My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: October 2002

  • You say you want a Halolution…

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    Pair of new desktops for you – a Halo 2 composite, and a wicked-cool ‘Evolution of the MC’ bit. Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section!

  • Is that a covie ship?

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    Jenova puts together a Halo pic using Bryce – you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section.

  • The New Paint

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    Louis Wu
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    HaloJuggaloProductions gets a new (flash) look – go take a look!

  • More mirrors at Nukedude

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    Nukedude drops us a note that a bunch more movies have been mirrored at his site: halo50k (wmv format) halo e3 preview from 2000 OXM UK Ultimate Warthog Jumps Groove 117 We’ve added the mirror links to the appropriate mirror pages or Movie database links. Thanks, Nukedude!

  • Rappin’ MC…

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    Choreographed MC dancing has shown up in vids before… but never to this extent. Travis Cossel, the mind behind Fragfest: Unleashed, has turned in a 2:38 vid in QT format that should make you laugh. And just when you think it’s getting old… it gets funny again. 🙂 Check it out! 6.3 mb at mythica.org…

  • The Accolades Continue

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    Halo picked up a pair of top-notch awards at the annual Bafta Interactive Entertainment Awards – it beat GTA3 for top spot in Games Multiplayer and Games Console. (It was also nominated for the Audio award, but didn’t win.) Read more at BBC news. Thanks to Chris Chan for the heads-up.

  • Big money, coming up…

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    Lots of new information at Halo50K.com… go check it out!

  • 6 more for the gristmill

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    Thursday’s Fan Fiction:Liberation, by Hoju Halo Side Story, part 4, by Jordan Dotson John 117: The Second Coming, part 1, by WildebeestNZ Outlaw, part 1, by Chris Cassani Shadows of Archon II, part 22, by Wado Revolution, part 14, by Gruntkiller Get to readin’…

  • Mosquito, eh?

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    Whoa – pretty cool. Nathan Falslev has built a dropship (and warthog) out of Legos… nicely done! (There’s also a page devoted to the Warthog itself.) Thanks to Leo Shklovskii for the heads-up.

  • Killing Time

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    Ack! A piece of artwork came in a couple of days ago – slipped by in the confusion. Recovered, now… you can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. What the Master Chief is doing in his off hours…

  • Don’t make me…

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    Dogsounds builds a new MC for your desktop – find the result in our Wallpaper section.

  • Movie bandwidth is always nice

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    Louis Wu
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    A couple more movie mirrors… arcor pops the Ultimate Warthog Jumps vid on Xbox4uweb, and Nukedude mirrors the wmp9 version of the Halo 2 trailer. These have both been added to the mirror lists. Thanks, guys!

  • Halo in Tribes 2

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    Nice. vector40 points out a post at the Junkyard forums from someone building a Halo-based mode for Tribes 2. There are shots of the MC model, an Elite, and the assault rifle. (All need to be pasted into new browser windows to load properly.) Check it out!

  • Tricks? You people remember tricks?

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    After 56 days of drought, the Tricks page gets updated through the end of July. Only 3 months behind! Gah. Anyway, go check out the 6 new tricks posted in the Gameplay Tricks section. (I’ve decided to leave out Frogblast’s tricks until I’ve cleared the rest of the queue – there are just so many…

  • No black here

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    A pair of colorful desktops have been added to our Wallpaper section. Update: Random Hero just dropped one off – you can see it here, or with the other two here. This one’s dark. 🙂

  • The mirror list grows

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    Halo Orbit, in Germany, has put up a mirror for the Ultimate Warthog Jumps film, as well. We’ve created a mirror list, to make your life easier.

  • Marathon? What’s Marathon?

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    The banners come alive! Patroclus submits an animated banner extolling the… um, virtues (yeah, that’s it) of Halo 2. Check it out in our Banners section!

  • Warthog Mirrorage

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    vector40 writes to point out that Rampancy.net has mirrored the OXM UK Ultimate Warthog Jump movie. If you haven’t grabbed this yet, and the existing mirrors are tight… go visit R.net. Thanks! Update: Note to self: read all the incoming mail before posting… StarWarsFanMan has put up a copy at his Forerunners-hosted Green Marines, as…

  • Rockin’ Warthog Jump Flick

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    The October cover disc of the Official UK Xbox Magazine contained a Warthog Jump competition. They solicited innovative warthog jumps from their readers, then rated them on Height, Landing, and Originality. The 18 jumps included in the video ranged from a score of 12/30 up to a pretty impressive 27/30. Even the duds are pretty…

  • MORE Wallpaper

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    Ross Mills sent in a desktop image he’s been using for a while. It combines one of Bungie’s wallpapers with a poem called ‘The Reaper’ – written by T. GhostWolf Davidson and used in a fake ‘Cortana Letter’ that circulated recently. (You can read more about the situation in this forum thread.) Ross’ desktop, meanwhile,…