind.

Halo Needs Women! According to Matt Soell in a forum post the possibility of female characters in the game has not been ruled out. Equal opportunities please. 🙂

The Halo SETI Marines are within 200 units of overtaking the Brasil team in the Club Rankings. Tomorrow? Banzif does his part, taking La Crunch Honneur, and Moomjean frogblasts over 11 competitors to be the fastest climber today. Are YOU doing your part? Check the 24 hour stats!

Halo 1st person view mode undecided as yet. The folks at Battleground Halo ask Doug Zartman the BIG QUESTION: “Will there be a 1st person view mode at all?” Doug replied:

We’ve been giving it serious thought but haven’t decided on the matter yet. If we do, we’ll do it right. We try very hard not to do things half assed. If we can’t do it right then we won’t do it at all.

Good ethics!

New wallpaper today from vector, who sent in “The Resistance has Formed” for our Wallpaper page. They DO look mean, don’t they?

Thanks go to Matt Soell, who shed a little light on the video card issue. Looks like they’re keeping it general, which means time will be spent making it look good on everything, instead of insanely great on a couple of specific cards (and mediocre everywhere else). Read the details on our forum.

CONFIRMATION! Yes! Someone on our forum claims to be watching the E3 trailer right now on his powerbook! Call the cops!… oh, wait… Marty O’Donnell…oh, yeah.. never mind. Sorry to have bothered you. (Go here if you need more info.)

Rumors again… Vertakk claims on our forum to have spoken to someone who has watched a bootleg E3 trailer. (Cue 80’s REO Speedwagon here… “Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who…”) Maybe… but don’t hurt yourself looking for it.

The boys of Haloplayers have put up another Featured Squad interview, this time with klown ofP.O.T.E.S. Swing on by and give it a read if you’re interested in how one of the earlier groups got their start.

Yesterday, we mentioned an article at Gamecritics.com about Halo. Several readers took offense at a line in the introduction: “… Bungie, who made a name for themselves making killer games on the abysmal MAC platform.” Dave Finlayson (among others) wrote to the article’s author… and his post to our forum shows that it CAN be worth your time to take action. Thanks, Dave! Pax.

Scooped by R.net with a post from our own forum! fAt1 of Total Halo posts that PC Gamer, a UK mag, will be the first UK source of the E3 trailer. It should be on their September CD, on sale at the end of July. (It’ll be out before that in the US, exclusively in an as-yet-unnamed American mag.) Thanks, fAt1!

The SETI server continues to lose units… another 185 down the drain today. The Halo SETI Marines hold steady at position 52, with Brasil only 700 units ahead. Can they do it? See who’s helping on the 24 hour stats page!

Bounty over at Battleground: Halo sent along a couple of questions to Doug Zartman and Max Hoberman, and while the answers weren’t deeply enlightening (mostly “we don’t know yet”), they ARE answers. Stop on by and read ’em for yourself!

Gamecritics.com (no relation to Game Critics Awards) has put up an extensive preview of Halo, with commentary on 15 individual screenshots. It’s a good read… swing by and take a look!

The 2000 Game Critics Awards have announced their nominations for the best of E3. Awards will be announced June 12. Halo has been nominated for Best of Show, Best Original Game,Best Game, PC, and Best Action Game. Whew! (Thanks to Henrik Wittsten for the heads-up.)

Apologies to Gaming Intelligence Agency. Earlier, we put up a news post chiding them for their total lack of mention of Halo in their E3 awards. Seems we didn’t do our homework… they’re devoted to console games only. And although there are rumors of Halo on the PS2 (and now, it seems, on Dreamcast… heh), they are not currently slated for any consoles. Our bad.

Thanks to XDC-ARMAGEDDON, who sent in a new wallpaper for our Wallpaper page. Size is a bit non-standard… but hey! 😉

Seen on the Marathon’s Story page: Utterer.com has scooped us all! They have proof that Bungie used Elian Gonzalez (the cuban refugee) as the motion capture actor for the Halo marine! Is Bungie in bed with Castro? Pax.