Tim Jenks, PR Officer at Haloplayers, has this to say to y'all:

Game Critics Awards has announced its nominees for the 2000 Best of E3 Awards; the winners will be announced here tonight. Halo has been nominated for Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Action Game. (Oni is sadly absent, although it took last year's award for Best Action/Adventure Game).

And the winners are up! Game Critics Awards has posted the list of winners of the 2000 Best of E3 Awards. Halo was named as Best Action Game, and as the runner up for Best PC Game. In the three categories for which it was nominated but didn't win, Black & White took the gold instead; though I would (of course) have liked to see Halo receive all 4 awards, I must say that Black & White was a very worthy opponent.

Some of you may be aware that Capt. Wegener of the Order of the Sword, a Halo clan, was shot recently during a live-fire training exercise and went into a coma. Now a post on the halo.bungie.org forum lets us know that he's in recovery. We wish him a speedy return to full health and the Bungie community.

Midnight would like to inform you all that:

Australian readers will be pleased to know that PC Gamer UK is available onthe shelves down under, though it will probably be another month or so before we see the much coveted Halo issue. Still, it will make a nice collector's item.

Not much to add to that...except thanks!

As noted by Decameron on our forum, PC Gamer has posted part of the Halo preview article in their July issue, as a favor to Haloplayers. I'm not sure what it takes to merit such a favor, but I suspect that it involves saving a busload of orphans and cracking one or two international smuggling rings. Anyway, interesting read. Good show, Haloplayers!

An interesting post on our forum was made by anni, reading in part:

Kudos (and quite possibly an empty can of Pringles) to mad.max, who has transcribed and posted a ton of article highlights from the PCGamerUK Halo preview. A rather amusing quote: