My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: halo@bungie.org

  • 5 Meeellion Players.

    Wow. 15 minutes ago, the 5 millionth unique Live account (not including guests) started a game of Halo 2 online… that’s a lot of fraggers! (Louis Wu 20:28:01 UTC)

  • Frigate Flyby

    Nabsuh posted a cool little animation of a frigate (retextured) flying by the camera. Tiny, fun – go look! (The local QT mirror is H.264 encoded; I’m thinking it might be time to move that way, finally. QuickTime 7.1.6 plays this admirably on a multitu…

  • LiL Poison’s Getting Old!

    Okay, not OLD, really – he just turned 9. But man… the kid’s been present on the pro scene for YEARS! Happy birthday, LiL P! (There’s a documentary about him coming out next year…)(Louis Wu 15:49:54 UTC)

  • Flushed Out.

    One Porta-Potty joke wasn’t enough for Stuntmutt – there’s another one in today’s One One Se7en. Child.(Louis Wu 15:46:14 UTC)

  • Reid 18 Montage 5 Remix

    Back in December, we mentioned Reid 18’s fifth montage; we just got word from Z, at Halo3Forum.com, that Vox has remixed it. I found it a bit hard to watch in places, but the synching is really good. Take a look – WMP9 format, 91 mb.(Louis Wu 13:40:19 …

  • Podtacular Episode 112

    Big Goalie Dan pointed out that Podtacular Episode 112 has been released – they’re still focusing on leaked content. 75 minutes, 72 mb.(Louis Wu 13:08:49 UTC)

  • Austrocity opens

    DuBbLe stopped by to announce Austrocity, a new Australian Halo 3 Beta blog – swing by for some basic info about what’s coming in the future.(Louis Wu 13:05:12 UTC)

  • Blastacular Head-to-Head

    If you’re an IGN Insider, you can go watch a video comparison of the Blastacular Map Pack maps (Desolation and Tombstone) with their original Halo counterparts (Derelict and Hang ’em High). (If you’re not an Insider, there’s not even a low-res free ver…

  • How did Joyride go out of business?

    Yesterday, we mentioned an insane Halo action figure collection – today, there’s another one. Joerhyno has been doing his own collecting… I’m floored by this one, too.(Louis Wu 10:51:01 UTC)

  • Sonic Halo

    Spartan Erik pointed out a new Halo Flash vid at Newgrounds – thewax70 has set the first couple of cutscenes (audio and action) up with Sonic the Hedgehog graphics. I found it to be really well-done – definitely worth a watch!(Louis Wu 10:45:40 UTC)

  • Halo 2 Vista – delayed until May 22

    Last week, we mentioned that game retailers had been adjusting their availability listing for Halo 2 Vista from May 8 (yesterday) to May 23. All week long, European and Australian sites have been contacted by Microsoft with the news that the overseas v…

  • This End Up

    RVideo noticed a tiny asset in the Halo 2 map files that I’ve never seen reference to before (yeah, I know – I’m just waiting for the ‘OLD!’ emails); his image is pretty self-explanatory, and pretty interesting from the perspective of this Halo fan(ati…

  • All Tied Up

    XerxdeeJ pointed out that new Tied the Leader content is now up – a ginormous 22 Questions interview with Epileptic Gaming (it’s really 3 interviews in one, so bring a big mug of coffee), and a discussion of spoilers, and why you should avoid them. Go …

  • Should Microsoft Acquire MLG?

    Over at Nation of Gamers, there’s an article suggesting that it would make good business sense for Microsoft to purchase MLG. (Personally, I think that not only is this not true, but I doubt EITHER party would be interested in the attempt… but that’s…

  • He could reenact ‘300’. (Both sides.)

    Dielectric posted a bunch of pictures of what can only be described as an insanely large Halo action figure collection. This is like nothing I’ve ever seen.(Louis Wu 13:06:32 UTC)

  • The Impact of Being a Gaming Parent

    Over at 2Old2Play, there’s a great article about the impact that a gaming parent has on one’s kids. Halo (not surprisingly) is mentioned more than once. Thanks, litereddonut. (Louis Wu 13:05:04 UTC)

  • Secret Identity

    Mister Froggy told us that Halo, Articulated 37 is now available. If I hear one ‘Jenkins’ joke about this strip, I’m going to hunt you down and kill you with a spoon.(Louis Wu 12:42:32 UTC)

  • Early shots of Haloclix figures

    Over at HCRealms, GAMA took a couple of photos of Haloclix prototypes at a recent show – it’s a bit difficult to dig your way in to see the pics from the links in the first post, but we’ve put up local versions (hunter/arbiter | odst/tartarus). These l…

  • HTB Updates

    Sane Intolerant let us know that there are three new ‘Halo Toy Box’ comics up on DeviantART – Loose Ends (closing same), Hax0rs Never Prosper (looks like it hurts), and Halo 3 Blooper Reel (um…). And so it goes.(Louis Wu 21:02:46 UTC)

  • Initial Thoughts.

    I Love Bees still pops up periodically in our forum. Stuntmutt has some thoughts about that – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:18:18 UTC)