My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: February 2007

  • Mr. Smite, Indeed.

    The official World of Warcraft website has a monthly comic contest – the Honorable mentions for February were posted yesterday, and one of them is Halo-related. Thanks, JeSteR 343.(Louis Wu 17:13:31 UTC)

  • Verbal Foulacy: Profiling a Professional

    Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a profile of Foulacy; give it a read to see how he got to where he is. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:07:48 UTC)

  • Bless This Mess

    Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated 17 is now available. That Arbiter’s a mean guy…(Louis Wu 16:26:25 UTC)

  • Spotlight on Halo: Unyielding

    trigger119 pointed out a spotlight on Halo: Unyielding, an ongoing machinima project that integrates CGI into Halo footage – go read it over at GamingTV.org!(Louis Wu 15:33:26 UTC)

  • Mjolnir Mix downloadable for Guitar Hero II?

    Wow. The hot rumor of the morning seems to be that the upcoming Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II will have Halo’s ‘Mjolnir Mix’ as a downloadable song later this spring. Coffin Joe saw it last night at Xbox360Fanboy, but today you can find it at CVG, Xboxic, XBOX 360 Wire, MyGen, GamingNexus, OXM…

  • Halo Comic Announcement

    Our good friends at Marvel made a couple of nifty announcements regarding the upcoming (and as-yet, untitled) Halo comic series, and although they haven’t set a date yet, they did reveal that the artist and writer paired for the project are Alex Maleev and Brian Bendis, respectively.

  • Halo Comic Announcement

    Our good friends at Marvel made a couple of nifty announcements regarding the upcoming (and as-yet, untitled) Halo comic series, and although they haven’t set a date yet, they did reveal that the artist and writer paired for the project are Alex Maleev and Brian Bendis, respectively.

  • New Forums Site

    New forums site under construction.

  • Choker.

    Phil Spencer talked to Game Informer a little while ago, and said some weird stuff about the Halo 3 Beta. This, of course, gave Stuntmutt an opening for weird comments of his own – check today’s One One Se7en. (And with that, I’m off – airport in an hour, home, if all goes well, in…

  • Desperation

    Hawaiian Pig and Veegie have come up with another collaboration – a really cool scene rendered with in-game models by Veegie, then majorly customized by Pig. There’s a forum thread with multiple links, and it’s been added to Veegie’s gallery here at HBO, as well.(Louis Wu 12:53:34 UTC)

  • Pod TV Episode 5: Catch Skull

    iPod Version | YouTube Version It’s time to find out about another hidden skull in the Halo 2 campaign: The catch skull. This skull makes the covenant throw a bunch of grenades at you. Cryptoflix, the new Pod TV lead, walks us through the process in this 10 minute video. Keep ’em coming, Crypto! ‹…

  • $2 Xbox 360 Games @ BestBuy Monday Feb 26

    Disclaimer: This information is unconfirmed and may be a hoax. Furthermore, it has received mass attention on fatwallet, digg, cheap ass gamers, and IGN boards. If you plan to buy any of these at the sale price you should be there early or hope to be extremely lucky. Lastly, local BestBuys will not have all…

  • Farewell to Ju Blaine

    Back in the day we realized we would need a forum for our fledgeling podcast. Since we didn’t have the spiffy site you see here, we needed a quick fix. So we set up shop as a Bungie.net group. A guy named Ju Blaine approached me saying we should probably have a moderator on the…

  • The Godtacular Bible study returns!

    After a long hiatus and some soul searching, Godtacular is being revived. What is Godtacular? It’s a Bible study done in a Halo 2 lobby. ChuckieJ will be hosting it and I’ll be hangin’ there too. What does are we going to talk about? This time it’s a discussion-oriented study called “Setting you free to…

  • The Arbiter Model Project, Part 2

    The More Deluded posted another batch of pictures of his Arbiter Model project – it suffered a few setbacks (see the forum post for details), but overall, it’s looking pretty good! Check it out.(Louis Wu 20:53:58 UTC)

  • The Riot 37

    Sigafoos writes to let us know that The Riot 37 is now up – community updates, the upcoming Halo comic, laser tag toys, and more. Enjoy the newly-designed Second Foundation website when you go! 31 minutes, 12.5 mb.(Louis Wu 20:34:44 UTC)

  • Wow Moments

    A couple of days ago, Major Silva mentioned a blog post he’d written, in which he lamented the scarcity of ‘Wow moments’ in Halo 2. (I’m not sure I understand what a ‘Wow moment’ is, actually – he says they’re the moments that are more movielike than what’s around them, but also more immersive than…

  • All the fun of the fair

    Rockslider has posted a new Frontline with Suzie – sounds like she should be having fun, but I’m not sure she is…(Louis Wu 17:52:23 UTC)

  • Halo Comic Team Announced

    New York Comic Con is going on right now – and one of the announcements that was made during the Cup O’ Joe panel last night was that the creative team that will bring the ongoing Halo comic to life had been decided on – Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. (Google ’em for more…

  • Hollywood Arts Auction Update

    Two of the three cool Bungie-related auctions benefitting Hollywood Arts ended yesterday – and longtime community member Kornman is taking home the life-sized Master Chief statue and the tour of Bungie Studios. Ding to his wallet: $2700. Nice haul for underprivileged children! The Halo Signed Swag Pack went for $610 – sounds like an awesome…