My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • Cubee Craft Master Chief

    Hawty McBloggy found a papercraft Master Chief at Cubee Craft – cut him out, fold him over, stand him up. (Apparently, it’s a bit more work than it looks…) Swing by and make your own!(Louis Wu 19:06:14 UTC)

  • Defrag

    Today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip solves the mystery of Cortana’s rampancy – I should have known.(Louis Wu 16:08:32 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Flashmaps

    PEZ let us know that halowiki.net is hosting new Flash map overviews, put together by Devozade. The first map up is Sandtrap, and the overviews should be embeddable in other sites. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:04:48 UTC)

  • Weta’s headed to London on May 24

    Ross Mills noticed a tiny reference in the writeup for the London Movie Comic Media expo, coming in late May – Weta workshops will be there, with (among a lot of other things) “A sneak preview of the new Halo range of Collectibles, featuring Master Chief.” Nice!(Louis Wu 16:01:57 UTC)

  • SA vs MBT Humpday Organisation

    I have challenged from MBT and they are willing to play ball hence we need to organise a date and time as well as any suggestions of gametypes.  We have a team pretty sorted but if you wish to sign up we may accept you on the team so you may as well go for it.  Lets…

  • Whisper in the Storm in HD – on BT for now

    Okay, the next Halo 2 HD cutscene release is ready… but this one’s a little different. Whisper in the Storm is 5:40 long – an enormous piece of work. In HD, it’s also an enormous file – it’s roughly a quarter of a gigabyte. To save our servers just a little bit, we’re holding back…

  • A New Fantastic Point Of View

    Sane Intolerant has restarted Halo Toy Box – he, too, has switched to McFarlane figures, and like Elnea, has noticed Cortana’s hawtness. (Louis Wu 02:43:22 UTC)

  • Bungie animators talk to RZG

    Kevin Larrabee, of Red Zone Gamer, let us know that in their latest podcast (number 4), he interviewed Seth Gibson (Bungie Tech Designer) and David Hunt (Bungie Lead Character Rigger and Cinematics Technical Director) about working at Bungie, how they got into animation, what they enjoy playing now, and more. The podcast is two and…

  • Blackstone Teaser 2

    Lordstemplar1 stopped by to announce the release of Blackstone Teaser 2. Just under a minute, about 10 mb to download, or streamable from a couple of places. Looks a little scary!(Louis Wu 02:24:57 UTC)

  • Not sure I’d wanna use it, but it’s purty

    Pixellated ran across some pictures of a laptop case mod that’s heavily inspired by Halo. Nice!(Louis Wu 02:07:28 UTC)

  • Brawl

    SPARTAN 294 noticed that DigitalPh33r released Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 6 – “Brawl”. Eight and a half minutes long, it gets back to the fun that might have been missing from the last couple of episodes. Arby and the Chief play some Super Smash Brothers Brawl… and it doesn’t go so well for one…

  • Another Friday, Another Update

    Bungie’s Weekly Update is available now over at Bungie.net (and in our Weekly Update Archive) – lots of details about the upcoming MLG playlist, some stats about the popularity of various settings and armor choices, a few random Recon giftings, and some great screenshots of vehicles that have received a cosmetic (and in the case…

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 3/14/08

    Vehicles, odd facts, and new playlists. Is there a map reveal? Only for detectives.

  • Gaming 4 Others Charity Tournament

    Ooopy at Gaming4Others and her crew are hosting a tournament for charity on March 22nd, 2008. You’ll need a 4 man team and $10 per person to register. Proceeds go to help a girl I got to meet at the GTR Community Vib3s event get on the transplant list for a new kidney. Show your…

  • XBL 10K Club Relaunches as the10K.com

    RODSMACK10K, one of the guys I met at the Halo 3 launch event in Washington, let me know the site he runs is relaunching. They used to be only for people with over 10,000 gamerscore but now they’re all about gaming in any form. Check it out at the10k.com.

  • Pontiac rides the Halo 3 train – er, car

    As was noted last fall, Pontiac got involved in the Halo 3 hype with a ‘First to Play’ contest, and a Halo-branded G8. Zach Mulkey points out that the website for the G8 shows off a car covered with hundreds (thousands?) of photos and movies… and some of them are Halo-related. Can you find all…

  • I forgot how much he made…

    Don’t think it’s a regular thing or anything… but Stuntmutt couldn’t help responding to a lament in our forum.(Louis Wu 17:08:29 UTC)

  • Deus Meus

    A year ago, Elnea posted Deus Meus, a Spartan battle prayer. She’s recently gotten some high-end tools, and has been playing with this for a bit… and yesterday, she posted a newly-remastered version that’s simply gorgeous. Go listen.(Louis Wu 14:22:00 UTC)

  • My, what big teeth you have, grandma!

    Hawty McBloggy reminds us that it’s Friday, which means Friday Caption Fun. She’s got the submissions from last week (165 of them, though she’s picked out a few of her favorites), plus a new pic for you to think about – go see what you can come up with!(Louis Wu 13:08:27 UTC)

  • The UNSC – Test Your Knowledge

    UNSC_Trooper has put together a short quiz on the UNSC – how much do you know?(Louis Wu 13:04:32 UTC)