My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2003

  • Websites, websites, and more websites

    Halo web stuff again – apologies for letting this build up.Echo-413 (General Halo Guide site)Seraphim Clan (Halo PC clan)Art of Death clan (Halo PC clan)Nemex Clan (Halo PC clan)The Soviet Spartan, of Art of Death, wanted folks to know that he’s working on setting up allied and rival clans – he’d love to see clans…

  • Se7en Tons.

    So how much DOES the MC weigh? {SS}Zag1 looks at the issue in today’s guest One One Se7en. For future reference – this is a bad thing to do to a superior officer… ESPECIALLY on Veterans Day. (Thanks, to all the real-world soldiers out there.)

  • Drowning in words

    Absurd number of Fan Fiction bits, because I was off this weekend… Blue Squadron Chronicles, Part Five, by Hunter_Killer Blue Squadron Theme Song, by Hunter_Killer The 7th Column: First Strike, by Mainevent Derailed Final Part, by Dispraiser A John Before Halo: Part 15, by J-117 Shadow Ops II: Nowhere to Run, Chapter Four, by Nemesis…

  • Bridge Jump

    Synide has whipped up a new vid, just in time for the opening of halo.synide.net. It’s called bridgeJump.mov, and it weighs in at 8.6 mb (QuickTime format, 320×240). It shows a trick not yet filmed (crossing the light bridge gap before the bridge has been activated)… but the rest of the movie shows what happens…

  • Best of the Best

    The Rabid Lilliputians, a clan of… well, small players with their tongues wedged firmly in their cheeks, have set up a tournament: Best of the Best. You go to their site, you vote for who you think are the top 10 HPC players. After the voting period has ended, the top 15 nominated players will…

  • Bouncy BOLL

    There’s an article over at the Junkyard, written by MrFluffyPants26, about BOLL’s mods. The first half is pretty interesting – some thoughts from BOLL on which mods he likes best, and what he used – and then there’s a description of a few of the best-known mods. The second half is completely indecipherable – it’s…

  • Goodies for German-speaking Europeans

    If you live in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, Halo Orbit is running a Halo quiz with Halo schwag as prizes. Take a look!

  • One more time: IT’S NOT TRUE

    Reading our forum for these past couple of days has been painful. Dozens and dozens of new people (or even old hands who should know better), jumping in with links to rumors around the net, stating that Halo 2 will be out next week (or by November 28, or in time for Christmas)… SketchFactor jumped…

  • One One Sezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzen.

    Stuntmutt takes a shot at Halo PC shortcomings in today’s One One Se7en. (This was FAR more relevant a month ago… blame the limitations of time, rather than Stuntmutt, for this.)

  • It’s All In Your Head

    So what do you do when the AI in your head starts making you hear voices? (Well, her voice, anyway…) Check today’s Halo: Resolution.

  • UI – it’s what’s for breakfast.

    Jake ‘Evergreen98’ Billo over at the Junkyard has written an interesting article on Halo’s User Interface, a part of the game you don’t pay a lot of attention to. (In general, the better a UI design is, the less you notice it. It’s there to facilitate your gameplay, not make itself known. Halo’s is quite…

  • Rumor control 101

    Okay, I’m posting this to decrease the mail flood, not because I want to lend any validity to the absurdity. There are rumors around the net right now that Halo 2 will be released, in a suprise move, in less than a week. (Here’s one story now.) I don’t have any inside information on when…

  • Forum Decorum

    Jillybean points out one possible use for newbies in today’s guest One One Se7en. Please don’t try this at home. Professional MC on a closed track.

  • Digging into the orange, looking for that juice

    Another massive Halo Story page update, Finn this time. Lots and lots and lots to read. Go read.

  • Mac geeks take heed!

    Lots of good tech info from the Westlake programmers on the IMG forum – if that goes offline, Madscientist transcribed a bunch of it in this forum post. Not long now!

  • Hazardous Conditions

    mrsmiley stopped by last night to point out a new Halo Babies cartoon – I’m just reaching that section of the forum now. Looks like we’re getting away from water balloons to me… Explore the Halo Babies site, there’s also a bunch of other new stuff; new banner ads, AIM Buddy icons, and some new…

  • Flash game… trailer?

    343GS has put up yet another teaser for their upcoming Flash Halo game; it’s a downloadable standalone Flash executable (runnable only on Windows platforms) with a bit of text about the game. It weighs in at 1.5 mb. Personally, I wish they’d put their efforts into actually CODING THE GAME, and hold back on the…

  • New Team Sexy footage

    Team Sexy has posted deleted scenes from their ‘Hall of the Sidewinder King’ movie; dunno, but to me it looks like one guy running out of a base and through the tunnels. (I guess I thought it was gonna be bloopers, or something.) If you’re interested, stop by their forums and look for the ‘NEW…

  • Just Big Gorillas

    IXIGhandiIXI pointed out a new comic over at 343gs.com. It’s called EchoFourNineteen, and it’s in their Downloads section. (The site is framed, so you’ll have to navigate there yourself.) Episode 1 looks at Brutes…

  • New Halo 2 material – on store shelves?

    Whoa. So back on August 31, Rampant Cowboy pointed out a thread over at TeamXbox which was discussing a product someone found in their store’s database called ‘XBX-Halo 2 BUNDLE’ – price was $19.99, release date was November 15. RC’s thread went nowhere – there were a couple of posts, but I think MY feeling…