My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • Team 3D Interview at MLGPro

    MLGPro.com has posted an interview with Team 3D – formerly StK, one of the best-known pro Halo teams on the circuit. Ever wonder what makes these guys tick? Go read. Thanks, Quinion.

  • I Say, I Say, I Say…

    Today’s One One Se7en is slightly less appropriate than it would have been before the Auto-Update kicked in… but any reference to ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’ is okay with me.

  • Perplexity

    Veegie posted a note on our forum about a new HaloCE map he’s been working on – there are pictures over the EPG forums. Lots of cool dynamic lighting! Take a look.

  • Necrosis Ep 1 released

    GrantBauer88 posted a note that Necrosis Episode 1 has been released – you can find it on the Necrosis video page. It’s the first Halo machinima I know about that takes advantage of our Dialogue Databank to circumvent the problem many projects have with less-than-professional-sounding voice acting. (At least, I’m ASSUMING the clips came from…

  • MLG Orlando footage posted

    The first wave of MLG Orlando gameplay (the last pre-AutoUpdate Halo 2 gameplay footage out there, probably) has been posted on MLG’s Video on Demand service – you can watch Str8 Rippin upset Check 6, or follow the Winners Bracket Finals. (There’s more coming in a few days.) Thanks to 3Suns for the heads-up.

  • New Prometheus Update

    Nick writes to point out that Prometheus, the Halo/Halo2/HaloCE editor in production, has another update, with screenshots, sarcasm, and a small vid. Go look!

  • What’s with all the glockenspiels?

    Over at Bungie.net, Stosh points out some Halo-based poetry at halotournies.com. Scary stuff!

  • Customized Lego Art

    Grant writes to say that the Home Front mod for Battlefield 2 (which will be launching on May 29), is offering a small Lego Halo kit for free – download it, print it out, and attach it to a lego figure for your own PoA crew member. (Click on the Staff tab to see it.)

  • Resolute Ep 13

    Über-Chief 69 has put up episode 13 of Resolute. I don’t get it – but then, I don’t need to. Go see for yourself.

  • Still MORE movies

    A couple more movies mentioned in our forum recently: HALOChat points out an encore vid for Jump Tactics Episode III, and GrantBauer88 points out ‘Dude, Where’s My Warthog’. The downloading never ends!

  • The Library Updated

    Saint [lpn] spent a bunch of time updating the Library – details are in this post. Everything you ever wanted to know about Halo – in a non-searchable format. (Yeah, I’ll keep giving him a hard time about that until Djof fixes it.)

  • Madda Cheeb needs your help!

    Z, of Xbox Ottawa (the Fire Team Charlie guys) has released a new (beta) version of his Madda Cheeb Flash game – get Madda Cheeb to the video game store without being killed by the anti-MS fanbois who want to keep him from buying Halo 2! It’s still got some rough spots- but he’s looking…

  • More new map commentary

    Saint [lpn] added a new blog entry discussing the new maps released recently. He mentioned it on our forum.

  • Oceans 7-11

    The Geezer Gamers have set up a new gametype, especially for Turf, that seems pretty silly – but fun silly. You can read about it on their forum. Thanks, troyostrum.

  • Away

    Hogmasta would like folks to know about his new montage, ‘Away’ – he’s chosen not to submit it to the Movie Peer Review Rating System, so you can find it on Savefile.com. I found the video was timed well to the audio… but the rapid cuts made my head hurt. You may easily disagree. 33.7…

  • HUDless is beautiful

    prometheus writes to point out that the Halouvre has been updated with a bunch of Halo 1 and Halo 2 HUDless shots. Go check ’em out!

  • Dip

    Sector 7 is worried you might not understand how to ‘teabag’ – so they’ve made a video (QuickTime, 4.3 mb, live-action) to make it clear.

  • Outpost Coagulation Ep 6

    Treeskunk Productions has posted Episode 6 of Outpost: Coagulation. They’re hosting it themselves, and Halomachinima.com has a mirror as well. 7:07 long, 39.3 mb, WMP9 format. Purple spaghetti? (Nice chase scene.) Update: Dennis Powers has mirrored the film, as well, and created a QuickTime version (43.7 mb), at movies.gearboxgamezone.com.

  • Tourneys Bungie’s heard about

    Bungie has posted another weekly Halo 2 tourney roundup – go see what’s happening near you!

  • Finding folks to play with

    Nirvana is trying to set up a gamertag database that keeps track of gametypes enjoyed – you can see it on his website. There’s a forum post with more information.