My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: April 2007

  • Games For Windows Live in the Wild

    Larry Hyrb describes his first experience with Halo 2 PC and its integration into the Windows Live and Xbox Live architecture. He reminds me that there will be achievements for Halo 2 PC players. Us folk playing H2 on original xboxen will never be ab…

  • More Shinier Than Evar

    Gamespot posted a Halo 2 graphics comparison yesterday featuring some side-by-side (well they’re more like mouse-over vs un-mouse-overed, but really that’s just too much to say and I don’t think overed is a word) shots of Halo 2 Xbox and Halo 2 Vista. …

  • Halo, Halo 2 Hit Most Important Game List

    GamePro.com has put together the list of the 52 “most important” video games of all time. Because it’s a list done according to importance, it means that games that were significant, even if they were bad, are on the list. One assumes that’s not why H…

  • Bungie Launching Pre-Beta Halo 3 Media Salvo

    Kotaku says they’ve received word of a big Halo 3 media event on May 11, just prior to the start of the public beta on May 16.

  • Test Your Halo Knowledge

    Awesome O and Pillar of Awesome just announced that they’ve put together a Halo trivia quiz. Before anybody asks, a quick run-through got me 88%, good for the rank of Spartan II, meaning that so far Spartan Jag, Bry, chargeorge, ST, Schedonnardus, Nar…

  • Halo 2 Playlist Update Delayed

    Frankie at Bungie.net writes that the planned playlist update is being delayed until next week (probably) while they continue to investigate the problems some users are having in downloading Halo 2 maps. For what it’s worth, I’ve been able to get the …

  • Myth World Cup 2007 This Summer

    InsideMacGaming notes that the Myth World Cup 2007 website has launched with a fan-produced promotional video. More details are “coming soon”. For Halo fans unfamiliar with the game, Myth is a fantastic real-time tactical combat game that eschews res…

  • Matchmaking Playlist Update

    Originally we indicated that this week was our target for updating the Halo 2 Xbox Live matchmaking playlists and resetting all player rankings. We are holding this update while we investigate and fix some of the Xbox Live download problems that people…

  • Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST! Our friends at Gamertag Radio and The Xbox Domain, are going to host a community event for gamers in the New York area. Read bellow for the full details We are teaming up with TheXboxdomain.net & Gaia…

  • Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST! Our friends at Gamertag Radio and The Xbox Domain, are going to host a community event for gamers in the New York area. Read bellow for the full details We are teaming up with TheXboxdomain.net & Gaia…

  • Hello there

    Who’s got an XBOX 360 with a hard drive and didn’t buy Crackdown? Just wondering… 🙂 BTW: Is anyone still playing Crackdown? __________________________ rapzilla blog | Shadowrun | HALO 2 Vista | cooked Gamers

  • GamePro Loves Puppies

    GamePro has posted a list of their top 52 video games of all time, ranked in order of importance – the amount of influence they’ve had on the industry. Halo fits in at #45, slightly more important than Super Mario Kart but slightly less important than …

  • We Hardly Knew Ye

    Last night we reported a story from PlayThree.net which was making some pretty outrageous claims. Narcogen filed his dismissive rant last night, which does a fine job of defeating these rumors with logic. FoolsRun wrote this morning, however, to alert …

  • Bungie Giveth…

    Stuntmutt takes note of the recent autoupdate, and how certain… er, substances might work against it in today’s One One Se7en.(mnemesis 15:36:40 UTC)

  • Str8 Rippin and 5k Interviews

    MLG has updated its site with a couple new interviews with two of its teams. There’s one with Str8 Rippin which focuses on their revamped roster and how they look to improve this year and then an interview with 5k, a team that qualified via online play…

  • Eyes On Your Own Screen

    Awesome O and pillar of awesome have concocted a Halo quiz which it seems they’ve put a fair amount of work into. The questions aren’t half-baked and there are definitely a few head-scratchers. Go check it out and share your score with the forum.(KP 15…

  • No Achievements for The Armory, c0ld

    JeBr0nie pointed out last night that Major Nelson made a quick blog post yesterday afternoon running through his initial experience with Halo 2 Vista. He describes the ease and fimiliarity of the experience and tells us about the three achievements he …

  • Cavernous Conundrums!

    Whoops. RvB Episode 95 came out for sponsors a few days ago, but we missed Twilight Draco’s post. Quality episode, lots of laughs and yet another cliff-hanger ending.(KP 15:00:59 UTC)

  • RT: Episode 95

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  • Get Your Salt Out

    There’s an article over at PlayThree.net which is reporting a rumor that Halo 3 will support true 1080p, as opposed to upscaled which is what most were expecting. According to the article, Xbox exec Shane Kim believes that 1080p is becoming increasingl…