My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • RT: I just flew in From L.A….

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    …and boy are my arms tired. Badabing! Horrible joking aside, I actually did just fly in from L.A., where Jason and I have been out working on the latest round of EA Sports commercials – this time for the upcoming NBA Live. After a week of breathing, eating…

  • Halo-Battle

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    CupiD-082 pointed out Halo-Battle, a Halo-themed MMO-RTS based on the online game Ogame. It’s being developed by French fans, so the website is currently in French – but they’re planning on making the final version bilingual. Check ’em out! (In light of the recent events surrounding Halogen, we should make clear that we’re not publicizing…

  • Were you in Rec E?

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    Some dork on staff in Rec E just booted everyone. TerminatorLlama, the overlord, just put everyone as peon in response, so it won’t happen again. If you were in that clan and want back in, it’s easy as pie. Just post your gamertag in the request a clan invite page and write that you were…

  • Interim Roundup

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    While you’re in a Story state of mind, swing by the Halo Story Page – Jillybean has gathered together a few of the recent baubles sent in by fans and made a pretty story necklace. Put it on!(Louis Wu 13:24:47 UTC)

  • H3DA looks at GoO

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    The Ephorate has written up an analysis of existing info on Ghosts of Onyx in their Halo 3 Data Archive. They use it to tie GoO into Halo 3 – it’s a rather extensive read, so bring your coffee mug. Thanks, ivan.(Louis Wu 13:22:20 UTC)

  • I wanna know what a Leftorium is.

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    The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted – there is a nice description of the current state of the AI for non-player characters helping you in your warthog, there are a bunch of questions from Bungie.net forumgoers (along with answers, of course)… and there’s a depiction of what Frankie would look like if drawn by…

  • The Bungie Weekly Update

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    It was about time we answered some of your mailbag questions, so we did. There’s a tiny update on the state of the Podcast and our cowbell-filled theme song. We also chat a wee bit about the Warthog, or more properly, about some of the new AI creeping into Halo 3.

  • KSP SRT Montage 4

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    KSP SRT submitted another montage to the MPRRS – though it was really heavily loaded with effects, they liked it. You can grab it in WMP9 format (48.5 mb) or QuickTime format (55.5 mb). In this case, the WMP9 version is better – sorry to the QT users!(Louis Wu 19:48:53 UTC)

  • GetScrims

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    Victor De Leon sends word about GetScrims.com – a service to help halo players hook up with one another, before they get on Xbox Live. Take a look!(Louis Wu 17:33:56 UTC)

  • Radio Activity.

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    Stuntmutt takes a look at the Bungie Community Team’s biggest challenge in today’s One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 16:07:48 UTC)

  • A digital pastime prodigy

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    The New York Post has an article about Lil Poison – and how he’s making money tutoring adults to play Halo. Nice! Thanks, Jim Shorts.(Louis Wu 15:44:49 UTC)

  • TTL + DMH = TDTMLH (or something)

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    XerxdeeJ pointed out that two of the larger Halo-based blogs, Tied the Leader and Dead Man’s Hand, are merging – you’ll find the newest Dead Man’s Hand content over at the Tied the Leader site. (Including, this time around, a 22 Questions interview with a random Halo fansite admin.)(Louis Wu 15:35:44 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Sixteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 14:40:33 UTC)

  • The World’s Most Dangerous Gamers

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    A few days ago, vlad3163 put up a note on our forum that I forgot to mention; the October issue of Electronic Games Monthly contains a feature they call ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Gamers’ – and 3 of the 5 collectible cards they have are Halo-related! Congrats to ‘The Damsel’ aka Amber Dalton aka Athena…

  • Egg DB online at HIH

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    Over at High Impact Halo, Ducain posted a notice about a new Halo 2 Easter Egg Database; it’s a work in progress, and right now contains (mixed in among the real easter eggs) a bunch of stuff that probably shouldn’t be considered ‘eggs’, per se… but it’s a fantastic start, and it’ll be polished up…

  • Windows Physics Editor For Marathon Gets Update

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    Version 0.5 of PhysicsEditorOne for Windows by HogePiyo is out, in English and Japanese. The program edits Marathon physics models, allowing mapmakers to change player physics, monster sequences, sounds and weapons. Thanks for the heads-up to Marathon Open Source.

  • Does The Halo Universe Have Global Warming?

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    Jordan117 has put up a nice bit of analysis in the HBO forum alleging that various artistic and design choices in Halo 2, specifically those made in the Outskirts and Metropolis levels, indicate that Bungie is postulating increasing global warming in Earth’s future. While probably not essential to the plot, if it’s true it does…

  • ‘We Wanted Somebody Who Was A Real Halo Fan’

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    Quint at Ain’t It Cool News has put up part three of five in his interview with Halo movie producer Peter “Freakin” Jackson. Unlike just about everybody at Bungie, Jackson actually likes to talk and talk about Halo, so there’s loads of content in here. It is probably too far out from the film’s expected…

  • The Depth of the Details

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    Jordan117 half-jokingly asked Bungie to acknowledge this… they might, or they might not, but it’s a pretty interesting read, so I’m putting it here, because I think more people should see it. He’s got some interesting theories about Earth-related backstory – stuff that hasn’t actually been discussed, but which (if you check out his meticulously…

  • I hate it when they practice.

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    Bungie’s version of the Halo Humpday Challenge is now up – and surprisingly, it matches that of the Video Game Refugees pretty closely. (I think I just saw Miss Piggy float past my window.) Good postmortem, overall – if the rest of the Bungie guys actually READ this, they might learn enough strategy to beat…