My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • Hot Stuff in the HaloCE World

    TheGhost has moved his pretty amazing collection of links to HaloCE tutorials to a permanent home at Halomaps.org, courtesy of Dennis Powers – swing by for links to every fan-created tutorial related to content creation for Halo: Custom Edition you can think of! There’ve been a number of significant updates to this project since we…

  • New Renders for First Contact

    The First Contact Half-Life 2 mod has released a large group of renders – go check out everything from vehicles to characters in their image gallery (the news post is here). Thanks to AngelicLionheart and xJayx for the heads-up(s)!

  • Did someone say cake?

    Stuntmutt mentions an update to his blog a couple of days ago – pictures, movies, guest strips… what more could you want? (Don’t answer that.) Go read!

  • Team3D’s Weekly Update

    Over at Team3D.net, F13ND sat down with Saiyan to talk about the upcoming MLG season opener, and the upcoming season. Go read!

  • A Labor of Love

    SIRBOE created a really amazing-looking Halo sword (you gotta take a close look at the handle), and sent us a bunch of pics. At first glance, there are a lot of dupes – but he wanted to get a bunch of different angles to show you all the details. (For each pic, there are a…

  • Happy Easter.

    Mostly from Psychophan7. Egg-lovin’, Halo-fan style.

  • A Different Kind of Machinima

    Funky. Bloody Grunt and Black Sky Productions are putting together ‘Endurance Halo’ – fourteen players will face off in smaller and smaller teams, until only one from each team remains; finally, until only one remains. The entire thing will be filmed, and cut into an ‘unscripted combat gameshow’. It won’t be happening until this summer,…

  • Short Circuit

    Slacker Entertainment has posted Heroes & Heretics Flashback 4: Short Circuit. In Episode 3, you met the Helots – unaugmented soldiers wearing modified Spartan armor. Except for getting killed a lot, they seemed like a competent bunch… but Short Circuit tells a different story. A significantly more entertaining one. And I LOVE the medic. Swing…

  • Armor Drawing Guide

    Very nice – Hypersoldier has put up a Mjolnir Armor basic drawing guide over at LiveJournal. Give it a read! Thanks, HavokBlue.

  • Script writer needed for live action short

    We missed this, but back in December, corpseguy posted a note on the HaloPlanet forums about a full Master Chief suit he’s building (we’ve got a record of the helmets he’s been working on, but we missed the suit post). He came back yesterday, because he’s interested in using the suit in a live action…

  • The Interactive Story

    Narcogen takes a long, analytical look at the E3 2003 demo, and how it differed from the game we eventually got. No, this isn’t one of those ‘omg they promised us Earth!’ rants – it’s actually pretty thoughtful, and looks at the difference in story-telling techniques between that piece and the final game. He makes…

  • Lethargy Crisis

    Rooster Teeth has a new PSA up for sponsors; they’re looking at the current price of gasoline here in the US. It’s pretty funny stuff – if you’re a sponsor, go grab a copy! If you’re not, it should be available to everyone by Sunday or so. Thanks, Speedhuntr.

  • The Bullfrog Speaks

    Weekly Update went live a couple of hours ago over at Bungie.net; there’s not a ton of new info there, but you can get a small glimpse inside Bungie Studios… and a look at Mister Chief on the can. Frankie was first, and you can read it locally in our Weekly Update Archive, if you…

  • XBL Playlist Update Info

    Ninja on Fire posted an update about the XBL Halo 2 Playlist on Bungie.net; it’s not set in stone yet, but it’s close. If all goes well, they’ll deploy it in the next few weeks. Lots of changes – go read! Thanks, Sith.

  • Oh! Well, I never…

    Jillybean trawled (not trolled) our forum for some choice tidbits to sprinkle on your Story salad – swing by and read what she found.

  • Figuratively Speaking.

    Last One One Se7en before the 7 on the 7th deadline this Sunday – and Stuntmutt takes advantage of it to show you that no matter how groan-inducing the pun is that you came up with for your caption… he’s got you beat. 7 ways to Sunday. (If you’re wondering who that little guy talking…

  • Fanfic Update

    What the heck is going on? There are 13 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – but I had to delete 7 more because the authors ignored the (pretty short) Rules page! Geez, guys – if you pad a story with useless text to bypass the minimum word limit, we’re gonna…

  • MS signs on with WCG

    The World Cyber Games just got a new sponsor – Microsoft. The pot for 2006 is rather large – half a million dollars. (Last year’s pot for the Grand Final was $435,000, so this is a nice bump.) Some of that extra money is coming from MS – along with all the hardware that the…

  • Misc Art – Overflowing

    More artwork. LOTS more. I had contacted a few prolific DeviantARTists – folks with large numbers of Halo-related images in their DeviantART profiles, but who’d not submitted those images here. Kamino185, lhs, and GTGundam (who did have SOME images here, just not all) each agreed to allow us to host copies of their Halo work…

  • What? No Pony?

    IGN has put together yet another Halo 3 wishlist – and if they got everything they asked for, Halo 3 would be a pretty silly game. (It would probably also be able to make you a margarita during play – which might not be a bad thing.) IGN’s gotta sell pageviews, though, and you can’t…