My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • Ensemble Codenamed Halo Wars… Phoenix?

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    narcogen
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    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored…

  • Ensemble Codenamed Halo Wars… Phoenix?

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    Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo
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    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 84: The Tips Show

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    Episode 83 is on the way, Ciclonic is putting in the final touches to make sure it comes out just like we want it. It’s a really good show with some interesting special guests from the Halo community. In the mean time we gotta get some stuff to talk about for the next show… I…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 84: The Tips Show

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    foomojive
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    Episode 83 is on the way, Ciclonic is putting in the final touches to make sure it comes out just like we want it. It’s a really good show with some interesting special guests from the Halo community. In the mean time we gotta get some stuff to talk about for the next show… I…

  • GIA Team SWAT Tournament Round-Up

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    A while ago Games in Action announced it was to host a Team SWAT Tournament.  Well over the last two months teams have been battling it out for a chance to win $200.  Read on to find out all the details about who won.

  • Podtacular Fall Season 2006 is Here!!!

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    Dialpex
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    Our Second season of Halo 2 is here guys. Now it’s time to practice up and get sharp for the matches that we will have in 2 weeks kicking off the start of the LARGEST Podtacular tournaments with 24 teams and over 95 players!!! So click on the top left side of this page “Tournaments…

  • Podtacular Fall Season 2006 is Here!!!

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    Dialpex
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    Our Second season of Halo 2 is here guys. Now it’s time to practice up and get sharp for the matches that we will have in 2 weeks kicking off the start of the LARGEST Podtacular tournaments with 24 teams and over 95 players!!! So click on the top left side of this page “Tournaments…

  • The squeaky wheel gets greased, punk.

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    Unbeknownst to us, Captain Spark’s been busy on his website; he’s reorganized all of his 2005 dialogue submissions to include the new category names (individual marines, etc), and he’s added two new collections (on September 20 and September 29). We’ve added all 37 new snippets to our Dialogue Databank – there are some classics in…

  • SIXAXIS OF EVIL

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    Paul Maestri writes to let us know that Halo Heads 14 is up – it takes a shot at Sony’s latest PS3 move. I’m still chuckling…(Louis Wu 18:29:13 UTC)

  • That’s how he rolls.

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    Luke McKay sketched up a scene from RvB Episode 78 today… you gotta wonder if Church would make a decent parent.(Louis Wu 18:13:33 UTC)

  • It Begins

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    In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest. We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.

  • The Battle Rifle Debate

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    narcogen
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    The HaloWars.com forums are both new and very busy. It has been difficult at time to get at the interesting discussions because so much time has been taken up by the same issues over and over again. Since the announcement of Halo Wars, some eleven thousand posts have been made. About half of them are…

  • It Begins

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    Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo
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    In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest. We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.

  • Halo Who?

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    Elnea mashed up the theme from Doctor Who with the Halo theme… what came out was pretty cool. (She also created some artwork for this – you can find it in her gallery here.) On the off-chance her .Mac site runs out of bandwidth, the mashup is mirrored here. Go listen! (She originally posted this…

  • The Battle Rifle Debate

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    Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo
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    The HaloWars.com forums are both new and very busy. It has been difficult at time to get at the interesting discussions because so much time has been taken up by the same issues over and over again. Since the announcement of Halo Wars, some eleven thousand posts have been made. About half of them are…

  • Death by Klondike Bar

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    Over at Geezer Gamers, there’s a fun interview with Boys in Blue, a Geezer cop from Texas – great questions, entertaining answers. I mean, my goodness, the man was instrumental in instigating an online divorce, for goodness’ sake! Halo brings us all together, doesn’t it? Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:40:48 UTC)

  • Season Shockers, and Playoff Picks

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    New MLG content – there’s an article that looks back on the biggest surprises of the 2006 season, and a new feature – pros pick winners. First up – Elamite Warrior (recently nominated for the Scion Player of the Year competition) calls his playoff picks. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:48:42 UTC)

  • New Halo 3 content next month from EGM

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    1Up.com is crowing about a huge content blowout Electronic Games Monthly will be bringing you with the December issue (on newsstands November 14, likely in subscribers’ mailboxes a couple of weeks before that) – Halo 3, baby! New screens, video content (well, that will be delivered on the website), new secrets. (No guarantee on that…

  • You Can’t Park Here – Again. (Still?)

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    Over at Red vs Blue, the first episode of Season Five is now available for the general public. Normally, this doesn’t get a new news post here (we mention the new episode when it goes live for sponsors, and figure those getting it for free are capable of adding 48 hours to the release time…

  • Stoking the coals

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    BBC News takes a look at fan reaction to recent Halo-related announcements; it’s a nice overview of the situation as it stands. (I do have to question their choice of sources, though…) Thanks to hminn for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:11:06 UTC)