My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: November 2004

  • No Real Ending

    Gyser points out a new Little Gamers webcomic with Halo 2 content. Spoilers, I suppose. (Hardly, because the joke is pretty well-known at this point.)

  • CGN says Halo shines

    The Cyber Gaming Network has reviewed Halo 2 – they gave it a 5/5 – though they’re still waiting for Halo 3. Thanks, Jarrett Lantz.

  • TriXie and crew116

    About a week ago, Justin Long sent us a link from Xbox.com – TriXie intereviewed crew116, a Microsoft-based Halo clan that did extensive beta-testing of Halo 2 multiplayer. We forgot to post it. The interview itself focuses on the guys in the clan, their likes and dislikes – but there’s also a Tips and Tricks…

  • CAL adds Halo 2

    the DJ points out that CAL (The CyberAthlete Amateur League) has picked up Halo 2, starting in January. There’s no news yet – but the Halo 2 Division exists. More details to come!

  • Halo stunts outside the community

    Interesting. One of the very first vids I saw in Halo 2 was someone exploiting the 6 plasma shields on Delta Halo for Tank Launching – park your tank on the shields, and if it’s well-placed, it flies nicely when the shields regenerate. There have been 2 or 3 vids circulating around the community, showing…

  • G4TechTV – doing it again

    A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned Halo 2 Day on G4TechTV – a day devoted to Halo programming, coinciding with the release of the game. We forgot to go back and actually SUMMARIZE that content, after the fact – there’s quite a bit.Pretenders to the Halo Throne – games that didn’t quite measure upMasterpiece…

  • Halorama Redux

    About a year and a half ago, BOLL started creating panoramic views of Halo, using custom-built software and some video-captured footage. He’s back… with his first set of Halo 2 Panoramas. At this point, he’s using a modded controller to make his life easier, and he’s put together a nice little flash interface for viewing…

  • The Unabomber… with crayons.

    Red Vs Blue has posted a couple of Sponsor-only videos; you can’t download them unless you’re a sponsor (though you CAN comment on them – beauty of the new website). You’ll find them linked off the Videos page. There’s the intro video to the Penny Arcade Expo last summer, and a test vid in which…

  • Out in the Cold

    Red Leader points out that the newest episode of his ‘The Life’ comic centers around Halo 2. Sometimes, it’s not how strong you are… it’s your staying power.

  • Pathways Redux

    Normally, we keep Bungie-related news that’s not Halo-based on its own subsection of Bungie.org… but I’m not sure where Hamish is right now, so I don’t know when this news will make it onto the front page of the PiD section. Several days ago, Robin Osborne alerted us to Pathways Redux, a (then) upcoming mod…

  • Content around the net

    There’ve been a few articles posted in the past few days that have been passed over due to time constraints – here’s a list: Waterloo Cedar Falls (IA) Courier – Halo is taking over college campuses The Tennessean – kids say Halo is disappointing, but they keep playing CNN.com (review) – Halo 2 gets almost…

  • Ode to Bungie

    Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, over at the Junkyard, has started up the ‘Write a Poem for Bungie’ contest – well, actually, it starts up on Monday. No Haiku, unfortunately… but pretty much everything else is fair game. Lots o’ schwag for prizes. Check it out!

  • Frankie, Do You Remember Me?

    Bah. I spent far too much of yesterday taking care of business – I missed the day’s One One Se7en. It was doubly relevant given the fact that Frankie skipped yesterday’s Weekly What’s Update because of the Thanksgiving weekend. Go read!

  • Red Feather Ranch

    DocOctavius posted a new map he just finished for HaloCE; it’s called Red Feather Ranch, and it’s pretty gorgeous to look at. Really feels like the high hills of Colorado – as DocOc intended. The map’s quite large… but the two bases are actually pretty close together. I don’t know how it plays (haven’t had…

  • Who were these guys?

    BOLL found an interesting feature on a later level – does this tell us anything about the origins of the Forerunner, or is this just a coincidence? (Again, spoiler issues for folks who haven’t gotten here yet, but the Forerunner were a big part of the original Halo, as well.)

  • Now THAT\’S a gun.

    I’m STILL not finished with the new HBO/HIH Tricks site (this holiday week threw a glitch in a lot of projects), but there was a vid posted to our forum this morning which is pretty cool, and worth seeing. Gil27 managed to film the handheld Scarab gun – a plasma rifle, hidden away on Metropolis,…

  • Reasons to be thankful

    TeamXbox gave thanks for some Xbox-related stuff recently… Halo 2 Multiplayer made number one on the lsit of ten items. Nice! Thanks, Cybrfrk.

  • Banshee Boarding

    JesusLove submitted a fun little film showing a nice run of banshee boarding in single player. If you haven’t finished the Gas Giant section of the game, there are spoilers here. Otherwise, check this out; I tried it myself after watching this vid last night, and I must say, it’s pretty darned easy to fall…

  • A way to circumvent the spoiler system

    The last time I posted a spoiler-marked news item, I received a TON of email from people who have not figured out how to get their browser to properly set a cookie to view spoilers. There seem to be two groups with the problem: folks running MacOSX 10.2, and folks running Windows while using some…

  • The Arbiter\’s Army

    David “Chubigans” Galindo continues his cinematic style of video narrative with ‘The Arbiter’s Army’, a new piece putting the Spec-Ops Covenant forces fighting on Gas Giant and Delta Halo in a noble light. Really nice work! It’s available in WMP9 format (21.4 mb) at Mythica.org and bungie.org, or QuickTime format (17.5 mb) at Mythica.org and…