My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2000

  • “Who has Matt’s Halo update?”

    Well the HBO staff here are playing one of their favorite games, no not resetting Louis’ desktopprefs but “Who has Matt’s Halo update?” So far we haven’t been lucky. Either Matt didn’t sendone out or it’s sitting in someone’s mailbox! WAKE UP AND LOOK!

  • Bungie Chat Wednesday

    “Bungie Chat Wednesday” says IGN Xbox. This is the big one! Next Wednesday IGN Xbox will be hosting a chat withmembers of the Bungie development team, giving you an opportunity to kick off your holiday vacations with a little Bungie cheer. We’ll be releasing details about the chat on Monday, so check back for all…

  • Halo Center gets a forum upgrade

    fire phoenix writes to say that Halo Center has just had a forum upgrade, with several new and improved features. You can try the General Discussion forum or the Clan Discussion forum… go experiment! Pax.

  • Wallpaper section updated

    Thanks to RazzBlade, who submitted three variations on a theme for our Wallpaper section. Fogged Halo… nice touch! Pax.

  • Spot the similarity

    Deja vu? Our good friend Tim Jenks over at Haloplayers (got Matt’s update yet?)sent us this note:take a look at: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/snap.jpg then: http://www.haloplayers.com/newbies/vehicles.php3blatent rip off imhonot to put a dampner on the release of a new site, but i find that a bit out of line.That’s not cricket.

  • Khen Rigzin’s Halo page

    Khen Rigzin sends word that he’s working on a new Halo site. It ain’t up yet but he sent us in a snapshot of the main page. Now the snapshot he sent in was over 2 MegaBs which took ages to download on the 33.6K modem Louis left us. So we cut the pic down…

  • “Beware false prophets.”

    “Beware false prophets.” says Matt Soell. Matt lays down the smack on the recent Cortana scams on r.net. The “real” Cortana is not a gloryhound or smurf.Beware false prophets.HBO Spin: False prophets. They’re everywhere. Can’t stand ’em.

  • The Arbiter comes alive

    Nabisco Lobstrosity drops a note on our forum that the Arbiter, a Covenant clan, is back online and ready to rock. Swing by and take a look! Pax.

  • Louis scores 25

    Where’s Louis? Concerned HBO staff are to start wearing thought screen helmets after Louis scores 25 in the Alien Abduction Survey.HBO spin: We couldn’t think of one.

  • SETI server chokes

    The SETI team ranks page hasn’t been updated since Sat (Dec 9) so NO we haven’t been slackin’ on the SETI stats. The Halo SETI Marines are still crunchin’ away and team membership is solid. Help the war effort this Christmas… buy Covenant bonds. Pax.

  • Realistic violence in Oni removed

    While a number of sites have already mentioned the games.macnn.com editorial on the lack of ‘realistic violence’ in Oni the Story page goes further and asks what effect this will have on Bungie’s Halo? If the editorial is correct in suggesting that the ‘realistic violence’ was removed to achieve increased sales in the console market…

  • Wallpaper section updated

    We’ve had a couple of recent desktop submissions… we apologize for the delay in getting them up. One is a beautiful gas-cloud pic, the other an enhanced screenshot. You’ll find both of them in our Wallpaper section. Pax.

  • cortana.org opens with a…

    As noted by Electric Sheep on our forum, cortana.org has gone live with some intriguing info. A quick registry search shows that this domain was registered on December 5th by Steve Campbell, a long-time Bungie fan with some interesting contacts in and around Bungie Software… one wonders, what’s behind this domain, and where is it…

  • cooperative play on solo levels?

    Bitner Blitz! Nathan Bitner returns with another posting spree. One postcaught our attention. It concerns cooperative play on Halo’s solo levels.”We REALLY like cooperative play on solo levels. REALLY like it. A lot.” But as Nathan says “Don’t count on ANYTHING until Bungie announces it”.

  • Matt’s cryptic post

    Looks like next Friday’s Halo update will be going to Haloplayers. Leastthat’s our reading of Matt Soell’s cryptic post on our forums. If any new site deserves it Haloplayers do. They’ve been around for a long time now and regularly update. But what of this line? “Someday soon, we’ll all be hangin’ ten and none…

  • A lot could happen between now and March.

    Matt Soell takes time out to help clarify Jason and John’s involvement at next year’s Game Developers Conference on our forums and goes on to hint at the possibility of seeing some new Halo stuff before March 2001. “A lot could happen between now and March.” We live in hope.

  • Halo Center under new management

    fire phoenix informs us that Halo Center is now undernew management. Yrro left and fire phoenix is the new site manager.

  • Halo at GDC 2001

    According to a report over at the Marathon’s Storypage Jason Jones and John Howard will be talking about Halo at the Game Developers Conference 2001. Their talk is entitled Halo: A Case Study. No other details are available yet but an abstract is forthcoming. Kudos to Sean Phelps who sent this in to the Story…

  • A Fire Upon the Deep and Halo have a common theme

    Hamish “Godot” Sinclair over at the Marathon’s Story page has spotted a similarity between the Halo story and Vernor Vinge’s “A Fire Upon the Deep”. A genocidal alien alliance attempts to wipe out humanity and a lone human ship escapes with the alien fleet in hot pursuit! Weeee doggie! Another book to add to our…

  • Halo Tip URL change.

    Kaidu informs us that the Halo Tip site has changed their URL to http://www.halotip.com.