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.

Can the Halo SETI Marinestake on the might of Brazil? Yes the country! They’re just under 1000 units ahead in the SETI rankings. Let’s get ’em! ;)A big welcome to TickleSpace#2 who joins the team with healthy 119 units. Check out who’s crunchin’ and who’s munchin’ on the 24 hours stats page.

Halo scoop! The May 29 issue of Newsweek arrived… and here’s the Halo review, in all its glory. Would you check out the tires on that baby? Just for the fun of it, here’s a bigger version of the actual screenshot. Newsweek Online has most of that issue on their website… the only thing they’re missing is the E3 article. 🙁 Pax.

Don’t think there’s enough good stuff going to the online sites (HBO among them)? Disgruntled because all the juicy bits seem to get to the gaming mags first, and trickle down to the fansites afterwards? Read this post to our forum, and rejoice.

The Halo SETI Marines gain another couple of members (Welcome to Dogcow goes Moof and Robbie!), and continue to close the distance to the next team in the Club Rankings. Jjaro Tech edges Banzif for La Crunch Honneur (but averaged almost 4 fewer units per day for the past two weeks). VADER_AU takes the Frogblast award for the day… but Wizard climbed 51 positions over the past two weeks! See all the results on the 24 hour and 14-day stats pages.

Oni Central has put up the backside of the E3 flyer we brought you yesterday. No really new screens… but a beautiful layout! Go feast your eyes!

Rampancy.net has scanned in the rest of the E3 Press kit. Before now, only the Halo-related pages have made it onto the net… but there is some pretty fun Bungie history stuff in there, as well. Go check it out!

Thanks to Vector, who sent in a pair of wallpapers for our Wallpaper page. Vector works at Battleground: Halo.

Kudos to The Maz, who took a digital snap of a page of the latest Newsweek in which Halo was mentioned. The lips are “buzz factor” (out of a possible 5), and the drops of blood are “gore factor” (also out of 5). Listed for Dreamcast… interesting. 🙂 (We’ll work on getting a better pic, too.)