GameSpot has posted a quick little preview on Quake III: Team Arena. Perhaps the dark God of Deathmatch, Carmack, is trying to stay competitive with recent shifts toward teamplay-oriented games?

The crew at Haloplayers were the first to report that the UK PC Gamer site has posted up an online text version of the Halo preview in their June 2000 issue.

Kudos to SiliconDream, who pointed out an interesting forum post from Bungie's Matt Soell on halo.bungie.org's forum. A particularily interesting excerpt for you naysayers out there:

As posted at HaloWorld, there is a new Halo preview at the German gaming site GameHQ.de. It is relatively short and offers no new information so CyberBob and I won't be taking the time to translate it.

If you've been watching the Marathon's Story page and DEHc-3 Halo you're probably aware of some interesting connections between the author Iain M. Banks and the Halo storylines. Both sites have posted up new bits of information on these connections, DEHc-3's material on its front page and Marathon's Story on a topic focus area. If you're a frequent SF reader you should definitely take a look.

The folk at Battleground: Halo scored an interview with Marty O'Donnel during E3. Here's a quick snippet:

Kudos to Ironfist for pointing out in our forum that Salon.Com has an article that bemoans the lack of genuine innovation or a compelling narrative in so many of the games shown at E3. Of course they'd be both blind and deaf to have not known about Halo's big showing at E3, but their comments seemed a bit, well... off. Take a look:

Seen first at HBO, Alloy Gaming has got a poll up which is asking What upcoming game will be THE big cheese? The choices are: Black & White, Halo, Freelancer, Warcraft 3 and Tribes 2. Go and vote your preference!