My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: January 2007

  • Smokin’Aces

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    We got a note from Micah Brooke, at machinima.com, about a new contest they’re running; submit your best kills from your favorite video games, win cold, hard cash. You’ve got a couple of weeks – and Halo is only one of a myriad of options… top prize is $1000. Check out all the details on…

  • Partial Advice

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    Mister Froggy has posted the second episode of his Halo, Articulated comic – this one takes a shot at one of the more annoying moments in Halo 2.(Louis Wu 02:41:03 UTC)

  • Communist Octopus… was that a shot?

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    The Bungie Weekly Update is available now at Bungie.net – more info about the Halo 3 beta program (mostly reassurances), plus progress reports, a job opening, and the hairiest looking Mister Chief ever. As always, if you can’t read it at Bungie.net, you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 02:36:49 UTC)

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Hey it’s that special time of the week again. Weekly Update time. It’s like Christmas, only infinitely lamer. This week, Crackdown antics and slightly more beta explanations. More news coming, so stay tuned.

  • Expression

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    This invidious suspiration for amaranthine delectation Is lucidly aloof due to my paucity in the sentience department. Now mind you, my incapability to facilitate a sanguine disposition is learned. Despondency has become a modus vivendi The only chance for indemnification is to overcome ignorance An imaginary bulwark often found to be impenetrable

  • Kissing Up.

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    Stuntmutt has his own take on the Friends and Family program mentioned last week by Frankie – check today’s One One Se7en for details.(Louis Wu 16:43:38 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Twelve new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 16:13:35 UTC)

  • More Ways to Get In

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    Must be the day for Halo comics – ActionTrip has a new strip up today with a Halo theme, looking at ways to get into the Halo 3 beta. Heh.(Louis Wu 15:38:53 UTC)

  • Happy Red vs Blue Year

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    TheShadyGnome points out that a recent Dueling Analogs strip pays homage to both Halo and the new year.(Louis Wu 15:37:32 UTC)

  • New XBOX 360 with HDMI and 120GB hard drive in the wild

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    Engadget is reporting that an insider has provided them with information on and a picture of the XBOX 360 v2 which is to be available “soon”. According to them, the new XBOX 360, code named Zephyr, will support 1080p output via HDMI and have a 120GB hard drive. Also, the console is set to come…

  • Halo on a Nintendo DS?

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    FyreWulff was the first (but not, by far, the only) to notice that Matt Cassamina (Editor in Chief of IGNcube) posted a story in his blog about playing Halo on a Nintendo DS. Is it true? Hard to say, I guess – we’ll wait for official word from Bungie, I think, but many of the…

  • The Mii Army

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    More Mii stuff – check Gamingbits for yet another Master Chief Mii (among a lot of others). Thanks, wheeler.(Louis Wu 15:27:27 UTC)

  • Halo goodies on eBay

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    Spartan Jag found a pair of interesting Halo auctions on eBay – first is a replica Pistol, and second is a Spartan helmet (not to be used for paintballing, apparently). The pistol auction ends tonight, but you’ve got a few days left on the helmet.(Louis Wu 15:03:31 UTC)

  • We Become Silhouettes

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    Jamie98s posted a note on our forum about a new music video he’d created, ‘We Become Silhouettes’, about a survivor of a nuclear blast coming to grips with the death around him. Fantastic effects and filming; this is the sort of thing music videos should aspire to. He posted a mythica link to a WMP9…

  • Halo 3 FAQ Updated

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    With the onslaught of new Halo 3 information in the past few weeks, I’ve begun updated our Halo 3 FAQ. At the same time, I’m changing the way FAQ pages are stored and displayed. Currently, only the Halo 3 FAQ is in this system, but eventually it will be used for all FAQs. Instead of…

  • Getting Into The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta

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    If you couldn’t register on Halo3.com the first time out, and the idea of buying Crackdown miffs you, then relax: there are still other ways to get into the Halo 3 beta to be held next spring. The Gamerscore Blog lists two new ways that US residents can get in: by buying Crackdown, by playing…

  • Furhman can sleep anywhere.

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    The LANfest that took place here last week has now been written up on Bungie.net – KP got a little hyperbolic, but there are some great pics. I’d said the last time I’d posted about this LAN that I’d summarize the rest of the writeups at a later date – this seems like a fine…

  • Deadly Night

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    Last week, about 25 Bungie fans and even a few Bungie employees showed up for a LAN at Louis Wu’s house in the remote suburbs of Connecticut. The LAN that followed was of the epic nature associated with HBO LANs. Read on for details and many pictures.

  • VGL – Behind The Scenes (the beginning)

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    Over at GameTrailers, you’ll find a trailer, along with the first of three full episodes, of a Behind the Scenes documentary about Video Games Live. This is only peripherally Halo-related, in that Halo is one of the pieces played during the concert, but it’s pretty interesting if you were ever curious about how these guys…

  • PGL Elites Championship

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    Jay “Ling Ling” Marrero writes to point out a pair of Halo 2 tourneys sponsored by the PGL at Otronicon v2.0 in Orlando, FL, coming up the weekend of January 13/14. Registration is $15 (with a paid Otronicon entrance), and the first place prize for each event is $1000 (with a bunch of other stuff…