My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2004

  • Not Like I Paid For It

    Have you ever blown something up just for the fun of it? Now Halo: Resolution has…

  • Halo PC Championships underway

    Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site has an update on the Halo PC Championships; their link to iGames’ results page shows that (among other things) the US competitor has taken a pounding so far. Ouch! Keep your eyes open for the finals!

  • Photoshopping.

    Is it a viagra commercial, or is it One One Se7en?

  • I hate it when that happens.

    Calvin and Halo focuses on the dangers of timed powerups. Or something. This would have been visible several hours ago, but its active camo hadn’t worn off yet.

  • Nightmare Helmet raffle

    Webshift points out that the Nightmare Armor guys are raffling off a helmet. $5 gets you in; on March 13, they’ll pick a winner and give the helmet away.

  • 177, First Time Out

    Holy… STOP HIM! THE MAN NEEDS TO BE STOPPED! (If you’re confused what it’s all about, wait a moment.) I realized that I needed to give BOLL credit for his work in this news post, or… well, ask c0ld.

  • A Haload of Words

    Eleven Fan Fiction pieces for you today… The Ring, part 1, by retardedmonkey Civilian Assault, pt. One- The Beginning, by ONI_operative_343 Hit Hard Ch. 3: –Siege–, by Nick Kang The Strive to Survive (Chapter 1: Lurking in the Shadows), by CoLd BlooDed Chapter Two of Halo:Armageddon, by Chris Luchterhand Halo: Liberation of Earth – Section…

  • Under The Influence 1 – Spartan and Hobbes

    Stuntmutt begins another series of themed One One Se7en strips; the first pays homage to that master of imagination, Bill Watterson.

  • Wow

    Halo: Resolution adds a new… character? Item. Whatever. It’s big.

  • The Blackmail List Grows Longer

    We’ve added last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update to the local archive – remember, if you ever need to find that tidbit you sort of remember, it’s searchable.

  • Ping discrepancies, explained

    Every now and then, I’m reminded why it’s so cool that developers visit our boards sometimes. Yesterday, RunningRiot asked a question: how come the ping he measured from his desktop to a particular Halo PC server was lower than the ping reported in-game by that same server? botman, a member of the Halo PC dev…

  • Lego Roundup

    Fury Three has done a nice job summing up what’s available out there in the Lego world; some of these links have been posted before, but the collection, together, is worth keeping track of. The Pelican he points out is pretty impressive!

  • No HUD, flying camera

    Very slick… Xhzjang has released Halo No Hud mod v1.5, with a flying camera; it comes in two pieces. Piece one removes the HUD entirely; piece two turns the Banshee invisible (along with its occupant), making for a flying camera on levels with a Banshee. I just tried it, and it works beautifully! If you’re…

  • Movie Starter Guide updated

    c0ld vengeance has updated his Movie Starter Guide to include some basic information about recording Halo on a PC or a Mac. (He didn’t just do this for a front-page mention… he actually felt that people might NEED this information. No, really.) If you’re looking for tools to record Halo on your computer – check…

  • Play that solo!

    Whoa, cool. Vicious Circle decided he really liked the guitar solo from Silent Carttographer… so he tabbed it out for guitar. You can view it online, or download it as a Word document (link is on the page). Get to playin’!

  • Dat’s a lotta pictures.

    Continuing to try and clear out the Wallpaper queue – there are another 20 desktops for you today (25 if you count variants). Check ’em out!

  • Homefront to let you fight in space

    Interesting. The team from Homefront, the Battlefield 1942 mod, is working on a space map, called Alpha Centauri. Battle will take place on a pair of capital ships, and the asteroid field between them. Sounds like fun! There’s a Q&A session about the map over at the main Battlefield 1042 site. Thanks to Ecko, at…

  • Mommy, he’s doing it again…

    Yesterday, BOLL messed with some new Flash stuff. It was pretty easy to overlook; at first glance, it blended right in. His newest offering doesn’t quite do that…

  • More on the 1.04 updater

    I’ve already changed local links on the 1.04 Mac Halo updater, so that there’s no confusion about which files to update. (The first updater, from 1.03 to 1.04, had some serious issues. The new updater, from 1.03 or 1.04 to 1.041, solves these.) However, the press release sent out by MacSoft on Thursday pointed to…

  • That might be FUN…

    Whoa. ViolentlyHappy ran across a pretty bizarre glitch when updating his Mac Halo to 1.041 yesterday. (He fixed it by reinstalling from the CD, and patching the clean version… but it’s still pretty weird stuff.)