Bungie.net has a new poll up… “What platform do you use for gaming?” Interesting results so far…

Is Bungie planning on licensing the Halo and Oni engines for installment games? So says Computer Games Magazine, as reported by Myndreach on our forum. Give it a read!

Major kudos to Massa of the German Halo Network site for scanning in another part of Bungie’s E3 press kit. This one has a pic of the marine and the backstory of Halo. Go take a look see. Nice scoop Massa. 🙂

Apple’s Quicktime Trailer page lists four Game Trailers. One of these is Halo with a big [NEW] following it. Unfortunately this is still the old MacWorld Expo movie from July 1999. So why is it called new?

The Halo SETI Marinesare now only 2000 units behind the next team in the SETI rankings. Got to keep the pressure on. The last 24 hours sees Jjaro tech return to true form and DwK frogblasts nice marines? Find out if you got frogblasted last night on the 24 hours stats page.

In aSpecial post-E3 RoundupIncite PC offer what they claim to be new Halo screenshots. While we’d all like to see new Halo screenshots these are not new. Sorry guys. 🙁

Thanks to Bagman for pointing us to a two page E3 Halo previewat FiringSquad. The preview offers a description of the Halo movie. There’s also a piece on Oni.

YA Poll… Gamedesign.net has ANOTHER “Best Game from E3?” poll. Halo is currently leading the pack… but there aren’t many votes. Tired of polls yet? (Thanks to BoySinister, at R.net,for the heads-up.)

Interesting post over at Rampancy.net… SiliconDream has provided a transcript of one of the panel discussions from E3; the subject was “What makes a good license?” and one of the questions got an intriguing answer from Peter Tamte, Executive VP of Publishing for Bungie. Remember the rumors that Bungie was working on a game from The Matrix? Read this.

GameSpy’s Best and Worst of E3 Awards are up… and Halo takes Best Action Game! Nice job.

GameCritics.com posted a photo journal of E3 today. Halo caught the reviewers eye, even though he was focused on console games… nice shot! (Tip o’ the hat to Blues News, who posted the journal link.)

Uh oh… The Mad Onion has a gaming poll going at the moment, and Halo is getting hammered! (Even Unreal 2 is ahead!) You know what to do… (Thanks to medic for the heads-up.)

Mark Levin has updated the HBO FAQ in the wake of the new E3 info. Swing on by and take a look!

Bungie to earn $634 billion dollars from sale of Halo DVD. According to Max on bungie.net 75% of voters in the DVD poll were willing to pay $5.95 or more for the Halo movie. While Bungie aren’t promising a DVD things DO look optimistic.

Thanks to Jienn, who writes to point out a short blurb at Computer and Video Games. Not a lot of info, but they DO casually mention a release date: March 2001. Seems the press is pushing that day back farther and farther… soon they’ll be reporting 2005. (Remember, a release date is not a release date until Bungie says it is.)

Our good friend Jenkz over at HP came up trumps with a Halo preview in the online version of PC Gamer UK. It’s from the June edition of the hardcopy version. They claim the minimum specs for Halo will be:

Minimum specs:PII 266, 64Mb RAM, 3D card.

Amazing!

Kudos to Pericles, who spotted a job opening for a QA Intern at Bungie’s Chicago offices. Job description includes

helping the QA manager and development team test computer games through play-testing and functionality and compatibility tests.

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for a Halo fanatic! (We’d apply, but then who’d bring you the news?)

Thanks go to r e c o i l, who sent us a new banner for our Banner page. Nice!

Edward Edelen reminds us of a poll over at3D Action Planet… Halo is trailing Tribes 2 by about 20 votes. Can you fix this? Pax.

Man, this e3 stuff makes us nuts. Somehow, this never made it to our Screenshots page… but GameStar put up an e3 writeup last week that included an not-seen-before-on-the web shot. Very nice pic of the covenant plasma cannon in action. (This WAS published in their print magazine,but hasn’t appeared on the web before, except in bootlegged scans.) We’ll catch up soon, we promise!