My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: January 2007

  • Floaty Silence 2 – Heaven Leapers

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    Hellhawk has released Floaty Silence 2 – no relation to Floaty Silence, or even the Floaty Silence 2 Trailer, but funny nonetheless. His forum post contains a QuickTime encoded with h.264; if you’d rather have a WMP9 version (18.1 mb), or a QuickTime that’s more compatible with less powerful machines (18.9 mb), we’re making these…

  • 360Zine Halo 3 Preview

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    360Zine is a free downloadable magazine that covers (surprise, surprise) Xbox 360 news. Issue 2 has a Halo 3 preview. You can grab it (23 mb) from their downloads page. (Some of the features of this secured PDF were a little… buggy for me.)(Louis Wu 13:37:26 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Twelve new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!(Louis Wu 13:08:52 UTC)

  • MLG Division I Halo Final Wrap-Up

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    MLG has posted a wrapup of their Division I Halo Online Tournament – congrats to FBI GamerGraffix! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:44:17 UTC)

  • They’re like squirrels, preparing for winter.

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    Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find the latest Halo 3 Humpday writeup; a mean group of Bungie employees went into Halo 3 matchmaking against 3 groups of brand-new players… and destroyed them. As KP accurately points out in the writeup, the tables will turn as soon as enough players learn the ins and outs of the…

  • Project Magma Launches Myth Vault

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    Project Magma, the guys who keep Myth multiplayer alive and provide patches so the game keeps running on updated operating systems, have launched a new website, Myth Vault, intended to be a catch-all archive for Myth-related files, including films, artworks, and even maps.

  • Keeping The Bungie Edge Sharp

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    What Louis Wu says about the article “Inside Bungie” at EDGE magazine is one hundred percent correct; even those who have been peering at Bungie through spyglasses and telescopes for years can learn a lot of new things about the studio in this rare look behind the scenes. Go. Read. NOW.

  • Halo 3 Humpday: Team Skirmish

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    This week the Bungie crew went online in the Halo 3 Alpha to dish out some good old-fashioned drubbings as new players took to the newly revised matchmaking test playlists for the first time last night.

  • Bungie – Edge’s Take

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    Edge has posted their January 2007 article on Bungie and Halo 3 online – go give it a read. As is true with most Edge articles, it’s well-written, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Everyone can learn something from this – I learned stuff from this. Where Bungie’s come from, where it might be going – how it’s…

  • Halo 3’s MA5C Assault Rifle Details

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    Bungie has released details on the new-and-improved “MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System” which is better known as simply, the Assault Rifle. The AR (version MA5B) was a popular spawn weapon in Halo, but mysteriously disappeared in Halo 2. By popular demand (or b/c the SMG was terrible), it is making a comeback in Halo 3.…

  • Halo 3 Schwag at HotTopic

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    Foxcross noticed three new Halo 3-related items at HotTopic; there’s a beanie, a messenger bag, and a pretty slick Master Chief T. Nice!(Louis Wu 12:26:51 UTC)

  • D is for Dead

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    Ibeechu sat down to create a Halo machinima piece that parodied ‘sub-par machinima’. He was shooting for ‘so bad it’s good’; I’m not sure he got there, but it’s definitely pretty bad. Cheesy story + cheesy dialogue + cheesy cliches… mmm, the power of cheese. He’s put up a 41 mb WMP9 version, and Funkmon…

  • There Are Many Like It, But This One Will Be Yours

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    Don’t call it a gun. In fact, don’t even call it a rifle. It isn’t even a weapon. It’s a system. The MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that KP made that up himself when he penned the description of Halo 3’s default spawn weapon, that hybrid of Halo…

  • A Brick Outhouse With Venetian Blinds

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    Frankie, who’s not very nice, told us about a writeup of the Assault Rifle on Bungie.net. Lots of down-and-dirty details, and scenarios for use. Go read!(Louis Wu 01:18:11 UTC)

  • MA5C Assault Rifle

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    Another delve into the world of Halo 3 vehicles and weapons – this time Robt. McLees assists us in a tour of what’s soon to be everyone’s favorite spawning weapon - the MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System, otherwise known as the Assault Rifle.

  • rapture’s Gears of War weapons rankings

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    The weapons in Gears of War are diverse and have many different utilities. From beams of energy raining down from an orbiting satellite, to pistol with a high rate of fire, to a powerful shotgun, there are certain times to use certain weapons. The different weapons also cater to different styles of play for different…

  • Halo Miniatures

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    GFC Danny has created a set of rules for Halo Miniatures, a tabletop game he’s developed. Swing by his website and grab the files!(Louis Wu 21:56:07 UTC)

  • Kitty 117 and Friends

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    Paul Maestri let us know that Halo Heads 40 is now live… and the overall plan is beginning to come clear. Be afraid. Be very afraid.(Louis Wu 20:41:50 UTC)

  • Halo on a GBA?

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    Kotaku has a story (with video footage from GameTrailers) showing (well, purporting to show) a Halo proof of concept sidescroller running on a GameBoy Advance emulator. Looks a lot like Halo Zero, I guess… hard to say what this is. A leaked version of the code that was discussed at IGN for the DS a…

  • Check Your Policii.

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    If you read today’s One One Se7en, you might get the feeling that Stuntmutt’s been playing on Live again…(Louis Wu 13:57:16 UTC)