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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: October 2006

  • Funkmon’s Ghosts of Onyx Book Review

    Funkmon wrote a review of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx over on Subnova, but the server is taking a beating. Since rapture really beefed up our servers, we have a copy in case they go down. For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about: Funkmon wrote a review of Halo: Ghosts of…

  • MLG Vidcast Episode 4

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    Over at MLGPro.com, MLG Vidcast Episode 4 has been posted; a talk with FBI GamerGraffix, highlights from the championship series. Go watch! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:35:47 UTC)

  • GoO Review online at Subnova

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    Over at Subnova, Funkmon wrote up a review of Ghosts of Onyx – he wasn’t horribly impressed. Do NOT read this review if you haven’t finished the book yet – it’s chock-full of story spoilers. Personally, I disagree with a lot of what he says – but he backs up his arguments with examples, for…

  • Red Rover

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    Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 24 is up. He gently shows us that some games don’t translate from one medium to another…(Louis Wu 17:52:51 UTC)

  • Out For The Count.

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    You know… I’ve actually been waiting for the pun used in today’s Holiday One One Se7en for several years… I’m glad it was finally garlic-pressed into service.(Louis Wu 17:02:00 UTC)

  • Pretty, ain’t it?

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    Captain Spark released another couple of dozen snippets today – some were upgrades on existing clips, but the new ones are all now browsable in our Dialogue Databank. (You can, of course, grab them from his website, as well.)(Louis Wu 16:57:12 UTC)

  • Git ‘er done.

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    Heh – there’s an editorial at Cinema Blend today about how Halo (the movie) could make a billion dollars. Okay, that’s probably a stretch. The gist, however, is solid – there are a LOT of gamers, they WANT to see a good movie, whoever nails it first is gonna make a mint. And Halo has…

  • Halo Movie Postponed

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    Wow. Looks like the Halo movie is on hold at this point. A press release (quoted by both Ain’t It Cool News and the Halo The Movie blog, though not, apparently, available on the web anywhere) from Peter Jackson and Wingnut Interactive states that they’ve agreed to “postpone making a feature film based on the…

  • Halo Film Indefinitely Delayed?

    Coming Soon has up what it claims is an official press release from Wingnut Films, detailing a joint decision by Microsoft and Wingnut to delay production of the Halo feature film until such time as they can guarantee they’ll be bringing a “first class film” version of the game to screens. Cinema Blend linked to…

  • Halo Film Indefinitely Delayed?

    Coming Soon has up what it claims is an official press release from Wingnut Films, detailing a joint decision by Microsoft and Wingnut to delay production of the Halo feature film until such time as they can guarantee they’ll be bringing a “first class film” version of the game to screens. Cinema Blend linked to…

  • New Game, New Features

    You’d have to have been under a rock (or on a business trip, natch) to have missed the revelations about Halo 3 multiplayer from Swedish gaming magazine, Level, last week. Similar material is upcoming from EGM, and their online presence, 1Up, is doing a special Three Weeks of Halo 3 page. They also summarized the…

  • New Game, New Features

    You’d have to have been under a rock (or on a business trip, natch) to have missed the revelations about Halo 3 multiplayer from Swedish gaming magazine, Level, last week. Similar material is upcoming from EGM, and their online presence, 1Up, is doing a special Three Weeks of Halo 3 page. They also summarized the…

  • Update: H:P Maintenance Week

    Update: Looks like the migration is complete. Woot! If you find any bugs, send Mintz lots of email. Funkmon and Tex, too. Good night now. -rap ———– Media Temple has hooked H:P up with a sweet new Grid Server (we can now take a B.netting and more). I’m in the process of moving all of…

  • How many Hot Pockets is that?

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    Over on Bungie.net, there’s a fun little story packed with statistics – as of today, just shy of 2 years since launch, Xbox Live passed the four billion games played mark. Wowwowwow! More numbers for your digestion in the article.(Louis Wu 02:04:32 UTC)

  • Xbox 360 Fall Update

    http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12117/Xbox-360-Fall-Update-Announced/Earlier today, we reported the buzz from Japan claiming that the Xbox 360 Fall update will be released …

  • Xbox 360

    Earlier today, we reported the buzz from Japan claiming that the Xbox 360 Fall update will be released tomorrow. Well, the release of this system update is official now. Below is the press release with the announcement. You can also find the complet…

  • Weekly Porridge #41: Frankincense and 360

    QualityJeverage sez: Hey Guys! Sorry for not releasing a Porridge last week. There was a massive sudden pile-up of lots of other things, nothing serious, but they were nonetheless time consuming. So I decided to take that week off. Anyway, we’re back on track now, so enjoy! More discussion in the forums! ‹ Weekly Porridge…

  • Weekly Porridge #41: Frankincense and 360

    QualityJeverage sez: Hey Guys! Sorry for not releasing a Porridge last week. There was a massive sudden pile-up of lots of other things, nothing serious, but they were nonetheless time consuming. So I decided to take that week off. Anyway, we’re back on track now, so enjoy! More discussion in the forums! ‹ Weekly Porridge…

  • New Halo Movie Review Blog Opens

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    Demag0gue stopped by to say he’s started a new Halo movie review blog, entitled Penitent Tangential. Very cool idea – check it out!(Louis Wu 22:52:01 UTC)

  • Four Billion Played and Counting

    Roger Wolfson, Bungie’s database programmer extraordinaire, reports today that we have officially surged over the four billion games played mark, a little under two years after the game’s launch. He also notes that we’re close to hitting the four million unique players mark, not too shabby. Read on for some more detailed usage statistics from…