My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2005

  • Happy Halodays!

    We got a very nice holiday wish from Boxer last night – and with that, I think we’ll call it a day. Enjoy your Christmas weekend… we’ll be back updating on the 26th! (There’ll likely be a Christmas post that goes up tonight at midnight, UTC… but there won’t be any more news. Time to…

  • The FireDragular Christmas Map Pack

    FireDragon04 points out a thread over at the Gearbox forums, announcing a map pack he’s released for HaloCE. Swing by, check out the screenshots,a nd download The FireDragular Christmas Map Pack!

  • Looks like false advertising to me…

    In the spirit of silly things done by retail stores to get your business, Pat Hillman took a cameraphone snapshot of a box he saw in his local FYE. This, to me, seems to be going just a bit too far…

  • GTR talks to Team3D

    Gamertag Radio has put up their last audio for 2005 – their 33rd podcast contains an interview with Team3D. Go grab it!

  • Chicago Pics, Killer N Interview

    MLG has put up a photo gallery for their Chicago blowout – nice stuff! There’s also a spotlight on Killer N, the Player of the Week this week. Thanks (and Christmas wishes back to) 3Suns.

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Over at Halo Babies, there’s a truly bizarre illustrated version of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ – a lot of artists got in on the act. It’s not the story I remember… but it’s unique, that’s for sure! Thanks, mrsmiley.

  • The Squadron 14 – Poxy41

    The Squadron Ep 14 has been released – you can grab the WMP9 version (20 mb) on Broken Console’s site, or the QuickTime (22 mb) from us. I can’t tell you much about it – I’m on my way out the door – but based on past episodes, it’s likely worth the download!

  • The Kiss Off.

    You’d think on Christmas, Cortana would show a little more love for the common Spartan… poor One One Se7en.

  • Weekly Fiction Update

    We tried a week between Fan Fiction updates (by request of the FF community), and it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea; 16 new entries this week. If the numbers rise to something intolerable, we’ll consider ways to decrease it… but for now, this seems to be working! Go read.

  • That stupid sign… again.

    Bah. Sometimes the big sites are just… clueless. Back in early November, we posted a note about a poster that a local FYE in Arlington, VA had put up, touting Halo 3 (which, you might remember, hasn’t been announced yet). The forum thread generated by that picture shows how the image is a poorly-done photoshop…

  • MCD – a hit

    In its first day online, the HBO Halo Movie Cynics Database garnered 150 new entries (with 10 still in the queue to be processed) – and Cybrfrk has added filtering and searching to the interface, making it easier to pore through the results. If you dig carefully, you might even find entries by names you…

  • Christmas Wraith

    Gruntsbane has a Christmas strip for you up at Halo Babies – and it’s Episode 117! How fitting. Go read!

  • Podtacular Ep 41 – End of the Year

    Podtacular has released its final episode for 2005 – you can grab Ep 41, Customs and Call-ins, from their site. Thanks, HaloPlanet.

  • I don’t think that’s what they meant.

    DoT_Gunslinger points out that today’s User Friendly is Halo-related again… you gotta watch out when loved ones warn you like that.

  • Name that tune!

    Ever had someone whistle a snatch of the Gilligan’s Island theme, and then be stuck with it in your head for the rest of the day? (Oops… sorry.) Yesterday, R-T3 wondered if anyone knew the tune that was used in the background of the Halo Demo Promo, released in mid-2002… and Marty O’Donnell himself chimed…

  • Taking it all more seriously

    F13ND sat down with Saiyan, of Team3D, to discuss the team’s performance at the MLG Chicago tournament recently. You can read the result on Team3D’s website.

  • The Editing Process

    In what has to be one of the more amazingly coincindental bits of timing this week, Chairleg Productions has released a new movie entitled ‘The Editing Process’ today – you can download WMP9, QT7, and PSP versions from their downloads page. This video focuses on the making of the Halo movie… and if it wasn’t…

  • Halo Maps in Far Cry

    GameTrailers has posted a segment of GTtv that focuses on a Far Cry: Instincts fan who’s recreated a number of Halo maps for Far Cry: Instincts – the video contains footage of both the Halo versions and their FC counterparts, along with running commentary from the fan. Fun stuff! Thanks, 3Suns. (To view it, you…

  • Easiest way to make a new logo…

    Heh. In Surfers Paradise, in southern Queensland (east coast of Australia), there’s an attraction called ‘Spacewalker’ – their website, as noticed by lightinfantry, uses an image that is rather familiar to most of us here. (I’ve taken a screenshot, on the off chance that any legal interest generated by this news post actually makes them…

  • Chronicles of Pain – Trailer

    Chris Anderson is putting together Chronicles of Pain, a Halo machinima due in February. The teaser for this film passed the MPRRS this morning, so we’re passing it on to you. It was originally submitted in QuickTime 7 format (H.264 encoding) – weighs in at 11.5 mb. For those who have trouble with that codec,…