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News November 30 2000
NYT Online looks at video game cinematics
Kudos to Jon Chang, who points out a Halo mention in a New York Times Online article on cinematics in video games. (You'll need to sign up for a (free) account to be able to see this.) The article discusses 'parallels between the movie market and the game market', and points to Halo as an example:
In Halo, a futuristic Earth-versus- Them shooter and strategy game scheduled for release early next year by Bungie, the computer-generated preview that sets up the game lasts for nine minutes.
An interesting read, overall... makes me drool for the work that Joe Staten and Marty O'Donnell are doing right now! (Louis Wu 18:26:46 UTC) (permalink)
Halo to accompany XBox release?
In a reply to a reader's letter at the MSXBox site it was reported that Halo might be one of the titles to accompany the Xbox launch. Here's the fullreply to the readers question:
The Xbox will hit the UK around the same time it is released to the rest of the world. No more reading about experiences of gamers from other countries who get systems earlier than the UK. While the launch list for games is not finalized, it seems the most likely games, according to early indications, that will accompany the Xbox launch are Halo, New Legends, Oddworld : Munch's Oddysee, and several Microsoft sports titles.
HBO spin: Halo may actually be bundled with XBox which makes sense since it's a Microsoft title. Also since you won't be able to play Halo without the Xbox hardwareit's certainly consumer friendly to throw in a few games as well. (Ding 11:53:58 UTC) (permalink)
News November 29 2000
HP finds alternate links for the Incite movie
Haloplayers has put up some alternate links for the Incite movie that is no longer available from its original source. It's WAY out of date now, but there are lots of fans who want to see EVERYTHING. Thanks, HP! (Louis Wu 14:58:32 UTC) (permalink)
News November 28 2000
Wallpaper page updated
Diogo Barbosa has submitted another version of his beach-scene wallpaper. You'll find it on our Wallpaper page. (Louis Wu 13:34:39 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction section updated (again)
Yeah, we said the first chapter was short... but the second followed 6 hours later, so we forgive. One Who Knows has submitted his second installment of his ongoing saga... check it out in our Fan Fiction section! (Remember, you can always use the "More by this author" link that follows each story to read them all, in chronological order, on one page.) (Louis Wu 02:39:34 UTC) (permalink)
CrimsonRush.com to cover Halo
ParaDoxX writes to say that CrimsonRush.com has decided that Halo and Tribes II are the future of gaming, and therefore plans to spend much more time covering them. Stop by for the latest info. (Louis Wu 02:38:51 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction section updated
Thanks to One Who Knows, who submitted the first (very short) chapter of a work-in-progress... check it out in our Fan Fiction section! (Louis Wu 00:23:03 UTC) (permalink)
News November 27 2000
HCC says 'Please stay away!'
Ouch... Griffon writes that Halo Command Central has been flooded with visitors since they put up their Halo MP3, and ask that folks not visit for a while. (Seems to me that ANY mention at all is gonna make folks want to go see the damage... try to resist the temptation.) We apologize for any trouble we caused by actually mentioning this file. (Louis Wu 19:37:47 UTC) (permalink)
Books for sale... early
Thanks to Eric Meyer, who posted to our forum a clarification of how Amazon.com lists books. Although the actual method is pretty close to what folks have been speculating, it's nice to see some harder facts. Bottom line - don't look for that Sybex Strategy Guide any time soon, though it most likely WILL get published eventually. (Louis Wu 15:37:02 UTC) (permalink)
Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Dink!... The Halo SETI Marines fall another notch in the Battle of the Teams, thanks in large part to the disappearance of Oddot, and almost 1400 units. Welcome, though, to the new members - ReddyStupidity, Dr. Gough, OneWhoKnows - who brought almost 1000 new units with them. With work, we'll begin climbing again... but the team needs to crunch to win! The gory details can be found on the 7 day stats page. (Louis Wu 15:30:56 UTC) (permalink)
News November 26 2000
Xbox, Xbox... that's not an Xbox
Wow... somehow we missed this last week, but it seems an image has been making the rounds, purportedly a leaked shot of an Xbox. Daily Radar has gotten word from Carrie Cowan, PR manager for Microsoft's Game Division, that this is totally false. Ack... by the time we hear the rumors, they've been disproved! (Louis Wu 03:30:43 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction section updated (again)
TyRant has already sent in Installment Two of his Ridge series (Installment One came in less than 18 hours ago). Check it out in our Fan Fiction section! (Louis Wu 03:24:51 UTC) (permalink)
