|
|
|
home |
|
|
October 1999 Archived NewsNews October 31 1999 Looks like we got our points back. Today's team stats clearly show that the Halo team gained more units over the last 24 hours than combined personal units. Good news. (Wirehead ) Gurkha influence in Halo? says Marathon's Story page. What a big Kukri you have! The Covenant are also NINE FEET TALL!!! (Wirehead ) Stats 'R' Us. New Halo SETI team stats are up! Some big hitters join the squad. Find out who climbs who slides, who crunches who munches. Help the war effort join the winning side. (Wirehead ) The Halo SETI team now has a new description thanks to Max Dyckhoff (aka mad.max) Halo SETI team founder. It's also great to see the Halo community rallying to the call. New recruits are joining daily. SIGN ME UP! (Wirehead ) Seems our Forum archives just weren't up to the task of displaying 7500 posts. They've been broken up into two archives... you'll find links at the top of the main forum page. The first 5000 posts are in the "Ancient Archived Posts" section. Hope this helps. (Louis Wu ) News October 30 1999 Tasteless? Yup. Who said we had taste? Kelstek submits some off-color art (so to speak) to our Miscellaneous Art collection. You'll find it at the end of the Bungie Mods section... easiest way to get there is jump to "Other", and back up a page. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) MacFury sends in a theory about the 1,000 humans on the Halo that aren't marines. You'll find it on our Theories page. Thanks, MacFury. (Louis Wu ) Milita: Armies for Halo is back... sort of. Now the Praetorian Militia, and asking for your input. Go give it to him! (Louis Wu ) We wuz robbed! No the Halo team stats aren't hosed it's just that we lost some team points gained earlier which are not reflected in the personal stats. (Wirehead ) New stats! New stats!! New STATS!!! We bring you the low down on the Halo SETI team over the last 24 hours. Who's pumping, who's weeping... who's climbing, who's slipping. It's all here. Enlist now! SIGN ME UP!. (Wirehead ) Is it safe to go back on our forums? I had my head down trying to avoid the singe. ;) Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) "we're not dead yet..." says Shane Rebenschied of the HaloGround web site. Check out the new splash page. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 29 1999 =NAV=Shadow sends word that Clan NAVCON's website is now officially open. Go check it out! Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Bungie not listed for Macworld Expo San Francisco 2000 but are for Macworld Expo New York 2000 says Marathon's Story page. What's up? (Wirehead ) Halo SETI team stats are OUT! Who are the new recruits, the big crunchers, the high climbers? Check out the movers and shakers on the Halo SETI team. Join the winning side. Find the Convenant before they find YOU! (Wirehead ) Rage on! Thanks to Dave "Octane" Morrison of VoodooExtreme for an updated link to their Halo news item. See below for new link. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Voodoo Extreme has posted a reply from Bungie's Allen Turner to a fan who wanted to know why Halo is to be 3rd person only. Judging by the comments of their readers, they could use an Oath there. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 28 1999 Name a Culture ship competition and a new Iain M. Banks "Culture" novel in the works says Marathon's Story page. Kudos to the DEHc-3 HALO site for first spotting this. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Mark Levin speculates about an editor for Halo on our forums. Yeah, so he's a bit early... there's some good thinking here. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Halo SETI team stats page up! Who are the movers and shakers on the Halo SETI team? What's your computer doing while your sleeping? Enlist today with the Halo SETI team. Find the Convenant before they find YOU! (Wirehead ) We apologize for any trouble you had yesterday getting to halo.bungie.org (or any b.org machines, for that matter). Turns out our provider (upstream from our nameserver) had hosed a zone transfer... so none of your requests were actually making it to us. Should be fixed now. (You're reading this, aren't you?) (Louis Wu ) News October 27 1999 Hey... we weren't sure if anyone noticed that new screenshot from Incite, but it looks like Voodoo Extreme did. Nice eyes, guys! (Louis Wu ) Robert Cox sends word that 100% HALO is offline until further notice. You can find all the artwork from his site at HALO Command. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) IncitePC is a new gaming mag, and their premier issue contains a nice writeup of Halo. We're seeking permission to bring you the full article, but in the meantime, we'll whet your appetites with a screenshot and a quote... In their discussion of the background story, they say this of the Halo:
That should add a touch of excitement... (Louis Wu ) News October 26 1999 Nathan Bitner (former Halo Producer) stands by his Island Four quote: "Throwing in 1st-person is pretty easy (I think) programming-wise, so I'm sure they want to wait and see how the game plays out in 3rd-person before making a final decision." (Wirehead ) Oni and Halo: Bungie return to Action says Games Domain Review. Great news article on Halo. Go for it. Thanks Blue News. (Wirehead ) According to CG, the December issue of MacWorld mentions Halo in the Future Candidates section of the Macworld's Game Hall of Fame section, with this quote:
This is an interesting quote, given that it was written by Christopher Breen, who wrote two months earlier (in the October issue of the same magazine)
Games just got bigger, it seems... (Louis Wu ) News October 25 1999 Traxus writes to let us know that Bungie's SETI stats dropped by 10 units today... someone must have defected. Only another 1779 units to catch them! Join the Halo team today! Thanks, Traxus. (Louis Wu ) Quiet news day... you hear anything, be sure and tell us! (Louis Wu ) News October 24 1999 Help us find the Covenant join the Halo SETI team. Learn about SETI. (Wirehead ) At last the Covenant Logo exposed. We trace the history of the search for the truth behind That Covenant Logo. (Wirehead ) Ever wonder how many mac users and how many pc users there are visiting this site? Here are some basic numbers. (Louis Wu ) News October 23 1999 Firefly asks us to compare the Covenent alien and StarCraft's Protoss. Judge for yourself. (Wirehead ) No System Requirement Questions Please" says Nathan Bitner. Let's spare a thought for Matt Soell. Thanks. (Wirehead ) Clan Navcon is a new Halo clan formed by =NAV=Shadow. Interested in joining? Then send him an email. (Wirehead ) As mentioned by Fly Molo on the Core forums, psx.ign.com is reporting (okay, it's their rumor page) that unnamed Bungie sources have tapped Halo for a Playstation2 (but not Dreamcast) release. Not the first time we've heard this, but multiple sources usually add credibility... (Louis Wu ) "cosmufet" submits a new Theory regarding the basic weaponry available in Halo. (Louis Wu ) News October 22 1999 Mychal McCabe waxes nearly poetic on the religious leanings of the marine character in Halo. Check it out on our Theories page. Thanks, Mychal. (Now get back to work!) Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) It's official. Matt Soell replaces Nathan Bitner as Forum Monkey. Welcome to the madhouse, Matt! (Louis Wu ) More details and corrections about the Halo from Nathan Bitner on our Forums. (Wirehead ) Bungie special announcement later today says Nathan Bitner on our Forums. Watch this space! (Wirehead ) Added new Halo tank banner to the Banners page. Thanks to Robert Cox for the image. (Wirehead ) Robert Cox sends word that he has updated his 100% HALO site with new artwork. (Wirehead ) The other Halo is on its way says otherguy. Not just another Halo site. (Wirehead ) Miscellaneous Art page overhauled, organized, and new art added from =NAV=Shadow. (Check the end of the Original Art section.) 'Bout time, too! (Louis Wu ) News October 21 1999 Joel points out that the alien symbol shows up really well on the scooters just before the aliens jump aboard. Still looks like the Halo "O" to me... (Louis Wu ) Joseph E. Haake weighs in on the identity of the player. You'll find his ideas on our Theories page. Thanks, Joseph. (Louis Wu ) We lifted this one from the Marathon's Story page. Halo tops an old archived ZD TV Third Person Gaming Poll. Yesterday it read 777 votes. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) We keep updating our Halo Story page. Have you been keeping an eye on how the Halo story is developing? Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Not one but two new screenshots in the GameSpot UK Halo Preview. While the second one can be seen as an opening image on Bungie's Halo webpage it's actually an official screenshot. Sorry for not spotting this earlier. Thanks Ian Howie. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 20 1999 Gamespot UK have another Halo preview and a new screenshot. Kudos to Ian Howie for the links. (Wirehead ) SHOCK NEWS! Nathan Bitner to leave Bungie. Nathan explains in our forums. (Wirehead ) Phil Hearon sends us some in-depth analysis of the Jeep shown in the trailer. You can find it on our Theories page. Thanks, Phil. (Louis Wu ) The Blazing Electric Death Klan would like to remind you that they distribute a weekly Halo newsletter. It covers the lowdown on the Halo world during the previous week. To subscrbe, send mail to bed_sub@hotmail.com. Thanks, Giles. (Louis Wu ) News October 19 1999 Eek... we all missed it. Writing on the rocket launcher? Who says Bungie doesnt' have a sense of humor! Thanks, IgaR. (Louis Wu ) Shamelessly stolen from the Core forums: Daily Radar has a new review of Halo, and another feature including it, called "20 Games You Should Sell Your Organs on eBay to Own." Some good reading... check it out! (Louis Wu ) Half-Life for the Macintosh cancelled says Gabe Newell of Valve Software over at Voodoo Extreme. Sad news for 1st pp shooter Mac fans. