My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: March 2007

  • Mark April 17 on your Calendar

    Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a new Top Story – it’s a look at two new maps soon to be available for download ($4 for the pair). Tombstone and Desolation are remakes of Hang ‘Em High and Derelict, respectively, and there are screenshots in the Halo 2 Gallery. It’ll be really interesting to see if…

  • New Halo 2 Maps Revealed!

    At last we reveal the two downloadable Halo 2 maps coming later this year. And no, it’s not an April Fool’s. Screens and info inside.

  • The Five O’Clock Guru Episode 1

    trigger119, over at GamingTV, pointed out a new video from the Machine Enema crew – it’s called ‘The Five O’Clock Guru Episode 1’, and it’s… out there. REALLY out there. It’s hilarious – but it’s not what you expect. Pesto might turn out to be the best Halo machinima character since RvB’s Tex. The episode…

  • Custom Halo Theme in Guitar Hero II

    In early April, Guitar Hero II will be released for the Xbox 360, and speculation has it that the Halo theme will be available for play (possibly as an unlockable). Someone didn’t want to wait – over at GameTrailers, you can see a custom version of the song done on the PS2 version of the…

  • Rolling On

    Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has finished up his comparison of Gears of War and Halo 2 (apparently, it’s my fault he’s stopping at three segments) – this one looks at story and music. While earlier versions had Narcogen pointing out things that Gears might have done better than Halo, this one is pretty negative about…

  • Foulacy, Legendz, and FBI Icon – MLG Floweth Over

    3Suns pointed out a raft of new content over at MLGPro.com – there’s player match commentary from Foulacy, an interview with Legendz, and an interview with FBI Icon (a lesser-known team, but one with high hopes). Go read, go watch! (Louis Wu 14:42:29 UTC)

  • Midship Strats at TPC

    Over at ThePanicAttacks, NoFXRaven has written up an article on Midship strategies – give it a read if you have trouble figuring out how far Carbine is from Top Pink. Thanks, Jobyn.(Louis Wu 14:23:52 UTC)

  • Checkpoint delaying

    Rockslider has written up an article about checkpoint delaying – ways to manipulate WHEN Halo gives you a checkpoint, rather than allowing the game to dictate how this happens. (As with all of his work so far, this information is relevant to Halo, not Halo 2.) Take a look!(Louis Wu 14:19:21 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Worries

    BitMaP stopped by with a new, Halo-related episode of Strouperman – here’s hoping the prediction at the end is not true!(Louis Wu 13:33:22 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fanfic

    Is it becoming a trend? Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section again this week. Go read.(Louis Wu 13:28:22 UTC)

  • In the hole

    Sluty bk stopped by to point out a video he’d posted on YouTube; forum reaction was quite positive. (I’m not sure I ‘got’ it.) See for yourself!(Louis Wu 13:04:02 UTC)

  • Gears of Halo, Part Three

    Louis Wu says this article is supposed to have three parts, so I guess this is the end. Weapons? Covered. Characters? Covered. NPC behaviors? Covered. Cover? Covered. What’s left? Oh, right. Story. Plot Holes You Could Drive A Warthog Through Normally, when one is talking about plot holes, one is referring to elements of a…

  • Shadowrun news site on thx.com

    The Hushed Casket is hosting a Shadowrun blog and news site at http://shadowrun.hushedcasket.com. The site is full of the latest Shadowrun information with reports as they are released or, well, invited by the writers. Since the site is powered by beta testers, it should have in depth coverage of the game. Thanks to EnragedGnome for…

  • Grand Theft Auto IV trailer

    XBOX.com has the first trailer for GTAIV. XBOX.com also listed the release date at October 16, 2007 on the GTAIV game page. (download .zip archive of trailer from xbox.com) I have to say that the in-game graphics looks very good, especially for there to be so many moving avatars and characters on screen. I’ll give…

  • I LIKED Chiron.

    Wow, cool. Bungie’s posted a new Letters to the Webmaster! (Last batch went up in January 2006 – been a while.) I’d say the Webmaster’s been drinking – but that would be uselessly obvious information. Thanks, Brodingo.(Louis Wu 22:35:39 UTC)

  • Letters to the Webmaster

    The Webmaster is back. Fat lot of good that’s going to do you. Misplaced letters answered by a drunken monkey.

  • The Halo Effect

    Over at GameSetWatch, you’ll find a short review of a new Halo book called ‘The Halo Effect’ – it was posted last week, but I’ve held off mentioning it because I wanted to post my OWN review. (The book includes significant amounts of work from two of the three Halo Story Page editors – Finn…

  • MMaster Talks MMachinima with GGTV

    Over at GamingTV, you’ll find an interview with machinima creator MMaster, conducted by GTV moderator Soupa. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:55:23 UTC)

  • What Not To Do In Halo 2

    Black Aye pointed out a new film by a new machinima clan, Mystik Films. Go see what they’re up to.(Louis Wu 15:26:32 UTC)

  • MARVELous

    Sane Intolerant let us know about a new Halo Toy Box episode – given that Marvel’s going to be doing an episodic Halo comic soon, he thought it might be good for Halo denizens to meet their new neighbors.(Louis Wu 14:51:11 UTC)