The Syndicate Clan now recruiting
ParaDoxX writes to tell us that The Syndicate Clan, a Starcraft/Broodwar/DiabloII clan, is planning to branch out into Halo, and is looking for new recruits. (They're specifically looking for 'very ELITE, active and mature gamers'.) Stop by and take a look (this URL works, too, though it seems to be down at the moment). (Louis Wu 03:15:03 UTC) (permalink)
News November 25 2000
Fan Fiction section updated
TyRant sends in Installment One of a new fiction series - Ridge. Find it in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 11:27:11 UTC) (permalink)
Halo music at HCC
Oops, almost got lost under the leftover cranberry sauce: Griffon writes to say that Halo Command Central has put up a new halo song, incorporating sounds from the E3 video. It's an MP3, zipped, and weighs in at 3.3 MB. Check it out here. (Louis Wu 11:15:25 UTC) (permalink)
News November 24 2000
Theories section updated
Maarten Edgar sends in a theory discussing possible purposes for the Halo, in the context of the closure of the universe. Intriguing stuff! Check it out in our Theories section. (Louis Wu 16:07:19 UTC) (permalink)
Fan fiction page modified
At the author's request, we've removed all fan fiction written by $erial-ki!!A. We're sorry to see them go! (Louis Wu 15:41:23 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Sybex's Official Strategies and Secrets at Amazon.com
Hmm. We know we've seen this somewhere before... but we can't for the life of us remember where. Anyway, it's news here, so we'll post it. Amazon.com is selling Halo: Sybex's Official Strategies and Secrets, listed as being published on January 22, 2001. (Yeah, right.) It's written by Bart Farkas, who wrote both the Myth and Myth II Strategy Guides. It's even listed as having 272 pages (which would suggest that it's already mostly written). It's obviously premature, but its mere existence is intriguing, no? (Louis Wu 02:06:07 UTC) (permalink)
News November 23 2000
Terra Defense Force is now recruiting
General DwK writes to tell us that the Terra Defense Force is back, and looking for new members. Check 'em out, and join up if you like what you see! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 01:46:57 UTC) (permalink)
It's new, it's improved...
Looks like all that crypticity (yeah, we made that up) over at bungie.org was just a site redesign. (A pretty nice one, actually.) Now, if only we could figure out how many of those random links in the Habete Quidam section pointed to HBO... Pax. (Crux Fidelis 01:44:24 UTC) (permalink)
News November 22 2000
Something's happenin' here...
Hmm... Joe asks (on our forum) "What's up with bungie.org?" What's up, indeed? (Louis Wu 20:30:25 UTC) (permalink)
Microsoft and Bungie at next year's E3 Expo
According to a news report over at PlanetXbox Microsoft is planningto put $500 million towards marketing the Xbox. The plan is to literally take over entireretail floor areas. For next year's E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center in MayMicrosoft have asked for at least twice as much floor space as Sony. According to Matt SoellBungie are likely to be at the E3 show (presumably in the MS section). Book your tickets now! (Ding 07:37:41 UTC) (permalink)
News November 21 2000
Halo Headquarters goes live
Lupus sends word that he's got a new German Halo site up - Halo Headquarters. Check it out... quite a bit of work has been put into it! (Louis Wu 19:34:43 UTC) (permalink)
News November 20 2000
Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Dink!... Dink!... The Halo SETI Marines lose two spots in their climb to the top (maybe more, the SETI server is a week behind compiling team stats). Didn't help much that we lost braeden and his 788 units... All the damage can be seen on the 7 day stats page. Without better crunching, those Covenant will escape! (Louis Wu 16:12:10 UTC) (permalink)
News November 19 2000
Fan Fiction section updated
Thanks to Iden, who submitted Chapter 2 of his ongoing Firestarter Squad saga today. You'll find it in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 18:12:48 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Tip gets an overhaul too
Another redesigned Halo site: Kaidu writes to tell us that Halo Tip has been overhauled - stop by and take a look! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 05:41:10 UTC) (permalink)
Battleground: Halo - now harder to see
Man, they've done it again. Battleground: Halo, the Halo site voted Most Likely to Overhaul Their Graphics, have once again overhauled their graphics... and this time, have joined the ranks of Sites That Are Nasty In Netscape 4.x. Minimum requirements to view the site: IE 4, Netscape 6 (yeah, it sucks, but it uses bigger fonts), and Flash 5. If you fulfill these requirements, check out the mailbag... there's some funny stuff in there. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 05:35:19 UTC) (permalink)
News November 18 2000
Telephone News Experiment - Successful!
