Category: Halo News Items

GamesBeat has decided to take a 10-year look back at memorable games from 2004. In a not-so-surprising twist, Halo 2 makes their list.(Louis Wu 22:54:03 UTC)

Postmortem stopped in to announce Writing Round 2 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe project – this one focuses on Doarmir, a small animal native to Sangheilios. Fun! Go see what you can come up with.(Louis Wu 22:52:02 UTC)

Marty O’Donnell will be at PAX this year, one of a half-dozen composers participating in the ‘Maestros of Video Games’ panel on Saturday. Put it on your calendar so that you can hear him wax poetic about his contributions to the Halo franchise (among o…

Rockslider went back to his exploration of the Dropship Turret, and the ways you can take it off and stay alive. The technique he stumbles on (and then polishes) at the end is pretty amazing! Check it out.(Louis Wu 17:01:29 UTC)

GameVGame’s Halo 2 favorite map poll fell out pretty much the way you might have predicted (though I would have thought Sanctuary would have rated higher, actually) – today’s your chance to stand up for your favorite Halo 3 map. Go vote!(Louis Wu 16:57…

Shadow8P and his buddies are streaming a Halo 2 LAN again – 4v4 MLG 2007 gametypes are on display! Go watch. (They started a little while ago, so if you’re reading this on Sunday, it’s probably going on RIGHT NOW.)(Louis Wu 16:44:52 UTC)

GameVGame’s Combat Evolved poll went live yesterday – the people have spoken, and Blood Gulch is the most popular multiplayer map. Halo 2’s offerings are up now… what brought you the most joy? Go vote! (Louis Wu 17:34:44 UTC)

pete_the_duck, PsychoDuck, Ducain23, NOKYARD, and FyreWulff joined forces to discuss Forge-relevant topics from the latest Halo conferences – go listen to Forgecast Episode 2. Then go build something!(Louis Wu 21:35:04 UTC)

GameVGame.com is building towards The Master Chief Collection with a series of polls – the first one is up now. What is your favorite Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map? Go vote!(Louis Wu 21:32:15 UTC)

If you find yourself in an empty church, what’s the first thing you should do? Yep – sing the Halo theme. Thanks, Monochron.(Louis Wu 21:29:15 UTC)

Yesterday’s Halo Bulletin recaps last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, but also offers new info about Matchmaking updates coming next week, plus cool landscape screenshots. Drink it all in on Halo Waypoint, or right here in our Halo Bulletin Archive! (Lo…

Over at Attack of the Fanboy, you can read about (and more interestingly, watch) a making-of video put together by Blur showing off how the Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes were built. Very cool.(Louis Wu 19:11:42 UTC)

James Breakwell let us know that yesterday’s episode of his webcomic ‘Wombat Dojo’ features your favorite 7-foot armored green guy. I snickered.(Louis Wu 19:09:10 UTC)

Last week, 343 released new pictures of Zanzibar, one of the Halo 2 maps getting a complete makeover for the Master Chief Collection. (All of the maps in Halo 2 are getting made over for Anniversary – but 6 of them have been ‘reimagined’ by Certain Aff…

Eep – missed one! Prime999r stopped by with word of ‘Into the void’, a machinima/film project you can watch on YouTube. There’s no dialogue – but you don’t really need any. Best seen with headphones and HD. For those who like this stuff… there’s a ra…

SEspider did some Cortana speed painting – go see!(Louis Wu 23:29:33 UTC)

Looks like Dark Horse Deluxe is getting a license to manufacture ship and vehicle replicas… sounds pretty cool for collectors! Thanks, Quirel.(Louis Wu 23:27:42 UTC)

serpx came across an article on Microsoft.com giving some insight into Kiki Wolfkill, Executive Producer of 343 Studios. For folks looking for details on the people behind the games they play… this is gold. (Louis Wu 22:16:59 UTC)