My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Author: Wirehead

  • D’em buttons are gonna pay

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    Bob which button did you press? MSXbox has put together a Xbox controller design spec image to help clarify what button does what. It’s the red one…no blue… wait it’s…

  • xbox.ign.com talks to Seamus Blackly

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    Seamus Blackley speaks out in response to some of the fears expressed by fans about the downgrading of the Xbox specs – you can read his words at xbox.ign.com. Spin control in advance of the CES unveiling? You decide.

  • Wallpaper contest at Halo HQ

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    eldar-colonel writes to say that Halo HQ is having a wallpaper contest. Stop by and read about it.

  • cortana.org updated

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    As noted on Islandfour.org and the Marathon’s Story page, there’s been another update over at cortana.org. Scorpio and Orion…

  • No Halo update this week or next

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    No Halo update this week says Matt on our forums. No Halo update next week too. Doesn’t look like we’ll get one on Friday January 5th either. Matt hints at a possible live Halo update at the Bungie fanfest. Go read his full posthere.

  • “What’s the best first-person shooter of all time?”

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    POLL SMASH! Kudos to Simon for pointingout another poll this time at MacAddict.”What’s the best first-person shooter of all time?”Marathon is listed along with UT, Quake 3 Arena, and Doom. Quick someone tell Hamish. 😉

  • Louis is back… lock up Crux!

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    Is Louis back?

  • Bungie have rabid fans

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    We are rabid fans! Jesterpoints us to the first lines of a Daily Radar reviewwhich goes:The big developers like Blizzard, id and Bungie are strangely “lucky” enough to have truly rabid fans. These people are the hardcore first adopters who frequent the forums, wax the web pages andgenerally keep their developer heroes on their toes.…

  • Spot the similarity

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    Deja vu? Our good friend Tim Jenks over at Haloplayers (got Matt’s update yet?)sent us this note:take a look at: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/snap.jpg then: http://www.haloplayers.com/newbies/vehicles.php3blatent rip off imhonot to put a dampner on the release of a new site, but i find that a bit out of line.That’s not cricket.

  • Khen Rigzin’s Halo page

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    Khen Rigzin sends word that he’s working on a new Halo site. It ain’t up yet but he sent us in a snapshot of the main page. Now the snapshot he sent in was over 2 MegaBs which took ages to download on the 33.6K modem Louis left us. So we cut the pic down…

  • Louis scores 25

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    Where’s Louis? Concerned HBO staff are to start wearing thought screen helmets after Louis scores 25 in the Alien Abduction Survey.HBO spin: We couldn’t think of one.

  • Matt’s cryptic post

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    Looks like next Friday’s Halo update will be going to Haloplayers. Leastthat’s our reading of Matt Soell’s cryptic post on our forums. If any new site deserves it Haloplayers do. They’ve been around for a long time now and regularly update. But what of this line? “Someday soon, we’ll all be hangin’ ten and none…

  • A lot could happen between now and March.

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    Matt Soell takes time out to help clarify Jason and John’s involvement at next year’s Game Developers Conference on our forums and goes on to hint at the possibility of seeing some new Halo stuff before March 2001. “A lot could happen between now and March.” We live in hope.

  • A Fire Upon the Deep and Halo have a common theme

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    Hamish “Godot” Sinclair over at the Marathon’s Story page has spotted a similarity between the Halo story and Vernor Vinge’s “A Fire Upon the Deep”. A genocidal alien alliance attempts to wipe out humanity and a lone human ship escapes with the alien fleet in hot pursuit! Weeee doggie! Another book to add to our…

  • Matt’s weekly Halo update

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    Matt’s weekly Halo update went to Battleground Halo this week. We all expected it to go tor.net but it’s “pie for all” policyat Bungie. As Ding said “It should encourage BGH to update more”. Let’s hope so.

  • Louis is GONE!

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    Did Louis leave? Cool!

  • Bitner Blitz on our forums

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    Whoah… Bitner Blitz! Nathan “Island Four” Bitner, former Producer and Creative Developer for Halo, hits our forums with a barrage of posts. Incoming! Nathan expounds on “water, textures, guns” in this postand on the availability of Halo’s tools in this post. Check out his other posts too! 🙂

  • Vote Hamish for a better Bungie… or something

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    Ding and Crux wheeled me in here to say… hmmm hang on… oh yeah… vote Hamish… that’s it. And you can KEEP your stock options Louis!

  • It’s full of stars! says SiliconDream

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    It’s full of stars! SiliconDream has put together a starmap showing Earth, Tau Ceti, iota Horologii and HD 177830, plus the directions and distances from Earth of the Galactic Core and the Pfhor homeworld. Head on over to his site to see the systems.jpg. More details can be found here. You can blame Miguel and…

  • Apple employs them young and hot

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    Matt Soell wades in on our forums about an overzealous Apple employee with vague memories of timelines… sounds a bit Marathonish to me. Matt obviously hasn’t got his G4 Cube yet… just like the rest of us. Power to the Cube baby.