My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • Bits and Pieces… and stuff

    It must be spring – Finn has taken off his snowshoes and put away his anorak and come out from his igloo in the far north of Canada just long enough to sort through the forum for the choicest Halo Story-related tidbits to add to the Halo Story page. Don’t expect him to stick around,…

  • Covenant Rat Race

    So it looks like somehow, I missed the REAL strip last Friday at Halo Babies – I only noticed the April Fool’s strip. Ouch. Go back and check it out, if you missed it too… it’s pretty funny!

  • Hunters and Jackals and Brutes, Oh My!

    Gravemind might be the single most difficult level in Halo 2 – which is one of the reasons it took Mike Miller two weeks to churn out the Gravemind chapter of his Legendary Walkthrough. His hard work will make it much easier for you, however; he’s created a monster piece, with 20 individual video clips…

  • Sound Extravaganza

    A number of snippets were submitted to the Dialogue Databank this weekend; Mr Fiddle pointed out a clip originally posted on the High Impact Halo forums, showing Herbie (an invincible grunt – do a search at HIH for more details) singing a hilarious rendition of the Beatle’s ‘Something’ (IWHBYD skull required) – we’ve included the…

  • Jumping Vids at Team Dirty Tricks

    Trevor points out that teamdirtytricks.net now has seven downloadable jumping vids – go check ’em out!

  • The Needler Songs

    A week ago, Bonekin visited our forum with a link to a hilarious sendup of a Christina Aguilera song, called ‘Beautiful Needler’. Took a little while to track down the author… but today, unableelephant found the Gamespot journal of Archie Gates, the song’s creator – and it turns out there isn’t just one, but TWO…

  • Fan Fiction – New Blood

    The Fan Fiction section went offline for a couple of weeks on March 21, due to server connection issues. It came back up last Thursday – and today, finally, I’ve cleared the queue of submitted stories for the last few days. 23 new pieces, some quite good. Go read.

  • Resurrection Writeups, Installment 2

    Another Resurrection writeup – this one from retsamolah. Comes with some fun pics, and a movie that starts with a pretty cool intro, will make you queasy with the b-roll gamplay footage, and ends with the unveiling of the Mullins print these guys got for me. Amazing stuff. (There’s another movie mirror from prometheus, if…

  • Forfeit

    We got another montage from FuzzySmurf – this one’s called Forfeit. Once again, we’re providing a BitTorrent link for it (as we did for his last montage) – this is a relatively painless way for us to host montages, so I’m far more flexible about them. Composition is nice, quality is quite high. 56.5 mb,…

  • Ogre Madness

    A new Ogre Montage went up last Friday – you can find it at Combovideos.com. There’s a sizeable thread over at MLGPro.com about it. Thanks to STB on our own forum for the heads-up. 55.1 mb, almost 12 minutes long, WMP9 format. These guys are unreal… I just spent a weekend playing with a group…

  • Fahordlingrads!

    What happens when you mix Homestarrunner, Snoop Dogg, and Halo? You get more Halo rap. Seems to be the thing these days. Fo shizzle. (Created by Bomberman21 and TheSizzler82 for their clan, Fahordlingrads.)

  • Halo 2 LE for cheap

    Wow. Amazon.com is selling the Halo 2 Limited Edition (well, actually Tiger Direct is, THROUGH Amazon) for $35 plus shipping. What a deal! Thanks, Joystiq.

  • Last Stand Page Ten

    Phoenix_9286 has posted Page 10 of his Last Stand comic – Montoya takes off. I can’t tell – is it getting more serious? Is this just an anomaly? You decide.

  • More Halo Rap

    Okay – this one needs a MAJOR MPAA Explicit Lyrics warning… but it’s pretty darn funny. Coaxke posted the latest offering from Futuristic Sex Robotz, a ‘Gangster Nerd Rap group’, on our forum; there’s an MP3, as well as a music video in both QuickTime and WMP9 formats. We’ve mirrored all three items, to save…

  • April Fools Strip Returns

    Many, many, MANY people have complained that they never got to see the original strip that started the April Fools joke about Stuntmutt leaving One One Se7en. It was originally pulled because the content was inflammatory – intentionally so, in fact. I’ve reinstalled it… but I’ve added a disclaimer to the page itself, so that…

  • Strategy Guide – Ascension

    UNEXPECTED62 wrote up a strategy guide for Ascension – you can find it on Clan LND’s website.

  • Chiefman

    mtusk is working on a new flash animation/comic based on Halo: Resolution’s released sprites. The start can be found at DeviantART. There’s not much there yet… but what there is is pretty polished. Check it out!

  • The Majesty of Space

    Awesome HUDless widescreen shot of Cairo Station, from the outside, by prometheus. If you like what you see, be SURE to explore the Halouvre – there are more items like this.

  • Not Just for April 1.

    Meant to post this earlier this morning – but there’s been a lot to do. Posting it now because I need to head out for a few hours, and didn’t want to forget. Today’s One One Se7en is another apology, of sorts.

  • The Plains of Marathon

    Rampancy.net has fired up a new column, called ‘A Sistematic Approach’ – staffer Sistematic is writing about Halo in the context of older Bungie games. The first column is called ‘Marathon Lessons’, which looks at Halo 2 and the lessons that can be learned from the first Battle of Marathon (fought in 490 BC).