My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: KP

  • RvB Season 5 Preview

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    There’s a new article on Bungie.net interviewing Red vs. Blue’s Burnie Burns. The interview covers the new season, some info on their studios and an exclusive clip from the Season 4 DVD. Congratulations go to the mighty KP on the first post on the forums and the first news post.

  • Music, Music Everywhere

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    Couple of articles out of Bungie.net today, both related to Halo music. The first update is about the upcoming PLAY! concert in Chicago on May 27th. Marty and Mike Salvatori will both be on hand to hang out and sign autographs. The second article is about a music mash-up contest being run by Sumthing Else…

  • Special move: Ice Cream Persuasion

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    Sketchfactor’s posted a new interview on Bungie.net. The subject is Max Dyckhoff, better known in this community as mad.max, Bungie’s new AI Engineer. The interview goes over a bit of his past, his acclimation to Bungie Studios and what his new job entails.

  • Joke’s on you, my brain was already mush

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    Walshicus was the first to first notice an interview with Shane Kim (MGS general manager) over on Next Generation. Amongst other things, he speaks about the release date of Halo 3, basically reiterating the “It’ll be ready when it’s ready” mantra we’re all so familiar with. Narcogen also picked this up on Rampancy.net and commented…

  • Revenge on the Brutes

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    Narcogen has gone ahead and posted another in his series of impressions of Halo 2, this time dishing out Uprising. This time he goes into the story more than anything else, making some solid points.

  • Will there be cake?

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    Foo Mo Jive wrote to tell us that Podtacular has released their monumental 50th episode. This episode is completely devoted to various tips, including a few good ones regarding Terminal. They’ve also asked us to mention their new Podtacular Clan structure, which they’ve briefly outlined. Congratulations on your 50th episode, guys!

  • We know F-16s can’t fly in space, shutup

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    gijake, a fan of Microsoft’s Flight Sim series, has pointed out a couple pieces of Halo-inspired content for the game: The first is an environment, Installation 04, and the other is a repaint of an F-16, with Halo 2 written across the wings and a Brute on the tail. Nice find.

  • Glitchakitari

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    Ducain posted to the forum last night to let us know about a pretty cool movie which Yasha released on HIH. Glitchtacular takes you through many of the more common glitches in Halo 2’s multiplayer maps. What sets this movie apart from most others though is the editing and particularly the transitions, which are pretty…

  • Creamed Corn

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    Stuntmutt lets us know that he’s updated his blog with some guest strips from around the net. Some good ones in there, the others were made by Stuntmutt.

  • I like to say schematics.

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    Upon studying Steven Loftus’s Halo, Analyzed, Ωmega became inspired and decided to further detail a couple of models. First he took a look at the Pillar of Autumn model and came up with these two overlays. Then he took a look at the Covenant CCS-class Battle Cruiser and came up with this schematic. So far…

  • Repetition and Luck

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    Narcogen has switched gears and returned to writing up his Halo 2 impressions over at Rampancy.net. Today he takes a close look at Gravemind.

  • F-I-R-Z… dangit

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    The Weekly Update is up, this week Frankie’s got a special treat: a video tour of the new Bungie Studios. Naturally, Frankie was first to make note of it. (It’s in the BWU Archive, too. But don’t tell anyone.)

  • Thus begins the coup

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    The World Cyber Games released the list of titles they will use in official events for the upcoming season. Notably absent from the list is Halo 2, which the WCG had featured up until this year. Thanks to 3Suns for the note.