My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2002

  • Combat Unevolved…

    It had to happen… Scott Porter writes to let us know that work has begun on a Marathon Infinity conversion – Halo: Combat Unevolved. They’ve JUST started, so there’s not much there yet… but if you are interested in getting in on the ground floor of this project, send him mail!

  • Keyes’ Corner opens for business

    It took much, much longer to put together than any of us expected… but I’m proud to announce the opening of a new section here at HBO – Keyes’ Corner. This will be a place where complicated aspects of Halo are examined in-depth; we won’t just look at a single piece, we’ll tear the puppy…

  • E3 Photos from the Canucks

    Heh – Daniel (Finn), of Team 7hr33, has put up a page of images commemorating his (and Rich’s (Shovelface’s)) visit to E3 – dinner with Bungie, Fanfest shenanigans, and a very freaky accident involving a man in a palm tree. Check it out! (Visit the Team 7hr33 website, and then hit the ‘Bungie Trip 2002’…

  • New Halo music vid available for dl

    Goodness… passed right over this. 🙁 Robo42786, a frequent contributor to our Fan Fiction section, has created a music video for Halo – it’s called ‘When Worlds Collide’, and is set to the song of the same name by Powerman 5000. It’s in .wmv format, and weighs in at 4.9 mb, zipped. We’ve put it…

  • The chase is on… again!

    In the old days, Box Acronyms were a staple of Bungie’s offerings, and provided quite a bit of discussion fodder for fans. The practice fell by the wayside, unfortunately, with Oni… and the original Halo release has none, either. However, starting with the Game of the Year Edition, and continuing with the Halo Soundtrack, the…

  • Fan Fiction, just for you

    Wednesday’s Fan Fiction input…Effusion, part 10, by Tursas Last Hope, part 8, by SSJBRKThis is the final chapter of Effusion (though an Epilogue should be coming)…

  • New links for PC mod ideas

    For those who had trouble yesterday seeing the mod designs created by Roger Wilco… he’s put up a local mirror here. Hopefully, this will work a bit better than Tripod did…

  • The last survivors…

    Thanks to Miguel Chavez, who sent in a nice pic of the close of the Fanfest last week. It was taken just before we broke everything down, and you can see the die-hard late-stayers, along with two of the 6 Xboxes we used (plus their screens). Only about half the people are labeled – this…

  • Movie cleanup

    The movies released after the fanfest on Friday have been added to the Movies page – they should be easier to access from there. More coming soon!

  • Weekend reading, a little late

    Built-up fanfic over the weekend:Pillar of Autumn, by Nick Upon this Stage, prologue 2, by Gordi Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 1, by Ian Barnes Go to it!

  • Images, images…

    A pair of desktops came in over the weekend – you’ll find them in our Wallpaper section.

  • What happens when all 56 fire at once?

    Wanna see some cool vehicle designs for a potential mod for Halo for PC? Looky here.

  • Doin’ the hunters, flyin’ a ‘shee…

    When you feel like frowning… sometimes you need to just laugh.

  • Halo Fan Fiction Project, remade

    Quick post (more in the morning) – Ryan wrote to point out that The Halo Fan Fiction Project has gotten a makeover – check it out! (And join ’em if you want to help bring the story of Halo to life in words…)

  • Memorial Weekend News Blackout

    Back at home… but not really here yet. Off to a Memorial Weekend Parade; there’s no guarantee I’ll be back any time soon, so no promises of news backup clearouts. (The Count has done a pretty good job keeping up with stuff, anyway – there’s not THAT much to catch up on, except maybe a…

  • Here comes the flood…

    David Allan drops us a note that the next issue of the UK’s Official Xbox Magazine will have information on “Halo 2”. He adds that the magazine will also include some making-of-Halo content on the DVD. This issue hits the stands June 19.

  • New movies from the fanfest

    Whew – the fanfest is over, and what a lot of fun it was! There will certainly be descriptions forthcoming (if there haven’t been already – I haven’t had time to read the forum) – but in the meantime, we’d like to release a bunch of videos that made their debut tonight. There are a…

  • Your daily dose of fan fiction again

    Not snow or rain or E3 will stop the fan fiction: The Hell of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine, Part 12: The Last Battle by Jaywhit10 (The final chapter) Banserki’s Journal, Part 6 by Sarge This should help pass the time while we wait for news from the fanfest…

  • Maybe… Just maybe…

    A LOT of people have informed us that this story at Computer and Video Games claims that “Halo Online” will be a full sequel to Halo. Before you think too much about what this statement means, notice that this article was taken from what Microsoft PR said and NOT from what Bungie said.