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January 5-8: Details of Halo are shown at the San Francisco Macworld Expo.^[1]

April: Halo was reatured on the cover of GameStar, a German gaming magazine.^[2]

May 11-13: Bungie was at E3 2000 in Booth #2900 to show off its two upcoming games ONI and Halo.^[3] The Halo E3 2000 Trailer for Halo: Combat Evolved was shown at the event also.

June 14: Halo won the E3 2000 Game Critics' Award for Best Action Game.^[4] Halo was also runner up for Best Game on PC, being beat by "Black & White".^[5]
June 19: Microsoft acquired Bungie.^[6] Halo was then announced for the Xbox platform.^[7]

July 19: Alexander Seropian and Steve Jobs announced plans for Halo to come to the Mac and PC.^[8]

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 ===June===
 *'''June 14''': Halo won the E3 2000 Game Critics' Award for Best Action Game.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000615110725/http://bungie.com:80/ ''Bungie.com'', Halo E3 Award</ref> Halo was also runner up for Best Game on PC, being beat by "Black & White".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815065323/http://www.e3awards.com/win.html ''e3awards.com'', winners</ref>
-*'''June 19''': [[Microsoft]] acquired Bungie.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000620004542/http://www.bungie.com:80/ ''Bungie.com'', Microsoft Acquires Bungie</ref>
+*'''June 19''': [[Microsoft]] acquired Bungie.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000620004542/http://www.bungie.com:80/ ''Bungie.com'', Microsoft Acquires Bungie</ref> Halo was then announced for the [[Xbox]] platform.<ref>[https://news.microsoft.com/2000/06/19/microsoft-to-acquire-bungie-software/ ''News.microsoft.com'', Microsoft to Acquire Bungie Software</ref>
 ===July===