Deimos Fawkes has posted at Subnova that they've got four pages of scans from Edge magazine, which recently interviewed Jaime Case Griesemer of Halo and Myth fame. They pass on special thanks to Pallor for acquiring the scans.

Well, just as soon as we open our big fat mouths to say there's no new information, Matt pulls up to the drive-thru window at HBO to toss a few more needles into the haystack.

They aren't much, but they are something.

In response to complaints about the lack of information (and by information we mean a release date etched in stone ):

I don't think I, or anyone else at Bungie, would ever claim to know when a project will be done. When we say We don't know, we always mean We don't know. It may sound evasive, but it's an honest statement.

In response to the allegation that MS is trying to protect Halo sales on the Xbox by dictating the release date for other versions:

MS is not delaying production of PC Halo.

There you have it, honest to goodness information.

Halo will come out on the Mac. So says Alex, so says Matt, and consign to the flames of hell all who say otherwise.

Of course, there's always more people saying otherwise, and those who say yes still don't have too much else to say... until there's more to say.

So in the spirit of never letting the truth get in the way of a good story, we've cruised the web to collect links about Halo on the Mac-- some outdated, some inaccurate, some just funny.

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Gamers.com has an overview of Halo for the Mac, based primarily on old information but has been updated. It has a screenshot of the old marine design. It lists the publisher as Microsoft , but the developer as Bungie Software (not Bungie Studios ). The user review (9/10) written late last month actually refers to the Xbox version. The release date is listed as N/A .

DGames.com has a Macintosh index page that lists Halo with a price of $44.95 and a link to preorder. Caveat emptor.

Happy Puppy has a page from May of 2000 after E3. It still lists the developer and publisher as Bungie and has a shot of the old marine and the old warthog.

Blockbuster.com has an entry for Halo as a game rental says in part Initial development of Halo was done simultaneously for the Macintosh, the PC, and the Xbox. That's interesting... I'd have thought initial development was done for the Mac and the PC, and then later for the Xbox...

Maccentral still has their story online from when Alex confirmed at MacWorld that Halo would still come out for the Mac. We still have a lot of love for the Mac platform, said Seropian. and yes indeed, we will be bringing Halo out for the Mac.

Cheatcave has a page purporting to be for the 52 codes and cheats available for Halo on the Mac. The first is infinite viagra pills . Later on down the page we are shocked to be informed by a gamer from usa that all of this shit is fake . Darn!

ZDNet's story from awhile back mentions that although Halo was confirmed for Mac, it wasn't announced who would port or publish it. In fact, we still don't know that-- although my bet is that the absence of an announcement of who the third party porting company is means that there isn't one... so they must be doing it in-house. Will that delay Phoenix? Of course not... you can't delay something without a release date. The story speculates heavily that Tamte's company Destineer might do the job under their Bold label... but little has been said about that lately.

That's all for now... more Mac Halo (mis)information as we find it!

It seems there's a new hotline site out there for BungieFen-- hl.forerunners.org. There's also a website at www.forerunners.org that states We are coming again. You thought we were finished. We are coming back, soon, very soon. It doesn't state too much else just yet, but we'll keep an eye on it.

The page features an image of the symbol shown above some of the doors in 343 Guilty Spark and on the backs of some of the Elite Covenant units. In the HTML source, the image is titled the forerunners built this thing....

We noticed over on HBO that there's a powerpoint file from the presentation on Halo's AI given by Jaime Case Griesemer and Chris Butcher at the Game Developers Conference. You can get the file from the GDCon site or from our own local copy. The file is a little over 14 Mb.

GDCon also has PowerPoint and Word versions of Marty O'Donnell's talk on Halo's music. This one is much smaller; 3Mb for the .ppt and a mere 44k for the .doc.

We're reorganizing the Halo Movies area, adding three new items, including the two Blackstar Production trailers and a new entry, as well as removing some of the old files that we are no longer hosting.

Shortly we'll also add links to other files.

The recent Halo Movie 'Trailer' and 'Teaser' videos are now being hosted directly by Blackstar Productions on their new site, as well as by the many mirrors mentioned at HBO.

Peter Marks of Bungie has interviewed Juan Ramirez, sculptor of the Covenant Elite statue, for Truth & Reconciliation. Check out One On One With Juan Ramirez (although the title is misleading; Ramirez's roommate Bob Standlee was there, too) for the full interview as well as several neat pictures showing his work.

Word on bungie.net is that a gathering will be held amongs its Seventh Column chapters in Santa Monica, CA on May 24, 2002. There's lots of information about the tournament your chapter can participate in as well as registration details, which, by the way, will open on Thursday, February 21. If sixteen player Halo goodness sounds appealing to you, then arrange for your chapter to participate in this undeniably cool gathering.