My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2003

  • More homes for luscious screenies

    Three new mirrors of the new screenshots we posted yesterday have popped up – Rampancy.net, BPHalo and TruthandReconciliation.com. Always nice to have the bandwidth hit spread around! Update: And another one… Cortana.org puts up their copies.

  • Forum Fanstock writeup moves to PC IGN

    Hehe – almost didn’t notice… firestorm225’s Fanstock writeup has gotten a new, more prominent home; it’s now an official IGN PC article. (As of this writing, it’s not Insider-only.) Take a look!

  • Screenshot Mania!

    The participants of the Halo PC Fanstock event held last week at Gearbox have posted their thoughts, and possibly pictures taken during the day… but we all promised you new screenshots, and now, thanks to Gearbox, we can deliver. Check our Fanstock Screens page – there are 12 gameplay shots, 14 hi-res GORGEOUS shots of…

  • Halo PC ad surfaces

    Jamirus99 sent in a scan of a full-page Halo print ad that appeared in the September issue of Maximum PC. We’ve added it to our Halo Ads collection. You can also see it by itself; Jamirus99, unwilling to wait for a front-page mention, also posted it in our forum.

  • How fast can YOU run?

    BIGwooly writes to point out that the project he started several months ago, Halo@LightningSpeed (first mentioned by us back in November), is fleshing out nicely. The 7th Column chapter devoted to the project (getting through Halo, level by level, in as little time as possible at Legendary difficulty) now has database entries for every map…

  • XBC Southwest Tournament Saturday

    Pulser writes about an online tournament being held over XBC on August 23rd. The catch – you have to be a resident of California, Arizona, Texas, or Nevada. Check the web page for more details.

  • PC footage

    FilePlanet has posted a large (158 mb, zipped) ‘Exclusive Halo [PC] Single-Player Gameplay Video’ movie. (Quicktime format.) It may or may not be worth your time, downloading… it’s basically just single-player gameplay on the level Halo. Because it’s 640×480, it doesn’t really show off much of the new graphical goodness of the PC version (you…

  • C&C Halo mod in progress

    Dispraiser points out his Command and Conquer mod – you can see the latest models on his webpage.

  • Eurogamer looks at Halo PC

    Eurogamer had representatives at the Fanstock event, as well… and have posted a preview of Halo PC. In general, they were very, very happy with what they saw. I wish I could say I was good enough to spot this on Gearbox’s Project page… but it took the sharper eyes of Tankramp, over at BGH,…

  • If you read only one post…

    I take the day off… and Weekly Review decides to post on time. Nice. Go read it… does a nice job of summarizing last week. And then some.

  • Plenty of Opportunities

    End of a long, long day… no Halo PC shots yet, but hey – we’ve got the next episode of One One Se7en for you! Interesting take on a tactical choice…

  • When you’re out, you’re out…

    Okay, so today it’s a good bet that we’re going to receive screenshots from Gearbox to go along with our Fanstock writeups. Unfortunately for me, I’m out all day today. I’m writing this note so that my mailbox doesn’t fill up with dozens of ‘D00d – wHERe @re THe 5Cr3En$hoT5?’ messages. You can find them,…

  • Text Offerings

    9 stories for you today in the Fan Fiction section: The WildKats chapter 1: Casualties and Prep, by Vindicare_Assassin New Recruit – Part I, by Chumley The Plaza, by The Scribe A Sieries of Wierd Events, Chapter One, by Hunter_Killer Draco Part 2, by Dispraiser Buried Treasure(7), by Frensa Geran In Light of Destiny Part…

  • Ooh… pretty base

    bikeman704 has begun work on another Counter-Strike map; it’s not a replica of a Halo level, but it IS inspired by Halo. Check it out!

  • Gamespy’s Fanstock coverage goes live

    Another Halo PC article – this time from Gamespy (hey, these guys I remembered to mention!). Nice writeup – absolutely worth a read. Plus, there are 25 1024×768 screenshots – some the same as the CVG shots released yesterday – from the first 4 single-player levels (but all of Gamespy’s come without a watermark). Go…

  • Hacking can be really pretty.

    Once again, BOLL delivers the video madness. His latest vid is called ‘Bah’. It was created as an accompaniment for dmauro’s ‘How to make a Warthog Fly’ tutorial (down, now, but the basic content is here), but it took longer than he’d expected. Worth the wait, though… 3:15 long, 320×240, available in DivX or QuickTime.…

  • Welcome Aboard.

    Wanna see the new Rocket Hog in Halo PC? Go visit Gearbox’s site. (Okay, it’s not a great pic for seeing the new details… but forget that, because it’s a pretty awesome pic all by itself.) Thanks to CobaltNova for the heads-up.

  • Multiplayer map tips solicited for strategy guide

    Doug Radcliffe, the guy working on the Halo PC Strategy Guide, stopped by our forum for a ‘home stretch’ request… he’s now looking for multiplayer map tips. (He’s especially interested in tips for the smaller maps; Blood Gulch and Sidewinder are already nicely represented.) Tips should be mailed to him, because time is of the…

  • Echo 413 comes online

    The Invisable O points out Echo 413 (huh?), a new Halo site.

  • MC Revealed.

    The ‘write a guest strip for One One Se7en’ craze continues – Aginor tosses his hat into the ring. Literally. (There are now enough guest strips that we can run One One Se7en daily for the next couple of weeks.)