My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2003

  • PC mod starting up

    Dispraiser puts in a call for modders – he’s starting work on a PC mod. He’s got the beginnings of a Halo battle rifle already built – needs skinning, though. Check it out!

  • The WHAT team?

    Wow. Either someone’s smoking too much crack… or something got leaked. A representative of ArtSource (a digital media staffing agency with an office in Seattle) posted to the CG Talk Hiring forum, with a request that reads in part: Are you a SENIOR 3D Max modeler (3+ years of work experience) with multiplayer map experience,…

  • Madness in Mad-City

    Elliott “zorg” Zastrow writes to point out that the Mad-City Halo Tournament (mentioned about a month ago) is coming along strongly – tournament date looks to be July 19, in Madison, WI. If you’re a single player, they’ve got some resources on their forum for team-matching, to help you find a team to play on.…

  • On The Bubble

    Monday’s episode of One One Se7en has been posted… and I wanna know, how do those guys have time for tomfoolery?

  • Safari users – spoiler control is yours, finally!

    Months ago, when the first Safari beta was released for OSX users, we discovered we had a problem… our spoiler cookies wouldn’t set properly for Safari users. Luckily, a week later, a kind reader sent a fix; you could manually add the cookie to Safari’s cookie list. It worked… but if you ever felt like…

  • Halo: The RPG (the update)

    Sir Fragula’s Halo: The RPG project is coming along nicely – all existing patches (and some non-patch changes) have been bundled into the latest iteration. Visit Lion’s mirror site for the latest pics and downloads.

  • Sunday Reading

    13 new Fan Fiction pieces for you today: Master Chief Returns, Part 1: Longsword, by Switchback Ch 1: Theives in the Night, by TheForsaken Chapter One: URTH, by Christopher Kalanderopoulos Redemption, and Victory: Part One, by Hunter_Killer Attack on Central Command, by The Scribe Human vs. Covenant War: Part Two, Hansley’s second, by Ronald Maszk…

  • Another vehicle-aided flag-capturing trick

    A couple of days ago, NzadaH posted a quick capture of a flag-capturing trick to our forum. I didn’t look closely enough, and thought it was another instance of MaverickJ’s warthog gunner trick (where the gunner is popped out by spinning the gun to face the back of the hog and pressing X)… but it…

  • Medals, defined

    Over the last couple of years, we’ve gotten a few emails about the medals on Keyes’ uniform. Folks have recognized the Purple Heart, the Medal of Honor, and the Air Force Cross. Today, Brannon Boren laid out ALL of them on our forum – so now you know.

  • Going it alone – together

    Gamespot has posted a list of their choices for the top 10 cooperative games of all time. (They’re not ranked among the top 10 – “They’re all equal in our eyes, you might say.”) Halo makes the list. Nice! Thanks to DT for the heads-up.

  • Pillar of Art LAN party full!

    The LAN party taking place in the latter half of the day during the Pillar of Art Gallery showing has filled up!I’m sorry if you were hedging on whether or not to sign up for the party, as you have missed out on what is looking to be a really good time, but at least…

  • German online Halo tournament

    Halo Orbit is organizing an online (via XBC) Halo tournament; check this forum thread or this news article. They suggest you come from a country near Germany, due to internet limitations… but other than that, there aren’t any restrictions.

  • Tribes screenies with MC

    There are a significant number of shots of a Halo-related skin in use in Tribes over at the Tribes Battle Room Screenshots Collection; there’s no easy way to point them all out, you’ll need to go through his collection for yourself. As far as I can tell, these were taken using existing skins (there are…

  • Stick it!

    Visitors to the E3 fanfest this year got their hands on a bunch of cool Bungie stickers. For the first time, Bungie is actually SELLING them at the Bungie Store now; there are five, ranging from a standard Bungie logo to the uber-cool Carnage Zone sticker. (You can even get your hands on the Webmaster…

  • Making more of the Demo

    As a number of people have pointed out, the Truth and Reconciliation site has been updated with Part 2 of the E3 demo behind-the-scenes series, as well as additional storyboards from the demo itself.

  • Halo PC at Gen Con!

    Gen Con Indy is taking place about a month from now, and those of you that want a taste of Halo PC have a huge incentive to attend! One of the events listed is a HUGE LAN where many different games will be represented, and Halo PC is going to make an appearance! Not just…

  • Vast Volumes of Verbiage

    It’s been 2 days since I last posted a Fan Fiction update – and after rejecting a couple of entries, there are still 16 pieces for you: Operation Sunlight Part 1: Aftermath, by Gruntkiller Rebirth – Shadow’s Chapter 5 – Impossible Infiltration, by Knightmare Wolf, Archangel’s Blade, Spartan 451, Shadow Shadow Spartans, Chapter 1: Combat…

  • What – like a spider?

    If you could part with a measly $5, you’d be watching Red vs Blue Episode 11 right now. And jumping out of your chair with fright. Or at least laughter. (Starts slow, but finishes with a bang.) If you can’t part with $5, you’ll have to wait until Sunday to get this.

  • Halo 2 summary

    Draconfrost has put up a small page containing all the info he could find about Halo 2. He’d like you all to know about it.

  • Halo Quiz still needs questions

    Three weeks ago, we mentioned a Halo quiz being put together by the Sector 7 website. Wolfy writes to say that they’re still in need of some VERY hard multiple-choice questions. (See the last news post for details on the format they need.) Help ’em out!