My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: November 2007

  • Written for the guys, I think.

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    Jimmy Jangles wrote a not-safe-for-work essay on why Halo 3 is better than sex. Um… yeah. You decide.(Louis Wu 18:13:44 UTC)

  • Top Ten Best Weapons in an FPS

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    The Angry Pixel has comiled their list of the Top Ten Best Weapons in an FPS. I look askance at any top 10 list that contains two Turok references in it… but hey, to each his own. Halo 3’s Gravity Hammer comes in at #8. Thanks, mjolnir15.(Louis Wu 18:06:34 UTC)

  • Multiple Saves in Halo 3

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    Rockslider has taken a bit of time to write up a tutorial explaining how to create multiple Halo 3 saves without having to play through for each one. Given that it seems to exploit a set of circumstances that might or might not be closed to exploits in the future, this might not work forever……

  • Comparing the Halos

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    Over at The Hushed Casket, D15AV0W3D has taken a look at all three Halo games, and tried to figure out which one is ‘best’. Go read his rationale, and see if you agree! Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:24:57 UTC)

  • Weapon-Lowering on Live – Not Gonna Happen

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    Time Glitch asked Frankie about the Weapon Lowering feature in Halo 3, and why it only works offline. Frankie told him that they just weren’t able to justify the testing resources needed to ensure this glitch wasn’t exploitable in online play. (This didn’t go over very well with the respondents – either on our forum,…

  • Exclusive Active Camo Spartan from McFarlane

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    McFarlane is offering an exclusive Active Camouflage Spartan, in EVA armor; if you’re interested, you MUST preorder it from the Spawn Store. The figure will be released in March 2008, and will sell for $12.99. The preorder period began yesterday, and ends on December 12. GamesBond007 was the first to let us know, though if…

  • Zukan discusses machinima

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    Fanportal-World has interviewed Zukan, a Halo machinima maker who’s been off the scene for a bit (he got sick). Great read. Thanks, Lordstemplar1.(Louis Wu 14:06:27 UTC)

  • MLG Gametypes v2 released

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    MLG has posted their MLG Gametypes v2 – tweaked maps, tweaked gametypes, lots of testing. Thanks to synide for stopping by to tell us about it – and check out the feedback so far; some people are happy, some are unhappy. I suppose that’s the way of the world…(Louis Wu 14:04:41 UTC)

  • Call of Duty 4 is $39.99 at Circuit City This Weekend

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    Starting on Sunday December 2nd and running for a week Circuit City will be selling COD4:MW for Xbox 360 for $39.99. If you still don’t own this amazing game, then you don’t know what it’s like to call in airstrike after airstrike and helicopter after helicopter on helpless noobs, and you should buy it to…

  • Reviewing The Trilogy

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    D15AV0W3D over at The Hushed Casket tries to put all three Halo games into perspective, but generally, he thinks Halo 3 corrected a lot of the issues in Halo 2: Enter H3, the end of the trilogy, and Bungie’s triumphant redemption to the lackluster campaign on H2. Enter more user-customization than ever before. Map Forge,…

  • Wired’s Halo 3 Supergeek Contest – Winners Announced

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    Wow. Somehow we totally missed the fact that Wired Magazine was running a Halo 3 Supergeek contest, looking to give away cool schwag to the biggest Halo 3 geek out there. I found out about it today, when they posted the winners. I’m guessing we’ve got readers that could have cleaned up…(Louis Wu 20:22:54 UTC)

  • You have some brains… on your face.

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    937 sent in over a hundred dialogue snippets for our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank; great stuff from Elites, Brutes, and Humans. Go listen!(Louis Wu 18:10:09 UTC)

  • H1 vs. H2 vs. H3: My Review of the Halo Trilogy

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    Halo has it’s own culture. It has been likened to Star Wars for it’s cult-like following, and market penetration. Whether you’ve been playing it since the first installment, or got swept up somewhere along the way w/ Halo 2, you can agree it’s one of the greatest games ever made. But which one? All 3…

  • For shame, Bungie.

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    Angry Robot has posted their Top Ten Disappointing Things About Halo 3 – while some of them seem sort of gratuitous, I gotta agree with the Achievement thing. See what you think. Thanks, Rock Opera Jr.(Louis Wu 16:56:20 UTC)

  • No Scope.

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    Last week, Achronos made it clear you wouldn’t be able to interact with the huge satellite dishes on Standoff – Stuntmutt suggests he’s wrong, in today’s One One Se7en. Oh, Stunt…(Louis Wu 14:34:07 UTC)

  • Halo Piano – Pretty

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    Nice – Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool rendition of the Halo 3 menu music… along with a tuturial on playing the Halo 3 Announcement trailer piano solo without sheet music. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:11:25 UTC)

  • Assault Mode

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    TTL Demag0gue let us know that the next episode of Reclaimer (Chapter Two, Part Four) is now up. Hendricks? Who’s Hendricks? Update: DOH!(Louis Wu 12:38:20 UTC)

  • Outpost Isil Episode 1

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    Treeskunk Productions has posted Episode 1 of Outpost Isil: Rekindle the Flames. We get a chance to meet three of the characters of the series, and the storyline has begun to be unveiled. It’s available in a bunch of different formats; you can pick the one you want from Treeskunk’s page (thanks, Bzerker), or Twilkey…

  • Xbox Solution – believing again

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    I haven’t posted too many Halo reviews recently; there were so many, coming so fast, that trying to process them all was pointless. They’ve slowed down, though, so new ones, usually written by people who’ve taken some time to digest the offerings of the game, are probably worth pointing out. Xbox Solution just put one…

  • Getting closer to Halo…

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    This weekend, BobFlop pointed out a video on LiveLeak which showed off a new exoskeleton being tested by the US Army. It’s similar to other vids (and other human assistive tools) discussed in the past; I thought it was fun, but not really Halo-related. Well, that video made it to CNN yesterday, and our mailbox…