My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Yahoo Block To Be Removed

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    dmjossel

    The following missive was received this morning from Yahoo. Yahoo has been blocking mail from Synfibers for more than two months now following abuse of one of our proxy servers by spammers. Unlike many other blacklists, Yahoo does not re-test open relays for at least 60 days, which is why the problem was not resolved before now:

    Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

    We have retested the IP address you submitted and it appears that the open proxy/relay situation with this IP has been resolved. We have now removed the block from our servers for this IP address and will begin accepting connections again within the next day or so.

  • More tidbits… from those who KNOW.

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    Louis Wu
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    Our Halo Story Page wizards got the pair of Erics, Nylund and Trautmann, to sit down and answer a few questions about the Halo backstory. (I’m pretty sure their methods involved duct tape and a cattle prod.) The result can be found in our Miscellaneous section, to be filed one day on the Interviews page.

  • Because it’s there.

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    Louis Wu
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    Hehe – people are STILL going where nobody’s gone before. Ducain jumped into our forum with a pictorial explanation of a climb he did on Silent Cartographer. I’ve never seen pics of anyone getting up to that particular spot before. Glad to see folks are STILL exploring!

  • Playable Pelican

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    Louis Wu
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    Still catching up… Nick posted a link to a movie of a Pelican in Death Island (Halo PC) a couple of days ago. Looks pretty neat – you can jump in through the front, but vehicles bounce off. Seems like a pretty gnarly assault vehicle; no offensive weapons, but imagine flying 6 or 7 teammates across the map to the opposing base at Pelican speed! Movie is 20 mb, in .rar format; uncompressed, it’s a WMP9 file.

  • Halo music used in political video

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    Louis Wu
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    Mooreburg found a rather strange report – apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo’s theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on this subject, please remember that political discussion is simply not allowed on our forum; keep your comments Halo-related, or the thread will end up locked. (The wider topic is pretty incendiary, and we simply don’t need it here… we’re a game site.)

  • Dolbex and 2070Wired weigh in

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    Louis Wu
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    More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours – with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed site. Good stuff!

  • Another word that angers me

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    shunji
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    Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?

  • Another word that angers me

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    shunji
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    Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?

  • The Llama Speaks

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    Louis Wu
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    bentllama, the Bungie animator and master of offtopic bizarreness on our forum, sent along a cool link to the CGTalk forum, in which he posted some preliminary (non-Bungie) work on some 3D models of Wonderboy in Monsterland, an old platformer that got released on many, many consoles. (Here are a pair of Commodore64 shots.) With all the time he has to post about pancakes on our forum, and slick models like this one, you wonder how he’s getting those Halo 2 animations finished… can we blame that Fall 2004 date on him?

  • One One Se7en visits the Miniature Halo set

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    Louis Wu
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    SESpider has sent in another episode of Miniature Halo – the set gets a visit from another HBO denizen. It should make you laugh!

  • Funny’s Cousin.

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    Louis Wu
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    One One Se7en looks for new talent for the jokemaking. Whether it’s successful is totally your call.

  • I’m Surrounded By Idiots

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    Louis Wu
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    Halo: Resolution continues the Matrix-like sub-story… and the bad jokes come fast and furious.

  • That Halo Screenshot – nosehairs and all

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    Louis Wu
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    Sector 7 has written an entire article about the new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshot released last week – it’s pretty clear that when a Halo site chooses to analyze a single screen so carefully, it feels the community is starved for content. If you agree, go check this out!

  • Halo: Best Competitive Game of All Time

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    Louis Wu
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    Gantry dropped us a note that Halo was voted #1 Best Competitive Game of All Time on G4 TV’s show “Filter”, episode #223 (beating out Battlefield 1942, Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 4, Starcraft, UT 2003, and several others). Next showing is February 4, at 12:30 pm. Not too shabby!

  • Selling Mac Halo – finally

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    Louis Wu
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    Ghôlsbane was sifting through some Bungie employee data, and ran across David Joost’s website; David was Director of Sales at Bungie before the Microsoft buyout. The top news post (obviously written last fall sometime) discusses the long, strange trip Dave’s been on, with respect to Halo sales. Interesting tidbits…

  • Poster Design Contest

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    Louis Wu
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    Catching up on older news… MeatSaw points out that he’s sponsoring a poster design contest over at the Gearbox forums; the person with the best Halo-related poster design wins that design printed on 11×14 (or larger) poster paper. It’s just for fun – so go check it out! (Contest ends on February 26.)

  • Lanfest pics, revisited

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    Louis Wu
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    More lanfest pics from the Offensive Tetraboxing event this weekend here at HBO: Konrad9 put up a bunch, (GT)Juggler put up some at Halo GT (including a couple of Konrad’s shots), Blood put up about 50 shots at Bloodgulch.com, and Have Blue posted his own set (including some early pics of my vandalized car – more stuff was added after that last pic was taken). More as we find ’em! There’s a pretty cool shot of the four downstairs projectors at once in HB’s collection. Update: Blackstar put up a collection, as well. His movie focus is evident in the preponderance of shots that include the Film Oasis crew – but there are plenty of good people shots.

  • Ph34r the Claw!

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    Louis Wu
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    We didn’t get a chance to post this on Friday, as we normally do – but Red vs Blue posted a new Public Service Announcement this week, in lieu of episode 23. It’s out for everybody now – for sponsors in Hi-res (as it has been since Friday), and for casual visitors in 320×240. Go see what happens when NASA goes overboard…

  • Splinter Sell 3.

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    Louis Wu
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    Quick update, since we missed one yesterday, and I’d hate for the Guest queue to grow TOO long… today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Nukerman53, and is a takeoff of some very early Stuntmutt strips. Check it out!

  • First pics – lanfest

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    Louis Wu
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    There are going to be many, many updates about this fanfest – pictures, writeups, the works. I’m sure several of them have already been posted to our forum; I haven’t had time to find them yet. I did get a link from Brad Griswald, one of the participants yesterday; you can find it on his ‘Not So Late Show’ website. Three pages of pics… go look!