My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: September 2005

  • The Squadron Ep 5: Location Location Location

    Broken Console Productions has posted Episode 5 of their ongoing machinima, The Squadron – grab it from their Videos page. Things are about to heat up… writing is a fun mixture of serious and silly, filming is topnotch. Go watch! (19.3 mb in WMP9 format, 18.1 in QT.)

  • Pick Up Artist.

    Hehe – I have SO acted out today’s One One Se7en in real games… man. Sometimes, a comic just hits home. (Though Stuntmutt assures me that he had someone completely different in mind when he wrote this particular strip…)

  • Ode to the Zed Word

    TychoVII sent word of a video he and some friends finished up over the summer. In his words, it’s “a blend of the infamous Halo 2 gametype ‘Zombies’ and the movie ‘Shaun of the Dead’ using songs from the SOTD soundtrack.” It’s funny, well-filmed, and showed me a number of cool jumping tricks to use…

  • I Love Bees, Reordered – Parts 7 and 8

    Two more episodes have gone up in Webshift’s reordered I Love Bees audio files. Things are starting to get crazy – go listen!

  • More montages at H2F

    Z sends word of another pair of montages at Halo2Forum.com – one is a trailer – Crypty teases for his upcoming montage vid with very nice editing reminiscent of Dan Chosich’s Framework vid from a couple of years ago (15.8 mb), and OscarMayerNinja’s Montage 4 is five minutes of effect-laden sticks and snipes (63.3 mb).…

  • More on Origen360

    Well, I was wrong – there IS some Halo-related content in the OrigenXbox360.com website… the TeamXbox people snagged the XML file that contains all (well, maybe not all) the actual content, hidden or not, on the site – you’d think they’d have learned to protect that by now – and apparently, two of the available…

  • Halo Theme – Live, on Video

    Wow, very cool. This is the first clip I’ve seen of the Video Games Live production of the Halo music – visit this page, as of right now it’s the first ‘Live Performance’ (a few down from the top). Short film, but makes me want to see that show! Thanks to Schedonnardus for the heads-up.

  • Halo Movie Discussion Has a Home

    I hesitate to post this, because the LAST new website Bungie touted went offline for bandwidth overages within a few hours… but hey, they’re still up now. Halo Movie Online was set up to discuss ‘the latest rumors and facts as they come forward’ about the Halo movie. (Here’s hoping all the ‘who do YOU…

  • Sponsors vs Freeloaders Ep 8 Teaser

    Sponsors vs Freeloaders Episode 8 will be coming out a bit over a week – but they’ve posted a teaser to whet your appetite. (If you haven’t seen this series, you really should watch the later episodes – the actual storyline kicks off around episode 5, and since then they’ve been getting better and better.)…

  • I Love Bees, Reordered – Parts 5 and 6

    The re-ordered I Love Bees files continue in their release schedule – episodes 5 and 6 are now available. All of the files so far have been mp3-encoded WAV files… but apparently, some folks have had trouble with them, so we’re also making straight MP3 versions available as well. (If you aren’t having trouble with…

  • Halo 2 Jump Tournament

    Coot dropped us a line about an upcoming Halo 2 Jump Tournament – rules and prizes can be found in this thread on the High Impact Halo forum. Signups close on October 15, so get jumping!

  • Fan-compiled weapons info

    UNSCDF wanted folks to take a look at his website – he and M6D have been working on characterizing the weapons in Halo and Halo 2. It’s a freewebs site, so be gentle.

  • Tied the Leader Weekly Update

    XerxdeeJ wrote with a weekly update for his Tied the Leader blog. There’s a rant against a modder (who was banned about an hour after the game in question was played), an opportunity to buy a rubber bracelet for a worthy cause, a great recounting of a very personal battle, and a hilarious poster stolen…

  • Of Rabbits, and Trees…

    For the 8 million people mailing us about the OrigenXbox360.com website… thanks. You can stop now. This has nothing to do with Halo (yeah, I know, it’s another ARG, but it’s a bit wider this time than the Halo franchise), and it seems to be a Europe-only promotion (that is, there is no American flag…

  • French firm makes deal for mobile Halo rights

    Bizarre – IN-FUSIO, a French mobile-games maker, has made a deal with Microsoft giving them rights to make mobile games (and other products, like ringtones) based on the game. Ringtones, I can understand… but mobile games based on Halo? What, like Blood Covenant? (Blood Covenant is fan-made, and has nothing to do with In-Fusio… it’s…

  • MLG Regular Season Photo Essay

    MLGPro.com has posted a photo essay as a retrospective of their first full Halo 2 season of play. Go put faces to names! Thanks, 3Suns.

  • Podcasts, podcasts, everywhere

    Wow, busy morning – lots of Halo news has come in, without being posted. Sorry. First up – it’s podcast day, i guess. Podtacular! has posted episode 10 – 1:24 (that’s hours:minutes, not minutes:seconds), 31 mb large (map focus is Terminal), and H=MC2 has posted episode 3 – 38 minutes long, 17.4 mb, highlight is…

  • SvF Fan Art

    After watching the most recent episodes of Sponsors vs Freeloaders, Elnea was inspired to create a piece of fan art illustrating a scene in Episode 7. We’ve added it to her art collection here. As she says, this is “fan art of a fan series about a fan series about a video game” – shades…

  • I Love Bees, Reordered – Parts 3 and 4

    We continue with the release of the remixed I Love Bees audio files Webshift has put together; Episodes 3 and 4 are now available for download. Relive last summer’s magic!

  • ArcXnuS – Upcoming

    A group called Silhouette-Robin Productions recently came to our attention when the trailer for ArcXnuS, the “first full length halo 2 machinima trilogy” (their description), passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System. They weren’t looking for hosting, just feedback – it’s a short trailer, but the reviewers liked the way it told its story. Go…