Okay, we couldn't let this pass... it's just too convoluted. :) On Thursday, Matt Soell posted a short message to our forum confirming that Bungie wouldn't have a booth at MacWorld SF this year. Rampancy.net picked up on this post yesterday, and included a front-page news post about it. Less than an hour later, MacLedge picked up on this news post, and wrote up their own news post. This, in turn, was picked up by Mac Halo, Inside Mac Games' new affiliate Halo website... they didn't follow it any farther back than MacLedge. Here's where it gets fun. IMG picked up the story as well... from Mac Halo. They credit Mac Halo with the info (and mention nobody else). Their post was made roughly 24 hours after Matt's original post, and had passed through 3 intermediate sites. Amazingly enough, with this game of Telephone News, the IMG piece is accurate with respect to what Matt wrote originally. Nice going, all! Next week we'll try to add two more news sites to the chain, and see if the original message still stays clean. (Louis Wu 21:55:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie's Letters to the Webmaster updated
Kudos to Finch, who pointed out (on our forum and by email) that Bungie has updated its Letters to the Webmaster section. Even Doug Zartman gets in on the act. (Sort of.) Bork Bork Bork. (And the winners to the poetry contest.) (Louis Wu 11:21:23 UTC) (permalink)
Fear and Lighting
Matt's weekly Halo update (over at R.net this week) contains some juicy gameplay details:
The AI is already good enough to kill Jason and Chucky, no easy task.
Vehicles are almost done, buildings are huge... and soon you'll be able to buy G.I. Joe in his ReachMobile? Check all the details for yourself. (Louis Wu 10:46:02 UTC) (permalink)
News November 17 2000
Fan Fiction section updated (again)
Wow... and another one. Chris Cox has sent in a story told from the Covenant side... a refreshing change. (Nicely written, too.) As Chris said,
Later entries might be decyphered and uploaded in the future, assuming this doesn't suck :)
We think there should be more... how about you folks? Check our Fan Fiction section for 'The Warrior'. (Louis Wu 21:07:05 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction section updated
Neil Grattan submits part 3 of his story, The Sniper, to our Fan Fiction section. It's short, but it ain't over yet... (Louis Wu 20:41:10 UTC) (permalink)
Xbox talk highlights
Kudos to Dan Rudolph, who went to a Microsoft talk on the Xbox last night, and posted some highlights on our forum. Mostly hardware stuff... but this line popped out at me:
While the Xbox won't ship with a keyboard, there may be one at some point.
Seems Brian Schmidtt (Audio and Media Director for the Xbox, and the man giving the talk) and Seamus Blackley (Manager of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group) - and J. Allard (General Manager for Xbox development), for that matter - have some disagreements about what may and may not ever appear. (The latter two gentlemen have said in no uncertain terms that the Xbox will NEVER have a keyboard.) We can always hope! (Louis Wu 15:17:36 UTC) (permalink)
Mac Halo asks - Mac, PC, Xbox?
Jay Swartzfeger, maintainer of the new Mac Halo site, writes to let us know that they have a new survey up for you to vote on - 'What platform will you purchase Halo for?' (Given that this is a Mac-centric site, we're not sure how scientific the poll is... but hey. :) ) Swing by and vote for your favorite! (Louis Wu 14:52:07 UTC) (permalink)
bungie.net gets a new interface designer
A warm welcome to David Candland, the newest member of Bungie's online team - he's officially "Interface Designer", so he'll likely be working on making bungie.net more friendly to everyone. That doesn't have IMMEDIATE relevance to Halo fans... but when Halo DOES get to the point where bungie.net is important, what's in place will help a lot. Good luck, David! (You can read his announcement on bungie.net right now.) (Louis Wu 14:48:23 UTC) (permalink)
News November 16 2000
Fan Fiction section updated
$erial-ki!!A was going to release the next chapter of his ongoing Halo saga next month, as a Christmas offering to the community... but his plans changed. Here, then, in our Fan Fiction section, is De-Iced and Decapitated (Chapter 8) - think of it as an early Christmas present. (Louis Wu 17:49:20 UTC) (permalink)
Is Tamte doing it, or not?
