My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: February 2007

  • February Halo Wars Update

    Mike Smith pointed out a new update over at the Halo Wars forum – very little real information, but they DO seem to have a playable version, because a bunch of Microsoft bigwigs came by to play. There’s also an enigmatic image at the bottom of the post; I thought it was a ‘magic picture’…

  • Warner buys Halo music publishing rights

    Over at Music4Games, you can read about a new licensing agreement between Microsoft and Warner/Chappell Music (the publishing arm of Warner Music Group) – Warner will now “claim, administer, and license music compositions owned and controlled by Microsoft, including […] Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2.” The agreement covers the upcoming Halo 3, as well.…

  • An automated vasectomy clinic?

    Weebl’s Stuff was lucky enough to rate a tour of Bungie Studios recently – it’s not clear how many NDAs they violated documenting what they saw, so read it while you can! Thanks, Hypersoldier.(Louis Wu 18:16:35 UTC)

  • Listening to the Lightbulb and the Chief

    Game Informer Online has released a podcast with Tim Dadabo (343 Guilty Spark) and Steve Downes (Master Chief) – an interesting interview about how the whole voice-acting thing works. It’s a fascinating half-hour discussion with two guys who are pretty close to the development process (though both of them deny knowing any inside info). Go…

  • You Can’t Beat It.

    Today’s One One Se7en looks at a potentially under-considered hazard of the upcoming Halo 3 Laser Command toy set… though anyone with small boys (or, for that matter, anyone who WAS a small boy or KNEW a small boy) could have predicted this.(Louis Wu 15:26:35 UTC)

  • Bungie Swagse

    A few days ago, we mentioned that Kornman won one of the three Hollywood Arts Halo auctions. In an odd turn of events, the top bidder in one of the other two, the Swag Pack, dropped out, and Kornman was the second highest bidder there – so he picked THAT one up, too. He was…

  • Bad News Beta

    Sane Intolerant pointed out Bad News Beta, an episode of his Halo Toy Box strip. Oddness…(Louis Wu 15:12:34 UTC)

  • Master Replicas Gets in the Game

    Okay, so we already knew about Gentle Giant, WizKids Games, and Kotobukiya getting into the Halo Action Figure market (just as Joyride gets out) – looks like a fourth company is in, too. Corgi International, makers of Master Replicas, will be releasing Halo-related “gifts and collectibles” in the coming year. (They’ll also be distributing the…

  • Knowing your spouse

    Dry Ice has a pretty nice wife – check out the goodies he got for his last birthday, totally unprompted. If you find someone like that… don’t let her go.(Louis Wu 14:54:44 UTC)

  • Free Subscribtion to Games for Windows Magazine

    “We’ve teamed up with Ziff-Davis, the publishers behind Games for Windows: TOM, to give away 25,000 free 1-year subscriptions (to US readers only … sorry!). How free? You won’t need to provide your credit card information; your subscription won’t be automatically renewed at the end of the year; and you will need to “opt-in” to…

  • New Poll in the Forums!

    We just put a highly invasive and nosy poll in the Forums – asking if you bought your Xbox console just for Halo, or for some other reason. Which would be stupid, obviously. Anyway, go rock the vote in the polls HERE!

  • New Poll in the Forums!

    We just put a highly invasive and nosy poll in the Forums – asking if you bought your Xbox console just for Halo, or for some other reason. Which would be stupid, obviously. Anyway, go rock the vote in the polls HERE!

  • Send in stuff for episode 103: Halo 3 show!

    A storm is brewing on the horizon. Thunder rolls and the air smells of wet asphault and dust. It’s deathly calm and an eerie silence blankets the gaming landscape. Halo 3 is coming. It’s the calm before the storm. The latest with Halo 3 We haven’t done a Halo 3 show in a little while.…

  • Stats db maintenance

    Halo 2 stats are offline for quick maintenance

  • Stats db maintenance

    Halo 2 stats are offline for quick maintenance

  • Tied the Leader makes us work

    It’s Tuesday, which usually means a Tied the Leader update – but we’ve heard nothing from our gunslinging friends, so I visited all by my lonesome, and found some tasty stuff. There’s a 22 Questions interview with Michael ‘Fluffaluffer’ Karlsson, the leader of Planet Halo, there’s an interesting piece called ‘Century Milestone’, which looks at…

  • Halo Heads – Live Again

    In the last 6 months, we’ve chronicled the release of 50 episodes of the Halo Heads comic on these pages… but a couple of weeks ago, fans started noticing that the site was unreachable. An unfortunate disaster had occurred, and the original blogspot website was gone – but never fear, a replacement has been created!…

  • What… it couldn’t have gone $400 higher?

    That Halo 3 Voice Cameo auction ended yesterday… the winning bidder paid a whopping $7,300 to be immortalized, vocally, in Halo 3. Now THAT’S fanaticism! Thanks, Kornman.(Louis Wu 17:42:09 UTC)

  • Halopen Opens The Process

    xbryboyremix pointed out a collection of useful pages for machinima makers, part of a new section of the Halopen Films website. The Process has opened with ‘How to Film’, a page showing three common ways to get Xbox content into your computer, and ‘Guidelines’, a tutorial that can help you make better machinima. Go give…

  • Ms Da Man

    One of the more impressive Halo 1 tricksters, over the years, has been Ms Man – and now all of his work has been collected in one section of High Impact Halo, thanks to Dantheman87. A friendly wave to Ducain, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)