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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

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  • Wallpaper page updated

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    DRAVEN, of the Halo Information Network, sends in a simple and clean desktop image for our Wallpaper page. Great for those cluttered desktops that just need some eye relief…

  • Big Myth tourney could go Halo

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    Mock writes to let us know that airbornerangers.org are putting together a Myth tournament called ‘WWII: Risk Global Domination Tournament’. In Mock’s words, it is ‘by far the most ambitious Myth tournament to date’. Why are you reading this on a Halo page?If all goes well, we will run a Halo Risk tournament, with a…

  • Logos page updated

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    Luke Varley submits a… different sort of Halo logo. You can find it on our Logos page.

  • Per-pixel everything, says the birthday boy

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    Happy Belated Birthday, Chucky! (We almost let it slide, even though it was mentioned on bungie.net, but Matt took us to task in his (weekly?) Halo update, posted to our forum this time.) Indoor goodness, AI improvements, and Wall-Hugging Hippos… it’s all there! See? And you thought they were just trying to stick forks in…

  • Marathon’s Story looks closely at Island Four

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    Hamish Sinclair does his typically thorough analysis of an Island Four post we mentioned last week. Lots and lots of details about Pablo Neruda… more Blake tie-ins… even some Smashing Pumpkins. The details can be found in today’s Marathon Story update.

  • New WinAmp skin from Halo Command UK

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    Peter Askam sends word that Halo Command UK has a new Halo skin for WinAmp, the Windows mp3 player. You can find it in their Media section, under Sounds. Take a look!

  • Halo Libs debuts at BGH

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    Battleground Halo is combating the no-news-induced boredom with Halo Libs, a new feature based on the parlor game ‘Mad Libs’ created in 1958 by Roger Price and Leonard Stern. You fill a form out with various parts of speech, and these words or phrases will be added to a story. BGH will print the funniest…

  • Clan Halo Death now recruiting

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    Zero4 writes on our forum that his clan, Halo Death, is recruiting. Join up today! Pax.

  • GrailKnights now a Halo clan

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    Louis Wu
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    [GK]ByteEater sends word that his clan, the GrailKnights, have added Halo to their roster. Take a look!

  • Theories Section updated

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    Iden has submitted to our Theories section an interpretation of a line of one of the Cortana letters… could ‘a Demon folded in black clouds’ be a W’rkncacnter? You be be the judge. (You can find other speculations about this William Blake-inspired line on the Marathon’s Story page devoted to Cortana. Suffice it to say…

  • BGH is back, Halo Central hangs it up

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    One back, one down: Battleground Halo returns with a new look, and Halo Central calls it quits. You win some, you lose some… (Thanks to R.net for the heads-up on Halo Central.)

  • Logos page updated.

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    Thanks to fire phoenix, of HC, who submitted another logo for our Logos page. Take a look!

  • dearth of news

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    Nothing to see here, move along…

  • Ultimate Gamer posts some E3 trailer grabs

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    We just got mail from Geert Roete, saying that there are some Halo shots posted at the Dutch site Ultimate Gamer. They’re just screen grabs from the E3 movie, though, and the text is very sparse (one sentence), so I’m not really sure what the deal is. You can go look anyway, though… there might…

  • Halo SETI Marines 7 day stats posted

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    The Halo SETI Marines continue to crank out units, slightly improving last week’s total output. DarthFlounder remains in the number one Crunch position, and last week’s Frogblast award winner, Trux, was surpassed this week by camw. All the gory details can be found on the 7 day stats page. Pax.

  • Simultaneous release news a bit off

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    Okay, we goofed. Turns out the bit about Halo being released simultaneously on the Mac and the Xbox is somewhat old (and since superceded)… apparently, it was posted to a Mac gaming site in August, and 8/10/2000 was interpreted (understandably) by a European as October 8, not August 10. The eNewsletter in question had this…

  • Mac and Xbox versions simultaneous?

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    Wow! Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi, who noticed that the latest Apple monthly newsletter reminds readers that the Mac version of Halo will be out at the same time as the XBox version. (‘Reminds us’? Seems to me we never KNEW that in the first place!) This came from Microsoft’s Vice President of Games. Corroboration as…

  • BGH goes black

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    Louis Wu
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    They’re doing it again… the king of the Halo Makeovers, Battleground: Halo, has switched looks again. There’s nothing there yet (again), but the blue and white has given way to black and orange. Just in time for Halloween…

  • The start of a regular thing?

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    Louis Wu
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    MICROSOFT TURNS BUNGIE INTO SWEATSHOP: Oh, wait… that’s not right. Matt Soell stopped by R.net’s forum this evening (yeah, we know, he’s not allowed to do that) and volunteered a bit of info about what’s going on behind the scenes. Promises of more info have been made… beware, Matt, your words have been recorded. Go…

  • Miscellaneous Art updated

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    Miguel Santiago has sent in a hand-drawn Halo Marine, as a cartoon. Pretty nice work… you’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.