My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • The Dialogue Databank continues to grow

    Captain Spark has turned in another 39 snippets for the Dialogue Databank. Along with the bits submitted by Jamirus99, Gholsbane, and Wraith yesterday, these bring the total up to almost 210 samples. There are some good ones in there! (If you choose to record – do your best to get clean samples, without a lot…

  • And Still more new screens at ToTheGame

    ToTheGame has ALSO put up ‘new’ screenshots; again, these are pre-E3, and most have been seen before. However, the first shot (a Brute model) and the last (a nice shot of the new Warthog) are really new. Check it out! Thanks to Eclarap, of Halo-Game, for the heads-up.

  • More Halo 2 screens at TXB

    Team Xbox has put up 7 ‘new’ screens from Halo 2 – actually, they’re digital versions of some images posted in the June issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. (Three have appeared online, in a slightly smaller form, already – check our Screenshots section for details.) Thanks to CuBaNo for the heads-up.

  • Movies, movies, and more movies

    gwdp….to went on a movie-posting spree last night; he was kind enough to organize all the links in one post. They’re all pretty small (none of them are over 7.5 mb) and show a variety of things. Descriptions can be found in the thread that post resides in, if the movie’s not self-explanatory enough for…

  • Salmon vs Teal, episode 2

    In the continuing process of clearing out the Movie queue, we’ve got a 14.7 mb QuickTime for you of the second episode of Salmon vs Teal, the first Red vs Blue parody. It’s 4:3 long, and ranges from hilarious to totally incomprehensible. Take a look! (This was released on the RvB forums almost 3 weeks…

  • Now THERE’S a kill.

    Darksage was playing some Rockets-only Race with a bud, who tags him first, but then Darksage gets revenge with a pretty amazing shot. It’s 22 seconds long – the first 15 seconds are only there to prove that the shot wasn’t set up ahead of time. It’s only 1.4 mb – check this out for…

  • Halo50k2 – coming soon!

    dolbex reminds everyone that early registration for Halo50K2 ends this Saturday; if you register now, you save $100 on the team’s fees. If you’re gonna be there, think of all the beer you can buy with $100!

  • RvB/Bungie Shwag for the taking

    Do you consider yourself a Halo god? Could you stand to be $20 richer (in shwag)? guy who doesn’t post…too often has a challenge for you – get a live Master Chief into the separated room, behind the glass, in Chill Out, and he’ll pay you for it. Read the details in this forum post.

  • MC Goes XL.

    Hehe – you knew this would happen, didn’t you? Today’s One One Se7en shows pretty clearly why the MC needs to get his sorry self back out on the battlefield… pronto. I blame Jason.

  • Wednesday Movie Madness

    Well, Mythica’s up to 18.2 Mbit/sec (35 gigs in the past 11 hours), so what the heck – here’s another movie for you. This one hasn’t actually been released anywhere, yet. It’s called ‘Hall of the Sidewinder King’, and it tells the story of a red soldier (well, pink) getting the flag. Set nicely to…

  • KS/MO Halo Cash

    Sam writes to point out a Halo tournament in the Kansas City area, at the National Video Gaming League on August 2. Top prize is $500. More information can be found at Team Viper’s Bungie.net chapter.

  • Customer service – to the next level

    Do you find yourself using our forum without actually figuring out whether your time would be better spent checking for the answer in FAQs first? c0ld vengeance is working on a new site feature that might help.

  • Evolution Gaming crunches the numbers

    Derek Tick points out a link to Evolution Gaming’s Summer Leagues, a Milwaukee, WI Halo-playing group. They list full stats for each member of each 3-man team (there are 8 of them) – it’s not clear what all the acronyms are, but it’s for certain that they’re serious about ranking their players. Check it out!

  • Snowed under

    Man, only 15 new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. You guys are slacking! Battlefield 2552: Back to Hell, by John Morris Oblivion chapter 1, by Reclaimer On A Red Horse: Chapter 3, by Diamond Dog Its Just One of Those Days (Prologue: 1), by Elfster Battle for Norah: Part Three, by Sterfrye36 The…

  • Weapons Respawn Times, revisited

    Devin Olsen and Goatrope submitted three new maps to the Weapons Respawn Times chart in our Miscellaneous section. This leaves only Boarding Action and Chiron in the completely untested column. Nice going, guys!

  • That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

    Captain Spark turned in another 25 dialogue snippets – we’ve added them to the Dialogue Databank. I’ve also added some sorting functions – you can see new material by simply sorting the full page by date, reversed. Update: Jamirus99 has added 4 new Marines quotes – they’re listed at the bottom here. Update 2: Two…

  • Mythica’s back!

    Woohoo! Mythica.org, which has been down since June 19 (that’s just short of three weeks ago, for you movie-starved folks), is back up and running! We’re going to be attempting to clear the rather substantial movie backlog over the next week or so… we’ll start with the longest-waiting movies. First up: Too Many Vehicles, a…

  • Drawing for Glory (and money)

    The Bungie Jobs page has gotten another entry – they’re looking for a Contract Graphic Artist/Illustrator to help with the upcoming Bungie.net facelift. There are definitely some HBO community members with the skills for this one… Thanks to SketchFactor for the heads-up.

  • Seventh Heaven… figures

    After a 4 month hiatus, the Bungie Comics page gets an update, thanks to mehve… I’m not sure I’d want to be in that bar after that last frame.

  • The Official Unofficial Halo Drinking Game

    Thanks to dolbex and BOLL, who together got the forum back to 4BitterGuys.com, and a Halo drinking game (complete with artwork). I wonder if the RvB guys ever played this?