My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: halo@bungie.org

  • 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…

  • 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)

  • 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…

  • Halo 3 Interview at The Wire

    We got word from Paul Semel that he’s done a pretty nice interview with Brian Jarrard about Halo 3 – some interesting questions and answers. Swing by The Wire to read about it!(Louis Wu 22:56:05 UTC)

  • Blindsided.

    There’s a discussion right now on our forum about the new Hill Bungie’s developed for King of the Hill games in Halo 3. Stuntmutt’s view on this seems to echo my own – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:32:42 UTC)

  • One from Many

    Jobyn stopped by to point out an interview with DTS Wheels, of the Tied the Leader Gunslingers, in the current issue of The Blue Skittle magazine. The man’s pretty eloquent – go read about the philosophy of the clan, and what they’re trying to do in t…

  • Fun with Fireworks

    Rockslider gave us a visit to point out a new section in his Bad Cyborg collection of Halo 1 campaign extension ideas. This one is more of a lark than many – but geez, he’s coming up with new ways to get enjoyment from a game released almost 6 years a…