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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Category: Rampancy

  • Safety In Numbers

    GamePolitics points out Neilsen Entertainment’s third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, which says that there are 117 million “active gamers” in the United States. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

  • Halo Wars Central Interviews Halogen Lead

    Mr Sprout over at the new Halo Wars fansite, Halo Wars Central, was able to get an interview with Dispraiser, the lead of Slipstream Productions that was working on the Halo-themed Halogen mod for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Shortly before the announcement of Halo Wars for the Xbox 360 at the X06 event…

  • Halo Wars Central Interviews Halogen Lead

    Mr Sprout over at the new Halo Wars fansite, Halo Wars Central, was able to get an interview with Dispraiser, the lead of Slipstream Productions that was working on the Halo-themed Halogen mod for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Shortly before the announcement of Halo Wars for the Xbox 360 at the X06 event…

  • News Roundup For October 7

    Next Generation: Game Trailers Hitch Up (mentions the H3 trailer) Marine Corps Times: Halo becomes literary blood-and-bone ballet (about the graphic novel) NG-Gamer: XCN Interviewed Peter Moore (Halo Wars, Bungie and Ensemble mentioned) Bungie.net: Halo 2 Vista Developer Diary Part Two (Vista is pretty and likes to kiss all the boys) Halo Wars.com: New forums…

  • News Roundup For October 7

    Next Generation: Game Trailers Hitch Up (mentions the H3 trailer) Marine Corps Times: Halo becomes literary blood-and-bone ballet (about the graphic novel) NG-Gamer: XCN Interviewed Peter Moore (Halo Wars, Bungie and Ensemble mentioned) Bungie.net: Halo 2 Vista Developer Diary Part Two (Vista is pretty and likes to kiss all the boys) Halo Wars.com: New forums…

  • News Roundup For October 5

    A few more articles continue to pop up about the new Halo universe works being done by Wingnut Interactive and Ensemble Studios: The Record.com: Don’t Call Them Games Dallas News.com: Playing on two fronts

  • News Roundup For October 5

    A few more articles continue to pop up about the new Halo universe works being done by Wingnut Interactive and Ensemble Studios: The Record.com: Don’t Call Them Games Dallas News.com: Playing on two fronts

  • Slave Driver John-117?

    Dissatisfied with the crazy-AI, talking-plant route that Bungie seems to be taking with Halo 2 and Halo 3, GamePro decided to come up with their own design doc for Halo 3, featuring the Master Chief as a power-mad dictator who leveraged his defeat of the Covenant into hegemony on Earth.

  • Slave Driver John-117?

    Dissatisfied with the crazy-AI, talking-plant route that Bungie seems to be taking with Halo 2 and Halo 3, GamePro decided to come up with their own design doc for Halo 3, featuring the Master Chief as a power-mad dictator who leveraged his defeat of the Covenant into hegemony on Earth.

  • Halo Wars Mobile Phone Wallpapers

    Although Bungie is working on its own mobile portal, currently it’s only available for Verizon, and probably only available in certain countries. For the rest of us jonesing to have Halo wallpapers on our cellamaphones, there are other solutions, even for those without any Photoshop skills. Mid7night created four phone-sized wallpapers out of images captured…

  • Do Cyborgs Dream Of Silicon Sheep?

    Stuff has a story by Gerard Campbell on how the formation of Wingnut Interactive, working on a future series of digital entertainment products in Bungie’s Halo universe, is bringing New Zealand into the heart of the next-generation gaming industry.

  • Blow Yourself To Blue Oblivion

    Two new packs of maps at Aleph One this week: Azure Dreams and Oblivion Pack 2.0. Enjoy!

  • Halo Wars Mobile Phone Wallpapers

    Although Bungie is working on its own mobile portal, currently it’s only available for Verizon, and probably only available in certain countries. For the rest of us jonesing to have Halo wallpapers on our cellamaphones, there are other solutions, even for those without any Photoshop skills. Mid7night created four phone-sized wallpapers out of images captured…

  • Do Cyborgs Dream Of Silicon Sheep?

    Stuff has a story by Gerard Campbell on how the formation of Wingnut Interactive, working on a future series of digital entertainment products in Bungie’s Halo universe, is bringing New Zealand into the heart of the next-generation gaming industry.

  • Blow Yourself To Blue Oblivion

    Two new packs of maps at Aleph One this week: Azure Dreams and Oblivion Pack 2.0. Enjoy!

  • Ensemble Codenamed Halo Wars… Phoenix?

    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored…

  • Ensemble Codenamed Halo Wars… Phoenix?

    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored…

  • It Begins

    In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest. We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.

  • The Battle Rifle Debate

    The HaloWars.com forums are both new and very busy. It has been difficult at time to get at the interesting discussions because so much time has been taken up by the same issues over and over again. Since the announcement of Halo Wars, some eleven thousand posts have been made. About half of them are…

  • It Begins

    In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest. We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.