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:
On the 22nd we reported about Epic's Mark Rein stating that they wanted Unreal 2's engine to top Halo. Today R.net found out that Thresh's Firing Squad conducted an interview with Brandon Reinhart and have posted it up. Here's a snippet:
Thanks to Flite feeding us some intelligence from the Far East, we now know that reprints of previous Time and Newsweek articles have now appeared in the Asian editions of those magazines. Bungie World Domination marches forward! Thanks for the heads-up Flite!
HBO is reporting that alt.games.halo has been created as a newsgroup, but that there were some errors in its configuration. Hopefully the matter can be rectified sometime soon, so that newsgroup users can get their RDA of Halo news too.
HBO Scores! The ex-Editor-in-Chief of PCXL gave Halo.Bungie.Org permission to scan and post the Halo previews from PCXL's May and June 2000 issues... The last they'll ever have, since PC Accelerator is no longer publishing. Both articles include some interesting information, so head on over and view those scans.
Halo didn't win any specific E3 awards at PC GameWorld but it did pick up a special mention in a listing of noteworthy titles:
