My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2007

  • Red Light, Green Light

    Sane Intolerant sent word of his latest Halo Toy Box effort – Red Light, Green Light. You know… I’m starting to wonder if I’m living in someone ELSE’S video game…(Louis Wu 20:39:56 UTC)

  • Rotoscoping Tutorial

    Elnea wrote up a much more complete description of how she did the Cortana scene in the recent ‘I Want Master Chief’ vid – you can read it in her RvB Journal, if you have an account there, or on our forum, if you don’t. As someone who doesn’t know how…

  • On the ‘Tube

    It must be YouTube Sunday. We got three separate YouTube links in the last 12 hours – let’s see what’s up, shall we?Desound Molo let us know about a GameDaily piece that picks out the Top 5 Halo 3 Beta Weapons. I was amused by how the demonstrator kept…

  • RT: Caged Heat

    So Paris Hilton goes to jail on Monday. I’m not sure why, but this is national news (as is everything she does). I guess we are a salacious society at heart (and who am I to complain, I’m the one posting comics about celebs). Anyhoo, this whole deal ga…

  • Behind IWMC – Tuts and Bloops

    Remember that movie last week – I Want Master Chief? It got a little bit of press. (And scored the ladies an interview on Bungie.net.) A bunch of people were curious about the Cortana scene in the video – so Elnea put together a short video explaining …

  • When the World Ends

    Mothergoat stopped by to release a new Halo-inspired tune – ‘When the World Ends’. Go listen. (2:29, 3.4 mb) That man is pretty amazing.(Louis Wu 20:52:47 UTC)

  • Fan Armor Continues to Improve

    James Falcon has sent along pictures of his facemask, improved shin guards, and thigh guards for his in-progress Halo armor; check out his page for details.(Louis Wu 19:22:05 UTC)

  • When your dad knows comic artists…

    Leinil Yu is a comic book artist who’s done quite a bit of work for Marvel comics. Last year, for the San Diego Comic Convention, he created a pretty cool Halo-related image, which he uploaded to his DeviantART space. A couple of days ago, Cody Paulso…

  • Spartan Laser Update

    CitizenErased27 is still working on the details of his Spartan Laser replica – today’s pictures don’t show much improvement, but they DO show a rather disturbing proclivity…(Louis Wu 18:55:32 UTC)

  • Debatable lists

    prometheus found a list of the Top 25 Video Game Heroes of all time – Master Chief came in at 25. Some forum regulars are pretty suprised by the list. (Two links in the first post, in case one doesn’t work.)(Louis Wu 18:51:26 UTC)

  • RvB Ep 98 Director’s Commentary

    Speaking of Red vs Blue – if you’re a Sponsor, you should visit the Sponsors forum there; Director’s Commentary for Episode 98 (last week’s episode) has been posted. There’s no explanation of some of the plot intricacies… but there’s some nice discu…

  • HD RvB Season 2

    If you swing by Xbox Live Marketplace, you’ll find that three new episodes of the Red vs Blue series – 20, 21, 22, the first three episodes of Season 2 – are now available for download in HD format. Nice! Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 18:29:24 UTC)

  • Looking Ahead

    Wayward Spleen™ gives us a taste of what a Halo 3 signature from Query Spree might look like in this forum post.(Louis Wu 14:19:39 UTC)

  • X-Plane Pelican, Warthog now for download

    Mid7night has made his Pelican Dropship, along with his Warthog, both for X-Plane, available for download – check his forum post for full details.(Louis Wu 14:17:58 UTC)

  • Betarded.

    The Halo 3 Data Archive has an editorial piece on the Beta called ‘Betarded’ – they look at the new GamePro info, for example. Poke around the rest of the site; there are a bunch of other updates, as well. Thanks, Lyca.(Louis Wu 14:15:40 UTC)

  • Game Fuel

    Mister Froggy points out a potential danger of the upcoming Halo 3 Mountain Dew drink in Halo, Articulated #44.(Louis Wu 14:12:22 UTC)

  • RT: Episode 98, Comic

    So Episode 98 “Same Old, Same Old” is up for sponsors right here. I hope you like it, because it took forever to film. I think the actual filming time ran something like 23 hours, which is probably the longest time it’s taken to film an episode…

  • One More Week

    The Bungie Weekly Update is up – etiquette lessons (yeah, like the worst offenders are actually gonna READ this), some fun campaign nuggets, details (along with better-than-previous pics) of the upcoming HaloClix action figures, and more. Read it at Bu…

  • Bungie Weekly Update 6/01/07

    Campaign! Multiplayer! Losing RP for quitting games and the Top 10 bad habits of the Halo 3 beta.

  • RESIDENT EVIL: THE UMBRELLA CHRONICLES

    Those lucky Nintendo Wii owners are gonna be in for a huge treat. Capcom is bring their most popular franchise; Resident Evil, to you lucky Wii-ners. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is a brand new game in the Resident Evil franchise, with fami…