As seen on the Marathon's Story page... the latest Inside Mac Games CD (volume 8 number 3 - IMG doesn't seem to date their CDs, although file creation dates are all in August of this year) contains a tidbit on Peter Tamte's publishing company. There's been much speculation about who will be doing the Mac port of Halo, when the time comes... and in all interviews up to this point, Tamte (and others) has stopped short of saying that his company will be involved. However, the IMG article is quite clear:
Look for Halo for the Mac to be published through Tamte's new company.
Does IMG know something others don't? Or was this just jumping the gun? (Remember, this was written in August, even though it's the most recent IMG CD available.) Curious... (Louis Wu 10:26:54 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie likely to show at E3
Bungie to show at next year's E3 Expo? According to Matt Soell in a forum post it's very likely. Matt said:
At the absolute least we should show up at E3.
E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) (Ding 09:26:58 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpaper page updated
James MacGlashan sends in a new Halo Desktop for our Wallpaper page. Thanks, James! (Louis Wu 00:26:07 UTC) (permalink)
News November 15 2000
Fan Fiction section updated
Another gritty story from Musashi M., this time pre-Halo. SANE5, worth a read... in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 02:08:08 UTC) (permalink)
They won't stay dead
Nice catch by Halo Center... looks like something's up at Halo-Net (again). Hmm... (Louis Wu 01:07:23 UTC) (permalink)
Seamus Blackley talks to Gamespot Australia
Seamus Blackley, that whacky engineer behind the Xbox, talked to Gamespot Australia about the Xbox recently... he's really pushing the idea that this is a gaming machine ONLY. However, for folks who were afraid that they'd be limited to TV resolutions...
But yeah, television is one we're not too fond of either, in terms of standards. So we output pretty much every video signal known to man.
That should cover your average gamer, eh? And in case you thought old Seamus didn't have a sense of humor:
We actually toyed with the idea at the (US, X-Box unveiling) Game Developer's Conference, when we announced X-Box on stage, to have a button in one of our demos that went through a Blue Screen. Just for fun, because it would cause everybody to have a heart attack. And then say "Oh, just joking!" and then go on with it.
Swing by and read the whole interview... the guy's enthusiasm is infectious. (There's a brief mention of 'Gigabit Ethernet in the Xbox' in the context of LAN play... but check this story out for a more interesting rumor.) (Louis Wu 00:23:46 UTC) (permalink)
News November 14 2000
Matt be testing us
Matt be testing us in his latest forum post!
The "weapon ideas" comment was intentionally super-ultra-mega-vague, even for me. Think in terms of secondary abilities and that may help narrow it down a bit. :-)
Help narrow it down a bit?!!! Who we gonna call? (Ding 17:58:39 UTC) (permalink)
News November 13 2000
Fan Fiction updated yet again
Wow. Three new Halo stories in one day. Neil Grattan has submitted part 2 of his Sniper story... with part 3 coming soon. Go check it out in our Fan Fiction section! (Louis Wu 19:38:37 UTC) (permalink)
German Halo Empire gets redesigned
SOKAR of Halo Empire writes to say that his site has had a big redesign, and now has a weapons section, with a vehicles section to come. German speakers, stop by and take a look! (Louis Wu 18:54:45 UTC) (permalink)
IMG's Mac Halo comes online
Another Halo news site on the scene... Inside Mac Games has launched Mac Halo, an 'IMG affiliate dedicated to delivering the latest news on Bungie's upcoming award-winning game.' Currently light on content, but they're promising 'interviews and much more' in the near future. Stop by and take a look. (Louis Wu 18:25:20 UTC) (permalink)
Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
The Halo SETI Marines continue to crunch over 350 units a day, but the SETI server is overloaded enough that there's no easy way to see how they're doing, relative to other teams. Regardless, they continue to hunt that Covenant horde... with luck, it'll turn up soon! DarthFlounder takes la Crunch Honneur again (surprise!), and Orion Legacy narrowly edges out Traxus2 for the Frogblast award. Details can be found on the 7 day stats page. (Apologies for the delay in processing today - last week's pages mysteriously disappeared off the server, and needed to be recreated from raw files before today's could be crunched.) (Louis Wu 17:42:17 UTC) (permalink)
More Fan Fiction
And they continue to pour in. A new story, 'The Hunt', arrived earlier today for our Fan Fiction section - stories beget stories, it seems. Interesting style... go take a look! (Louis Wu 14:24:51 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction section updated
topgunn123 submits a new story for our Fan Fiction section... is this the renaissance? Whatever you want to call it, it's great to see so much new work! Now go read it, and be inspired to write your own! (Louis Wu 01:07:49 UTC) (permalink)
News November 12 2000
Last of the Webmaster Interviews up at MPZ and HCC
The last two questions of the Webmaster Interviews have been put up at Halo MultiPlayer Zone (and their mirror, Halo Command Central). Vosx, from Halo Vault, has been added to the mix for these two questions, giving a fourth perspective on the issues. Go take a look... and thanks to fAt1 and Blurb342 for putting them together! (Louis Wu 17:44:29 UTC) (permalink)
News November 11 2000
Fan Fiction section updated
Iden sends in a new story, Firestarter Squad, for our Fan Fiction section. Adrenaline-packed read... go check it out! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 19:52:49 UTC) (permalink)
Halo-Australia acquires Halo Heaven
Terror sends word that Halo-Australia has acquired Halo Heaven, combining the two biggest Australian Halo sites. Go check 'em out! (Louis Wu 16:44:57 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie Store to make a comeback!
