My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • Xbox 360 Fall Update

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    http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12117/Xbox-360-Fall-Update-Announced/Earlier today, we reported the buzz from Japan claiming that the Xbox 360 Fall update will be released …

  • Xbox 360

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    Earlier today, we reported the buzz from Japan claiming that the Xbox 360 Fall update will be released tomorrow. Well, the release of this system update is official now. Below is the press release with the announcement. You can also find the complet…

  • Weekly Porridge #41: Frankincense and 360

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    QualityJeverage sez: Hey Guys! Sorry for not releasing a Porridge last week. There was a massive sudden pile-up of lots of other things, nothing serious, but they were nonetheless time consuming. So I decided to take that week off. Anyway, we’re back on track now, so enjoy! More discussion in the forums! ‹ Weekly Porridge…

  • Weekly Porridge #41: Frankincense and 360

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    QualityJeverage sez: Hey Guys! Sorry for not releasing a Porridge last week. There was a massive sudden pile-up of lots of other things, nothing serious, but they were nonetheless time consuming. So I decided to take that week off. Anyway, we’re back on track now, so enjoy! More discussion in the forums! ‹ Weekly Porridge…

  • New Halo Movie Review Blog Opens

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    Demag0gue stopped by to say he’s started a new Halo movie review blog, entitled Penitent Tangential. Very cool idea – check it out!(Louis Wu 22:52:01 UTC)

  • Four Billion Played and Counting

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    Roger Wolfson, Bungie’s database programmer extraordinaire, reports today that we have officially surged over the four billion games played mark, a little under two years after the game’s launch. He also notes that we’re close to hitting the four million unique players mark, not too shabby. Read on for some more detailed usage statistics from…

  • RT: Episode 81 available

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    Episode 81 — Sibling Arrivalries, is now online. You can view it in our video Archive.

  • Ghosts of Onyx Available

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    Ghosts of Onyx will be officially released tomorrow, but reports have been trickling in all weekend that it’s available at various outlets. You should certainly be able to get it tomorrow if you want to wait a day to read it, but you may be rewarded if you give a call today to see if it’s…

  • Halo Trilogy Xbox 360 Theme

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    Major Nelson has announced a Halo Trilogy theme newly released to the Xbox Live Marketplace. You can read all of the details in Major Nelson’s blog, but the basic gist is that you can get it for free with the Xbox 360 Halo faceplate or you can just grab it with some Microsoft Points.

  • I Wooden Kid You.

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    Some of us have a harder time resisting temptation than others. Stuntmutt feels your pain – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:26:21 UTC)

  • It ain’t gonna fly.

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    Dry Ice found an interesting building in Dubai. See what you think!(Louis Wu 17:19:33 UTC)

  • New Mombasa – A Different View

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    Double News Postage – RVideo also submitted a new piece of work to the MPRRS recently. The first time through, it seems that most of the reviewers didn’t get what he was doing. He overhauled the entire piece, incorporating some of the advice they’d given – and though some STILL didn’t get it the second…

  • QsK Icy’s First Montage

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    QsK King submitted his clanmate’s montage to the MPRRS – they liked it. It seems to end rather abruptly… but other than that, it’s a pretty nice piece of work. Almost 6 minutes long, available in WMP9 format (74.1 mb) or QuickTime format (73.1 mb).(Louis Wu 15:08:30 UTC)

  • New Halo Trilogy Theme Available

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    Dolbex pointed out a post on Major Nelson’s blog announcing a new Halo Trilogy theme for the Xbox360 – “Each blade presents a re-imagined view from the Halo universe, including all three iterations of the Master Chief’s iconic Spartan armor, from past, present and future.” 150 points, or free with the purchase of a Halo…

  • UNSCDF Contest Winners Announced

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    Thanks to Saint, who noticed (heh) that the UNSCDF Fan Fiction Contest winners have been posted; congrats to the 5 winners (including Saint), each of whom will receive a signed copy of Ghosts of Onyx.(Louis Wu 14:17:16 UTC)

  • New Reversed Jackal Snippets (and a final home for all)

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    A couple of months ago, RVideo reversed some Jackal dialogue snippets, and did a nice job of remodulating them to be audible. We said, at the time, that we would add them to the Dialogue Databank at some point. Things, as usual, got in the way, and it never happened. Today, he stopped by with…

  • RDKLeague to host Online FFA Event

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    On the 17th of November 2006, RDKLeague will be hosting an online Free-For-All event with no eligibility restrictions. Prizes provided by JoystickJunkies . For more information check out RDKLeague.

  • GIA Halo 3 Weapon/Vehicle Design Competition

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    What with all the rumours and fuss about Halo 3, Games in Action decided to host a competition allowing people to submit designs for vehicles or weapons they would like to see in the new game.  Of course its all in the name of fun but prizes may be awarded for the best submissions.

  • Angels and Airwaves

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    Queef58 submitted ‘Angels and Airwaves – The Adventure Music Video’ to the MPRRS – the song, set to Halo. Heavy compression makes for small download sizes! Grab it in WMP9 format (24.3 mb) or QuickTime format (28 mb).(Louis Wu 23:08:31 UTC)

  • Holy Shazbot! Podtacular bought Foo a 360!

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    I’m still in shock! At the end of episode 87 the guys talk about their conspiracy to go behind my back and pool some money to get me a 360! Read on for more pictures of shock and awe. Thanks so much, guys!! So this morning my wife tells me I have to listen to…