My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • On the Horizon

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    GameDaily has written up a review of Halo’s upcoming projects, and how they might all fit together. A bit too much speculation for my taste, but hey – it’s the internet, right?(Louis Wu 12:05:33 UTC)

  • Mesmerize

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    Killer 047 announced a huge (30 minutes, more than 400 mb in hi-res format) tricking montage film. I haven’t had time to watch it (or download it, even)… but the forum post was pretty fancy. If you’ve got a large pipe, and a lot of time… check this out!(Louis Wu 11:53:20 UTC)

  • More Eyeballs

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    MediaPost takes a look at the newly announced Wingnut Interactive ventures from the viewpoint that movies are making less money than they used to, and moviemakers are looking to expand their audiences in other ways. Interesting take.(Louis Wu 11:49:44 UTC)

  • Dolbex puts his thinking cap on

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    Some quick links your way, before this day gets out of hand here: Dolbex posted a long rant about how Bungie might be spread too thin at this point on his blog – and mentioned it on our forum. (The biggest assumption in his article that should be questioned is ‘Bungie is the only one…

  • Red vs. Blue Season 5

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    The guys over at Rooster Teeth have released the much anticipated Season Five of the Red vs. Blue series. It’s available for sponsors now, everyone else will have to wait until the weekend’s over to grab it. w00t!

  • News Roundup For September 30

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    Less ado, more do: Eurogamer: Halo Wars Is For Ze Germans Dolbex: How Far Can Bungie Stretch? Bungie: Bungie.net Update Xboxyde: HaloWars Q&A and Interview with Peter Jackson Primotech: Marty O’Donnell’s Wife Plays Bejeweled

  • Got What It Takes To Be Wide?

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    Wideload Games, makers of Stubbs the Zombie and currently working on an unspecified number of unspecified projects for unspecified platforms in their sweet Chicago digs, is looking for a Lead Engineer: Sure, there are other options. You could move to California and get a job squeezing out WWII shooters for some big company. Bet nobody’s…

  • News Roundup For September 30

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    Less ado, more do: Eurogamer: Halo Wars Is For Ze Germans Dolbex: How Far Can Bungie Stretch? Bungie: Bungie.net Update Xboxyde: HaloWars Q&A and Interview with Peter Jackson Primotech: Marty O’Donnell’s Wife Plays Bejeweled

  • Got What It Takes To Be Wide?

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    Wideload Games, makers of Stubbs the Zombie and currently working on an unspecified number of unspecified projects for unspecified platforms in their sweet Chicago digs, is looking for a Lead Engineer: Sure, there are other options. You could move to California and get a job squeezing out WWII shooters for some big company. Bet nobody’s…

  • Awesometastic.

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    The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted – summary of the rather large news out of Barcelona this week, plus a local (well, local for Bungie) spin, a cool cake, and zune photos. (What?) Yeah, go read. If you are scared of Bungie.net, there’s always our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 23:43:51 UTC)

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Frankie and Sketchfactor are still off cruising the nude beaches (“Toptional”) of Barcelona, but in their stead I bring you cake. After you’re done with that though, there’s word from Frankie, some community news and a little tease from a sly Microsoft source of ours.

  • M90 Anagram.

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    Stuntmutt falls back on a tried and true poke in today’s One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 14:17:35 UTC)

  • Peter Jackson – Telling Stories

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    Xboxyde also talked to Peter Jackson about his upcoming Halo stuff – if you were a little fuzzy about what he’s got planned, read this – you’ll probably get a little MORE fuzzy. Nonetheless, it’s an expansion on the ideas he expressed during the press conference, and who knows? Maybe your brain works better than…

  • Omega Team V1E1

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    Random Outburst Productions submitted the extensively-titled ‘OMEGA TEAM Volume: 1 Episode: 1 “A More Perfect Federation”‘ – it’s got an RvB vibe (right down to the censorable language). Pretty funny – the MPRRS said ‘yep’, so we’re offering you a WMP9 version (29.1 mb) or a Quicktime version (30.8 mb)… grab your favorite poison.(Louis Wu…

  • MS Suits Talk Halo Wars

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    Xboxyde has posted a Q&A with Phil Spencer (GM of Microsoft Game Studios Publishing) and Dave Luehmann (GM of MGS Internal Developing) about Halo Wars, collected during X06. More than anything posted in the last three days, this makes me a little apprehensive… but read it for yourself. Maybe I’m just overreacting. Thanks to broony…

  • Cooler Xbox 360 CPU Rumored For 2007

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    Supernostro pointed out an article at IGN suggesting that in Q1 of 2007, the CPU in the Xbox 360 will get an upgrade that will make the console more reliable: Chartered Semiconductor will update the 360 CPU to a 65nm process, the current state-of-the-art in chip manufacturing techniques. The new Xbox 360 CPUs will benefit…

  • Static (Teaser)

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    Dennis Powers stopped by to point out a teaser for Static, a new series from Halo CE Chronicles. Film style of the teaser is reminiscent of the Halo 3 trailer, and hints at a darker storyline than earlier HCEC work. Stay tuned!(Louis Wu 12:38:54 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fiction

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    Ten new stories today in the Fan Fiction section today. And you’re waiting for…?(Louis Wu 12:29:30 UTC)

  • Grunt Toon

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    Retsof-Noraa put together a small Grunt Flash Toon, hosted over at DeviantART… should bring a smile to your face.(Louis Wu 12:23:49 UTC)

  • And now for something completely different.

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    ESKAY RULZ. That is all.(Louis Wu 12:16:12 UTC)