My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: May 2007

  • H3B Minitage

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    Z let us know that Oxfire has whipped up a ‘minitage’ of Halo 3 beta footage; this isn’t straight gameplay, it’s more like a standard montage (but short). 33 mb, WMP9 format.(Louis Wu 19:04:04 UTC)

  • More Giant Hummers

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    Kotaku had someone at the Syndey, Australia, event, as well – a short writeup and some pics are here.(Louis Wu 17:11:18 UTC)

  • Taking to the Skies

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    halosavior pointed out an interview with Richard ‘Major.Dump’ Boisvert, the CGI guy behind some of the new space scenes in the most recent episodes of Edgework Entertainment’s The Heretic. There’s a bunch that’s been censored until the series is comple…

  • Battle Rifles on eBay

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    We got word from the Briar’s Armor folks that they’ve finished their BR design, and there are 5 models up on eBay right now for sale. Starting price is $200, there are about 6 days left in the auctions – go see!(Louis Wu 16:32:24 UTC)

  • French Beta Hands On

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    Tanuki Kitsune let us know that there’s a French writeup of the Halo 3 beta at Halo.fr – seems quite long!(Louis Wu 16:25:38 UTC)

  • It’s On The Mind

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    Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del combines the Halo 3 Beta and one of the most popular shows on TV – made me smile. Go read – thanks, Black Six. (Louis Wu 16:22:50 UTC)

  • 3 Updates and a Competition

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    Urban Reflex has been blogging about the beta – read the details at Ordained Insight.(Louis Wu 16:18:39 UTC)

  • Halo: Elite Chronicles 2

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    Spartan Erik pointed out a new Flash vid at Newgrounds – I got bored after a couple of minutes, but you might like it better.(Louis Wu 16:16:55 UTC)

  • CVG is very bored.

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    CVG posted a review of Halo 2 Vista – they were very, very disappointed. It uses words like ‘soulless’, ‘tiresome’, ‘lazy’, ‘clueless’, ‘repulsive’… ouch. (They even claim it has bad music, which suggests to me that the reviewer got to the point wher…

  • Guess the Release Date

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    Simpsons Rule has decided to give away a Halo 3 Legendary Edition package – to the person who can guess the release date of Halo 3. (He got the idea from c0ld vengeance.) He kicked this off last night, but it seems a lot of people aren’t bothering (or …

  • Halo 3 Beta Weekend

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    The flood of thoughts and impressions about the Halo 3 Beta continues to roar through the internet’s tubes, flooding the habitats of poor ferrets the world over: Associated Content discusses some of the changes between Halo 2 and Halo 3 (I don’t know w…

  • Full Length Beta videos

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  • Halo 3 Beta Impressions

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    Halo 1 came out nearly six years ago. Halo 2 came out nearly three years ago, and until the release of bright, shiny, next-gen Gears of War, ruled the roost at Xbox Live. Halo 2 just logged it’s five millionth unique player, and will no doubt continue…

  • Sex, Lies, And Saved Films

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    Urban Reflex’s Halo 3 blog, Ordained Insight, has several entries detailing his experience with the public beta in the past three days: weapons, equipment, interface, features, the lot.

  • Angry Gamer Plays Halo… I Think

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    This writeup of the Halo 3 press event by Damien “Angry Gamer” Sarcuni is more about cocktails and skirt-chasing than Bungie and Halo, so I’m at a loss at how to describe it. Here it is.

  • Brain Removal Is Murder

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    Today’s Ctrl-Alt-Delete tries to apply the rules of Heroes to the game of Halo and comes up with a predictably violent result.

  • The Beta-Gazing Begins

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    Here’s a quick run-down on some sites with impressions of the Halo 3 Public Beta: GameSpot GamesDog GameInformer SlashDot TeamXbox Louis Wu at HBO pointed out some I missed on this list in his post yesterday: Xboxyde Kotaku Gearheads of War In oth…

  • I Need A Heavy Weapon

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    Short update to the human equipment and weapons pages in the Halo 3 guide, with information on some of the equipment and weapons on tap in the Public Beta.

  • The Riot 48

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    Sigafoos pointed out that The Riot 48 was released – discussions about – well, given that the Halo 3 Beta kicked off a couple of days ago, I bet you can guess what some of the discussion is about. 33 minutes, 13 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 21:22:45 UTC)

  • Red Herring, HBO style

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    Now that the F&F beta preview is in full force, it’s time to come clean – I like to dress up like a gru.. oops, wrong confession. Look at my post here for all the details on how we contributed in getting some names on the F&F list – why the forum was a…