While scanning the Internet I came upon a pre-E3 article at Wired. They were listing a number of games that they anticipated would be important to watch:

Posted first by Dink at HBO, Daily Radar reports that Mark Rein of Epic was caught making some boastful statements about the next product they plan to work on:

The MGO Network site Halo Center is back online, having experienced some technical server-related difficulties for a few days. We almost thought that the rampant A.I. here got restless and decided to kick them around a little, but all is well and they're back in business. Welcome back, guys.

On a tip (I can already hear some of you saying, Yeeeah, right! ) I stopped by the Playboy website and verified that they had some E3 coverage. I suppose that's not to be unexpected, since several playmates attended the event. Anyway there was an item on Halo, which was considered one of the sexiest games of the event by many a geek. Here's what they had to say:

Here's a list of the current Halo-related polls we're aware of. The poll at Rust (gamedesign.net) continues to go well, with Halo keeping triple the votes of the second contender, WarCraft III. At MadOnion.Com we're kicking butt with 32% against Unreal 2's 20%. 3D Action Planet's poll continues with Halo receiving roughly 60% more votes than Tribes 2, the only other real contender at the present time.

Kudos to Maestro, who passed along this bit of forewarning about one last Halo preview in the final, June 2000 issue of PC Accelerator:

PCXL, in their final print issue, have a Nine Hot Games feature, among which of course is Halo. There are no new screenshots, but it's a decent recap of everything, and it includes a short Q&A with Joe Staten.

Now, we're not really sure if this is new news, or old news, but it didn't show up in the archive, so what the heck. Cookies for the first fellow to transcribe and post that sucker!

The votes have been counted! A number of popular gaming enthusiast sites had posted links to Bungie's question regarding whether people were interested in obtaining a copy of the E3 Halo movie on DVD. Here's a cut & paste from bungie.net:

Maestro claims the cookies for transcribing and sending in the text of the PCXL interview with Bungie's Joseph Staten. While we'd like to post it, those dang copyright laws keep getting in the way (we're seeking permission, mind you). Nevertheless, an interesting excerpt, regarding the (in some eyes, dubious) Powerplay initiative: