My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: June 2007

  • ARG News

    Nathan Gibson pointed out Maximum Fear, a summary of the Alternate Reality Game started with Adjutant Reflex’s appearance a bit over a week ago. It’s concise and clear, and pulls its data for the most part from the Bungie.net group CompoundIntelligenc…

  • Lego Mjolnir

    RyanUltima has created a Mjolnir suit out of Legos – it looks pretty amazing. The YouTube video found by Wolverine Monkey is pretty low quality – we’ve contacted RyanUltima, who’s agreed to try and get us higher-resolution footage. We’ll keep you post…

  • Mat board armor progresses

    James Falcon sent along another few pictures of his in-progress Mjolnir suit – there’s a belt, some gloves, the glove plates, and the beginnings of a chest plate. Go see!(Louis Wu 11:50:55 UTC)

  • Sites Circulate Purported Halo 3 Achievements List

    Like Louis Wu at HBO, I’m going to label this a “Halo 3 Spoiler” because if it’s accurate, it would be one. However, I have to say I’m perhaps a tiny bit more suspicious of the list than Wu. Some of the achievements themselves, as well as the art used…

  • Halo 3 Achievements Revealed

    by Hilary Goldstein at IGN June 19, 2007 – Multiple Xbox 360 achievement sites posted the hottest list on this or any other planet today. Halo 3’s 49 achievements (for a total of 1000 Gamerpoints) were revealed by achieve360points.com, among others. A …

  • Caption Contest 6/19

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  • Xbox Live Subscription Give-Away.

    A contest is in the works for the members of Podtacular, old and new. The prize will be a 12 month subscription for Xbox Live. Read more for all the details. The Live subscription will have to be given out before June 30th. The winner will receive th…

  • Zune Giveaway -Parodies Now Up!

    Hmm… I think I might have done the math wrong – but the Parody selection for the Zune Giveaway is now available for voting. (I know, I said 8pm PDT – but I coded the page for 5pm EDT, subtracting 3 hours instead of adding them. Oops.) Don’t worry th…

  • Halownage Update

    Legendz sent us a news update about Halownage – they’re currently looking for replacements for a 1v1 ladder they’re running (cash prize) – check details here. They’re also hosting what they consider to be the best montage trialer to date – Brohan’s Fi…

  • A pretty cool custom faceplate

    bs angel (you may recognize the name – she’s a Cavegirl that hangs with the Bungie guys sometimes, she’s played some Humpday challenges) recently had a custom Halo faceplate created by Pavel Dolgov. (Search our news for him for other artwork he’s done…

  • Zune Pictures Online

    Kostas Tzounopoulos has put the preloaded pictures you can find on a Halo 3 Zune online on his website, Zune-Online.com; these are extracted directly from the Zune, so the quality is as high as is available. There is some spectacular artwork in here. …

  • Farewell, Adjutant Reflex

    In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it. After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inabili…

  • Farewell, Adjutant Reflex

    In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it. After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inabili…

  • Farewell, Adjutant Reflex

    In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it. After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inabili…

  • RT: Excuses, excuses

    We realized that after the whole Paris Hilton comic series, we never actually wrote Jason out of jail. I wonder how he’s doing… dress to kill

  • And the Spoilers Begin.

    Wow. Not sure where the info came from – but Xbox360Achievements.org has posted a full list of 49 achievements for Halo 3. Peripheral information that can be gleaned from the list is enormous (including level names, gameplay hints, and more). Do not lo…

  • Videotaping your man blogs

    Major League Gaming has expanded into Canada! MLGCanada.com opened today – you can check the press release at MLGPro.com, GameBattles or Marketwire, or a story on CTV’s Canada AM – or just check out the new site. There’s tons of new content already – …

  • College student gets hundreds of cell phone calls due to HALO 3 viral marketing campaign

    The first causality in the newly named "Iris" marketing campaign for Microsoft’s HALO 3 is a college student from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michael VanderZand, a marketing and advertising major at Grand Rapids Community College, has recei…

  • ARG now named ‘Iris’. We wait. Update 4.

    Microsoft announced that the HALO 3 marketing event is to be called “Iris”. In mythology, Iris is the “messenger of the gods”. In the HALO3.com/comic/, we learn that “the gods” built a machine in Africa. We also know that the file name for Adjutant R…

  • Ace Combat 6: Bringing Back the Flight Simulator?

    I haven’t played a flight simulator in years, but I used to love them. Back in the days when a PC didn’t have to be good to run games I destroyed many a SAM site, enemy radar, and plenty of MIGs. I know virtually nothing about Ace Combat 6, but if i…