My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: July 2007

  • Iris ARG hits Craigslist, Yahoo Classifieds, other sites. Update 10.

    It looks like Microsoft has moved the HALO 3 viral marketing campaign to online auction sites.  Is this the next move by Microsoft?  A listing by “Flood Containment Control” is selling its used survey tools on various websites across t…

  • RT: Bungie Day

    As some of you may know already, today is the internationally recognized holiday, Bungie Day. They’ve put up some free content on Marketplace to celebrate, but hurry up and grab it, because it’s gone tomorrow.

  • Bungie Day 7/7/7. Free XBLM content today only.

    Today is 7/7/7.  Bungie is offering new Gamerpics and a Dashboard theme for free today only.  Bungie is also releasing some new media via their website.  Go there and look for a slick new HALO 3 wallpaper and some 3D screenshots. _______…

  • Bungie Day Goodies

    In celebration of Bungie Day, Bungie has released a whole bunch of fun stuff for you to play with; some of it is available through this article on Bungie.net, and some of it is available only through Xbox Live Marketplace. The article contains links t…

  • Halo: Uprising details (and cover art)

    We had a release date for Halo: Uprising #3 (the third of four installments from Marvel comics this summer) – but no cover art, until now. IGN Comics has put up a sneak peek of the first three comics, including nicely-sized cover art of all three epis…

  • Se7en Se7en Oh Se7en

    Stuntmutt has updated his blog with a whole bunch of content – a special 7/7/07 strip from him, plus several guest strips mailed in by fans. Check it out! He comes back for real on Monday.(Louis Wu 12:33:42 UTC)

  • Bad Blood

    Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #54, in which an entirely new type of fighting begins.(Louis Wu 12:32:25 UTC)

  • The Lone Spartan

    Sean Mortensen has submitted ‘The Lone Spartan’, a 2:13 long, 2.4 mb MP3 of a piece of music he wrote to commemorate a specific moment in the novel ‘Ghosts of Onyx’. It takes place in Chapter 8, and involves three young Spartan-IIIs. If you haven’t re…

  • X-Play Explores Halo 3 Beta

    G4TV has a video wrapup of the Halo 3 Beta – it seems like it would have been more appropriate a week or so INTO the beta, but hey – you post what you got when you got it.(Louis Wu 12:00:25 UTC)

  • Fallout Preview

    Turtle Mann stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for Fallout, an upcoming action series. Cinematography is intriguing – this one looks to be good! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:22:49 UTC)

  • Things You Might Not Know

    This past week, we’ve mentioned a series of video interviews that Gamepro held with Bungie employees during their recent trip to Kirkland – there’s now a short text article that pulls out ten interesting nuggets from those interviews (most of which ne…

  • CamoTourneys

    Shayne pointed out that CamoTourneys hosts online Halo 2 tournaments with cash prizes. They’ve got a free-to-enter 1v1 today, with a $10 prize.(Louis Wu 11:12:42 UTC)

  • 7/7/07: Love, Bungie

    It’s here: Bungie Day a time when the calendar unlocks treats, magical and sweet for you to mess with.

  • I want that checkbook.

    Monster Bungie Weekly Update this week – though very little of it is about Halo 3. Tidbits about tomorrow (Bungie Day), mockery for the folks who thought yesterday’s screenshot was fake, VERY cool info about the upcoming toys from McFarlane, an awesom…

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 07/06/07

    On the eve of Bungie day (7/7/07), there’s no lack of treats, nuggets and joy to spread in this week’s Update.

  • Bungie Day Extravaganza

    Bungie is celebrating Bungie Day (7/7/07) in style – there’s going to be new content on their website, but more importantly (and more time-sensitive), there’ll be content on Xbox Live Marketplace that will only be available tomorrow. Get it between 12…

  • Bungie Day Extravaganza

    “Bungie Day” is nearly upon us and to celebrate we have a few cool things in the works for our loyal fans. One of them is time sensitive so we wanted to give you a heads-up so you don’t miss out. Intrigued? Read on for the scoop!

  • Setting dorks back 20 years

    Wow, disturbing. Today’s Dork Tower makes me wonder if I want to buy Halo ActionClix after all… thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 16:43:18 UTC)

  • Halo Wars to be shown at E3

    Thunder, over at the Halo Wars forum, has posted a note that lets people know that Halo Wars will be demoed at E3 next week – and there might be some stuff that makes it out to the public from there. Good news! Thanks, CHAOS1212.(Louis Wu 16:13:36 UTC)

  • Product Placement.

    Today’s Guest One One Se7en is c0ld vengeance taking a shot at the mass marketing of the Halo brand.(Louis Wu 15:16:15 UTC)