HBO is back, and in one of the first news posts of the day Louis Wu drops an interesting tidbit:
Hopefully, DNS will propagate fast enough that by the time the Halo 2 trailer is released, folks can find us.
If one were so inclined, one might be led to believe that means that shortly after the time it usually takes for a DNS record to update-- usually 2-3 days, tops-- the trailer will be out.
A site called XboxGamers recently advertised that it was looking for questions to submit to the Halo 2 development team for an upcoming exclusive interview . As it turns out, this was more a result of an overly charitable response to a bit of spam in Matt Soell's mailbox. Get the lowdown in his HBO post on the subject.
HBO pointed out a section on The Psyjnir Complex called Tabloids. There's an interesting series of items running there purporting to be insider reports from a Bungie informant called Shallow Throat. The crux of it seems to be the plans for a total of six.. no, make that seven... (or was it nine, originally?) Halo games.
According to Jason Jones of Bungie, Halo 2 is a lot like Halo only it's 'Halo' on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas, and the ninjas are all on fire, too.
Lead Designer Jaime Griesemer pointed out that it will have multiplayer over the Internet through Microsoft's Xbox Live service, and hinted at new multiplayer game types, bringing Halo's network play more in line with the original concept of squad-based gameplay.
Halo 2 is supposed to have twice the number of pilotable vehicles.
InsideMacGames is saying that the Official UK Xbox Magazine has reported that Halo 2 is in development and will be out for Christmas 2003. There is a quote in the IMG article, but it only mentions the Xbox General Manager -- not a name.
Matt eager to ditch this particular albatross Soell at Bungie put in more than a couple of cents' worth into yet another HBO forum thread about whether or not Halo really is being ported, if so when and by whom, and whether the definitive source of such information should be Bungie (doing the work) or Microsoft (footing the bill).
Ok, definitely put this one in the Crack Pipe category. But recently a story ran on MacCentral that Contraband Entertainment had announced a new secret project in development for the Macintosh platform that they dubbed Heroin 4 U .
And now, for a few moments, we venture into the breach that straddles the realm of the official announcement and the territory of the unfounded rumor.
We're mirroring two of the four Making Of Halo videos that were recently posted at HBO; the one featuring Alex Seropian and Hamilton Chu, and the one featuring Steve Abeyta and Shikai Wang.
