My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • RT: Planet Moron

    I don’t know if you’ve seen a little movie called Grindhouse yet, but if you haven’t, you should. It’s…inspiring. Also, this week’s comic sponsor extra is up here. six

  • RT: Cry for help

    I’m going to get serious here for a second. Today’s comic focuses on something important, something I think everyone should be mindful and aware of. Me. still six

  • RT: This weekend in Boston

    Just a reminder that Gus, Joel and I will be at Anime Boston Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You can find us at booths 504 and 506. We’ll also be at T.T. The Bear’s Place that Saturday night, where my band Trocadero will perform the music your hear i…

  • New Podtacular Community Goodies coming soon!

    *NEW POD TV COMING SOON* The next Pod TV, coming soon, will be about the new maps. I have a bunch of new DVDs coming soon, so I can record at my own expense rather than waiting 3 months till I get another DVD from my brother. *NEW MACHINIMA COMING FROM…

  • New Podtacular Community Goodies coming soon!

    NEW POD TV COMING SOON The next Pod TV, coming soon, will be about the new maps. I have a bunch of new DVDs coming soon, …

  • Plenty Room for Me!

    IceWeasel found a nice shirt at Stylin Online – grunty goodness!(Louis Wu 22:07:00 UTC)

  • Kerching.

    Stuntmutt has his own commentary about the two newly available maps, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 21:24:59 UTC)

  • CROSSFIRE talks to GTV

    Over at GamingTV, you’ll find an interview with CROSSFIRE, of Blood Signature Films. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 21:16:02 UTC)

  • Those poor, poor maps…

    The new maps have been out for a day… and already, they’re being ripped apart. Certain Affinity decided to get around the Superbouncing problem by building insta-killzones into the roof of both maps – but as Ducain points out, folks have already found exceptions. (Dry Ice also found a bizarre little glitch that might come…

  • Cinematic Moments, Part 2

    Morpheus pointed out that the next installment of Gamespy’s Top 25 Video Game Cinematic Moments is up (we mentioned page 1 yesterday) – and again, Halo takes two of the five spots. At 19, Return To Sender is called ‘easiliy [sic] the most memorable scene from Halo 2’, and at 17, the Starry Night Halo…

  • New Map Reviews

    There are a couple of reviews of the two new Certain Affinity maps online – Fyrewulff wrote one for The Platformers, and there’s another one up at TeamXbox. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:50:13 UTC)

  • Halo at Yale – For all to see!

    The fine folks at HBO captured the Halo portion of VGL’s show in New Haven, CT.  With Tommy Tallarico’s (co-creator of VGL) insistence that the audience help spread the word, we bring you the Yale Symphony Orchestra-Choir’s full performance of the Halo 2 suite and the Halo 3 teaser.

  • Play Halo 2, Win Stuff

    Xbox.com is running an All-Nighter this Saturday, April 21; play Halo 2 during the night (“it starts when the sun goes down and ends when it comes back up”), look for select members of Clan PMS and some Xbox Ambassadors (gamertags for all involved are listed on that page), and tell xbox.com what you thought!…

  • Tombstone Falls Victim To Zero Day Glitches

    Not an entire day has passed since the release of Tombstone, Certain Affinity’s Halo 2 homage to the Halo 1 favorite Hang ‘Em High, along with Desolation, their remake of Derelict, before the first cracks are being found. GhostFaction at High Impact Halo has posted a vid by DominoEffect that shows a way out of…

  • HALO gets a comic

    Whoa, cool. Marvel is making a comic book based on HALO. See the first cover: COVER BY: ALEX MALEEV WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PENCILS: ALEX MALEEV INKS: ALEX MALEEV COLORED BY: ALEX MALEEV LETTERED BY: CHRIS ELIOPOULOS THE STORY: The Eisner Award-winning team of superscribe Brian Michael Bendis and artist extraordinaire Alex Maleev unleash an…

  • Halo 2 Vista is Gold

    Voodoo Extreme says Halo 2 Vista has gone gold – they know, because they have a final review copy sitting on their desk. Plenty of time to duplicate these puppies!(Louis Wu 22:13:21 UTC)

  • Weekly Porridge #51: MacJev

    !(cover)http://podtacular.com/files/images/Episode51_0.png!:http://podtacular.com/files/images/Episode51.png *Weekly Porridge*, the not-so-weekly Podtacular comic, is back! *Quality Jeverage* gave it a sweet full color graphical update. This time the g…

  • Weekly Porridge #51: MacJev

    Weekly Porridge, the not-so-weekly Podtacular comic, is back! Quality Jeverage gave it a sweet full color graphical update. This time the gang are somehow a part of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Nice work, Jeverage! More talk in the forums. ‹ Weekly Porridge #49: Killing Timeup

  • Haloid.

    Monty Oum released a pretty cool vid last year – had a bit of Halo content, so we mentioned it. (He’s done quite a bit of other stuff, too.) He’s just released his latest work – Haloid. It’s not what you think. And even if it IS, it’s got stuff in it you simply must…

  • Get your own Bronze MC

    Wow. Someone has created a life-size wax mould of the Master Chief, and is planning to create ‘a museum quality bronze statue’; Buy It Now price on eBay is just under $8,000, but you can make an offer. Statue will ship by June 7. Thanks, BARBARIC RAGE.(Louis Wu 19:20:25 UTC)