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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: September 2002

  • You gotta keep ’em separated…

    A couple of weeks ago, Frogblast posted a pretty interesting movie showing some truly bizarre behavior on 343 Guilty Spark. (Spoilers, for anyone who is still keeping track of this stuff.) Today, Warbow put this clip to music – and it’s a nice enough piece of work that we’ve upped it to mythica. (6.1 mb,…

  • Clan pics

    New desktop from The Elite Halo Gang – check our Wallpaper section.

  • Just three, today

    Thursday’s Fan Fiction:Revolution, part 9, by Gruntkiller Chance Guards, by Loopframe Shadows of Archon II, part 15, by WadoYou know what to do…

  • Hats Off to 819!

    Hamish Sinclair is on vacation, but a Bungie Community staple turns 7 today… the Marathon’s Story Page reaches mythical age-status. (Yeah, yeah, not really Halo news… but 7th birthdays for Bungie fansites don’t come around very often.) Visit the Story page forum and help blow out the candles!

  • Spain’s the place to be…

    Total Games is speculating that there will be a playable build of Halo 2 at X02 in Spain next week. The details are sketchy, but the idea is intriguing. (That a playable build exists, I have no doubt. That Total Games—or anyone else outside Microsoft—will see it any time soon is far less certain.) Thanks…

  • Isn’t he gonna get the floor dirty?

    You want to watch a cool movie? Watch this. (I read about it here.)

  • Red and Blue

    Jeff Lofland created an NBA-inspired Halo desktop – you’ll find it in our Wallpapers section.

  • Wednesday Reading

    Fan Fiction for the last day or so:Wings of Death, part 4, by el_halo_diablo The monitor’s contest, part 2, by Guy French HALO: Combat Evolved, part 1, by Cameron Eades Shadows of Archon II, part 14, by Wado Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 10, by Ian Barnes HELLJUMPERS, part 9, by Havok Spartan…

  • Halo 2 Preview at CVG

    Computer and Video Games has written up a Halo 2 preview. The information contained within it is a subset of what was seen in the Edge preview leaked last week – it’s unclear whether the author got the material for the story from the Edge scans, or from Bungie directly. However, since the Edge scans…

  • It Lives!

    The Halo Story Page gets its first update from the newest member of the updating team… Finn, of Team 7hr33! Now, if you’ve submitted 437 items for consideration in the past 12 days, don’t expect that they’ll suddenly all be posted; they’re still human, and a lot of what you guys send in is actually…

  • We like frogs

    Gah. Sometimes life just kicks you in the – oh, never mind. HBO was down for a couple of hours this evening, but not because it changed IP addresses. It died because of user error (with me as the user). We got it up and running again – but the IP change has to wait…

  • Tamte says all’s well

    Thanks to Ghôlsbane, who pointed out an article at MacGamer, summarizing the day’s events at Apple expo 2002 in Paris. They spoke to Peter Tamte, head of Bold Games and Destineer Studios (the publishers behind the Mac version of Halo).Peter told us that Halo is meeting every internal schedule and should be released simultaneously for…

  • Yep… locked, all right.

    Strykerwolf, once and for all, proves the veracity of the infamous ‘locked weapons’ story floating around the internet. See his proof here. (Originally posted to our forum.)

  • Now THAT’S off-roading.

    We’re a little ambiguous about posting info from the Edge scans leaked this weekend… but this picture was so cool, we decided we couldn’t hold it back. Warbow has taken the new Halo 2 ATV and stuck it out in the American west… wow. You can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. Update: seems…

  • HNC on Arena – soon!

    Thanks to Oso, who pointed out a trailer from G4 for the upcoming broadcast of the Halo National Championship on G4TV – you can download it in MPEG format (3.8 mb, 36 seconds), or stream it to Windows Media Player. It’ll show you a few of the contestants, and a bit of the set it…

  • IP Change… AGAIN

    I’m getting sort of tired of this… but HBO’s colo host is changing our location, which means our IP address changes. Again. Which means that as of 4 pm EST today, this site will be inaccessible until your local DNS information catches up. Apologies. (The forum will continue to be accessible; it’s not moving.) Update:…

  • Lots o’ stars

    Another desktop image from Chaoz in our Wallpaper section.

  • A new Covenant armada

    Yesterday, Zeinin posted a note on our forum about a movie he was planning to make – about the fall of Reach. He put up a couple of stills, and I figured I’d hold off on a news post until there was a website, or something. However, over the course of the day, he revealed…

  • stickydoom plus rocket = boom!

    iBonk has posted a video showing a new, rather intriguing form of Warthog Launching – how high can you make that puppy go? There’s a forum thread here.

  • I dub thee Sir Loin of Steak!

    Mad Cow dropped off a tweaked b.net screenshot for our Miscellaneous Art collection. (It’s a pretty minor change, but it’s rather well done.)