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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: November 2006

  • Sign up for the Halo 3 beta on 12/4!

    Surprise, surprise! Microsoft has announced that they will be accepting signups for the upcoming Halo 3 beta (due in Spring 2007) this Monday, December 4th. The beta will be available to gamers in North America worldwide, and only a select amount of registrants will be accepted. From GamerscoreBlog The Xbox Live multiplayer public beta, which…

  • Sign up for the Halo 3 beta on 12/4!

    Surprise, surprise! Microsoft has announced that they will be accepting signups for the upcoming Halo 3 beta this Monday, December 4th. This will only be available to gamers in North America, and only a select amount of registrants will be accepted. From GamerscoreBlog The Xbox Live multiplayer public beta, which is a pre-release version of…

  • Halo 3 Beta

    As JDOGG mentioned, the Halo 3 beta will only be available to a chosen few. Maybe if we all register, one of us might get chosen. Source = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/748/748270p1.html Halo 3 Beta Not Open to All Plus a new screenshot from the upcoming trailer. by Hilary Goldstein November 30, 2006 – Sad news. The previously…

  • Halo 3 Beta

    As JDOGG mentioned, the Halo 3 beta will only be available to a chosen few. Maybe if we all register, one of us might get chosen. Source = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/748/748270p1.html Halo 3 Beta Not Open to All Plus a new screenshot from the upcoming trailer. by Hilary Goldstein November 30, 2006 – Sad news. The previously…

  • MS PR says limited beta

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    We’re still waiting for confirmation from Bungie on some of the more controversial pieces of this… but a Microsoft press release sent out this morning suggests that the Halo 3 beta next spring will be limited to North America, and that it will NOT be all-inclusive.Beginning Monday, Dec. 4, by visiting http://www.halo3.com, gamers in North…

  • Open Letter of Apology to Mr. Dallas Clark

    Dear Mr. Clark, First, let us begin by saying you are an incredibly strong and handsome man. When we created the “Biggest Hit Ever” Madden ’07 commercial featuring your virtual likeness, it was never our intention to portray you as anything…

  • Turrets – use them!

    Over at halowiki.net we have this “Issue of the Week” thingy which tries to focus attention on different Halo 2 Multiplayer aspects. This week we’re looking into Turrets.

  • Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

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    If you visit live.xbox.com, you can see what the people on your Friends List are doing, if they’re online. There were some odd entries this morning, from a couple of Bungie employees… now I’m nearly 100% certain that nobody’s actually putting time into building a Pimps at Sea game, fun as it might be -…

  • CGI Ad Teaser

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    Whoa. Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a screenshot from the upcoming Halo 3 ad, airing this Monday night on ESPN. If you don’t have access to ESPN, you’ll be able to see a 720p version on Xbox Live Marketplace soon after. (If you don’t have a 360, I’m certain a version will be on YouTube…

  • Karma discusses success, MLG Ep 4 teaser up

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    Over at MLGPro.com, you can find a blog entry from Karma, discussing Carbon’s success this year – interesting read. There’s also a teaser for Episode 4 of the MLG Pro Circuit show coming up this Saturday.(Louis Wu 17:34:16 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Ad Airs Monday!

    The image you’ll find in here is taken from the CG in the brand new Halo 3 TV ad, airing on ESPN’s Monday Night Football next week. Be sure to check it out and set up that Tivo. This is one you won’t want to miss. Also, there is some football game playing that night.…

  • Static – Episode 6: Enough

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    Over at the Halo CE Chronicles website, the final episode of Static has been posted – Alex gets clear of the Hunter, finally, and a surprise twist makes lots of things clear. It’s double-size – 60 mb in downloadable WMP9 or QT, 36 mb in streaming Flash format. Nice end to the story! (Louis Wu…

  • Games for Sick Kids Charity Drive

    Clantacular.com is sponsoring a charity drive for Child’s Play Charity 2006. They are trying to raise as many xbox games as possible over the next 16 days. New games will be delivered to Childrens Hospitals all over the US while used games will be converted into funds for buying a few shinny XBOX 360’s for…

  • I want one.

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    Dojorkan found a pretty fun pic.(Louis Wu 23:07:48 UTC)

  • Pestilence

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    Not long ago, we released Pie Chapters 1 and 2, from Machine Enema – both were fantastic examples of Halo machinima. Recently sodaGoD completed Pestilence, set in the same universe as the Pie stories, but on a different tack. As before, cinematography is excellent, storyline is strong, voice acting is top-notch. I loved this film.…

  • XBL Playlist Changes Now in Effect

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    Compton noticed that the XBL Playlist changes we heard about a couple of weeks ago are now in effect – if you log into Xbox Live to play Halo 2, you’ll find a much smaller set of available playlists. Team SWAT is dead… long live Team SWAT. (I’m happy that the last game I played…

  • Barbed Comments.

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    Last week, our forum was awash with complaints that the Halo screenshots released recently looked more like Halo 2 with a spit-shine than ‘next-gen graphics’. The folks voicing their opinions didn’t want to hear that these shots came from an alpha build of Halo 3, or that some of the textures used right now are…

  • Art. Evolved.

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    prometheus stopped by to point out a bunch of cool new stuff at the Halouvre – there are some SPECTACULAR new shots in the various galleries. (He also mentioned that they’re coming up on their second anniversary… wow, it really doesn’t seem like that long ago! Happy Birthday, guys!) Check out the links in his…

  • RT: Episode 84 for the Public

    Hey guys, just want to let you know that Episode 84 of Red vs Blue is now available for public download. Geoff wanted me to make a note to let you all know that our online store is having a Holiday Sale. Geoff and I have a little contest going right…