My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2007

  • A fresh coat of paint, but not much else

    On the other end of the spectrum, Exclaim tried out the Halo 3 Beta – and were pretty much unimpressed. Too many 14-year-olds teabagging the reviewer’s corpse, apparently.(Louis Wu 12:25:32 UTC)

  • A Labour of Love

    Next Generation has posted a review of the Halo 3 Beta – written by Edge magazine. They’re overwhelmingly positive; they feel Bungie has taken the lessons of Halo 2 (and Halo) to heart, and are on track to release a game that will surpass both. High …

  • Attack of the Factoids: Halo 3 Beta

    Games.net is hosting what has got to be the most bizarre gaming news feature I’ve seen in a while: a video of gameplay on the Halo 3 Beta (nothing special), coupled with ‘factoids’ – info about laser weapons developed in real life, the definition of a…

  • Metroid Online Update

    Seraphim wrote to say that work has continued apace on the Metroid Online mod for Halo CE (no, they’re not switching to Vista); swing by their site for the latest news. There’s a movie up at Gametrailers, showing off their newly coded morphball – pres…

  • THX JuLAN – July LAN Party

    General Info Who: THX – Up to 34 people can comfortably fit What: Halo 1 LAN When: July 28, 2007 Where: Rayne’s Houze outside of Huntsville, Alabama – Directions (coming soon) Why: It’s been a while since the last LAN. It’s time to fire it up again. K…

  • The Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition

    The Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition will be presented in a customized Grand Theft Auto metal safety deposit box. The box will contain: • Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360â„¢ video game and entertainment system or the PLAYSTATION®3 computer e…

  • Halo-Themed Forza Cars: A Winner is Who?

    Not three, but four winners in the “make a sweet Halo-themed car in Forza 2” talentacular.

  • Calamity

    Heh – we got word from Trevor Mack that there was a monster montage at Halo3Forum; 22 minutes, 350 mb, gameplay from a host of players. I told him that we generally don’t front-page H3F montages unless the request comes from the site owner – and that …

  • WA 2v2 Tourney

    Relentless Azn stopped by to point out an upcoming 2v2 Slayer tournament this Saturday in Kent Washington – check his link for more details. (Hint for folks posting updates like this on our forum – at least say WHERE your tournament is! The location o…

  • Halomega Updates

    Mike, from Halomega, let us know that there’s lots of new content up at their site. There’s a new videos section up (they’ll host your member vids, as well), they’ve got a new Sig of the Week contest, and they’re looking for your opinion on Halo 3 as …

  • Halo 2 on XP – you’re on your own

    So, we mentioned a hack recently that will let you play Halo 2 Vista on Windows XP – and today, a group known as Razor 1911 released their own crack (I read about it here first, but Cody Miller saw it at Next-Gen) – in response, Dennis Powers, of Halo…

  • RT: Getting closer

    I just wanted to take a quick break from Episode 100 production (which should be out tomorrow night, barring any unforeseen tsunamis, alien invasions, or meteors crashing into the office) to post today’s comic. As previously noted, site member Gavino h…

  • HBO’s Zune Contest Winners Announced!

    Halo.Bungie.Org’s Zune giveaway has found four winners. Now their entries are up for your perusal.

  • Gamers, Geeks, and Google . Episode #1.

    It is interesting how internet users find our website. Most all of our traffic comes from Google searches. How people end up here is sometimes quite funny. I am afraid that my leet search engine optimization skills have owned your internets. Allow me …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • HBO Zune Giveaway: Results

    Took us a little while to reach everyone, and get all our ducks in a row… but the results for the HBO Zune Giveaway are now online! On top of the 4 Zunes we promised when this whole thing started out, we’ve convinced Bungie to provide some extra pri…

  • More info (and pics) about Master Replicas guns

    A week ago, we mentioned the new stuff coming from Master Replicas – a pair of weapon replicas – but at the time, the only info about these could be found on store sites. Last night, ODSTAdrianFii noticed that some info – and a pair of photos – are no…

  • RvB in Wired

    Wired has posted an article commemorating the 100th episode of Red vs Blue (due to be released tomorrow evening), and looking back over what RvB has stood for (and inspired in others) over the past 4 years. Good read. Thanks, MC_Leprechaun.(Louis Wu 1…