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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: September 2006

  • HaloPC in top 20 PC Games (unit sales)

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    A month ago, Next Generation ranked the top 100 Games of the 21st century, based on sales volume – and the Halo franchise came in second. last week, they did the same for PC Games – and Halo PC came in 20th. Not too shabby! Thanks, Phan7om.(Louis Wu 22:06:36 UTC)

  • MC Wall Painting

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    Helveck painted a great Master Chief bust on his garage wall… what a wonderful way to spice up your garage!(Louis Wu 22:02:35 UTC)

  • New Spartan Action Figures Available

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    There are two new action figures available from the Bungie Store today! The first is the Master Chief, complete with his trusty Shotgun and Pistol, with a Flood Infection Form. The second is a Cyan colored Spartan in their standard Mjolnir Mark VI armor, which comes with a Beam Rifle, SMG and both types of grenades.

  • Soldiers overseas seek help from Halo community

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    This is Z from Halo3Forum.com. Few days ago I received an email from Brandon who is at a Camp Buehring, Kuwait in support of operations in Iraq. The camp has a recreation center which allows the US Soldiers, Marines, Sailors to interact with eachother and Halo has been a big part of their entertainment. Please…

  • Submit stuff for Episode 80: Tips show with map of the month: Lockout

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    Wow, is it Tuesday already? We’re recording in just a few days, so we need stuff to talk about! If you sneak up behind someone and press BAXLRBB you will put them in a sleeper hold We’re looking for tips a little better than this. And real ones! Send in your gameplay tips for levels…

  • Submit stuff for Episode 80: Tips show with map of the month: Lockout

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    Wow, is it Tuesday already? We’re recording in just a few days, so we need stuff to talk about! If you sneak up behind someone and press BAXLRBB you will put them in a sleeper hold We’re looking for tips a little better than this. And real ones! Send in your gameplay tips for levels…

  • Making Games The Wideload Way

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    Excellent online gaming magazine The Escapist has an article called The Wideload Way on Wideload Games this week. Those who have read previous articles focusing on Wideload’s outsourcing-heavy business model will find little new here. There’s a confirmation that Stubbs sold well enough to fund Wideload’s next project, but there’s still no information on what…

  • Making Games The Wideload Way

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    Excellent online gaming magazine The Escapist has an article called The Wideload Way on Wideload Games this week. Those who have read previous articles focusing on Wideload’s outsourcing-heavy business model will find little new here. There’s a confirmation that Stubbs sold well enough to fund Wideload’s next project, but there’s still no information on what…

  • Podtacular Radio Episode 6

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    Download DJ Painkilla05 is back on the wheels of steel with more music to frag by. It’s a combination of electronica, video game remixes, and 8-bit compositions. More talk in the forums. Wow man, we’ve got a new Podtacular Radio, a new Weekly Porridge, and a new Podtacular episode all in the past 8 hours…

  • Audacity Tutorial

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    QuickTactical has whipped up a basic guide to using Audacity, a cross-platform audio program that lets users record their voice – useful for machinima makers who don’t want to record dialogue over XBL. He posted it on Halogrid.com – and we’ve put up a local mirror for posterity. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 10:41:40 UTC)

  • More Piano Fun

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    TheGarbageMan has released another bunch of piano variations – some really nice work! Grab the downloads from his forum post, in either .wma or .mp3 format. (Louis Wu 10:37:36 UTC)

  • DropShock Ep 22

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    DropShock Episode 22 has been posted – bit over an hour. There’s Halo content, this time out. (As always, this one is not even remotely G-rated.)(Louis Wu 10:24:36 UTC)

  • Podtacular Radio Episode 6

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    Download DJ Painkilla05 is back on the wheels of steel with more music to frag by. It’s a combination of electronica, video game remixes, and 8-bit compositions. More talk in the forums. Wow man, we’ve got a new Podtacular Radio, a new Weekly Porridge, and a new Podtacular episode all in the past 8 hours…

  • Finding A New Voice

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    Captain Spark fired up his Halo dialogue website at the end of last month, upgrading to a new CMS– PHP-Fusion. Be sure to check it out, even though he admits the current design is a placeholder (now where have we heard that before?). He’s also working on an IWHBYD skull tutorial which I’m sure many…

  • Finding A New Voice

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    Captain Spark fired up his Halo dialogue website at the end of last month, upgrading to a new CMS– PHP-Fusion. Be sure to check it out, even though he admits the current design is a placeholder (now where have we heard that before?). He’s also working on an IWHBYD skull tutorial which I’m sure many…

  • The Halo Bible Does Exist… Doesn’t It?

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    Brannon Boren, of Boren’s Syndrome fame, laments on his blog that the Wikipedia entry on Bungie Studios casts doubt on the existence of the Halo Bible. Such a shame.

  • Rampancy Upgraded To Drupal 4.7

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    As of now, Rampancy.net is running on the latest and greatest stable version of the Drupal content management system, Drupal 4.7. This version has been out for some time, but just now supports all the contributed modules the site needs to run. Some features (like the gamertag database) are offline for the moment but should…

  • The Halo Bible Does Exist… Doesn’t It?

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    Brannon Boren, of Boren’s Syndrome fame, laments on his blog that the Wikipedia entry on Bungie Studios casts doubt on the existence of the Halo Bible. Such a shame.

  • Rampancy Upgraded To Drupal 4.7

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    As of now, Rampancy.net is running on the latest and greatest stable version of the Drupal content management system, Drupal 4.7. This version has been out for some time, but just now supports all the contributed modules the site needs to run. Some features (like the gamertag database) are offline for the moment but should…

  • Weekly Porridge #34: Sweet Victory

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    Quality Jeverage is back with another edition of the Podtacular community comic strip: Weekly Porridge! This time they celebrate Team Us’ victory in the 2006 Podtacular Tournament Season with something… special. More talk in the forums. ‹ Weekly Porridge #33: Fare Thee Wellup