My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2001

  • Details about cover art

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    Eep, nearly missed this. Eric followed up his submission of the Fall of Reach cover with some information about the artwork, posted to our forum. Check it out!

  • Official Fall of Reach Cover

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    Goodness… every once in a while, we get lucky. Eric Trautmann, Content Developer with Microsoft’s Licensing Group, sent along a MUCH nicer version of the cover of the upcoming novel, ‘Fall of Reach’. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section, because… well, it’s art. The text on the back matches the content of Random…

  • FAQ overhauled

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    Major overhauls to the HBO FAQ, by Mark Levin – many pages have been worked on. Weapons and vehicles updated, and much info on game content has been updated. Check it out! (Thanks, Mark!)

  • More Wallpaper and Misc Art

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    More uploaded art from the fans – Matt (uh…#5?) sends in a rockin’ Covenant for our Miscellaneous Art section, and Joker continues his Marine modeling – this time we get the head and upper torso, both as a separate render, and blended into a nice desktop for our Wallpaper section. Good stuff!

  • Rampancy.net Emails Also Down

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    In case anyone needs to reach us, the @rampancy.net email addresses also aren’t working, and won’t be functional for awhile. This also goes for the @paxnimbus.com addresses, which were on the same server.I can be reached at mailto:dmjossel@synfibers.com target= top” >dmjossel@synfibers.com; Noc at mailto:noctavis@xmission.com target= top” >noctavis@xmission.com.

  • Patriotic Wallpaper

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    In honor of those who fell on September 11, and those who are now fighting, Michael Maddox sends in a patriotic Halo desktop. You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.

  • Departing Twilight… worth the read

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    Wow. Go read Gordi’s latest story, ‘Departing Twilight’, the second chapter of his as-yet-untitled series. This one’s good. (Be sure to comment on it, and other Fan Fiction, so that authors can get a feel for how their work is percieved.)

  • Welcome to Rampancy Beta

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    Well, if you’ve gotten this far you’ve probably already seen somewhere else that the live rampancy.net site has had a hardware failure. We hope to have it operating again soon.In the meantime, take the time for an early peek at our new site system. We’ll be posting our news items here for the time being,…

  • Xbox Hard Drive Reduced from 10GB to 8GB

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    ActiveXbox site claims Microsoft confirms change Ok, bear with us while we follow the breadcrumbs on this one.Ramses II posted an the halo.bungie.org forum about this story he saw at Shacknews about the Xbox’s specs dropping again.Shacknews posted a link to an Xbox news site called ActiveXbox (clever, eh?) where someone named Byron Hinson had…

  • Rampancy.net troubles

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    Ouch! Rampancy.net, as some may have noticed, is mostly down right now. A hard drive died today… and the replacement won’t be there for at least a day, maybe two. In the meantime, news will be moved to http://synfibers.com/rampancy/. Folks are welcome to use the forums there, as well, though you should be warned that…

  • Evihcra Will Host Halo Mods

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    Fm says PC/Mac Halo out shortly after Xbox version Credit Louis Wu at bungie.org for noticing this item, although somehow it slipped by us all for more than a week.http://www.evihcra.com/imgs/site0/wrapper/evihcra_wrapper_01.jpg alt= hspace= 15 vspace= 15 align= left” >Frigidman of The Mill fame has posted a notice back on October 2 that the Evihcra site will…

  • Evihcra says yes to Halo archive

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    Goodness… we didn’t notice this last week, but it’s GREAT news: Evihcra.com, a large file archive site (they started as the Mill, for Myth files, and have expanded to Marathon, Unreal Tournament, and the Sims), has pledged the creation of a Halo archive site, to be opened the day Halo ships for the Mac/PC. If…

  • No in-game content control in Halo

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    Matt passed this info along yesterday, but Jester pointed out that I hadn’t made it front page news yet… Seems that Halo has no in-game content control. (Myth had content control – you could set it to show stars instead of blood.) The reason for this is simple, and two-fold: 1) the Xbox already has…

  • Bob comes back

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    The resurrection of Bob… Tursas sends in Chapter 12 of the Hermes Trismegistus saga. You’ll find it (and all previous parts) in our Fan Fiction section – don’t forget to let Tursas know how you like it, in the comments section!

  • Buried in Wallpaper

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    Whoa… go to sleep for a couple of hours, and the mailbox fills up! Two new desktops came in last night, the collection continues to fill. You’ll find these new entries in our Wallpaper section. Back with Fan Fiction in a bit.

  • Halo the Most Anticipated Xbox Title at VE

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    Bungie Studios’ title takes first place, 45% of vote http://www.voodooextreme.com/i/mcblinks/AC_mage.gif alt= hspace= 15 vspace= 15 align= left” >Battleground: Halo posted news of a new Xbox-related poll at VoodooExtreme, asking what was the most-anticipated game. It just closed after running from October 6 to October 9– sorry for not letting everybody know sooner.However, it didn’t seem…

  • Halo Launch Party November 10 in Chicago

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    Attend and you could win an Xbox and Halo Louis Wu’s news item on bungie.org alerted us to Matt’s forum post about the announcement on bungie.net that the Halo Launch Party has been booked and scheduled.Please mailto:narcogen@rampancy.net target= _top” >let me know if there is anyone who deserves credit for this item that I haven’t…

  • Halo Rating Changes from Teen to Mature

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    Bungie decides against changes to keep teen rating Since Amazon.com put up their page for pre-ordering Halo– including box art– some fans have been wondering about that big M seen there, because it looked disturbingly like an ESRB rating.http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NZ1G.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg alt= align= left hspace= 15 vspace= 15″ >Well, it is.Matt has posted on the b.org forum…

  • Halo Launch Party Details

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    The Halo Launch Party is here! Bungie.net has the details… Saturday, November 10 at the Hotel Monaco, in Chicago, for those who HAVE TO KNOW NOW… the rest of you, head over to bungie.net and read Matt’s little parable. (And get even more details, like what you might win if you show up…) It’s 5…

  • Even more Wallpaper

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    Michael Maddux sends us a tasty desktop for our Wallpaper collection, in three flavors. Check it out!