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Total Audio's Halo Trailer music is now featured at mp3.com. No surprises to see a Halo Soundtrack CD mentioned. (Wirehead ) Voodoo3 Macintosh OS 8.x Beta Drivers released. 3dfx gamers page has the details. (Wirehead ) First mamabaer's Halopage now Halo World. Germany's second Halo page appears. (Wirehead ) News October 18 1999 Claude Errera points out potential evidence of Bungie's plan to take over the universe, starting with online superstores. (Louis Wu ) Interesting. Last week's poll at the Core is over, and the word is firm: 53% of 200 voters chose Seropia as the favorite name for the moon in the Halo's system, compared to 31% for Zartmoon. Interestingly, the two names were proposed on the respective forums of the Core and halo.bungie.org; "Zartmoon" came from Phayd and Butcher, while "Seropia" came from Loren Petrich. (Louis Wu ) As seen on IMG, 3dfx Released Voodoo3 3000 PCI. If Halo takes advantage of this, it's good news for gamers without new AGP-based macs. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) New Halo wallpaper from Matt Hunter. Found in our uploads folder. Thanks Matt. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) 100% HALO, formerly "funny art of HALO" is now live says Robert Cox. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 17 1999 Kudos to Lodurr (via DirkDaring) for pointing out this potential cut corner... is Bungie recycling stuff, or is this just a coincidence? You decide. (Louis Wu ) Halo Teddy Bear spotted in Halo movie. Yes folks check out that teddy bear in the Jonesworld gas giant. (Wirehead ) Total Halo gets a redesign and adds a nice piece of Halo artwork from Erik Salzman. Worth a look. (Wirehead ) News October 16 1999 Six Halo quotes so far identified on the Marathon's Story page. Which will be seventh? Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Bungie's SETI team crunch over 3 years more CPU time than the Halo SETI team. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 15 1999 More Halo quote analysis at the Marathon's Story page. Help find the source of those quotes. (Wirehead ) Are the Covenant like the Dominion from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? asks Michael Watson on the Marathon's Story page. (Wirehead ) Want to know more about Tribes? Then read the Tribes Extreme Interview at PC.IGN. (Wirehead ) Next Generation to provide game and game technology news updates on a 24-hour basis. A site to watch for Halo news! (Wirehead ) Finch (on Wednesday) and Dead Glory (today, on our forums) inform us that the new Halo banner on Bungie's front page shows a new, two-barrel, shoulder-mounted weapon. Sharp eyes, guys! (Louis Wu ) News October 14 1999 New desktops on our Wallpaper page. Thanks, Michael! (Louis Wu ) Can you find the symbolism? Alan Greene submits our most enigmatic Miscellaneous Art yet. Thanks, Alan! (Louis Wu ) "Bungie Stirs Up Trouble About HALO Aliens" says Inside Mac Games. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) "Body animations in Halo" says MacGamer's Ledge. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) "Island Four mystery solved" says Marathon's Story. Find out the solution and the lucky winner. (Louis Wu ) Racey thread? Check out the Race and Species thread on our forums. Do you have an opinion? (Louis Wu ) Name that moon! The Core has a new poll. Seropia or Zartmoon? You decide. (Louis Wu ) Lots of recent posts from Nathan Bitner on our forums. Some nice tidbits in there. :) (Louis Wu ) News October 13 1999 Mage sends us some new Miscellaneous Art. Nice glow! Thanks, Mage. (Louis Wu ) Some news on the Core about Island Four. Hey that rhymes! ;) Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Bungie's SETI team races ahead in the search for aliens. