My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2007

  • Watching… and waiting

    The new ARG that kicked off a few days ago is exploding; last night saw the uncoverings of an absurd amount of new information. There’s a summary of the earlier parts of the timeline at args.bungie.org, written by Sir Topham Hat – it’s a bit behind rig…

  • Episode 116: Interview Frenzy

    Download | Shownotes This show is kind of a variety show with a series of Halo-related interviews. First we interview Logan Payne, the lone wolf Halo 2 Vista player. Then we have some interesting interviews with some folks from Tied the Leader, 2old…

  • Episode 116: Interview Frenzy

    Download | Shownotes This show is kind of a variety show with a series of Halo-related interviews. First we interview Logan Payne, the lone wolf Halo 2 Vista player. Then we have some interesting interviews with some folks from Tied the Leader, 2old…

  • Episode 116: Interview Frenzy

    Download | Shownotes This show is kind of a variety show with a series of Halo-related interviews. First we interview Logan Payne, the lone wolf Halo 2 Vista player. Then we have some interesting interviews with some folks from Tied the Leader, 2old…

  • societyoftheancients.com. The new ilovebees.com? HALO 3 ARG continues…

    Just when someone finds one IP address (206.16.223.65), someone goes out an find another (206.16.223.63). The Society of the Ancients have a homepage. Who knew? Looks like 1996 was the last time that page was updated. There is relatively a lot of inf…

  • Humpday Challenge: All Internal

    Even though the Beta is over, we still get to play Halo 3. So this week, with salt in your wounds, we played more Halo 3.

  • HALO3.com/comic: Africa – 100,000 years ago. The Cradle of Life. Leads up to IP address and a countdown.

    Whoa cool. We are finally lead to another website via clues on HALO3.com. And the new site (an IP address) looks like it IS owned by Microsoft. Going to http://halo3.com/comic reveals a Flash version of the comic below. The comic is actually interact…

  • Spartan-III hybrid armor – CGI

    BlendedEcks posted a pic of his latest CGI work – Spartan III armor. Wow.(Louis Wu 20:31:57 UTC)

  • That guy needs some Windex.

    This is just… weird. Sometimes I don’t know what Attack of the Show is thinking… Update: Wow, it’s even worse. nash_housewares points out that the MC video is a parody of THIS vid. Don’t watch this if you have any respect at all for David Hasselhof…

  • Adjutant Reflex Update

    While we want to keep all comments condensed to the original thread for continuity, now’s a good time to recap the Adjutant Reflex situation. Colin Powell once said “Tell me what you know, tell me what you think, and never confuse the two.” Here’s w…

  • RT: Hard Day

    Hi people. Today’s comic is below. It’s about Gus, who is a jerk and no one likes. Stop the presses. Today’s sponsor comic is also up here. In other news, we are shooting for a PSA release this week, but Gavino is in the office, and is completely slowi…

  • History Circling Back Upon Us.

    The big news this morning is an email that went out to folks who’ve signed up for Xbox Flash mail. Compton started a thread on our forum about this (but you’re probably better off getting a discussion going at the ARG forum, since this is almost certa…

  • Xbox Controllers, Figures coming from McFarlane

    More info about the halo 3 Xbox Controllers – apparently Todd McFarlane created the artwork, and each one will be packaged with a limited edition Halo 3 figurine created by McFarlane, as well. Pretty nice! Lots of people got us this news – looks like …

  • Another K’NEX rifle

    JustyB also made a Halo rifle out K’NEX pieces – his work’s here.(Louis Wu 14:21:36 UTC)

  • Turtle Beach Earforce X2 Wireless Headset Review

    Summary: The Turtle Beach Xbox 360 Earforce X2 Wireless Headset is a great product that can deliver all your in-game audio plus voice communications wirelessly with excellent sound quality. It is easy to set up and reasonably priced when ordered onl…

  • Aftermath

    Newsweek has done their OWN post-mortem on the Halo 3 Beta – it comes in two parts. Part 1 has comments from the print media: representatives of Newsweek, EGM, OXM, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News. Part 2 has comments from the online media: The Hushe…

  • Perspective

    Bungie’s written up a post-mortem on the Halo 3 Beta experience; what they learned, what they were surprised by, what they expected. How much they’re listening. Read it; it should make you more confident that the final product will be a lot of fun to …

  • Parting Shots

    Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has written up a final look at the Halo 3 Beta, comparing some of the changes in gameplay from Halo 2’s model. Take a look.(Louis Wu 13:44:42 UTC)

  • Gamers Outreach Foundation

    You might remember Zach Wigal, the guy who had his dreams of a Halo lanfest dashed by his school administration, and went on to form a charity in response… well, that charity’s website is now up and running. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 13:32:17 UTC)

  • History circling back upon us!

    I just received this email this morning, and it clearly looks like what’s becoming another alternate reality game revolving around Halo 3. Quote:HISTORY CIRCLING BACK UPON US. The gears of the Universe spin further and further apart. Ever greater gro…