Shame on us for not posting this yesterday... Jim Ruiz has returned to man the (upcoming) Bungie Store, and has reactivated the Oni/Halo Alert List! If you want to get on the list, just send Jim mail. Very nice to see you back, Jim! (Louis Wu 16:42:17 UTC) (permalink)
'Waves smashing against the shoreline...'
Who says they don't listen to fans? Two subjects discussed recently on our forum have been new weapons, and limb-specific damage. In this week's Halo update, Matt Soell mentions a new weapon that is
suspiciously similar to a suggestion made on this very forum in days past.
He also mentions 'secret beasties', and 'limb-specific impact animations'. Oooh! Check out all the details for yourself... it's a juicy one! (Louis Wu 03:31:16 UTC) (permalink)
News November 10 2000
Another interview about PlanetSide - lots of details
Again, not totally Halo-related, but PlanetSide has been generating quite a bit of buzz recently on some of the Halo sites... Kevin McCann gave another interview yesterday, this time to PC IGN, and in it he does a much better job of describing the gameplay that folks can expect from PlanetSide. Very intriguing... but the overall concept is different enough from Halo that these two might not even compete. Check it out! (Louis Wu 02:44:16 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Tip comes online
Halo Tip Kaidu writes to let us know that another Halo site has come on the scene... Halo Tip, 'Your portal to the planet Halo'. Pretty filled out for a new site... check 'em out! (Louis Wu 02:11:46 UTC) (permalink)
News November 9 2000
Blue asks, Separated at birth?
As Mark Levin points out on our forum, even Blue's News has gotten in on the "isn't that Planetside screenshot a lot like Halo?" game. (This game was first played by Nights, on our forum, Tuesday.) Concentration, anyone? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 17:18:47 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction page updated
Thanks to Neil Grattan, who submitted another piece of Halo fan fiction for our Fan Fiction page. Short and sweet... (Louis Wu 09:54:49 UTC) (permalink)
More Interview material from MPZ (or HCC)
Oops - in the crush of news recently, we managed to overlook one of the few real Halo-related newsbits... days 2 and 3 of the Halo MultiPlayer Zone Webmaster Interviews are up (and mirrored at Halo Command Central, for those of you who don't want to log in to MPZ). Look for another question (and its answers) tomorrow. (Louis Wu 01:26:52 UTC) (permalink)
News November 8 2000
Marathon sounds in Halo?
Hmm... of borderline interest to most Halo fans, but what the heck, news is slow. The Marathon's Story Page has a tidbit about finding a Marathon sound in the Halo E3 movie (specifically the rocket explosion). Go check out the Story page, and decide for yourself! (Louis Wu 20:38:02 UTC) (permalink)
News November 7 2000
Planetside - where Halo should go?
