My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: January 2002

  • Story page comes back to life

    Woohoo! mmemesis goes on a posting spree at the Halo Story page; more than enough to chew on, for now! In addition, Ape Man is back – seems he (or more precisely, his internet connection) was the victim of an overzealous backhoe operator… but he’s back up and running now, so we should see some…

  • Reviews page cleaned up

    Dunno about the rest of you, but for me, the Reviews page was beginning to get unwieldy; too many entries to load smoothly. Accordingly, it’s been redesigned; it now shows 20 reviews at a time, and you can choose to see only the one you’re interested in. Now back to the Gameplay pages…

  • Halo movie – ain’t happenin’

    To all those people sending in reports of the Halo movie rumored on this Dutch site (among other places) – please, no more. It just ain’t true. Matt Soell, on our forum, succinctly denies that a movie is being discussed. (As I told a few of you via email, I was planning on ignoring this……

  • The tricks keep coming

    Two more submissions for the Gameplay Tricks page – Cal drops off a passel of pics showing the tippety-top of Damnation… and Phear X shows you how to get on top of the base beacon pole (which stands on top of the base) on Sidewinder. What folks won’t try…

  • Story page still alive

    Apologies to all who’ve been writing to the Halo Story page – the crew seems to have run into time issues. Never fear, though, things will be back on track soon! mnemesis added another tidbit last night from Alan Wu – that Marathon link just won’t die, and now there are other options for the…

  • The Cole Protocol comes online

    silverx10 writes to say that a new Halo fansite is up and running – The Cole Protocol has been ensuring the safety of the planet Earth since 2552. Currently, they have gameplay tips, character descriptions, and a couple of level walkthroughs. Content is going up quickly… check it out!

  • First up… then down

    Dueling Cartographers! Two different collections have been added to the Gameplay Tricks section – Team 7HR33 submits a movie showing a beautiful dismount from the top of Silent Cartographer… and Randy Glass gives us a cookbook movie that will have you driving the heights in no time. (Randy’s page contains multiple mirrors for his film…

  • Another Halo review, Junkyard updates

    Vector40, of the Junkyard, points out a newish Halo review over at Monolithic Illusions. Reading the text, you might get the impression that they weren’t too impressed… but the final score was a 9.5/10. Go figure. We’ve added it to the Reviews page. (You know… while you’re over at the Junkyard, checking out Vec’s review…

  • Rocket Jumping Tutorial

    Another stunt movie: Phear X has created a 13 mb, 1:41-long clip showing how to rocket jump to the top of Sidewinder. It’s currently being hosted by Brian Towne, of mythica.org (Brian, you da man!) – grab it! (Looks like it’s also on the Psyjnir Complex’s Hotline server – you guys rock, too. 😉 )…

  • I see a red video…

    Kurisu has created yet another music video – this one’s a little strange; lots of repeating footage. You can check it out (8 megs, .wmv format set to ‘Paint It Black’) at his site.

  • Three more French Halo reviews

    genohunter has pointed out a number of new French Halo reviews – Hard Gamers Consoles gave it a 94%, OverGame.com gave it 8.5/10, and HardGamers (more general) gave it a 92%. (He thanked Firfin for the heads-up for these.) We’ve added all of them to our Reviews page.

  • Enormous numbers of screens added

    A couple of months ago, GameKult.com (a French gaming site) put up their Halo review… since then they’ve added a mind-numbing 152 screenshots. Almost none of them show unique material – they’re simply a nearly comprehensive look at the first four levels of the game. They are unique to GameKult, though, so we felt they…

  • Outer Edge and XGR review Halo

    Another pair of Halo reviews popped up a couple of weeks ago – we missed ’em (again). The Outer Edge and X-Treme Gaming Radio both liked Halo a lot (A and 98%, respectively)… we’ve added both reviews to our (getting-rather-full) Reviews page. 63 reviews – with an average rating of 95.1%… not too shabby! (Thanks…

  • Dragula mirrored again

    Sorry for the downtime… our upstream provider was doing some intrusive testing on the circuit, trying to find some problems which seem to have vanished. It was planned, if that’s any consolation. 🙂 During the downtime, we found another mirror for the Dragula music video – thanks to Nero for this! You can grab either…

  • Miscellaneous Covenant

    John “Xcruiser” LaGaipa sends in a nice little sticker (well, okay, a virtual sticker) for our Miscellaneous Art collection. Check it out!

  • Sniping from the Tower…

    Metafire has taken a series of pretty pictures of a curious rock formation high on the wall of Blood Gulch… and put them together to show another way up and out of Blood Gulch. (These were originally mentioned on our forum, and are being hosted here with permission.) Check ’em out on our Gameplay Tricks…

  • Renegade gets another mirror

    Once again, Brian Towne steps forward and provides a home for the latest Halo music vid – you can find it at Mythica.org. 40 megs…

  • Casualty of naming

    Tom Murphy sends in the second installment of his ‘Casualties of War’ series – it’s a little confusing, since it 1) has a small section that got left out of the introduction, and 2) is labeled Part 2, though the body says it’s Part 1 (the real Part 1 was the introduction). My bad for…

  • Mmmph!

    Goodness. Remember those fraternity pranks, where they tried to stuff as many people as possible into a car? TitaniumPez has gone the other way – and stuffed as many vehicles as possible into a small cave on Sidewinder. I’d hate to try coming through that teleporter now… Check it out on our Gameplay Tricks page.

  • New Fanfic-inspired art

    Jason O’Brien has created another image for the Fan Fiction series, ‘The Wanderers’. We’ve added the image link to the story for which it exists, and placed it by itself in our Miscellaneous Art section. Take a look!