My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • Jen Taylor needs YOU

    Interesting – Kris Kristensen, the director/producer of a film called ‘Inheritance’, is appealing to the Halo fanbase for a show of support. It seems some distributors are reluctant to take this film, because there are no ‘stars’ – so Kristensen is asking that folks who know about Jen Taylor, the voice of Cortana and a…

  • 50k3 – you know the drill

    Halo50k3 is ON, baby. Dolbex has posted an info page with hotel and registration info – go read it, and reserve your pillow-top mattresses with down pillows today!

  • Hey… I thought they were coming from the SHIP!

    Whoa. Dark Helmet got to the top of Halo – in time to see something you’re not supposed to see. Very short film – 11 seconds, 722 kb in WMP9 format, 547 kb in QuickTime format. The man’s on fire!

  • Whack-A-Chief

    One One Se7en takes advantage of some cool Halo 2 stuff today.

  • May Not Hurt, But…

    … It’s Still The Worst Job On The Halo 2 Dev Team. Halo: Resolution takes a literal view of ad slogans.

  • Wednesday Words

    24 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – some standalone, a poem, some continuing series, some comedy… a little something for everyone. Go read!

  • B.net downtime today

    Yesterday, Achronos posted a note on Bungie.net explaining that the site would be down for maintenance for a short time today (10-12 Pacific, or 5-7 pm UTC). He clarified the need for the downtime on our own forum last night. he’s hoping it will be less than an hour – the two hour window is…

  • Halo Custom Edition – Available

    At 9:50 pm Central last night, Cysco announced that Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit were being released sooner than expected. There is a thread containing a list of mirrors for both items (they’re BIG), also on the Gearbox forums. First word here, both on our forum and via email, seems to be…

  • Legend

    So I’m lookin’ through the uploads folder, and there’s this huge movie, and the name rings a bell. Someone named Mike just sent an email about it. Half the guys I know are named Mike… could be anyone. So I grab it and I start watching it, right? And it’s a little slow… another black-and-white…

  • Going Nowhere Clarification

    A quick note – in answer to the deluge of mail we’ve been getting about the Going Nowhere Fast contest; the reason there are no times listed is because nobody’s submitted any movies yet. However, that obviously wasn’t as clear to the world as it was to us… so I’ve added a Leaderboard to the…

  • I need driving lessons

    Hehe – new Flash game from Z, of Xbox Ottawa; it’s called Banshee Chase, and it’s a top-down driving game (avoid the gravestones – yeah, I know they’re not gravestones). It’s tiny; we haven’t asked, but we’d be happy to host this. At the moment, though, you can find it at Newgrounds. Go play!

  • Best Shot – Taken!

    The Gimme Your Best Shot contest for best HUDless screenshot, over at Halo Zone, has been won – check their front page for the top dog and the runner-up. Thanks to XLNC for the heads-up.

  • Balcony Jumping – in a Shade

    A few weeks ago, Ducain posted a vid showing him getting up to the balcony in the Maw hangar, in coop, using a warthog for lift. Yesterday, Dark Helmet showed how to get up there in single player – using a shade turret. It’s 7.5 mb, in WMP9 format, and it’s been mirrored by Ducain…

  • Dos and Don’ts

    Yesterday, Red Loser did a great job of summarizing the Enkidu saga to that point. Today, he updated to account for the newest terminal (first noticed, it seems, by anoncreativeguy). There’s plenty of Enkidu speculation spread throughout our forum, and other forums… but if you’re confused, this is a pretty good place to start.

  • HEK Tutorial – in readable HTML

    Gearbox will be releasing Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit very soon. In preparation for that event, Gearbox and Bungie released the HEK tutorial to a couple of websites so that fans could get a look at what they were up against, and maybe get started on external stuff. Unfortunately, the HTML of…

  • New Action Figures at EBGames

    The ‘Loot points out a new Exclusive action figure at EBGames – the Cobalt Master Chief. No pics yet, but it’s shipping on July 13. They’re also taking pre-orders for the Halo 2 Brute and the Halo 2 Green Master Chief, both shipping on October 11, according to EB. Is your collection complete?

  • Halo Timer v. 0.7b1 released

    Alerus of the One South Clan, has submitted info about an app called ‘Halo Timer’ – it keeps track of spawn timings for the various items on multiplayer maps. (It’s currently missing Boarding Action and Chiron.) It requires MacOSX 10.3 to run. If you’re always missing that Rocket Launcher by THAT MUCH, grab this!

  • Nitrogen is good, no?

    Calvin and Halo hits a half-century today – and in fitting tribute to 6-year-old humor, we have a… oh, go read it.

  • tJY talks to HB

    Apologies for the lack of news; I’ve been hard at work. First up: the Junkyard has interviewed the Halo Babies team; swing on by to read some interesting facts about how they came to team up and teasers of what’s to come!

  • Forerunner, Schmorerunner

    Whoa. Just before leaving on a 2-week vacation, mnemesis updated the Halo Story page. Just a single item – but it DOES give some nice stuff to chew on. And no, he didn’t remember to tell anyone he’d done this. And no, nobody noticed (no email, no forum posts) in the 4 days since it…