My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: August 2003

  • More Halo PC multiplay footage for grabs

    Halo PC footage – downloadable for Insiders, streaming for everyone – is now available at IGN PC. Seven clips from Beta 1.5 – Timberland, Gephyrophobia, and Danger Canyon. Thanks to FoOKz for pointing them out.

  • Hey, That’s Not Funny.

    Today’s One One Se7en Guest Strip has -=d_dawg=- looking at Halo PC… I THINK I get it, but…

  • We Grew Up Fast

    The Juggler has sent in a new hacking movie – in the vein of BOLL’s movies, but full of footage not seen before. Some pretty cool stuff. I think it’s unlikely we’ll be posting any MORE of this type of movie – but this one is definitely worth watching. Timing is great, and the music…

  • You gotta wonder…

    Xbox.com has put up a disturbing article about what friends might expect from you, Halo-wise. (Well, it disturbed ME.) Thanks to Tomass for the heads-up.

  • He’s like Columbus… only with less scurvy

    Dark Helmet would like to stake a claim as the first visitor to the upper stories of the level Halo in Halo PC. (He actually sent in this pic (68K) last week, but it took a little time before we could get word from Gearbox about releasing it.) Yes, you can STILL get up there…

  • Halo PC gameplay footage – on a free server

    Yesterday, Dan Chosich released a rather large movie showing some great Halo PC multiplay, filmed in classic Chosich style. Well, even though the press coverage was a bit limited, the bandwidth spike hurt the Junkyard, who was hosting the film. Dan, ever the courteous client, went back and re-encoded the movie to be a bit…

  • Gamers Depot talks to Gearbox Honcho

    Another Pitchford interview – and more screenshots – can be found over at Gamers Depot. Randy’s pretty upbeat about wowing PC gamers, even though the Xbox version’s been out for a while. He’s also confident that the work Westlake is doing will allow Macs and PCs to play together… thanks to ash, who found it…

  • Pitchford talks to WorthPlaying

    Randy Pitchford continues his evangelizing of Halo PC – there’s a nice interview up over at WorthPlaying.com. There’s a tantalizing teaser that suggests that there may be more than tools released post-launch… go check it out. (Thanks to Madscientist for letting us know.)

  • One One Se7en – now with more flavor

    Many folks have complained about the navigation of the One One Se7en comic series. Hopefully, those folks will be satisfied with the newly added calendar; it doesn’t supplant the original links, it simply gives you another way to get around. It should be relatively self-explanatory… but be sure to send us mail if you don’t…

  • Wanna be there when Halo 2 launches?

    If you use Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, you might want to swing by Xbox.com. Their newly revamped website now has a web side to Xbox Live… and if you link your Xbox Live gamertag to it, you automatically enter yourself in the ‘Join. Play. Win.’ sweepstakes – first prize is a pair of invitations to…

  • Paint Job.

    Today’s One One Se7en is dedicated to Skavenger… for supplying the grape koolaid we all drink. Or something.

  • Buried in words

    Fourteen stories for you in the Fan Fiction section tonight: Chapter Two: Stranded Eagle, by Blue Jaguar Last of the Walking Dead – Part Three: Fire, by Walker A John Before Halo: The End Of VManJr. (Part 8), by J-117 Last of the Walking Dead – Part Three: Fire (Continued), by Walker Private Johnson part…

  • New movie series starts at UNSC.net

    Rgamer, a site we mentioned recently, has changed its name (and URL) to UNSC.net. They currently have an introduction to a new series from Ctrl Alt Delete Productions – it’s called The Beginning of the End – Intro, and it’s about 9 mb, in WMP9 format. If you want it, UNSC.net is the only place…

  • New (pay-only) Halo PC content at GameSpot

    Gamespot has gotten into the subscriber-only-Halo-PC-movies game, along with Gamespy… There are 5 new films, totalling about 65 mb of QuickTime footage of Halo PC campaign play. Locked, unless you’re a Gamespot Complete subscriber. Thanks to Strato for the heads-up.

  • Massive new Halo PC vid at FilePlanet

    Looks like Gamespy has put up an exclusive Halo PC Multiplayer vid – 141 mb, zipped, on FilePlanet. You can’t download it if you’re not a subscriber, though – I can’t tell you what’s in it. Thanks to ko0_ko0 for the heads-up on our forum.

  • Now THAT’S pixel art.

    PegNose, a regular on the Gamespot forums, created a slick animated gif (864K) showing the Master Chief in a pixel war with the Covenant. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section. It’s really quite good. Thanks to Konrad9 for pointing it out.

  • Don’t Try This At Home

    Master Chief looks like he made a little mess in Blood Gulch… new screenie over at Gearbox’s site. No modding needed – that’s stuff you can get right from the configure multiplayer dialogues. Whoa. Thanks to spesalfred for the heads-up.

  • Woohoo! He says signal is going up!

    A rockin’ good time… The HBO Weekly Review has been posted. Save yourself from having to read 4600 forum posts… read this one instead.

  • You and me, baby…

    11 new dialogue snippets added to the Dialogue Databank, courtesy of Captain Spark. Some stuff I’ve never heard before… he’s doing a wonderful job of finding the obscure bits. Check out the collection!

  • MCCC Mirrors

    Tec[H]noGeeK has mirrored Lion’s Master Chief Casting Call (both the WMP and MPEG versions) – if yo’ure having trouble getting it from TruthandReconciliation.com, give this a shot.