My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: May 2007

  • 4 million in NA alone? Wonga.

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    I’m not sure I like the fact-checking (“five different Greater Cincinnati Gamestop locations’?), but the numbers are pretty amazing – according to Xbox Evolved, Gamestop is reporting that they’ve already taken 4 million preorders for Halo 3 (at Gamesto…

  • European release for H2V pushed to June

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    Looks like Europeans will be waiting longer than the rest of us – again. Yesterday, we mentioned that the US release date for Halo 2 Vista was bumped back two weeks, to May 22. According to Xbox 360 Wire and a Microsoft press release, the European date…

  • HALO 2 (PC) launches May 22nd

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    HALO 2 (PC) launches May 22nd. This is too weeks later than expected. The game was supposed to be out yesterday along with the Games for Windows – Live service. The game will require the Windows Vista operating system but have pretty low minimum syst…

  • Stat Reset/Playlist Update

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    Last night, SketchFactor posted a note on Bungie.net – the playlist update and stat reset mentioned a few weeks ago are both now operational. (Well, according to sawnose, the full reset didn’t actually complete until about an hour ago – but you get the…

  • Hired Gun Head Talks Halo 2

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    Jo Clowes sat down (well, stood up) with Tina Wood, of Microsoft’s Channel 10, to discuss Halo 2 Vista – interesting conversation. 7 and a half minute movie, various sizes – go watch! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 11:53:36 UTC)

  • Halo 2 Playlist Update and Stat Reset

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Tonight is the night for the long awaited Halo 2 Xbox Live Matchmaking Playlist update and ranking reset. Tombstone and Desolation will be required for some of the playlists and if you purchased them before Monday, 5/7, you will need to download them a…

  • Shadowrun launches May 29th

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    As Gnome reported at SR.THX, Shadowrun will be released on Tuesday May 29th for the XBOX 360 and Games for Windows platforms. This is the first game released that will allow XBOX 360 players to play with PC players in the same game. Everyone. Go gra…

  • 5 Meeellion Players.

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    Wow. 15 minutes ago, the 5 millionth unique Live account (not including guests) started a game of Halo 2 online… that’s a lot of fraggers! (Louis Wu 20:28:01 UTC)

  • Halo 2 hits 5 million players!

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Moments ago, we watched the odometer of Halo 2 players roll over the 5,000,000 mark. Today also happens to be the 2.5-year anniversary of launch. Here’s to continued growth of 2 million players per year!

  • Frigate Flyby

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    Nabsuh posted a cool little animation of a frigate (retextured) flying by the camera. Tiny, fun – go look! (The local QT mirror is H.264 encoded; I’m thinking it might be time to move that way, finally. QuickTime 7.1.6 plays this admirably on a multitu…

  • LiL Poison’s Getting Old!

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    Okay, not OLD, really – he just turned 9. But man… the kid’s been present on the pro scene for YEARS! Happy birthday, LiL P! (There’s a documentary about him coming out next year…)(Louis Wu 15:49:54 UTC)

  • Flushed Out.

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    One Porta-Potty joke wasn’t enough for Stuntmutt – there’s another one in today’s One One Se7en. Child.(Louis Wu 15:46:14 UTC)

  • Pod TV: Blastacular!

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    iPod version | Google Video version The Pod TV team bring us a detailed look at the new maps: Tombstone and Desolation. They walk around explaining the layout and weapon spawns and then play 4v4 on the maps for us. Cool! This one’s about 21 minutes.

  • Reid 18 Montage 5 Remix

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    Back in December, we mentioned Reid 18’s fifth montage; we just got word from Z, at Halo3Forum.com, that Vox has remixed it. I found it a bit hard to watch in places, but the synching is really good. Take a look – WMP9 format, 91 mb.(Louis Wu 13:40:19 …

  • Podtacular Episode 112

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    Big Goalie Dan pointed out that Podtacular Episode 112 has been released – they’re still focusing on leaked content. 75 minutes, 72 mb.(Louis Wu 13:08:49 UTC)

  • Austrocity opens

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    DuBbLe stopped by to announce Austrocity, a new Australian Halo 3 Beta blog – swing by for some basic info about what’s coming in the future.(Louis Wu 13:05:12 UTC)

  • Blastacular Head-to-Head

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    If you’re an IGN Insider, you can go watch a video comparison of the Blastacular Map Pack maps (Desolation and Tombstone) with their original Halo counterparts (Derelict and Hang ’em High). (If you’re not an Insider, there’s not even a low-res free ver…

  • How did Joyride go out of business?

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    Yesterday, we mentioned an insane Halo action figure collection – today, there’s another one. Joerhyno has been doing his own collecting… I’m floored by this one, too.(Louis Wu 10:51:01 UTC)

  • Sonic Halo

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    Spartan Erik pointed out a new Halo Flash vid at Newgrounds – thewax70 has set the first couple of cutscenes (audio and action) up with Sonic the Hedgehog graphics. I found it to be really well-done – definitely worth a watch!(Louis Wu 10:45:40 UTC)

  • Halo 2 Vista – delayed until May 22

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    Last week, we mentioned that game retailers had been adjusting their availability listing for Halo 2 Vista from May 8 (yesterday) to May 23. All week long, European and Australian sites have been contacted by Microsoft with the news that the overseas v…