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Monday, February 26, 2001 |  |
New voices, new faces
Faces, clarified. MSN (check those initials, yah!) writes to tell us that the folks in the Seattle Times pic are (left to right) Marcus Lehto, David Dunn, Rob McLees, and Mat Noguchi. Put together with Matt Soell's Halo updates, we can probably infer that we've gotten our first glimpse of the Halo Tools Programmer. Welcome, Mat! (Louis Wu 20:00:39 UTC) (permalink)
Halo team members, playing around
Thanks to Dilbert, who found a smallish version of the aforementioned Seattle Times picture in the paper's Business and Technology section of their website. The actual picture in question is here. It's difficult to tell what's what, because of the size... but that looks like Marcus Lehto (Art Director) and someone else ;) handling console controllers while Rob McLees and Shikai Wang (?) look on. The screen is pretty tough to distinguish, but it's definitely the Halo Marine... and the press coverage begins! (Anyone want to scan in a better version of the shot, or give a more accurate accounting of who's there?) (Louis Wu 19:12:39 UTC) (permalink)
Halo in the news
Thanks to MSN, who noted on our forum that there's a picture of the Halo dev team and the cyborg running on (presumably) an Xbox dev kit screen on the front page of today's Seattle Times. Anyone in Seattle have a scanner? (Louis Wu 18:41:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo SETI Team 7 day stats page posted
Blam!... Blam!... The Halo SETI Marines regained the two spots they lost since the last time we looked at team standings - they sit at 48th place in the Battle of the Teams. DarthFlounder crunches an amazing 430 units in these past 2 weeks - at this rate, he should overtake the number one spot by next Monday, or maybe Tuesday. Welcome to our new members (especially Hellboy, who brought 203 units in)! Check how YOU'RE doing on our 7 day stats page. (Louis Wu 16:10:36 UTC) (permalink)
October out as a release option?
Woohoo! Useless, am I? Was visiting Microsoft's Game section, and ran across a release estimate for Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee... 'Holiday 2001'. That's a tighter timeframe than 'Q4 2001' - by at least a month. Presumably, Halo and Oddworld should be coming out at the same time (they're both supposed to be launch titles for the Xbox), so maybe now we should be saying 'November-December 2001' instead of Q4? (Wirehead 15:34:39 UTC) (permalink)
Wallpaper page updated
Thanks to Brian Deatherage, who dropped off a new desktop image for our Wallpaper page. And oh... did I mention I was back? (If you get a chance, send mail to Crux, Ding, and Wirehead (okay, not Wirehead) thanking them for their coverage - I think they did a bang-up job!) (Louis Wu 14:11:01 UTC) (permalink)
Yeah we got some fan fiction baby!
"The marine breathed slowly and cautiously. The rest of his squad was scattered through the green foliage. He couldn't help them now." Ubiquitous kindly sent us in a short piece of fan fiction called His Home. Brought a tear to my good eye. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 09:44:06 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Banshee confusion More fan fiction. |
Saturday's news in brief:
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What's a Banshee? Island Four working Matt's Halo Update |
