My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • X06 Starts NOW.

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    X06 coverage is going live very soon – the Xbox.com feed seems to be busted for most viewers, but keep trying. In the meantime, Luke Smith, from 1Up.com, is going to be liveblogging (thanks, Morangie), so if you can’t SEE what’s up, at least you can read about it. We’re not positive what’s coming from…

  • ZOMGWTFfloodtanaBBQ!!111!?

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    Sometimes, Stuntmutt is scary in his ability to mimic real people. Like in today’s One One Se7en. I mean… this could have come right out of a forum thread! (Maybe it did…)(Louis Wu 16:30:31 UTC)

  • Trevor Chesler’s Mjolnir Armor

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    Trevor Chesler has embarked on the creation process for a suit of Mjolnir armor – he’s shooting for a very high quality finished product. He’s just starting out right now, but you can see his gameplan, and the first few photos, on this page. As we get more from him, we’ll add them (and let…

  • Halo Case Mod

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    Wow – Wolverine Monkey dropped in with word of a really cool Halo case mod he noticed. (Here’s hoping we don’t kill their bandwidth…) The original can be found at Team Xtender.(Louis Wu 12:24:55 UTC)

  • Brooklyn Tourney Oct 7

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    TNL Alex stopped by our forum to announce a tourney in Brooklyn coming up on October 7 – FFA and 2v2. Rules, prizes, and directions can all be found in his forum post.(Louis Wu 12:22:35 UTC)

  • Rumors Swirl Ahead Of Microsoft’s X06 Event

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    A lot of sources today are spreading news that details of revelations to be made at Microsoft’s X06 event in Barcelona, Spain today. 3Suns pointed out material at 2old2play and Neoseeker in an HBO forum post, while CVG cites similar claims in a TeamXbox forum thread. Some reports just say “something big”. Some say it’s…

  • What Kind of Halo Player Are You?

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    Over at Bungie.net, KP has written up a great guide to Halo 2 players online (and a quiz, to help show you which type you’re most like). What I want to know is… how did it know what kind of underoos I’m wearing?(Louis Wu 23:07:35 UTC)

  • What Kind of Halo Player Are You?

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    We’ve compiled a humorous list of the most prominent gamer stereotypes in the Halo 2 Xbox Live community. Check out our list, see if any of these seem familiar and take the quiz to find out which kind of gamer you are most like.

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 83: The Halo 3 Show!

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    Episode 82 has been recorded with a surprise guest host and Ciclonic is hard at work editing it. It will likely be out tonight. It’s a good one! In the mean time it’s time to gather content for our next show. In Halo 3 they need more cowbell! What do you want to see in…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 83: The Halo 3 Show!

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    Episode 82 has been recorded with a surprise guest host and Ciclonic is hard at work editing it. It will likely be out tonight. It’s a good one! In the mean time it’s time to gather content for our next show. In Halo 3 they need more cowbell! What do you want to see in…

  • The Birth of a Tattoo

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    agdTinMan stopped by our forum with the story behind Don Wan’s Spartan Tattoo (mentioned, and pictured, in last week’s Bungie Weekly Update) – great read! (If you follow the Flickr link he provides, there are other photos in her stream that may or may not look familiar…)(Louis Wu 19:52:49 UTC)

  • The Spartan Effect: Episode 2

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    The MPRRS went into something of a hibernation over the weekend… but a little kick-start this morning got reviewers reviewing again, and a movie stuck in the queue for 5 days was spit out this afternoon, with pretty high marks. It’s ‘The Spartan Effect: Episode 2’, from Rookie Rabbit Productions, and it continues the story…

  • The Mythical 40-Hour Gamer

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    3Suns ran across an article at Wired about ‘the Mythical 40-Hour Gamer’, which points out one of the larger difficulties facing developers these days; with more and more older gamers out there, finding ways that make games playable and enjoyable for folks who fit their gaming in between ‘real-life’ activities while KEEPING it enjoyable for…

  • Blondi Rocks

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    Ace Heart noticed a writeup of a local Halo tourney in the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser – puts a smile on my face that a 10-year-old girl came in fourth in her semifinal round.(Louis Wu 12:20:19 UTC)

  • We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Banshee

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    Rockslider’s latest game-within-a-game that he plays exclusively with Halo 1 is called Shark; you use a Banshee underneath a bridge to induce Covenant units to leap off to their deaths. It’s the newest item on Bad Cyborg’s Fun and Challenges page for Assault on the Control Room.

  • UNSCDF Interviews Louis Wu

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    Major Silva of the United Nations Space Command Defense Force (a Halo fansite) interviewed Claude “Louis Wu” Errera of HBO. Asked how there were enough hours in the day for him to keep up with all the news in the Halo universe, as well as delete forum spam, run a business, have a family, and…

  • How To Build An A.I.

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    Brannon Boren made good on his promise over the weekend, putting together a nice little retrospective on the thinking process that went into creating the parts of the Halo Bible that deal with artificial intelligences like Cortana. Just about everything that he mentions is revealed, in one way or another, either through the games or…

  • Weekly Porridge #37: I told you so!

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    Quality Jeverage brings us another Weekly Porridge, showing how the Podtacular crew teamed up recently and proved that when you mess with Podtacular, you mess with US! More talk in the forums. Go Podtacular! ‹ Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of PodupWeekly Porridge #38: Ex Oh Sicks! ›

  • Weekly Porridge #37: I told you so!

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    Quality Jeverage brings us another Weekly Porridge, showing how the Podtacular crew teamed up recently and proved that when you mess with Podtacular, you mess with US! More talk in the forums. Go Podtacular! ‹ Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of PodupWeekly Porridge #38: Ex Oh Sicks! ›

  • Another learning experience

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    A certain (now former) staff member recently flipped out, deleting the rec section in the forum and making everyone overlord in Rec B. Believe it or not, this is good news. Our community reacted as a team to recognize this and fight it, and just a day later we are making a variety of positive…