My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2004

  • E.T. – Still Around

    Nice catch by Ross Mills – a few weeks after we posted a note about Eric Trautmann’s leaving behind his involvement in the Halo world, Eric posted ANOTHER note on his blog stating that he might, in fact, remain on in his old capacity.My job transition may or may not happen, I may or may…

  • Forum Improvements

    We’ve moved our forum to a faster machine, which should solve the viewing problems some people have been having since the ilovebees invasion last Friday. The downside: it might take a little while for the DNS change to propagate. Please be patient!

  • Caboose and Grif – together again

    Red vs Blue Season 2 DVDs are now on sale; they’re not shipping until August 2, but you can plunk down your cash now. You get the full collection of episodes, plus directors commentary, outtakes, deleted scenes, line readings, easter eggs, and ‘Never Before Seen Videos’, all for $20. Sounds like a deal! First heads-up…

  • New Action Figure Prototype Pics

    Figures.com has put up a gallery of pics of the newest batch of Halo 2 prototypes from Joyride, taken during last weekend’s San Diego Comic Con. Some are quite washed out, but you can get a decent sense for what they look like in any case. Thanks to gd for pointing them out (in a…

  • Site Section issues

    We’ve known for a while that halosn.bungie.org, one of the mirror sites for our material and the sole server for our Fan Fiction section, was moving – what we didn’t count on was losing touch with Deimos Fawkes, its proprietor, in the days leading up to the move. At this point, the machine has stopped…

  • Now THAT’S a big QuickTime.

    Thanks to clarksbrother, for going above and beyond to help provide to Mac users what Windows users got last week. (Thanks, also, to Rufo Sanchez, who tried to do the same, just a little later.) You can now download a 1920×1080 version of the Halo 2 Ad released recently; it’s 43 mb, and it plays…

  • Screen Grabs from Hi-Res Trailer at Kikizo

    Kikizo.com has put up a bunch of very nice screengrabs from the Ad trailer – they’re listed as 800×600, but most of them are 1280×720, with a few that are 800×450. Very nice quality.

  • Two Betrayals – Directly

    We’ve put up direct-download links for Taylor Jones’ Two Betrayals run, released last Friday in the continuing Going Nowhere Fast series. You can find the links (and direct download and BitTorrent links for all OTHER runs except the last couple) on the GNF Status Page.

  • And For Those On A Budget…

    Today’s One One Se7en looks at the gap between bling… and bling.

  • GNF Phase 9

    Later than usual, but the ninth segment of the Going Nowhere Fast contest winners is now available via BitTorrent. goatrope’s Keyes run isn’t always pretty, but it’s the fastest we received (and several people tried). Give it a look; at just under 100 mb, you should be able to give the BitTorrent network a run!

  • RvB Set Pieces III

    ][-][awaiian pig is back with a new batch of Red vs Blue ‘set pieces’ – this time, with the white ‘Director’ character on-set. Pretty nice work!

  • Nice combo move

    Timboh56 has posted a stop motion movie test with his Halo action figures – just a meg big, but nicely done!

  • Baby Fans Unite

    Halo Babies has put up a new fan-created strip. Pottie humor… but then again, it IS Halo BABIES… There is also some new fan wallpaper and a tabloid cover. Go take a look.

  • Halo50k3 – whatta show!

    Wow. Halo50k3 ended with a bang – Team FFA took the final 4v4 title by beating Team StK in a nailbiter of a match, 50-49. Dolbex promises that games will be rebroadcast soon – keep your eyes on mlgpro.com! There are more news articles and more pictures to see, right now. And speaking of pictures…

  • Well, no bees are gonna get in here. Not in MY airtight fortress.

    We’ve received more than a few emails about this ilovebees thing, so I’d just like to make something clear in case it wasn’t before: We are not part of this event. We don’t have any secret information; we’re just following along like everyone else. That means we can’t confirm or deny your theories about the…

  • Pretty Pictures

    Because of the massive flood of bee-related speculation, our forum has become relatively useless for Halo discussion. (Can you tell that I’m not convinced of the long-term relevance to our community of this whole event|phenomenon|game?) There are interesting posts that are getting buried. Say, for example… this one, from Captain Spark. He took a few…

  • Halo50k3 Updates

    Day One at Halo50k3 has come and gone, and there are all sorts of goodies for you at the MLGPro.com website. The Halo FFA competition was taken by StrangePurple, and the 2v2 matches were dominated by Team StK (half the four-man team took first, the other half took second). MLGPro streamed 250 gigabytes of interview…

  • Live from the gaming floor

    Rapture, at Halo50k3, has been taking boatloads of pictures, including lots and lots and lots of shots of Nightmare Armor guys with all their gear. Warning: it’s a pretty simple page, with 80-someodd thumbnails on it, so it might be rough on those with slower connections. Check out all the action! (Given the page name,…

  • A Hum Dinger

    The whole ilovebees thing went a little nuts yesterday; folks reading all sorts of stuff into whatever they could find. (The main thread on OUR forum has over 350 responses at the moment, with dozens of smaller threads around it. Other forums are just as bad.) Stuntmutt broke from tradition to put out a special…

  • The Library, Directly

    Standard web downloads are now available from a half-dozen mirrors for Cody Miller’s 153 mb, less-than-21 minute Library run for the Going Nowhere Fast contest. You can find them (along with BitTorrent links for the first 8 runs, and direct downloads for all OTHER levels prior to the Library) on the GNF Status page. If…