Thanks to Br'fin, who noticed an interview with Kevin McCann, producer and lead designer for Planetside, a Massively Multiplayer FPS coming next year, over at Daily Radar. (How many dangling participles can YOU spot in that sentence?) While the graphics don't look anywhere near as good as Halo's, the gameplay sounds an awful lot like what folks have been wishing for from Halo. Definitely worth a read. (Louis Wu 21:29:18 UTC) (permalink)
News November 6 2000
Halo Webmaster Interviews up at MPZ or HCC
Hmm. Griffon dropped us a line to let us know that the MPZ Webmaster Interviews are being mirrored at Halo Command Central. That's good to know... and for those of you saying, "What Webmaster Interviews?" you didn't miss anything, because the MPZ boys forgot to let us know they were up. :) (The Halo MultiPlayer Zone site decided to ask a few questions of some of the folks running Halo sites. I guess they've gotten them online.) So: if you're interested in reading these Q&A sessions, drop by MPZ or HCC to read questions 1 and 2. (Question 3 is coming tomorrow.) (Louis Wu 20:47:52 UTC) (permalink)
XBOX365 gets wind of a leak?
As noted at Haloplayers, XBOX365 has put up a story in which 'Inside Informant' provides details of the finalized Xbox design. Now, take this as you will - read the comments below the story for some, um, alternative views... but one thing is clear to me - in the news post we put up last week, we seriously misinterpreted one of the features of the Xbox - the expansion port devoted to real-time speech has nothing to do with peer-to-peer communication; it will allow the Xbox to accept voice commands from the user. We're back to square one in terms of net communication. Anyway, go read the whole story - true or not, it's entertaining. (Louis Wu 20:15:34 UTC) (permalink)
Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
The Halo SETI Marines continue on their 350+ units/day pace, holding steady in 77th place on the Overall Teams list. (Not to worry, they're still in the top 50 on the Club Teams list.) DarthFlounder continues his crunching streak, and Traxus2 vaults over 151 teammates to take the Frogblast award. Full details can be found on the 7 day stats page. (Louis Wu 15:07:57 UTC) (permalink)
News November 5 2000
New Halo clans appear
New clans on the horizon... [Hark]Age writes to say that House Harkonnen (a German Clan) is online now, and will be getting a site overhaul on January 1, 2001. And A.J. Hoelter writes to say that the Caffeine Drinkers Clan is live, although almost nothing works on macs, and very little works on PCs. (Louis Wu 19:48:08 UTC) (permalink)
News November 4 2000
Ringworld movie in the works
Kudos to Tomeone for sending us news about a Ringworld movie in the works. (Ding 14:10:00 UTC) (permalink)
Matt's Weekly Halo update, at R.net
Matt continues his 5-week run of Halo updates, this week at Rampancy.net. It's not very long... but it's tantalizing in its implications. Ah, don't take my word for it... go read it for yourself! (Louis Wu 11:32:13 UTC) (permalink)
News November 3 2000
AAUUGGHHH!
A warm welcome to an old friend... Doug Zartman (well, we think it's Doug) stopped by our forum today to badmouth George C. Scott. We tried to notify Scott, so he could defend himself... then remembered he was dead. Nice job, Doug! (Louis Wu 16:41:35 UTC) (permalink)
Unholy Slayers commit to Halo
[uhS]BloodyAngel sends word that the Unholy Slayers, a German CS clan, has added Halo to its list of games. Take a look! (Louis Wu 16:35:44 UTC) (permalink)
Gamestop accepting Xbox preorders
Heh... kudos to Mhaddy, who noticed that Gamestop is already taking preorders for the Xbox. He snagged the info off of MSXbox.com... dunno who's gonna sign up this early (especially at a $500 price point), but hey - stranger things have happened! (Louis Wu 16:22:27 UTC) (permalink)
News November 2 2000
HP gets new forum, R.net gets no forum
One up, one down... News from Halo forums around the net tonight. Rampancy.net had taken its forum down until they can find a nasty little bug... and Haloplayers has upgraded to the latest version of InfinityBoard, cleaning up some bugs. Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 23:30:42 UTC) (permalink)
The Halo Times
Philippe Rom@net writes to tell us that another French Halo site, The Halo Times, has come online. There's not much there yet, but it's got a nice, clean design. Take a look! (Louis Wu 01:54:51 UTC) (permalink)
News November 1 2000
CVG looks at the Xbox controller
Interesting... there's been some discussion recently about how the controls for Halo will work, and doubt has been expressed that decent teamplay can happen without a keyboard. Computer and Video Games have been able to play with a prototype of the Xbox controller, and one feature stands out pretty clearly:
Microsoft's pad will have two expansion ports, one of which will be focused on real-time speech.
If you can talk to your teammates, who needs a keyboard? (Louis Wu 21:48:42 UTC) (permalink)
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