Cyrus asked a really interesting question in HBO's forum. Paraphrased: How did Halo come to be concieved? After some discussion, Ragnarok raised the thought that maybe Matt would be able to shed some light on the issue. Here's what Matt had to say:
Noct has delivered! A fairly large scan, but very true to the image in the magazine, this image from the July issue of Incite magazine gives us the best look yet at the picture that graced Bungie's E3 booth.
Noctavis, who is slaving over a hot scanner as we speak, has happened upon a Halo item in the July issue of IncitePC magazine. Consisting of a shot of the E3 banner and a quick blurb about the game, it doesn't contain much in the way of new information, but we should have that scan posted as soon as possible. Stay tuned...
Well Rounded Entertainment have released their awards for the best games of E3, and Halo's reviewed and listed as a runner-up for Best Action Game. Why didn't it make 1st place? The complaints are familiar ones by now:
Mojo dropped me a little teaser a few minutes ago: You've got a suprise in for you tonight. Well, after a quick surf over to ye olde Halam site I found out that he's revitalized it and plans to keep some funky Halo coverage going for at least the Summer. Halam was one of the very first Blam! sites, along with Blam.Bungie.Org (now HBO) and The Core (now R.net). We welcome Halam back into the pantheon of Halo fan sites. ;-)
Vector over at Battleground: Halo was able to wring a couple of more bits of information out of Bungie's PR master, Doug Zartman. In addition to some information about Halo's editors, they asked this:
Cross his palm with silver! Noctavis' prediction that HBO would transcribe the text from the May and June PCXL Halo articles came true today. The Angels Sing focuses on solo play, while Tired of Playing with Yourself? mainly concerns multiplayer. Go check 'em out; they're more complete than the highlights posted here earlier.
The people at Machinima, a site devoted to those who make movies with computer gaming technology, expressed their enthusiasm for the idea of making movies in the Halo engine. Their coverage starts here and they specifically address Halo here. Machinima reports the existence of a demo editor which will ship with the public version of Halo. Take a look at this blurb:
