My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Louis Wu

  • Upcoming Machinima Contest

    Feenix writes again – with news of an upcoming machinima contest. Full details will be announced soon, but for now, the basic gist is that winners will be included on upcoming cover DVDs for Xbox World 360, and an overall winner will earn a free game. The rules are simple: the machinima has to be…

  • Elitism.

    You might remember that this week, there’s a campaign to get everyone to play as Elites on Xbox Live – Stuntmutt looks at some of the people that might not participate in today’s One One Se7en.

  • Weekend Collab

    John Doe found a pretty random Master Chief inclusion in a Flash vid – you can find it here. Oddness…

  • Seventh Column Art Contest Results

    The Seventh Column Art competition which ended a couple of days ago had results posted on Bungie.net last night – the second and third-place winners were both Halo pieces (and both artists should be familiar to HBO regulars). First place went to a piece depicting a scene from Marathon. Check out the details!

  • When Subtlety Backfires

    A number of people wrote to tell me I was really confused (some in words not quite so polite) because of the news post yesterday where I said that Ron Perlman had ‘apparently never heard of Halo’. Um… yeah, I know Ron Perlman voiced the part of Lord Hood in Halo 2. It was supposed…

  • Heart is a Lonely Hunter – in Hi-res

    Wow, cool. Feenix writes to point out that the Cover DVD for the current issue of Xbox World 360 Magazine in the UK has the full half-hour machinima ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ on it – in full DVD quality. While you can download this movie from us (either in pieces, or as a…

  • The MLG PwnCast Returns

    The MLG PwnCast is back – with a new website, and a new episode. Go check ’em out! (Next week, Episode 5 will feature Lil Poison!)

  • Double You Tee Eff, Mate.

    1Up.com has put up a piece called ‘Top Ten WTF Moments of 2005’ – and coming in at number 7 (heh) is ‘Spartan in DOA’. The reason it made the list? “Because when you think of one-on-one, boob jiggling martial arts action, you think of Halo.” Fair enough! Thanks, 3Suns.

  • MC Resin Sulpture for Auction

    A Master Chief resin sculpture (these were promotional items in Europe last year) is up for sale on eBay. We’ve mentioned these before – but they’re usually in Europe, and this one is in the US. Starting bid is $160, Buy it Now price is $210, and you’ve got almost 5 days to make up…

  • Hellboy is gonna be a character in Halo.

    Ron Perlman, who apparently has never heard of Halo, can’t imagine anyone but Guillermo del Toro directing Hellboy 2 (the script for which has been turned in, according to the interview). Swing by IESB for a video interview with the guy.

  • Now that’s snazzy.

    Mr.Sci-Fi put a Masterchief-ish paint job on his Xbox360 – looks fantastic! Take a look.

  • Jaw Dropper is right!

    Shishka pointed out a really cool Halo 2 show car – originally found in a Bungie.net forum thread. Check it out – nice paint job!

  • First Strike – the Audio Book?

    Some time ago, we got a pretty interesting submission from John Space, who had created an Honors English school project in which Halo: First Strike was presented in Audio Book format. (The submission was an excerpt.) Character voices were done by John and Cheyenne Space, and friends Michael and Brendon Reed. The clip we have…

  • Halo Character Scale Chart

    Many people have been asking Stephen Loftus to put together a scale chart for Halo characters (he’s already done them for weapons and vehicles). He decided the best way to handle the situation was to give people the chance to compare any pair of characters – so swing by his new Character Scale Chart and…

  • Another pistol for sale

    A whole bunch of people pointed out that there’s another M6D pistol for sale on eBay by the same guy we mentioned yesterday – there are 6 days left in the auction, so check it out! (I think Robert Patterson was first with the news… but thanks to everyone who noticed it.)

  • A small note of sadness

    This should really be posted on the bungie.org front page, but nobody ever goes there (mostly because it hasn’t been updated in years)… we allowed our 7th birthday to pass unnoticed yesterday, and what might be worse… nobody noticed. (Bungie.org opened its doors on January 6, 1999, and has been serving the Bungie community every…

  • Alternate Ending

    Jon Luke noticed another Press Start to Play comic with Halo content… heh.

  • More Halo armor for auction

    Interesting. X1Zero noticed another Halo costume on eBay – but the opening bid seems awfully high to me, given the quality…

  • Battle of the Masses – 4v4

    Dyslexia has written up Part II of his Battle of the Masses piece on MLG Chicago over at mlgpro.com. This portion focuses on the 4v4 teamplay, instead of the FFA stuff. The writeup (once again) is a great read, and really puts you there – or as close to there as you can get at…

  • halowiki continues to integrate b.net content

    PEZ points out some new features at halowiki.net – the Gamesaver can save stats from given games as wiki pages (useful to save that one-in-a-million game even when Bungie purges it from their servers), and you can now access recent games with a direct link (just add a slash and your gamertag to the end…