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!

HBO offices hit by meteor! Sorry for the downtime folks. Pax.

Incite Comes Through! For all you folks who missed the January 2000 issue of Incite PC Gaming, someone loves you. Incite has made the 46 megabyte movie previously only available on the CD of that issue accessible from their website. Go get it! (Thanks to Bryn Williams for the wonderful news.)

Missing in action! Another Halo SETI marine goes AWOL. The 24 hour team stats reveal the gory details!

Over the weekend the Halo SETI marines blasted their way to position 104 in the Battle of the Teams. The top 100 beckons.

NAVCON’s website moves to http://navcon.virtualave.net. Time to update those links. Thanks mrface.

If you’re crunching SETI on a Mac check out cris’ SETI UNiT Manager 1.3 an AppleScript Script. Also it seems that the SETI@home client v2.0 has been updated to v2.02.

Syntax Halo are a new Halo clan from Sweden. Thanks Protector.

Great new Fan Fiction up, for you Marathon fans… check it out!

Sebastian Brytting writes to let everyone know that {SoSi} now has an irc channel of their own; you can find them on #sosi at QuakeNet. Thanks, Sebastian!