My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: October 2005

  • MLG Cranks Out the Content

    Bunch of new content over at MLGPro.com – you can find the second half of Dyslexia’s MLG LA writeup (great read), an interview with Team3D (great podium shot), and some more video on demand from MLG LA. Thanks, 3Suns.

  • Dropshock Halo 2 Podcast

    We got word that DropShock, a new Halo podcast, just released episode 3. In their words, it has an M rating. (This means it’s loaded with sexual humor and ethnic jokes.) You might need to follow the Feedburner RSS feed to actually download the shows.

  • Team3D on Up-Close Strats

    FI3ND and OGRE1 teamed up to bring you a ‘noob guide’ to up-close strategies – worth reading, no matter what your level! Check it out.

  • Be The Zombie.

    Hehe – there are three new commercial spots, running Sunday and Monday on the Sci-Fi Channel, for Stubbs the Zombie… but if you don’t want to wait, they’ve been put up in the Stubbs the Zombie website Gallery. Funny stuff!

  • Save the seeds. Dispose of the rest.

    Wow. The deadline for entries to our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest is coming up fast (just 3 and a half days left)… and we’ve got two brand-new prizes to toss on the pile! Both Steve Downes, voice of the Master Chief, and Tim Dadabo, voice of 343 Guilty Spark, have agreed to contribute the…

  • A Stubbs development post-mortem, of sorts

    Over at Wideloadgames.org, the second half of the Glenda Adams interview has been posted. (We mentioned part 1 last week.) Lots of good technical info on why some of the choices that got made went the way they did; I find it amusing that PC retailers are STILL unwilling to go with a DVD-only SKU,…

  • It’ll Be His Helmet Next.

    Stuntmutt continues to obsess about Spartan 458 in today’s One One Se7en. I wanted to high-five Cortana at the end of this one.

  • Friday Fanfic

    Wow. I looked on Wednesday, and there were only 3 stories in the Fan Fiction queue. This morning… there were 17. Busy Thursday, I guess! Go read.

  • Are you going to the Mackies?

    The official film selections for the 2005 Machinima Film Festival were posted yesterday – and nominations for the awards themselves went up on Wednesday. There are a LOT of familiar names in there… on both lists. Go check ’em out! The Awards Ceremony will be held in Astoria, NY on November 12 – good luck…

  • Bargain Bin Costume

    Halo Babies has put up a Halloween-themed strip today… I’m LOVING it. Go read!

  • Yesterday was a busy day

    A couple of bits of site news… the forum thread started yesterday, discussing the merits of keeping the original voice actors for many of the Halo roles, has garnered quite a bit of attention (including some from a couple of the voice actors themselves); the thread is almost 200 posts long, and a large percentage…

  • Halo Nation Halloween Episode

    Halo Podcast Morning, I guess – Halo Nation has posted their newest ‘cast, called ‘HALO-ween Special’. Go listen!

  • Waterworks covered in newest Podtacular

    Podtacular Ep 19 went live yesterday – it covers Waterworks. Apologies to Foo Mo Jive, who sent mail early, but got buried in the auction work. Go listen!

  • Inside the Bungie Offices

    Mat Noguchi gave a studio tour to Scobelizer, of Channel 9 – it’s pretty heavy on the geek side of Mat’s job (and Halo development in general), but for those who like that stuff, it’s pretty interesting. Vid is tiny, but quite watchable. Thanks to Mat, who was FIRST!!, and to Odyon, who noticed it…

  • Blow Me Away – Live!

    It’s been in the planning stages for a long time – but it’s finally here! “Blow Me Away”, the charity auction to benefit hurricane victims, supplied by Bungie (and a couple of generous fans) and administered by us, is finally on! The first item is already available at eBay. Subsequent items will be added every…

  • Marine

    Theo Prins has sent along another piece of art. He calls it ‘Marine’. He says it’s not DIRECTLY from Halo… I’m loving the light, though.

  • MLG Midweek News

    3Suns points out a new batch of Video on Demand footage available at MLGPro.com – 1v1 footage from MLG LA. There’s also a note explaining that Tekken 5 tournaments will be discontinued… and that the money remaining in the Tekken 5 pool (nearly $20,000) will be redistributed to Halo and Super Smash Brothers tourneys. Nice!…

  • Games, Movies, and the Links

    5 months ago, the Halo movie was confirmed to be a reality, and since then, there’s been a little information, a lot of speculation, and even some silliness – but one thing that we really know nothing about yet is who will be acting. Halo stands in a unique position with respect to a crossover…

  • Spartan 458 – Officially

    Tempus Fugit pointed out an article at TeamXbox – Tecmo and Bungie formally announced the inclusion of Spartan 458 in Dead or Alive 4. (Yeah, we’ve all seen screenshots… but, well… Frankie put it best in this post.)

  • PraetoriaGuard, Episode 4 – Redux

    A couple of weeks ago, PraetoriaGuard posted their fourth comedy montage – this morning, it was submitted to the Movie Peer Review Rating System. They don’t need hosting… but all that’s available on their site is a high-res WMP9 that weighs in at 121 mb, and a lower-res version that weighs in at 36 mb…