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 12 1999 Jason Theis sends word of his new Halo site, Halo F X. Seems to be still under construction... but he's working on it. (Louis Wu ) Ferrex abandons the Halo SETI team and joins the Bungie SETI team taking over 1,000 CPU hours with him. What's the word I'm looking for here? ;) (Wirehead ) Ooch! Bungie's SETI team gains over 20 new members and out CPUs the Halo SETI team. (Wirehead ) "The Covenant is a consortium of races joined for unknown (to you ;) reasons. The third alien species? Hmm ... I wonder if I know anything about that ..." says Nathan Bitner on our Forums. (Wirehead ) Two new pieces of miscellaneous Halo art by Hippieman found in our uploads folder. See our Miscellaneous Art page for details. (Wirehead ) News October 11 1999 Miscellaneous Art page updated with a new submission. Thanks, Mark! (Louis Wu ) "Why Fight Us? Join us!" says Bungie. Bungie now have a SETI Enrollment page. On joining you must pledge to call any discovered aliens the Covenant. :) Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Funny Art of HALO is currently off the web for reconstruction but will return under the new name "100% Halo" say Robert Cox. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Halo logo in the Veil Nebula? Bradley Attfield explains. (Wirehead ) Screenshots.net are going to have to get a bigger Halo page. ;) Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the link. (Wirehead ) Edward Howard's Halo marine pic appears on 3D Palette.com. Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the heads up. (Wirehead ) News October 10 1999 Blazing Electric Death, a Halo clan from the (now-dead) Militia page, has decided to go it alone, and has put up a website. There's not much there yet, but as they say, "it's under pretty constant construction," so check back soon. (Louis Wu ) A Halo logo in space?. Found on John Zero's Cortana Wallpaper. (Wirehead ) www.ancrik.com have been doing a little "housekeeping". Halo Central is still up, but in a roundabout way. Visit www.ancrik.com for the total story" says RedWind. (Wirehead ) News October 9 1999 Halo Central down again? We received no official word this time, but the link now gets a "page not found" error. Hmm... (Wirehead ) Ultimate Gamer posts a preview of Halo. (Louis Wu ) Apple changes the Halo graphic on their Quicktime Showcase page. The Halo/Marathon logo is replaced. (Louis Wu ) Want the Fourth Cortana letter on your desktop? Thanks to John Zero for this great piece of Cortana Wallpaper. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) "HALO-NET has had a complete make over, and will be updated loads this weekend." says Alan Stott. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Two versions of Computer Gaming World (Nov '99 issue)? Dispatcher says so and posts the details on our forums. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 8 1999 Kudos to Nic Brennan, who sent us this way-cool animated Halo logo (Flash needed). Sorry, Nic, it took us so long! (Louis Wu ) Joshua Inglima kindly uploaded his Covenant Symbol representation first seen on the Marathon's Story page. (Wirehead ) Thanks to Piranha for a very clear shot of the Covenant Symbol. (Wirehead ) New Halo Wallpaper found in our uploads folder. We've added it to our Wallpaper page. Creator please contact us. Thanks. (Wirehead ) News October 7 1999 Two in a row. Halo Central is back up as well, tonight... but note the URL (old bookmarks won't get you there.) They're working on it. Welcome back, guys! (Louis Wu ) The Core is back online, in a new home! Congratulations, Ferrex! (Louis Wu ) More Marathon Logo Sightings: Deathwhore sends in a movie still with a "very evident Marathon logo on the moon", taken at 3:25 on Apple's newest movie. Nice one! (Louis Wu ) HitMan200 =PN= sends us his theory of the mysterious symbols showing on the marines. Does anybody know what they are, really? (Wirehead ) Beautiful new artwork added to the Miscellaneous Art page... also incorporated in a new Desktop. Thanks, Alex. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Marathon logos abound! Steve Campbell sends in even more examples. Did these marines come off the Marathon, or is Bungie playing with us? (Louis Wu ) Just what is that logo on the wings of the Covenant scooters? Join the discussion! (Louis Wu ) Screenshots page cleaned up a bit (with all the juicy new shots added). More housecleaning coming soon. (Louis Wu ) BraveHamster's "723" find yesterday is elaborated on at the Marathon's Story page. Go visit for the lowdown! (Louis Wu ) News October 6 1999 Andreas Moers, of splatterworld.de, sends word of a German mirror for the CGW movie, for those on the other side of the pond that are having trouble getting it through the long line. Thanks, Andreas! (Louis Wu ) Steve Campbell sends in this tantalizing tidbit... two marathon symbol sightings. The first is on one of the front images at Bungie's Halo site, knife_fight.jpg. The symbol's disguised as a suit rivet. The second one can be found in Bungie's screenshot section, from this image. The symbol isn't disguised at all... simply hard to see. Good eyes, Steve! (Louis Wu ) Which front image do you see at Bungie's new Halo page? Some visitors get this image... but others see this