My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Hasta La Vista

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    You didn’t think Stuntmutt was gonna miss a chance to comment on yesterday’s Halo 2 PC news, did you? Go read One One Se7en.

  • Halo Movie News

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    You might remember LatinoReview.com – last November, they posted a review of the Halo script, which stirred up a little bit of controversy. Today, they posted a review of the Casino Royale script… and buried at the bottom is a small note of interest to Halo movie news watchers:

    Also we just got word that D.B. Weiss, the writer of the excellent spec script KASHMIR, which was one of my top 5 scripts of 2004 is rewriting HALO. Expect an official announcement soon.

    Go read the rest of it for El Mayimbe’s comments… and this time around, think twice before screaming “fake!” (It’ll be interesting to see if/when this news makes it public in more standard channels…)

  • When Stats Run Wild

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    Okay, this is a little over the top, if you ask me. Josh Smith decided to write a blog post on the frequency of profanity during Halo 2 online play. Granted, it’s one person’s experience, and it’s gathered from a pretty small total sample (34 hours of gameplay – back in October, Frankie stated that more than 180 million hours had been logged, so we’re talking about a 0.00002% sample size – and that doesn’t even COUNT the hours played in the last 4 months)… but geez. Thanks, 3Suns.

  • Team3D prepares for Nationals

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    Team3D, consistently one of the top pro Halo teams, is gearing up for MLG’s National Championships in New York at the end of this month, and Saiyan has taken a few minutes out to chat with F13ND about their hopes and expectations. Go read!

  • Coming Soon… The Heretic

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    On the anniversary of their first episode, the Codex Series team has released information about The Heretic, a new series in production. Cause for excitement from folks who like good machinima! Thanks to many for noticing – but squattingb was first ( even beating Nerrolken’s own email by a couple of hours). Go read about it!

  • How long has THAT been there?

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    Heh – Larry Peterson found this picture, and wondered… have the Forerunner been building in Mexico City?

  • Purgatory, Probiotics, and those damned Scots

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    Jillybean updated the Halo Story Page this morning – but the note got lost in the flurry of Vista-related mail. You should go read it, if you like having your brain wrapped around like pretzel dough.

  • Halo 2 on Vista – Explained. Well, sort of.

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    Over at Bungie.net, Frankie’s posted a pretty large article about the whole Halo 2 on Vista thing; there’s an awful lot of “we’ll provide you with more details in the future”… but there’s also some decent info. Bungie’s not doing the conversion, but they’re helping. (It’s not being farmed out to a 3rd party developer, like Halo was; the conversion is being done by an internal MGS team.) No (real) word on a Mac version yet. There’s also some cut-and-paste PR on Windows Vista… which might make you wonder a bit about the “we’re not doing this to sell a new operating system” answer. (But only a bit.) As you get closer to the bottom, you can pretty much stop reading; the answers to every single question are ‘we haven’t said anything yet’. Whee! (I’m sure that’s as frustrating for Frankie as it is for us.)

  • The Sticky Bomb

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    TastedBigworm found an odd little Halo comic at Lifemeter… that seems like bad sportsmanship. (But fun, probably.)

  • Duck Season

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    A little birdie pointed out a trailer over at apple.com for a movie coming out next month: Duck Season was made by Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, and covers a day in the life of two fourteen-year-old boys. The Halo angle? Heh. Watch the trailer.

  • Peril, Playable

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    Devin Eastman has yet another piece of sheet music for you, courtesy of Rampancy.net – swing by and grab (remember, you must be logged in to see the download link) a copy of Peril for Piano. Awesome!

  • An attractive tickling device

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    Frontline With Suzie is back! She’s found what might be the dumbest grunt in the Covenant… go read her interview. Thanks, rockslider.

  • Halo Desktop Customization – now ready

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    A number of people pointed out that the WindowBlinds skin we mentioned last week is out now – along with a bunch of other stuff for your desktop. Swing by WinCustomize to download. Looks like The Vector Kid was first.

