My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2001

  • Yet MORE new Wallpaper

    genohunter, of Clan Hell, drops us another new wallpaper – busy evening. The old and the new… together again. Grab it in our Wallpaper section.

  • Hand-separated Halo Logo as Wallpaper

    Wow, now THIS is dedication. Kevin Fitzpatrick sends in a newly-built Halo logo… and makes it available in a layered photoshop document, for those who want to tweak it as well. Pretty nice work! Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

  • Testers needed for a Halo screensaver

    Eldar-colonel writes to say that freedom, of Garden of War, is building a Halo screensaver, and would like testers before he releases it. If you’re interested, sign up on this forum.

  • The Ring Gets Built

    Wow. Ian Mankowski, who has submitted a few pieces of artwork to HBO in the past, drops another spectacular work in our laps. Titled ‘Under Construction’, it shows the building phase of the Halo – wild. Check it out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

  • Audio Interview with Matt Soell at MacObserver

    Bryan Chaffin, Editor-in-Chief of The Mac Observer, wrote to let us know that they’ve put up an audio interview with Matt Soell, recorded from the show floor at E3. It weighs in at a bit over 2 megs, and contains 15 minutes of insights into the development of Oni and Halo, and life at Microsoft.…

  • Details from Gamestar’s E3 video

    Thanks to an intrepid HBO agent in Germany, we’ve gotten our hands on the Gamestar CD movie mentioned a few days ago. Now, we can’t actually put this movie online yet (to do so would violate Gamestar’s copyright), but we can tell you that it contains filmed footage from the first two missions, as do…

  • Even the big boys get it wrong

    Frequent visitors to this site might wonder why, in the face of repeated assurances from Bungie that there WILL be PC/Mac versions of Halo, there are STILL people visiting the forums (ours and others) and asking about this. Well, it’s because even the folks who SHOULD know get it wrong. At E3, Microsoft distributed an…

  • New fan fiction arrives…

    “You’re not paid to guess where the tango was, Alpha leader,” Simmons replied with disdain. He was about to voice the rest of his opinion, but was cut off — very abruptly — as the backpack filled with high explosive triggered.New fan fiction from Tursas was in our Inbox today; Hermes Trismegistus – Prologue should…

  • The Xboxes are here! The Xboxes are here!

    They’ve come in! Aginor sends in a pretty slick Bungie webcam shot… looks like the Xboxes have arrived.

  • Poll Smash at MacGamer

    Poll Smash! xxx xxx alerts us to the fact that MacGamer has a new poll up:Which upcoming game are you looking most forward to?Halo is currently holding a 3-vote lead over Warcraft III, but only 115 votes have been cast… you know what to do.

  • XGR and Halo

    X-Treme Gaming Radio put up their First Annual E3 Awards… and Halo didn’t rate. Why? Well, yes, they had a Best FPS category… but they got overwhelmed:This was definitely the second hardest category to decide. How do you limit the scope so you don’t go insane with all the choices at this year’s E3? Should…

  • Strange Misc Art addition

    This one’s just… odd. Steen Nielsen submits a bit of miscellaneous art… we’re not even gonna TRY to figure out the rationale.

  • Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted

    We wuz robbed… again! The Halo SETI Marines gained a pretty major new member (welcome, -=SHARkY=-), but the units just haven’t shown up. Maybe next week? They’ve held on to position 49 in the Battle of the Teams by the skin of their teeth – comets&cats@seti is just a few units behind. Are YOU helping?…

  • Halo mentioned in Australia’s Sunday Times

    Aaron Kelder writes to say that Halo got a small mention in yesterday’s Sunday Times, in Australia – a pretty major mainstream newspaper published in Perth. The article looked at new games to watch for on the PC, Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox… and Halo (and a small picture of the human dropship) were featured. Nice…

  • Movies section finally up-to-date

    Well, it took MUCH longer than the ‘next few days’ I promised two weeks ago… but the Movies section is finally updated to include all the new E3 footage. Run through it and make sure you didn’t miss any clips! (And if you see one I missed, be sure to let me know.)

  • GamesFirst says yes to Halo

    Thanks to Dan Rudolph, who noticed another Halo preview over at GamesFirst – pretty positive, overall. Go read it.

  • New poll at Ozhalo

    BluR, of Ozhalo, writes to say they’ve got a new poll up:Who do you like best in Halo?Go visit and let ’em know what you’ll be playing as!

  • Garden of War opens its doors

    Freedom writes to say that Garden of War, a new Halo site, has come online. Check ’em out!

  • New German GameStar Halo video details

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    Massa webmaster over at Halo Network describes in detail the new German GameStar Halo video: New GameStar-video: The same as with the last one – we’re not yet allowed to publish it on the web. But one thing is sure – the quality is goodÊ¡nd the footage is all new. It shows the E3-level from…

  • Gamestar’s got the goods

    fate writes to say that the Gamestar website has a poll up, asking which E3 game you’re waiting for the most. Halo currently holds a strong lead… but a few more votes couldn’t hurt. Also, as reported on Halo Network, the print version of Gamestar (German-only, unfortunately) will have a new Halo video (‘all new…