My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: July 2001

  • The Marine comes alive

    ‘If I do this procedure you will be giving up your humanity. You were briefed about this?’ ‘Yes Sir.’A nameless one undergoes a critical operation in Brent Anderson’s fan fiction, ‘Halo’. Check it out (along with 146 other pieces) in our Fan Fiction section.

  • Halo links for sale… cheap

    Interested in starting up a Halo fansite, but don’t have a cool domain name? Looks like Halo-World.com is about to be released (its registration expired last week, and the URL now forwards to this informational page). This suggests that maybe it’s time to prune some of the entries on our Links page…

  • Phoenix != Myth III

    “Is That A Talking Head In Your Sack Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?” Matt Soell chimes in on our forum, stepping into a debate on whether Phoenix and Myth III were ever one and the same. Seems they weren’t.

  • Airborne Rangers get a major overhaul

    Mock writes to say that the totally revamped site of airbornerangers.org is up and running. A bumped up forum, an online store (!), and Community news from… wait for it… US! Very snazzy, overall. Nice job, guys! (They’ve served the Myth community for 2 full years now, and they’re branching out into Halo.)

  • Online Universe dishes up answers

    A week ago, we posted a note about a new site called Online Universe, that was aiming to provide game developers some insight into what their fans want. At the time, they’d put up a Question of the Week, “If Halo has online support, what features would you want?” Well, the week’s gone by, and…

  • Another link to the PCG scans

    Thanks to Cesar Berardini, of Team Xbox, for another link to the hi-res PC Gamer scans mentioned this morning. (Same scans, easier to get to.) Picky noticed on our forum that the scans Young Gwasshoppah put up are low-res not because that’s how they were scanned, but because he told the server to scale them…

  • Ringworld HALO comes online

    Zineas writes to let us know about a Swedish Halo site, Ringworld HALO. I can’t read it… and the text is pretty dang small on a Netscape browser… but the Gallery is pretty slick! Nice work, overall. Check it out! (Hey… some of those weapons shots look AWFULLY familiar…)

  • Logos section updated

    Fanatic sends us another logo for our Logos section. Pretty!

  • PCZone UK looks at Halo

    Barak, over at Haloplayers, noticed that this month’s PC Zone (UK) contains a one-page article on Halo – mostly recent screens, but also some interesting info. See what Barak has to say… and then go look for the mag!

  • Halo SETI Team stats posted

    Blam!… The Halo SETI Marines climb one notch to number 50 in the Battle of the Teams… nice increases by a slew of crunchers helped the effort. Can YOU do better? Check the 7 day stats to find out!

  • Better PCG scans

    Young Gwasshoppah has scanned in the entire PC Gamer article, albeit at pretty low resolution. While we don’t know whether PC Gamer would actually like seeing this before the issue leaves the shelves, you can get a look for yourself, and decide whether you’d like to buy the dead tree version. Looks like it has…

  • More HU goodness

    Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – this week’s focus is on Chris Hughes. Marine heads, Cortana, female pilots… and now signal batons. One of these things, is not like the others…

  • Shades of Ender…

    “Hey,” said one of the men after receiving the cigar. “I can’t possibly die of cancer from smoking before the Covenant kill me. Unless we win.” Omniscient drops us a new piece of Fan Fiction – the prologue ot a multipart story he’s working on. Sea of Steel can be found in our Fan Fiction…

  • Fan Fiction section updated

    At first, he thought there was an injured man in the cylinder. He was wearing a large green armoured suit with a wide reflective visor. But as he looked more closely, he saw that although the suit was slightly pitted and scarred, there was no trace of injuries bad enough to warrant a stasis tube.…

  • PC Gamer pics posted

    Thanks to CrimsonT, who pointed out that a fan has posted shots from the PC Gamer spread over at the TeamXbox forums. (If you just want to see the pics themselves, CrimsonT did a nice job of extracting just the links.) Check out that flamethrower! (And the tank… and the turret gun… mmmm.)

  • London Sunday Times mentions Halo

    Red Fox TX scanned an article from the London Sunday Times about the Xbox – Halo gets a tiny mention as an expected debut title. A fine read, though there’s nothing revolutionary. Always nice to see mentions in major mainstream newspapers!

  • T3 looks at Xbox (and Halo)

    Fernando notes on our forum that this month’s T3 magazine (UK edition) contains a piece on the Xbox, and a small mention of Halo:”Halo (bungie)First-person shooter meets armoured vehicular combat. With its deformable terrain, awesome squad AI, and incredibly expansive visitas, Halo is sure to offer a single and multiplayer experience that will be out…

  • It’s your Alamo

    Joseph Staten surfaces on our forum to pass along a few tidbits about the Pillar of Autumn… in addition to the nice description of its purpose, we now know that the Pillar of Autumn is a Halcyon-class ship. (Details… it’s all in the details.)

  • Wallpaper section updated

    Aehrick sends us a new Wallpaper that incorporates the new Covenant model visible at the almost-open Bungie Store. You’ll find it in three resolutions in our Wallpaper section.

  • Mullins is back

    Rampancy.net got this week’s Halo Update, and it’s quite a bit longer than last week’s – it really sounds like they’re moving along nicely. Lots of artwork bits, lots of gameplay tweaks (grenades can now set off other grenades – you can use this to effectively multiply your available ammo), and some fun tidbits -…