My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • America’s Biggest Halo Fan – is it you?

    According to Gamespot, Microsoft Game Studios is looking for America’s Biggest Halo Fan – the winner to be sent on an all-expenses paid trip to LA for the Bungie Fan Fest to be held during E3. To enter, you need to submit ‘an original and creative video that clearly demonstrates why [you] believe yourself to…

  • So what’re we gonna get? Huh? Huh?

    Interesting speculation from Cybrfrk. Webcam shots show large numbers of people in the Bungie office last night past 8pm (local time). Levi (with some help from Djoey154) notices that someone is filming something in the offices. Matt Soell points out that one of the guys in the pictures is from the Official Xbox Magazine. We…

  • Halo Story News… for real.

    Oops… careless. mnemesis updated the Halo Story Page today, with a non-fake look at Halo: The Flood – stop by for some enlightenment. (Spoilers, of course, are rampant throughout.) There’s also an intriguing note about a mysterious character…

  • Was it or wasn’t it?

    April Fool’s pranks (those we can talk about) are outlined in this postmortem. Don’t read it if you feel knowing for sure would spoil the magic.

  • Yanked.

    GURPS Halo material has been removed from Bungie Sightings. Details can be found here.

  • Good night, now it’s time to go home…

    Okay, okay. It’s April 2 (UTC), and the jokes are done. I’m a bit too bushed to write up a full postmortem – tomorrow morning, maybe. Thanks to all who made today as fun as it was… and apologies to anyone who was offended by any of the trickstering. No more till next year -…

  • Halo Babies Renewed

    All the details are in the Fox press release put up in this post. Thanks to poena.dare for finding it.

  • Part of a balanced breakfast.

    Hal-O’s? When opie301 brought these up, I thought he meant this cereal… but he didn’t. He meant this one. Cool.

  • The end of an (incipient) era.

    mnemesis, our stalwart Story Page anchor, has decided to call it quits; he can’t see the point in running a site based on speculation about a storyline when Bungie’s just giving away (okay, selling) the Halo Story Bible. We’ll miss you, mnemesis. 🙁

  • The Lowest Common Denominator

    MacSoft’s Senior Product Manager Al Shilling says Mac Halo will run just fine on your first-generation iMac. Good news for people with lame computers! (Thanks to Madscientist for the heads-up.)

  • Someone’s been eating potato chips at their desk again…

    Cybrfrk’s tireless webcam archiver has hit paydirt again. Looks like there might be some unplanned-for denizens of the Bungie offices… check the webcam shots in this forum post. (You’re looking for the contents of that mug on the right…)

  • I feel her pain.

    Hehe… The Search for the Megg has consumed our forum in the past few days… and resident kibitzer Shishka has his own take on the situation. Check out his latest comic at Subnova.

  • Sigma Octanus IV now recognized.

    Octanus has pointed out that his Forerunners site, Sigma Octanus IV, has never been added to our Links section. Oversight rectified.

  • Just a few stories

    Lightweight Fan Fiction update, as they go these days:Wild Weasels, by Dirty Commie Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 2, by monitor101 Falling Stars From Heaven., by HALO MASTER DAWG Life of a UNSC Marine Part III, by TygpjGo for it…

  • Bungie.net Pro – you gotta have it.

    Check this out. Bungie’s instituted a new pay-for-content service called Bungie.net Pro. For $7/month, you get access to boatloads of webcams, an online version of the Halo Story Bible, Developer diaries, daily Halo 2 screenshots… and MORE! Go read about it. Then sign up. (I got in early – I was subscriber 20. Not too…

  • PimpWheel, Baby.

    Pimps at Sea goes Live! Check out the Pimps at Sea page over at Bungie for some pretty darn cool hardware to accompany this amazing almost-ready product. (Yeah, we know, it’s not Halo-related… but the more-than-half-dozen Halo-related items posted this morning at Bungie.net have fallen victim to a new build of their server software, and…

  • Mac Halo screens!

    Wow. Yesterday, Eclarap pointed out a link to the PC Halo Strategy Guide. It’s not for sale yet, but that was the first we’d heard that it even existed. (I, personally, figured that the Prima guide would serve.) There was a bit of speculation on our forum about the comments that there would be new…

  • GURPS – oops, excuse me

    poena.dare has taken the cleaned-up covers of GURPS Halo and interpreted what can be found in the text. Keats and new taglines… go read about it at Bungie Sightings!

  • Your Name In Lights

    c0ld vengeance, back from a long absence, has found what might be a pretty cool easter egg – the letters ‘TR’ (for Truth and Reconciliation) written out in the lights of the ship of the same name on the level Keyes. Clever!

  • mnemesis takes a long look

    mnemesis has put up a nice review of Halo: The Flood, over at the Halo Story page. There are minor spoilers in there – but mostly for the Halo storyline, not for the book. Suffice it to say, this book will shake up what you thought you knew about Halo. And it’s available in stores…