one. Let us know if you see any others! (Louis Wu ) We've added a great piece of Halo artwork by Evan Thompson to our misc. art page. Note the similarities between this and Bungie's Covenant vs. Marine pic. Evan's uploaded his pic on the 4th Oct. We love it! (Wirehead ) It's in the detail. Using the powers of Photoshop Bravehamster has identified a series of numbers (723?) at the top of the Halo flagstaff. The details are in our forum here. Nice one! (Wirehead ) "Halo Central will be down for a short period of time while we sort out a few problems with the server." say David Rodgerson. Another Halo site out for the count. (Wirehead ) halo.bungie.com updated. New movie (sort of), new screenshots, new look. (Louis Wu ) News October 5 1999 Kudos to David Claessens, who sent in this scan from a Next-Generation article entitled "The Death of the Genre" (discussing how Halo doesn't pigeonhole very well). Thanks, David! (Louis Wu ) Another mirror for the CGW movie has come online... kudos to FilePlanet for helping out on this one! (Louis Wu ) The Apple Special Event has come and gone... and it was iMacs all the way. No Halo news at all. What can you do? Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) 3D Action Gamers Archive is also mirroring the movie. The more, the merrier! (Louis Wu ) You can grab the CGW "MWNY Halo movie" at the following Hotline servers (209.54.40.223), (131.212.93.108), (216.68.125.184:7777), and (206.74.83.118). Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Catch the Special Apple Event today at 10 am PDT. Big Halo news expected. (Wirehead ) New Halo article in the November issue of the NextGen magazine says Legend on our Forums. Anyone got a scan? (Wirehead ) Halo tops the ZDNet favorite 3rd person game poll. Let's keep it there! :) (Wirehead ) News October 4 1999 And Steve Campbell reports hosting an 18 megabyte Sorensen-compressed version of the CGW movie on bungie.org's Hotline server, hl.bungie.org. Go get it! Thanks, Steve. (Louis Wu ) To all those having serious trouble grabbing the CGW movie, Halo Central has added another mirror for the .avi version. (It's better, anyway. ;) ) Thanks, David! (Louis Wu ) This just in from Ferrex... bad news. Send him a nice note, cheer him up. We're rooting for you, Ferrex! (Louis Wu ) We rocked the PCParadox poll... time to show ZDNet what we're made of. Go vote for your favorite Third Person Game. (Louis Wu ) Kudos to Coldyx, who pointed out a new Gamespot UK preview! More new screens! Our cup runneth over! Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) That Noctavis sure is busy! New scans from the CGW article. Enjoy! (Louis Wu ) Thanks to Noctavis, who told us to distribute the new CGW movie. (The Core seems to be down.) You'll find it in QT4 format, or zipped .avi, on our Movies page. (It's 40 and 48 megs, respectively.) Enjoy! (Louis Wu ) This time we get to shoot! The Computer Gaming World "MWNY Halo movie" is now available for download at the Core. Kudos to Noctavis and Ferrex. :) Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Cuzog of Hola Halo Communications has released Hola Halo Skin 1.0 (.sit file 212K) a Halo Macast (Mac Amp) skin. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 3 1999 New version of the MWNY Halo movie (.AVI) on the Computer Gaming World magazine CD says Noctavis in a Core post. (Wirehead ) Added two new desktop pics from Phillip Albanese to our Wallpaper page. (Wirehead ) Moved Ian Jackson's "Halo world" art to the Wallpaper page. Afterall they are desktop size. (Wirehead ) News October 2 1999 Halo Art Director named! "I have been cleared to say that Marcus Lehto is our Art Director..." says Nathan Bitner in a Core forum post. (Louis Wu ) Searching for the meaning of Island Four? "Even in Niven's case, the best ideas are stolen. The key is to find where they're stolen from ... from whose warped minds come the craziest ideas of REAL science-fiction to science-fact. Maybe that will guide you .." says Nathan Bitner on our Forums. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Sending email to Nathan Bitner? Then read his email guidelines. And please follow them. Thanks. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) News October 1 1999 Okay, if it weren't from Bo, we'd have ignored this... but he gets a little latitude. :) Enjoy. (Louis Wu ) Thanks to Dispatcher, who sent along news of this Raves and Craves review. Pax. (Crux Fidelis ) Something special coming on Tuesday? Freewill thinks so... (Wirehead ) New Miscellaneous Art submitted by Daniel Berrett. Thanks, Daniel! (Louis Wu )
| |||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
We are NOT Bungie Studios! Bungie Studios are bungie.com Halo © Bungie Studios, 1999-2001 Intellectual © halo.bungie.org, 2000, 2001 All times are in UTC) |
