My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: March 2003

  • And Logos…

    After a long time with no submissions, the Logos section gets another entry. We’ve also put up a layered Combat Evolved document (photoshop format, 1.1 mb, zipped) that appeared on the web – in a much larger size – for a short time about 18 months ago. If you want to make your own Halo…

  • More pictures, even.

    Next up in the ‘clearing the queue’ game… 6 art pieces for our Miscellaneous Art collection. Everything from Zelda/Halo crossovers to armed school invasions. Check ’em out!

  • Halo Cheats made easier – no modding required.

    Wow. I wonder if this really has a market? A company called CodeJunkies has created a product called ActionReplay, a $39.99 package (£19.99 in the UK) that uses a specially-modified 8 MB memory card to move saved games from your PC to your Xbox and back. (The package comes with ‘powersaves’ – saved games from…

  • Halo PC Strategy Guide details

    Nice find by Eclarap – looks like the Official Strategy Guide for the PC version of Halo is being done by Sybex (the Xbox version was done by Prima), and it should be released on June 15, 2003. According to the Amazon.com listing for it, The PC product refines and improves upon the Xbox version…

  • Pictures for your desktop

    Gonna try and clear out the art queue today. First up: desktop images. We’ve got 7 for you – you’ll find ’em in the Wallpaper section.

  • Even more stories

    Fan Fiction from the weekend:Old Memories, Forgotten Weaknesses, New Strengths, by AlphaBravo343 Last stand part 3, by grylsy A Single Motion: part 2, by Arthur Wellesly fallen angel 10: Ground, by Gruntkiller/Covert Just Getting Started Chapter Three, by James Kinsella Halo: Law & Order (Part 2 of 3) , by el_halo_diablo Part I:The GHOSTs, by…

  • GURPS cover – now mostly readable

    Both 2 and 2 make 5, over at Subnova, and Doggone, on our own forum, have cleaned up the recently unearthed (but damaged) front cover for GURPS Halo. Check the pics out, and speculate away!

  • Another new site… sort of

    Oops, forgot this one – Sector7, which opened a while back, then died, is back online. Or… at least, it’s supposed to be. (All I get is a flash animation of the title…)

  • Doughmainename comes online

    guy who doesn’t post… too often wanted to point out his Halo site. Take a look.

  • Dead Rabbits summary number 1 (with pics)

    Team Overkill is the first to post a summary of the Dead Rabbits event that happened here at HBO Headquarters yesterday. (They won’t be the last, I don’t think…) It’s a good read, and covers the spirit of the day pretty well. I’ll say it was an honor to be killed so many times by…

  • Combat Resurrected

    Hehe – nice pickup by oddworld – this week’s Photoshop Phriday at Something Awful contains a pretty nice Halo parody. Check it out!

  • Quick Wrap-up… and GURPS news

    Another day… another lanfest in the past. Apologies for the sparse updating yesterday, but there were 26 Halo fanatics here yesterday, from as far south as mid-New Jersey and as far north as the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border… 5 states were represented, and the carnage was nonstop. Mostly the games were just for the heck of…

  • A day to play…

    News will be sparse today… Dead Rabbits kicks off in less than 2 hours. 30 Halo fanatics, all crammed into my house, shooting each other and making the dogs crazy. Should be fun!

  • Words

    Seven new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section:The Entar Chronicles part 1, by Locke Ishkabibbl’s Story Part 5, by Ishkabibbl Chapter 9-Ridley, by Ultra Sonic 007 CR.03: Chaotic Reign .03, by TheRedFaction A Forerunner Tale Part 2: The Decision, by nicholas The Tour (1st half of Final Chapter), by Traumatised Marine The Tour…

  • LSW now online

    StarWarsFanMan points out that his new movie project, ‘Halo: Large Scale Warfare’, is now online at The Green Marines. Check it out… he’s looking for feedback!

  • More Web Comics (old ones this time)

    Hehe – Cybrfrk found a pair of web comics from last year that everyone here seems to have missed. Check out TrueNuff for January 9, 2002, followed by January 11, 2002. Now THERES a Halo fan. 🙂

  • It is insidious and elegant.

    Finn, in a frightening display of work ethic (and not a little cruelty, leaving mnemesis with nothing to do), has updated the Halo Story page with a mind-numbingly large array of speculations, comments, and pictures from the peanut gallery. If you’re even slightly interested in the Halo storyline, you’ll want to read this.

  • Friday Reading

    Fan Fiction submissions in the past day or so:Ishkabibbl’s Story Part 4, by Ishkabibbl Halo: FotF (Final Chapter), by Frensa Geran Chapter 8-Rescue Op, by Ultra Sonic 007 Halo 2: Revenge of a Spartan, chapter 4, by LostRock Ishkabibbl’s Story Part 4, by Ishkabibbl Pointless Battle, by Jeff Graham Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 1,…

  • Brute Force Companion DVD details emerge

    Thanks to the literally dozens of folks who pointed out the article at IGN Xbox listing the actual details of the Brute Force Companion DVD Set. The first word of this actually came from Dan Chosich, on our forum – and in response to some speculation of mine, Matt Soell confirmed that there’s nothing in…

  • GURPS Halo?

    Interesting. Looks like poena.dare came into posession of an interesting Bungie webcam shot recently… details are over at Bungie Sightings. Thanks to Ross Mills for the heads-up. (Shame on you, pd, for not letting us know!)