  • The Case of the Missing Story

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    Wow. I’m not one for rumors, generally (have you noticed?), but when the BBC gets involved… Apparently, there was a link on the BBC front page that claimed that Halo 2 PC would debut on Windows Vista (the successor to XP). The article was pulled almost immediately – but Joystiq got a screenshot of the link (though not the article itself; it had already been pulled by that point), and addict3d.org saw it in time to actually summarize it. If this is true… wow. We’ve been telling people that we doubted a Halo 2 PC would ever come out. This is one time I wouldn’t mind being wrong. (At this point, it’s JUST A RUMOR. The only information has been pulled from the web almost faster than it was put up. We know nothing, and it could easily be a mistake (or a prank) on BBC’s part; in fact, if it were anyone less reputable than the BBC, we probably wouldn’t even be mentioning it. Goes to show you, though… it’s really, really, REALLY hard to keep stories quiet – even mistakes.) Thanks, Muskie, for the heads-up. Update: Holy moley – it’s REAL! We just got the press release from AEG. Update 2: Turns out the article is still on the BBC website – it was just at a different link. Thanks, Dark Knight and Brandon Smith.

  • Clans you don’t want to be part of.

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    Whee. ClanFSR (no relation to the Futuristic Sex Robots, though they DO have a link to FSR’s video on their Vidz page – without attribution, though it’s a Mythica/HBO link) looks to be doing some pretty sleazy stuff. The Simpsons Montage, for example, has ClanFSR.com credits at the beginning and the end… but in actuality, it’s DarqKnyght’s ‘Homertage’ video, released (here) last August. Similarly, Defending the Base is a local movie with FSR credits pasted on it. Thanks to imSuck, who brought this nastiness to my attention (Halogrid’s own Chubark was ripped off, as well, though it looks like ClanFSR took down the offending movie already). Stealing sucks. You shouldn’t do it.

  • I Want A Second Opinion.

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    I hate to say it… but sometimes One One Se7en is actually quite clever. (Not today, of course. I’d never admit that. But sometimes.)

  • Unlocking Your Death

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    Episode 73 of Red vs Blue, ‘Under the Weather’, has been posted for sponsors – it had me laughing out loud more than once. Poor Tucker is sick… but don’t let that get you down. It should be up for the general public by tomorrow sometime. (I’ve been watching the Videos page since Saturday, when Burnie mentioned that it would be out this weekend… I think the entire crew has gotten addicted to World of Warcraft.) Looks like SniperExtraordinaire was watching for it, too.

  • Piranhas vs Master Chief

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    Phil Rock has been putting together some animated GIFs of the Master Chief and his adventures with piranhas. (Killer piranhas. Piranhas big enough to EAT him.) The GIF animation was cool, but pretty wasteful, bandwidth-wise (and Phil wants to host these himself), so we helped out with QuickTime and WMP9 conversions. The first three episodes are up now, along with Episode 4 in GIF format (but I’ve already sent him the converted versions, so if you want to save him some bandwidth, hold off a bit on that one until he’s got the movie versions up). I’m starting to think of the MC as a little like Mr. Bill now… Update: Ep 4 is available in QT and WMP9 now.

  • Submit Your Tips for Terminal and be on Episode 50!

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    We want to give you plenty of time to submit your tips for Terminal, our Map of the Month. This will be the in-depth edition of the tips show, as we’ll be dividing it by game type. So submit your Terminal tips for Oddball, King of the Hill, Slayer, Capture the Flag, Assault, and if you have any, Juggernaut and Territories. If you’re a Podtacular maniac, just submit tips for all of them! Send your tips to podtacular@gmail.com with your gamertag and we may put them on the show. We’re also looking for general tips so if you have some good ones, send those in too. If you want you can also send us a million dollars, we’ll definitely mention your gamertag then.

    UPDATE: Episode 50 has been recorded and will be out this week sometime. It’s a good one!

  • Submit Your Tips for Terminal and be on Episode 50!

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    We want to give you plenty of time to submit your tips for Terminal, our Map of the Month. This will be the in-depth edition of the tips show, as we’ll be dividing it by game type. So submit your Terminal tips for Oddball, King of the Hill, Slayer, Capture the Flag, Assault, and if you have any, Juggernaut and Territories. If you’re a Podtacular maniac, just submit tips for all of them! Send your tips to podtacular@gmail.com with your gamertag and we may put them on the show. We’re also looking for general tips so if you have some good ones, send those in too. If you want you can also send us a million dollars, we’ll definitely mention your gamertag then.

    UPDATE: Episode 50 has been recorded and will be out this week sometime. It’s a good one!