My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: February 2002

  • BungieColor, indeed

    Kaworu Nagisa submits a gorgeous pair of images for use as wallpaper – they’re actually a bit small for my desktop, but they’re both really nicely done. Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section.

  • Gaming Universe is back

    Some of you might remember a site called ‘The Online Universe’ – it disappeared from the Halo scene last summer sometime. It’s back, renamed as The Gaming Universe, and there’s a new Halo Question of the Week – stop by and make your opinion known.

  • Who do YOU want to hear from?

    Matt Soell put a note up at the Tru7h and Reconciliation site to let everyone know that the Robert McLees interview is still going – it hasn’t been forgotten. Should be posted sometime next week… at which point they’ll be taking questions for ANOTHER Bungie employee. If you have a special Bungie dude or dudette…

  • Hey! You can ride it!

    Whoa. Metafire managed to get into the second Pelican on Assault on the Control Room (the one that flies over the bridge) – and he took some pics. Oops – guess Bungie should have renumbered one of those…

  • More fiction for you

    dyoung92 submits Part 1 of his ‘Halo 2 Story’, which picks up where the game leaves off. (Don’t read this if you haven’t finished yet.) Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

  • More vehicle collecting

    Aaron Suhr stops by our forum to point out that he’s upped his ‘ultimate vehicle collection’ by several – he’s added another 7 shades, and one more ghost (albeit a broken one). There’s a new movie which shows off the collection better. The time this guy has… we’ve updated his Gameplay Tricks page with the…

  • Don’t I know you?

    An old friend returns… and so does the MC, in Gasmask’s last segment of the Strange Tale saga. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section!

  • Assault first bridge trick, filmed

    Doum and Pat, a pair of Halo fanatics from Quebec, have made a series of movies to show how to get down to the bottom off the first bridge of Assault on the Control Room – it requires some tricky timing in coop mode. The films were encoded with DivX 4 – I found that…

  • Easier-to-find tricks

    The Gameplay Tricks are pouring in… and the collection was getting pretty hard to navigate. We’ve made it a bit neater, hopefully easier to find what you’re looking for… and we’ve added three new collections. (All are mirrors of the creators’ collections elsewhere… but we’re hoping this becomes the central repository for this sort of…

  • Truth and Recon gets an update

    Massive new content to Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site: two new Gallery sections (one of which was seen last week, in the Marcus Lehto article), the first cutscene, and some way-cool concept art. Check it out!

  • There’s only so much you can do…

    A sniper battles it out against unpleasant odds in carrim’s ‘I am Sniper’, newly added to our Fan Fiction section. Take a look!

  • New site section in Links

    With the huge influx of new tricks footage and pictures comes a new breed of website – the Gameplay Tricks and Tips collections. Currently, there are two that we know of (well, three, but one’s not ready for prime time yet) – if you know of more, we’d love to hear about it! In the…

  • When gamers get bored

    Whoa! Aaron Suhr has put together the ‘ultimate vehicle collection’… check out ‘Master Chief’s Quality Used War Machines’. 12 Ghosts, 2 Banshees, 1 Wraith, a Warthog, and a Scorpion… plus 13 Shades. (Don’t even ASK him how long it took.) Pics, plus a 5 meg flyover ‘test drive’, can be found on this page. This…

  • Halo in diagnostics CD movie

    French site XboxManiac has posted a movie from a Xbox Diagnostic CD that is used to test hardware. At the beginning you see quite a bit of Halo footage. Check it out (Windows Media Player plugin/player required). Pax.

  • Stephen King meets Iain M. Banks

    Vector40 bursts back on the Fan Fiction scene, with a different sort of story. ‘What Drives Us’ is a tale of love and betrayal, courage and vengeance. It’s pretty good. Read it in our Fan Fiction section.

  • What’s YOUR favorite level?

    Halo Online has put up a point/counterpoint discussion of their favorite levels – up tonight, Silent Cartographer vs. Two Betrayals. You’ll have to stop by to see who wins…