My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: November 2004

  • Next Stop: New Mombasa

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    Louis Wu
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    Halo Babies has posted the final episode in the 30-strip series that started in April. The door’s open, though… the news post makes it clear that Gruntsbane is taking a break for a bit – the site will continue with fan art and contests, but new ‘official’ strips will be a little bit down the…

  • We gotta dial back.

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    Louis Wu
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    Just a quick note – individual shops that are having special events at midnight on Tuesday have begun to write to us, asking us to let people know what they’re up to. I’d love to – but we can’t (unless you want the news page of this site to consist of hundreds of these announcements…

  • Local Lad Makes Good

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    Ontario’s London Free Press has an article on enigmatic Cananimator Nathan “bentllama” Walpole, a native of that fine city. Some good background there, for all you Llama-fans. 😉 Thanks go to NiZZZZ for the mention. Update: Just to give credit where it was due – Steve Patterson sent in a scan (202K) of this article…

  • The Rivas Report, pt. II

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    Ace unpaid and unofficial reporter John Rivas notes that IGN’s latest countdown article deals with the ILB experience, which apparently ended last night. More news as events warrant.

  • The Rivas Report

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    John Rivas writes to mention that Gamespot has an article (as does IGN) that discusses a few stores in the midwestern states that may or may not have broken the retail date embargo. Before you go careening down the highway, crossing state lines, evading the various law enforcement agencies of the land, and ending up…

  • Watching My Back at ESPN

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    Ding
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    As mentioned a few posts back, I made it into ESPN’s Cold Pizza Halo 2 event today. My experiences are relayed here!

  • Beta Stats – sort of

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    Louis Wu
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    A number of people noticed that Bungie.net’s Stats page was up for a short time – at the moment, it seems that ALL of Bungie.net is down. I’d expect it’ll be like this for the next few days – they’ve got an awful lot of stuff that has to work by Tuesday, so be patient.

  • Another G4 Halo 2 Day Commercial

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    Louis Wu
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    ZiplocBodyBag and Cybrfrk have grabbed a second G4TV commercial starring the RvB team – this one is Church and Sarge, and it’s only 10 seconds. 1.6 mb, hi-res QuickTime format. Enjoy!

  • My Experience at ESPNZone

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    As mentioned over at sister site HBO, I was one of the fortunate folks that got picked to play Halo 2 MP over in Times Sq today, at the ESPNZone during one of ESPN’s morning shows, Cold Pizza. I heard that over 2000 folks entered the raffle, of which 50 were chosen and a handful…

  • Listen up, you maggots!

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    Louis Wu
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    Not really Halo-related, but Dave Scully (Sargeant Johnson) rocks, so it’s worth a read. Dave will be hosting The Lunchtime Show with David Scully, a political satire show broadcasting on Sundays from 12:30 to 1:00 at the Static Factory. Thanks to Frankie at Bungie.net for the heads-up!

  • Eastern European Spyware Rocks.

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    Louis Wu
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    Gamestyle got the lowdown on ten super-secret features of Halo 2 – I’ll guarantee you haven’t read about ANY of these! Thanks, Lothar Hex.

  • The Big Splash

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    Louis Wu
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    Adam Daniel found ANOTHER New York Times piece today – a piece about Blockbuster video game launches. Focus? Yep. Halo 2. Go read!

  • Everywhere. Just… everywhere.

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    Louis Wu
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    The Halo 2 launch is even gonna be big in Singapore. Read about it.

  • ILB at NYT

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    Louis Wu
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    Sep7imus sent in a nice link to a story in today’s New York Times Circuits section. (Free registration required.) It’s a decent overview of the I Love Bees game, which ends today. If you’ve held off following this, this might be a nice door in.

  • Norwegian Launch Party

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    Louis Wu
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    Spill Magazine in Norway is giving away 4 tickets to the Norwegian launch party: visit this page, answer a pretty trivial question, you’re entered to win. (I think.) All info comes from Kabeer Nasir, since I don’t read Norwegian.

  • High Charity

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    Louis Wu
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    8 million people noticed that nilerogers.com put up a new clip from the Halo 2 soundtrack – this one’s called High Charity, and the snippet 1:19 long, 1.2 mb large. A little spooky, too. Great screen in the Listening Station flash presentation for it. someboy was first – but thanks, all! (5 to go!)

  • XBN Halo 2 article online – now

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    Louis Wu
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    Rocketwidget noticed that last month’s XBN Halo 2 spread (one of two Halo-related articles in the magazine) is now online – full text is here, and all the new screenshots that are part of the story start here. We’ll still be putting the press scans up in the next week or two – but you…

  • Armor Games

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    Louis Wu
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    We got a fun step-by-step from Devastator yesterday – he got hold of some pieces from the Nightmare Armor guys, and used them to make himself a nice costume. Give it a look!

  • Midnight on the Pitt Street Mall

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    Louis Wu
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    Tim Bennett sent along a scan (166K) of some street press for the Sydney (Australia) Halo 2 launch party – looks like it’s gonna be fun! Update: a bit more on the event is here, at Aussie Xbox (thanks, Gossip).

  • Animation Editing in Halo CE

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    Louis Wu
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    Kornman has released a small application that can edit animations for Halo – go grab a copy from the Gearbox forums! Thanks, MasterGrief.