My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: September 2006

  • Peter Jackson – Telling Stories

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Xboxyde also talked to Peter Jackson about his upcoming Halo stuff – if you were a little fuzzy about what he’s got planned, read this – you’ll probably get a little MORE fuzzy. Nonetheless, it’s an expansion on the ideas he expressed during the press conference, and who knows? Maybe your brain works better than…

  • Omega Team V1E1

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Random Outburst Productions submitted the extensively-titled ‘OMEGA TEAM Volume: 1 Episode: 1 “A More Perfect Federation”‘ – it’s got an RvB vibe (right down to the censorable language). Pretty funny – the MPRRS said ‘yep’, so we’re offering you a WMP9 version (29.1 mb) or a Quicktime version (30.8 mb)… grab your favorite poison.(Louis Wu…

  • MS Suits Talk Halo Wars

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Xboxyde has posted a Q&A with Phil Spencer (GM of Microsoft Game Studios Publishing) and Dave Luehmann (GM of MGS Internal Developing) about Halo Wars, collected during X06. More than anything posted in the last three days, this makes me a little apprehensive… but read it for yourself. Maybe I’m just overreacting. Thanks to broony…

  • Cooler Xbox 360 CPU Rumored For 2007

    —

    by

    narcogen
    in

    Supernostro pointed out an article at IGN suggesting that in Q1 of 2007, the CPU in the Xbox 360 will get an upgrade that will make the console more reliable: Chartered Semiconductor will update the 360 CPU to a 65nm process, the current state-of-the-art in chip manufacturing techniques. The new Xbox 360 CPUs will benefit…

  • Static (Teaser)

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Dennis Powers stopped by to point out a teaser for Static, a new series from Halo CE Chronicles. Film style of the teaser is reminiscent of the Halo 3 trailer, and hints at a darker storyline than earlier HCEC work. Stay tuned!(Louis Wu 12:38:54 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fiction

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Ten new stories today in the Fan Fiction section today. And you’re waiting for…?(Louis Wu 12:29:30 UTC)

  • Grunt Toon

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Retsof-Noraa put together a small Grunt Flash Toon, hosted over at DeviantART… should bring a smile to your face.(Louis Wu 12:23:49 UTC)

  • And now for something completely different.

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    ESKAY RULZ. That is all.(Louis Wu 12:16:12 UTC)

  • Delivering Halo Through RTS

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    CanMag has written up a first look at Halo Wars, and what it might mean for the Halo franchise. (It echoes a lot of points made multiple times on our forum, but a forum post doesn’t get the same viewing audience, generally, as an article in a big online mag.) Go read.(Louis Wu 12:15:42 UTC)

  • Beating Your Children, Bungie-Style

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    A REAL Halo Humpday Challenge happened this week after all – offspring of Bungie employees came in and gave Bungie employees a whuppin’. That is – until KP showed up. The first game was a rout – the kids ruled. Games 2 and 3 were a bit different… and the difference wears a red cape,…

  • Cooler Xbox 360 CPU Rumored For 2007

    —

    by

    Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo
    in

    Supernostro pointed out an article at IGN suggesting that in Q1 of 2007, the CPU in the Xbox 360 will get an upgrade that will make the console more reliable: Chartered Semiconductor will update the 360 CPU to a 65nm process, the current state-of-the-art in chip manufacturing techniques. The new Xbox 360 CPUs will benefit…

  • News Roundup For September 29

    —

    by

    narcogen
    in

    More links about the ever-expanding Halo universe: WarCry: Peter Jackson Into Games, Working on New “Halo” TeamXbox: Video of Storytelling panel at X06 featuring Jackson, Frankie, and Peter Molyneux IGN: Video interview with Bungie’s Marty O’Donnell Hollywood Reporter: Peter Jackson buddies with Microsoft for video game studio HBO: The audio portion of Microsoft’s X06 presentation…

  • News Roundup For September 29

    —

    by

    Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo
    in

    More links about the ever-expanding Halo universe: WarCry: Peter Jackson Into Games, Working on New “Halo” TeamXbox: Video of Storytelling panel at X06 featuring Jackson, Frankie, and Peter Molyneux IGN: Video interview with Bungie’s Marty O’Donnell Hollywood Reporter: Peter Jackson buddies with Microsoft for video game studio HBO: The audio portion of Microsoft’s X06 presentation…

  • A kid in the candy store

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Great video interview with Marty O’Donnell over at IGN – Marty talks about sound design, and emotion tweaking. Good stuff! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 22:55:32 UTC)

  • Doodle THIS.

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Pinkuh calls them doodles (here and here, on the forum, or here, and here, in her gallery). I say pshaw.(Louis Wu 22:45:38 UTC)

  • Humpday: Bungie Offspring

    —

    by

    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    in

    Bungie’s been frantically searching for opponents we can beat in order to raise our morale. This week, we finally found our match: Bungie’s children! That’s right, Bungie beats its own children.

  • Halo 2 Vista Screens from X06

    —

    by

    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    in

    Bungie was pretty busy yesterday in Barcelona, not only with the two big announcements but also in showing off Halo 2 Vista. Today we’ve added the screenshots they released to the Halo 2 Vista section of the site, so go check them out!

  • Storytelling Roundtable

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    The roundtable discussion about storytelling in games this morning at X06 between Peter Jackson, Greg Zeschuk (Bioware) and Peter Molyneux (Lionhead) – moderated by Frankie – has been put online, in its entirety, by TeamXbox, in WMP9 format (almost 200mb). I haven’t had time to watch more than a couple of minutes – but grab…

  • Out of the gate at a flat run

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    Hmm… this is pretty bizarre… Team Xbox has Halo Wars on the list of games arriving in time for the holidays this year; I have a little trouble believing that, since that means they pretty much need to have sent it to the duplicators by now… but hey, stranger things have happened. I say, until…

  • Unused Halo 2 Animation Clip

    —

    by

    HBO
    in

    I’m not sure how good an idea this is, but… BARBARIC RAGE stumbled across the portfolio of the Treanor Brothers, a 3D Animation and Cinematics company – apparently, they created a a 10 second web trailer for the launch of the Halo 2 website back in 2004. As far as I know, it was never…