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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2006

  • Enjoying Sunrises through Bloodshot Eyes

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    Remember the guy with the Halo room – he had his walls painted for that immersive experience? (We mentioned him here, Bungie put up a story about him a week later.) mrsmiley, over at Halo Babies, has interviewed him, with some new pics and plenty of new comments. I’m not sure I understand how a…

  • Black Art of Halo Mods

    The next release in Stephen Cawood’s long line of Halo-related books is finally here. The Black Art of Halo Mods hit store shelves recently, and there isn’t enough space on the interweb to describe the plethora of information available in this book.

  • Great Headset for Cheap

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    Wow, nice deal! The Plantronics Halo 2 headset, originally $50, is now $15 at the Plantronics website ($20 with a Communicator) – plus they’ll give a buck to charity for every headset sold! (Ars Technica, where I heard about this great deal, even has a link to a hack that makes this headset work nicely…

  • Episode 69: Podtacular Update

    Download (link fixed) | Show Notes (PDF) (link also fixed) It’s the Update show, where we talk about the latest in the Podtacular and Halo communities and read back your “you know you play too much Halo if…” jokes. With guest hosts Expanded Flame and A Oompa Loompah. Pod Art this week comes from Patrick…

  • Episode 69: Podtacular Update

    Download (link fixed) | Show Notes (PDF) (link also fixed) It’s the Update show, where we talk about the latest in the Podtacular and Halo communities and read back your “you know you play too much Halo if…” jokes. With guest hosts Expanded Flame and A Oompa Loompah. Pod Art this week comes from Patrick…

  • Episode 69: Podtacular Update

    Download (link fixed) | Show Notes (PDF) (link also fixed) It’s the Update show, where we talk about the latest in the Podtacular and Halo communities and read back your “you know you play too much Halo if…” jokes. With guest hosts Expanded Flame and A Oompa Loompah. Pod Art this week comes from Patrick…

  • Episode 69: Podtacular Update

    Download (link fixed) | Show Notes (PDF) (link also fixed) It’s the Update show, where we talk about the latest in the Podtacular and Halo communities and read back your “you know you play too much Halo if…” jokes. With guest hosts Expanded Flame and A Oompa Loompah. Pod Art this week comes from Patrick…

  • Stats Reloaded

    There are a lot of cool sites and programs out there that make use of the RSS feed, one of them is the newly relaunched Stats Reloaded. You need to register for it to begin retrieving your stats, but once you do it’s able to provide plenty of the more common stats, graphs and even a…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 70: Halo 3 and Other Games!

    Episode 69 has been recorded and shipped on over to Ciclonic for editing. Should be done shortly. In the mean time, the show must go on! Halo 3 really needs a gun that shoots Bic ball point pens Blue ones. Got an idea for Halo 3 that’s better than this? (God help you if you…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 70: Halo 3 and Other Games!

    Episode 69 has been recorded and shipped on over to Ciclonic for editing. Should be done shortly. In the mean time, the show must go on! Halo 3 really needs a gun that shoots Bic ball point pens Blue ones. Got an idea for Halo 3 that’s better than this? (God help you if you…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 70: Halo 3 and Other Games!

    Episode 69 has been recorded and shipped on over to Ciclonic for editing. Should be done shortly. In the mean time, the show must go on! Halo 3 really needs a gun that shoots Bic ball point pens Blue ones. Got an idea for Halo 3 that’s better than this? (God help you if you…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 70: Halo 3 and Other Games!

    Episode 69 has been recorded and shipped on over to Ciclonic for editing. Should be done shortly. In the mean time, the show must go on! Halo 3 really needs a gun that shoots Bic ball point pens Blue ones. Got an idea for Halo 3 that’s better than this? (God help you if you…

  • His tank must have weighed a few tons.

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    Heh – if you followed the potentially spoiling newspost yesterday to c0ld’s small movie, you might want to read this post – he’s back, with a surprisingly credible suggestion about where that creature might have come from.(Louis Wu 18:00:25 UTC)

  • Community Spotlight: Mintz

    PSP – 7(!!) Pages – 471KB From Bungie.net: Those of you with PSPs, iPods, PocketPCs or severe rashes should read our latest interview with Mintz, master of mini-media and soothing balms over at Halo: Portable.

  • Community Spotlight: Mintz

    PSP – 7(!!) Pages – 471KB From Bungie.net: Those of you with PSPs, iPods, PocketPCs or severe rashes should read our latest interview with Mintz, master of mini-media and soothing balms over at Halo: Portable.

  • MLG Anaheim Wrapup

    There’s a slew of MLG Anaheim coverage over at MLGPro.com. Despite some really interesting 4v4 results in the beginning of the tournament, Final Boss remained unshaken atop the leaderboard. Karma was also able walk away with the 1v1 title yet again. Congrats to the winners, which is everyone, because we’re all winners on the inside.

  • Sergeant Playwright

    David Skully, voice of Sgt. Johnson and noted playwright, has authored a play to be read on August 4th and 5th here in Seattle. Ghetto Mansion will be read by The Hansberry Project at the ACT theatre. Read on for more info and a short description.

  • The Top Ten Best Weapons

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    The GT Countdown series continues at GameTrailers, with “Top Ten Best Weapons” – a video listing of the 10 best weapons in video games. Halo 2’s energy sword comes in at number 5. Thanks to Keyes86, who submitted this yesterday; I just didn’t get to it.(Louis Wu 22:40:58 UTC)

  • Hot-Pocket-Challenged

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    Halo-related portable media mogul Mintz is the focus of the latest Community Spotlight over at Bungie.net – go read about how far out in the middle of nowhere he actually lives. Dojorkan was first, it seems.(Louis Wu 22:12:13 UTC)

  • Good thing that guy’s pretty weak…

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    c0ld vengeance composited a wonderful shot on Gemini – check out MC’s newest nemesis. (I’m not marking this with a spoiler tag, because this creature never actually made it into the game… but technically…) You can also find a 3DVR version in this post.(Louis Wu 22:06:45 UTC)