My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: February 2003

  • WideSpaceHalo… a bit narrower

    Random Hero took BOLL’s recent tri-monitor desktop and created a single-monitor version with all the images. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. Update: oops, missed one – here’s another from Michael Jensen. Enjoy.

  • More Isi love, plus sketches and such

    9 new pieces of non-wallpaper art, including two cool tributes to Brian Morden. There are a couple of other gems in the bunch, as well – check out the Miscellaneous Art section!

  • Random Halo Site News

    A number of Halo sites have come online, or dropped offline, or whatever. These are the ones who’ve asked for some coverage. Kyle Gallagher has put up Kyle’s Halo Website. Bullet, who started Halo World almost 2 months ago, has pulled it down and replaced it with a page about a band. Firestrike (now Shadowfox)…

  • Wallpaper collection updated

    Whoa. Back… and faced with thousands of emails. The nice part is, Count Zero has taken care of a large chunk of the Halo ones. One thing he left, though, was artwork – there are 8 new desktops submitted in the past week, and you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section. There are also 3…

  • Ooo, they’re working on Harry Potter too!

    Westlake Interactive, the folks doing the Macintosh port of Halo, have updated their progress page with the news that Halo has reached the Prototype stage, which they define as “far enough along to have some interface drawing and most data files loading, but not far enough to actually play.” (Westlake and Gearbox are mostly independent…

  • Quick Mythica Update

    Looks like Mythica, our main movie bandwidth provider, will be up and running sometime this week – most likely late in the week. For all those who are jonesin’ for movies… fear not, we’ll have access again in a few days!

  • We love you, Brian.

    Quick update from the guy who doesn’t post… too often, on the Brian Morden Memorial Halo Lanfest, held last night at the Morden house. Sounds like it was the place to be.

  • iGames Spring Season Tourney info

    iGames, the folks who sponsored the National Halo Winter Season Tournament, has set up the iGames National Halo Spring Season. This one is a doubles tourney – two-player teams. Entrance is $15/player for the local tournaments, $20/player for the regionals. More info can be found on the iGames site. Thanks to ninja on fire for…

  • In Memory

    The entire remaining staff of HBO is currently en route to Brian Morden’s memorial, so the news has slowed down a bit. Things should be back to normal by Sunday.

  • So the dinosaur was really 32 feet long?

    Bungie.net has posted an interview with Curt Chiarelli, Sculptor, the actual creator of the Halo toys spotted recently. Thanks to Red Loser for noticing this.

  • A Fight at the Movies?

    On the forum this morning, Lacsap posted a link to an article about the recent resurgent interest in movie tie-ins with video games. Obviously Halo is mentioned as being shopped around. But it’s not just some little title being bandied about, it’s actually, according to the article, backed by one of the largest agencies in…

  • Guess they finally found Jonesey

    A new artist has appeared on the forum, and despite rampant self-deprecation the drawings are very good (the post originally referred and linked to “Marine killing unspecified things”, Postman updated his page afterwards). My favorite is definitely this one.

  • Bungie guys… They’re everywhere.

    Bungie.net has tracked down one of their own and interviewed Doug Zartman, who left Bungie around the time of the Microsoft acquisition. Lots of fun stuff in there about the upcoming toys and novel!

  • Who says Halo exploration is dead?

    Yet another nugget of Halo trickery comes out of level 2, first partially described by The halo destroyer and then captured by Dark Helmet. This isn’t the first time the “drunk driver” dropship has been mentioned, but it’s the first time anyone has gotten close enough to see this bit.

  • The Master Chiefs Behind the Game

    An email from the raVen tipped us off to an interview with Bungie artist Shikai “Shiek” Wang. Woohoo, UIUC!

  • HCC Update (long overdue)

    This came in a while ago, but got missed – vacation can do a number on concentration. Halo Command Central has overhauled the site design, and content is growing. Graphics work is stunning. (Check out the extracted characters and vehicles!)

  • The Ultimate Desktop

    BOLL sent us a collection of three images, created from Bungie.net shots and NASA images, that are designed to be used together on a 3-monitor array. If you’ve got the screen real estate, this is a pretty fine desktop collection to use on it! And because these came in to our FTP site, they’ve reminded…

  • New Wallpaper

    A new composite desktop is now available in our Wallpapers section.

  • Halo Orbit translates Halo 2 FAQ

    Came in yesterday… but we couldn’t post it. Xerxes, of Halo Orbit, writes to say that a translation of the Halo 2 FAQ posted recently on Bungie.net has now been translated into German. For non-english speakers, this might be a better choice…

  • Lots of pretty pictures

    Four new art pieces – two nice composites by gizella Varga, an all-too-true strip by dogsounds, and a gorgeous rendering of AotCR. Check ’em all out in our Miscellaneous Art section.