Frequently Asked Questions about Bungie's never to be released and unannounced but probably would have been realtime strategy game codenamed Phoenix.
NOTE: The Bungie project that was once known as Phoenix has been cancelled by Bungie, and the team that was working on it has begun developing a new game about which even less is known. There's a Q&A with Bungie's Matt Soell about the cancellation here at Rampancy.
Bungie's own Matt Soell has posted a Halo National Tournament report from El Bastard in Florida:
XenGamers, which used to be called CoreMagazine, has put up a story on the Halo 2 announcement in New York and the trailer that we are now waiting 21 days for:
It's strange that we have to wait 21 days for the Halo 2 trailer, but Smilebit thinks he knows why. He writes in the HBO forum:
The Halo trailer is encoded using WMP9. The Windows Media Player 9 beta comes out on Sept. 4th.
So IS Windows Media Player 9 coming out September 4? You betcha. My main concern is, will a Mac version be released by that time?
Crap. Don't count on seeing the Halo 2 trailer any time in the near future. There is a counter at Xbox.com that says it will be released 21 days from now. That would be September 4, 2002.
We've started a Halo 2 Screenshot section and added the first seven shots from the upcoming trailer as released on Bungie.net.
Gamers.com, a site which has pages on Halo and Halo 2 as well as Bungie Soft... uh, Studios, featuring various pieces of information, has also put up a transcript of the Halo 2 trailer unveiled last week.
Matt Soell of Bungie Studios said in a forum post at HBO that this idea has been talked about.
According to a news item at Bungie.net, the page that EB was hosting for the Halo National Tournament rules has disappeared inexplicably . There is a complete copy of the HNC rules online at iGames.
The good folks at GameFAQs have opened up a message board dedicated to Halo 2 in addition to their Halo and Halo Online boards. It's always nice to have more resources available, so this gets our approval.
HBO is back, and in one of the first news posts of the day Louis Wu drops an interesting tidbit:
Hopefully, DNS will propagate fast enough that by the time the Halo 2 trailer is released, folks can find us.
If one were so inclined, one might be led to believe that means that shortly after the time it usually takes for a DNS record to update-- usually 2-3 days, tops-- the trailer will be out.
TeamXbox.com has a news story announcing that the Xbox Live online gaming service will launch on November 15, exactly one year after the launch of the Xbox and its premier title, Halo. Halo 2 will support Xbox Live, but it won't be out for another year. At launch, about 10 titles will support Xbox Live, including Unreal Championship, Ghost Recon and NFL 2003. To follow in 2003 will be Halo 2, CounterStrike and Star Wars: Galaxies.
Nine months after shipping Halo 1, Bungie announces the sequel with the Announcement Trailer showing the Master Chief taking a spacedive off an orbiting platform towards a Covenant fleet attacking Earth.
A site called XboxGamers recently advertised that it was looking for questions to submit to the Halo 2 development team for an upcoming exclusive interview . As it turns out, this was more a result of an overly charitable response to a bit of spam in Matt Soell's mailbox. Get the lowdown in his HBO post on the subject.
