My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: May 2007

  • Podtacular Interviews: Logan Payne

    BlankCANVAS and JBurton90 bring us an interview with another member of the Podtacular community this week. Hear all about how he got into Halo, his upcoming machinima, and what makes him such an anime nut. More talk in the forums

  • Podtacular Interviews: Logan Payne

    BlankCANVAS and JBurton90 bring us an interview with another member of the Podtacular community this week. Hear all about how he got into Halo, his upcoming machinima, and what makes him such an anime nut. More talk in the forums.

  • Catan kicks ass!

    Catan is the only board game I own and it’s really fun. If you’ve played the board game, the Xbox Live Arcade equivalent is even better IMHO. The idea is you’re a settler on an island and you’re trying to become the dominant clan on the island first. …

  • Catan kicks ass!

    Catan is the only board game I own and it’s really fun. If you’ve played the board game, the Xbox Live Arcade equivalent is even better IMHO. The idea is you’re a settler on an island and you’re trying to become the dominant clan on the island first. …

  • Halo3.com content un-Flash-ized

    If you’re not a fan of Flash-based content (it’s harder to search, it can be annoying to navigate if you’re going over the same route multiple times), Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has transcribed the content from halo3.com into a standard html forma…

  • Downloadable Maps now Downloadable (for all)

    A couple of weeks ago, Bungie released the Blastacular Map Pack – Tombstone and Desolation – for the Xbox and Xbox 360. A lot of people had trouble downloading it. According to this news post on B.net, those problems should be over; go ahead and give i…

  • CA.net opens

    Our good friends over at High Impact Halo have branched out with a new endeavor – the very first fansite devoted to Certain Affinity is now open for business. Pretty stuff – and according to CA themselves, you should be finding some exclusive content t…

  • Minds First, Hearts Will Follow

    Heh – Joystiq’s Jared Rea stopped by to point out a subtle campaign by Marvel to keep Halo in the minds of their readers until this summer’s release of the Halo comic… clever.(Louis Wu 11:41:38 UTC)

  • No More Strokefests For Gamecock, Says Seropian

    Alexander “The Man” Seropian, cofounder of Bungie and later Wideload Games, currently working on Hail to the Chimp to be published by Gamecock next year, gave an interview to Armchair Empire this week. Sounds like the interviewer was expecting to hear…

  • They Won’t Draw Themselves

    Frankie at Bungie says if you make a cool enough emblem design, it’ll be included in Halo 3. Check the post at Bungie.net about the Bnet reader design contest for details.

  • Halo: When Science And Fiction Collide

    Kevin R. Grazier, a Ph.D in geophysics and a huge fan of Halo, has contributed to a book called Halo Effect that looks at the Halo phenomenon; his piece, Halo Science 101, is about the science of the Halo universe. Halo Science 101 is up now at Gamasu…

  • Map Download Problems Reported Fixed; First CA Fansite Opens

    Ducain wrote to alert me of an update at Certain Affinity’s site, and it’s good news all around. First off, they’re passing around the news that Frankie at Bungie.net says the map downloading problems have been fixed. Secondly, the first Certain Affi…

  • Shadowrun achievements revealed. Going to take a while.

    EnragedGnome posted over on SR.thx.com that the Shadowrun achievements have been revealed. You can look at Fall360’s gamercard to see them. Note that there are at least 6 secret achievements. Which ones are going to be hard for me to achieve? Block …

  • Episode 111: Halo 3 leaked video special

    Download | Shownotes This show turned out really good. We talk all about the leaked Halo 3 video and learn a bit about what to expect from Halo 3. We also have this past week’s Xbox Live Arcade Reviews from Rist Peblo and the winner of the Crackdown…

  • Episode 111: Halo 3 leaked video special

    Download | Shownotes This show turned out really good. We talk all about the leaked Halo 3 video and learn a bit about what to expect from Halo 3. We also have this past week’s Xbox Live Arcade Reviews from Rist Peblo and the winner of the Crackdown…

  • Gaming For GI’s.

    Xblradio.com is putting together a very worthy charity event, that will last till the end of May. The idea is to help our soldiers understand how much they mean to us, by providing them with copies of games, gamer points, etc. Here is the full descrip…

  • Gaming For GI’s.

    Xblradio.com is putting together a very worthy charity event, that will last till the end of May. The idea is to help our soldiers understand how much they mean to us, by providing them with copies of games, gamer points, etc. Here is the full descrip…

  • H2V Trailer Released

    TheGhost sent us more news – Microsoft has just released a trailer for Halo 2 Vista, showing off the map editor, and the new maps (as well as some nicely crisp single-player footage). Check it out! (WMP9 Professional format, streaming – might be hard t…

  • H2V Delayed?

    According to H2Vista.net, quite a number of game resellers are changing their listing of the availability of Halo 2 Vista from May 8 to May 23. Now, normally we don’t put a lot of stock in release dates as supplied by game resellers… but May 8 is les…