My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • XBL FFA Tourney, Nov 25

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    kdawg15 wrote to point out an FFA tournament coming up on November 25 on XBox Live, run by XM Rated – you can find more details on their forum. Tell ’em kdawg15 sent you!(Louis Wu 02:58:35 UTC)

  • Easter Eggs EVERYWHERE

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    Heh – the new EU commercial for the Xbox 360, Cops and Robbers, shows some cars with nicely customized license plates. Gears of War, 1106 (wait, that’s NOW!), and Halo 3, 07 (sounds about right) – fun homage! Nice catch by Wolverine Monkey. (Screengrabs in this post.)(Louis Wu 02:41:50 UTC)

  • Weekly Porridge #42: Sating the Peoples’ Hunger

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    Quality Jeverage is back to address the big question once and for all: “When do I get to be on Weekly Porridge?” Looks like you might have your wish! I think. More jabber in the forums. ‹ Weekly Porridge #41: Frankincense and 360upWeekly Porridge #43: Gears of War ›

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    Quality Jeverage is back to address the big question once and for all: “When do I get to be on Weekly Porridge?” Looks like you might have your wish! I think. More jabber in the forums.

  • Halo 3 Content at 1up.com

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    The 1up and EGM editors who got to visit Bungie Studios about a month ago are finally starting to talk, beginning the onslaught of information you’ll be seeing from them over the coming three weeks. They’ve all posted blog updates about their trips to Bungie and limited first impressions of the game. Check out Halo3.1up.com…

  • It’s A Phallusy.

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    Ever since the term ‘Man Cannon’ was mentioned (as a new feature on the maps played by the journalists who visited Bungie last month), folks have been making snide comments about it. Stuntmutt decided to get ALL of this out of the way by simply hammering the sexual innuendo into the ground. Go read today’s…

  • Play it again, Sam

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    Lots of new features will make their first appearance in the Halo series in Halo 3. One of the most anticipated is films – the ability to replay the action from the last game, with camera control. To get a sense for where this particular feature stands, swing by KP’s Red vs Blue Journal -…

  • 1Up Halo Torrent Starts

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    The flood of Halo info from EGM has started – you can find blog entries from Dan Hsu, Mark MacDonald, and Luke Smith, chock full of personal observations (and in Dan’s case, pictures), now live on the 1Up website. There’s plenty more coming – we’ll keep you informed! Update: Crispin Boyer’s blog is now updated,…

  • The Best Of GamingVidz

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    QsK King submitted a montage compiling the best gameplay from GamingVidz.com to the MPRRS (before the shutdown) – it’s a pretty nice montage! Lots of fun kills, nice coordination with the songs. It’s nearly 8 minutes long, but it covers work from a large number of people. You can grab it in WMP9 format (103…

  • All dressed up…

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    Interesting – we got mail from Evelynn, at The Cartoon Doll Emporium – they’ve created a dress up doll of Master Chief. Mjolnir armor… and a ballerina tutu? Go see what you can put on this poor guy!(Louis Wu 16:22:38 UTC)

  • Halo-Ween Travelogue from TSL

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    This Spartan Life put together a fun little ‘Halo-Ween’ Travelogue; it’s a celebration of the holiday, more than a serious commentary on things. TSL regular Sgt. Hartsock uploaded a copy of it to YouTube, so you can watch it without using the TSL bandwidth – take a look!(Louis Wu 16:14:34 UTC)

  • GamingTV Kicks Off

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    A few days ago, GamingTV.org came online – it’s a new site devoted to hosting machinima, and though it’s not Halo-exclusive, it certainly focuses on Halo. It’s being run by trigger119, who’s been around the Halo machinima community for a few years now – if you haven’t checked it out yet, you should! (Louis Wu…

  • Pod TV Episode 5: I would have been your daddy

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    Youtube version | iPod version Pod TV is back! Cryptoflix gives us an interesting lesson on how to get the “I would have been your daddy” skull on outskirts. This is a really tough one to get with lots of roof jumping, but if you watch this video enough you’ll have what it takes. Thanks…

  • Pod TV Episode 5: I would have been your daddy

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    Youtube version | iPod version Pod TV is back! Cryptoflix gives us an interesting lesson on how to get the “I would have been your daddy” skull on outskirts. This is a really tough one to get with lots of roof jumping, but if you watch this video enough you’ll have what it takes. Thanks…

  • The MPRRS – Offline, for now

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    I didn’t think folks would notice so quickly, but I’m getting mail, so I might as well make this public. Several events this weekend have made it clear to me that the Movie Peer Review Rating System is no longer functional; a significant number of reviewers are members of machinima clans, and (contrary to the…

  • Pumpkin Picking – Vote Time!

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    Took a little longer than I’d hoped – but voting is now open for the 2006 edition of the Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkin-carving contest! Swing by, check out the entries, and pick your favorite 5 – we’ll give the top rankers some cool schwag!(Louis Wu 22:54:19 UTC)

  • Welcome Back, Ben

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    Laird points out that Alone Episode 8, ‘Welcome Back Ben’, is now available for download. Not a lot of Halo content in this episode, but it’s nice to see the series is going to be finished! WMP9 format, 55.4 mb.(Louis Wu 22:51:52 UTC)

  • WikiRiot 23

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    Sigafoos writes to let us know that WikiRiot 23 is now online – 40 minutes, 16 mb, and the chatter covers the new Halo 3 pages on the wiki, clan challenges, and the new WikiRiot forums. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:07:11 UTC)

  • Pushing Me Away

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    EternalScrappy submitted ‘Pushing Me Away’ to the MPRRS; they liked it. (You might have noticed a large number of EternalScrappy vids coming through recently. We have, too. We’ve also noticed some reviewing… irregularities associated with these films. We’re not going to penalize any films that have already come through the system, but we’re going to…

  • Appealing to Halo Hotshots

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    Interesting article in the Toronto Star; it suggests that the new ad campaign for the Canadian Forces is using ‘a kind of video-game imagery’ to attract new recruits. The idea is that the target audience is males aged 17 to 25… a big video game playing crowd, so if you ‘speak their language’, they’ll respond…