My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: July 2007

  • Montage Stuff from GTV

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    trigger119 pointed out a pair of montage vids hosted at GamingTV – the Eurotage, a Halo 3 Beta montage (that was first pointed out to me by synide, of MLGPro.com, actually), and a trailer for SiR Tyner’s Montage 2. (Louis Wu 19:42:48 UTC)

  • SBG Invitational FFA

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    Some non-E3 news in the queue – should clear this out too. Deadly Warrior let us know of an online Halo 2 tournament being put together by SBG Omega – swing by their forums for more details.(Louis Wu 19:39:52 UTC)

  • Valhalla Shirt

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    x1zero noticed a new Valhalla shirt at the Bungie Store. (Louis Wu 19:27:48 UTC)

  • Halo Wars Details

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    If you’re interested in Halo Wars, especially past the short (and abruptly-ended) trailer, you might want to read the articles at 1Up.com and the San Jose Mercury News – there are nice written descriptions of gameplay and the like. There’s also new i…

  • Halo: Arms Race, Now Available in Quicktime

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Last night, director Neill Blomkamp’s collboration with Bungie Studios, WETA and Origami LLC debuted “Halo: Arms race” today, we’ve uploaded the file in Quicktime. Details inside.

  • Halo 3 Themed Xbox 360

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    One story we didn’t get to yet involves the release of a Halo 3-themed Xbox 360. You can see pictures of it at Bungie.net right now, and there’ll be a full article about it later today, but the basics are a small (20GB) drive, gorgeous Halo 3 styling,…

  • Video Analysis from Joystiq

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    Joystiq has put up a frame-by-frame analysis of the new trailer – I disagree with a ton of the commentary, but everyone’s allowed their opinion.(Louis Wu 14:05:12 UTC)

  • TXB watches some Campaign

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    TeamXbox got to watch a chunk of the first level of the game being played last night, after the Press Conference – and they’ve written up the experience. It IS only the first level – but story spoilers abound; skip this one if you want to experience i…

  • Disney Movies Available in HD on XBL

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    Midnight

    Disney movies are now available for download (err…rental really) in high definition via Xbox Live. Why is this significant? Disney supports the Blu-Ray format and not HD-DVD. Apparently that didn’t stop Microsoft from securing the rights to distri…

  • The Microsoft hypE3 cometh. “Greatest holiday lineup in video game history.” Summary of last night.

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    rapture

    A ton of news smacked us in the face last night as Microsoft held their E3 presentation.  They are hyping this holiday season as the “greatest holiday lineup in video game history.”  It’s hard to quantify “greatest” so I’m sure they’ll achiev…

  • Halo developments from E3 2007

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    CapnKrunk

    At last night’s E3 press conference, Microsoft and Bungie unveiled some new goodies for Halo fans: A new Halo 3 trailer focused on campaign and including new gameplay footage A short film from would-be Halo movie director Neill Blamkomp and WETA cal…

  • Halo developments from E3 2007

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    CapnKrunk

    At last night’s E3 press conference, Microsoft and Bungie unveiled some new goodies for Halo fans: A new Halo 3 trailer focused on campaign and including new gameplay footage A short film from would-be Halo movie director Neill Blamkomp and WETA cal…

  • Halo developments from E3 2007

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    CapnKrunk

    At last night’s E3 press conference, Microsoft and Bungie unveiled some new goodies for Halo fans: A new Halo 3 trailer focused on campaign and including new gameplay footage A short film from would-be Halo movie director Neill Blamkomp and WETA cal…

  • E3 2007 Trailers Available on XBL

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    Midnight

    A ton of game trailers that we’ve been waiting for from E3 2007 are now available for download on Xbox Live, according to Major Nelson. No, Halo 3 and Halo Wars aren’t on the list. Mass Effect (HD) Too Human (HD) Viva Pinata Party Animals (HD) Lost Od…

  • Halo Wars snippet

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    Over at GameVideos.com, there’s short (31 second) trailer for Halo Wars; it seems to end rather abruptly, so it might be that there’s some of it missing, but it’s intriguing nonetheless. If you want to see how this RTS is coming along, grab this!(Loui…

  • Arms Race

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    Wow – spending so much time with the Halo 3 trailer, I’ve neglected to post a note about the Arms Race short. It’s linked at the bottom of the Bungie.net Media Blowout page , and it’s available (for now) only in WMP9 formats. It’s the first Halo-relate…

  • Torrents for QTs up

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    Apparently, a lot of you out there have never read Amaroq’s rant about download accelerators – because a small handful of people are KILLING 300Mbit/sec’s worth of bandwidth by using them. No, we’re nowhere near maxed out on the servers – but when 3 I…

  • Microsoft Press Conference

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    Action Tom

    Wow, many many MANY great games were shown to any body actually watching G4! But when i watched it the end Halo 3 trailer was cut off by that damned Adam Sessler. But for those that aren’t quite Halo fans (shame) there was quite a few other games shown…

  • Screenshotty Goodness

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    If the movies weren’t enough for you… check out the Screenshots gallery at Bungie.net. There are 8 gorgeous new shots for downloading… I’m drooling.(Louis Wu 05:20:33 UTC)

  • Green Xbox 360 To Launch With Halo 3

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    narcogen

    The mysterious “fourth console” that was on stage at the Microsoft press event and then surreptituously removed before it began was the rumored additional Xbox 360 SKU– it’s a special edition of the 360 for Halo 3, with a green and orange color sche…