My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Open the Floodgates

    Halobabies.net has been updated – comic 29 is now available to the public. In addition, there are 5 new concept sketches – Halo Babies vehicles! Check ’em out.

  • A saxophone, eh?

    Do a search for BOLL in our news archive, you’ll come up with almost 100 hits. The vast majority of those are for cool toys – games, images, animations… the man’s a producing machine. If you’re interested in how he thinks, TheBeast, over at Levels4you.com, has interviewed him. The focus is on modding… but there’s some general info, too.

  • HaloGT – Insane Modding

    (GT)Juggler has posted Halo GT Video 7 over at their website; it’s a modding vid, showing off lots and lots and lots of different mods. 35.8 mb, 4:49 long, DivX-encoded .mp4. He’s started a thread on our forum, if you’d like to comment.

  • Didgeredoo Backgrounds

    Crisply Spartan posted the third Weekly Update for the First Strike mod; some fantastic concept art, a new weapon, new sound stuff… go read it!

  • It’s Been Awhile.

    Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from MasterTJ of Dark Halo. If you don’t get it, move on. If you do, we don’t want to know about it.

  • That’s ONE way to keep ’em in line…

    New Calvin and Halo from Blackstar today… you know, this would be funnier if I hadn’t been cleaning peas off the window last night for half an hour.

  • Ansel Adams for the Rest of Us

    XLNC has posted a rather extensive guide to Halo PC Hacking for beginners. The main thrust is to help people take cool HUDless screens like the ones he’s been releasing for the past few weeks… but it’s a good basic guide to applying patches in general, and a summary of the tools available. It was originally posted last night on our forum, but it’s useful enough that we’ve given it a permanent home in our Miscellaneous section. Check it out!

  • Round 7 goes to…

    The Gamespy Title Fight between Halo and Goldeneye 007 has another 9 or so hours to run – and as of right now, Halo is leading with more than 6000 of the 10,000 votes cast. Doesn’t make it a lock, though… Update: Round one is over – and Halo won it handily; 10,021 to 6434. Halo moves on to Round two, where it will meet Quake on March 17. Get ready!

  • Another Render

    DocOctavius continues with his rendering – this time, it’s an elite with a glowing energy sword. Nice!

  • A Discussion of the Future, in German

    Legend, from Halo Orbit, has put up a column about the coming of Halo 2, and Bungie in general; Google’s translation services do a pretty awful job with the German, so it’s hard to give you a better idea of what it says. If you read German, go check it out!

  • New Music

    Two new Halo songs (three songs altogether) have been uploaded to SexyJosh’s website; one is called XBC Halo, the other is Josh’s take on Nico’s Red vs Blue theme. Go get ’em!

  • [T]rickity trick trick.

    goatrope and Devin, along with venom, essex, nukedude, and ziggy, have put together a new Tricks-filled movie showing how to get out of various Halo PC multiplayer levels, or use clipping glitches to get into walls, or… well, go watch. The movie is 3:32 long, and weighs in at 39.3 mb in DivX format. There are a pair of mirrors listed in this forum post; I decided we could probably host this, but I felt the encoding was a little wasteful; you can find a 31.8 mb QuickTime version (still pretty huge – it was a rush job) on files.bungie.org.

  • More Furry Halo Art

    I was poking around Tina Leyk’s website yesterday, and I ran across a link to VCL, a collection of Furry art. Tina’s created an enormous number of images that can be found in their archives – including 4 Halo-related pieces that aren’t on her own website. With her permsission, they’ve been added to our Tina Leyk collection; all Halo pieces in one place! There are 3 new Fan Art pieces, and one humorous piece in the Doodles section. (Just look for the ‘Added 4 March’ tag for the newest stuff.) This woman continues to amaze! (The picture of Jaxx, pinned by a Covenant energy sword, is apparently a creation for an upcoming Fan Fiction. Can’t wait!)

  • Dimentia, from Covenant Ground HQ

    Little Dragon posted an update on the upcoming HPC mod from the Covenant Grounds team known as Dimentia. New weapons, a new location, and balance – this one looks to be good! Check it out.

  • But only because you’re a Messiah now

    As pointed out by Bonta-Kun, Fire Team Charlie has released episode 11 of their series, for sponsors. (It’ll be out for the masses a bit later.) Currently in DivX format – QuickTime coming soon. This one is pretty darn cool; I LOVE Mt. Hangemhigh and the android factory!

  • Battle Damaged Sniper

    Gamestop got an exclusive Battle-Damaged Master Chief action figure – he looked like the regular MC, but his armor was scratched up, and he came with a plasma rifle instead of a sniper rifle. (He still got a pistol and his trusty AR.) WizardUniverse hs now unveiled a new Exclusive – the Battle Damaged Sniper, due to ship June 30. He’ll run you $25, with shipping, if you’re interested – there are only 5000 to be made, and pre-orders are accepted now. Thanks to Dark Bastion for the heads-up.

  • Windows XP UNSC Edition

    A couple of months ago, triBYTE_Digital_Img uploaded a Halo-related BootSkin (a Windows XP Startup screen) to WinCustomize – Deimos Fawkes just pointed it out. Boot your machine to the Master Chief!

  • Biting The Hand That Feeds.

    One One Se7en continues the time travel schtick (Hi, Shishka!) and even takes a shot at me today. And that Stuntmutt… he never recycles anything. It’s all original, all the time. Yep.

  • Now With Cov-Fu Action!

    Me? Forget to post Comics? That’s Unpossible! Today’s Halo: Resolution moves into uncharted territory… of a sort.

  • And the Flash goes on

    Geez. 3 weeks go, Michael Frank wrote to us with a Flash animation he and some others had whipped up; it’s a 4 mb story of Bravery and Survival (yeah, their words) in our favorite canyon. I managed to bury it, until now. You can watch it here. (Give it some time to load – the server is still being hammered by requests for the Warthog Launch game.)