Month: September 2007
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Halo 2 ‘Obituary’ by the2cheat.
This was just too awesome not to put on the front page. Thank you the2cheat, lol. Halo 2, who’s numerous gaming exploits were enjoyed by millions of gamers around the world, died recently. Halo 2 died late August 29th, at Bungie Studios in Kirkland, WA due to complications involving the birth if his son Halo…
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New Bungie Podcast: Campaign
There’s a new podcast available today, this time about the campaign mode.
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Bungie Podcast: Irregularly Regular
Mission Design Lead Paul Bertone finally sits down with the tribunal and talks about Halo 3’s Campaign. This one is worth the wait.
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Best Buy’s Golden Gift to Halo Players
Click through to find out why Best Buy might be your new Best Friend on September 25th, 2007.
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HALO LAUNCH WEEK
Halo 3 Launch Week Published September 11, 2007 We’ve got dozens of events, promotions, and contests scheduled around the release of Halo® 3, the most eagerly anticipated game of all time. We’ll have more information on these events as we get closer to the launch of Halo 3. Here are a few of the events…
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Halo 3 Leaked?
As discussed pretty heavily in our forum, a pair of auctions appeared yesterday on eBay in which PAL copies of Halo 3 were being sold. It’s unclear whether these are real or not – but it looks like they might be. The first auction is already offline; the second, as of the time of this…
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Halo 3 Plates
Heh – if you live in Victoria, Australia, check out this auction – put Halo 3 plates on your car! Current bid is AU$3000, with a day left. Thanks, Boxer.(Louis Wu 09:52:46 UTC)
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Zola: Trinity
Z let us know about Zola: Trinity, a new montage that’s getting great reviews at Halo3Forum. 225 mb, almost 12 minutes long, WMP9 format. Go watch!(Louis Wu 09:51:05 UTC)
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More on the Wax Chief
Avateur found a page on Xbox.com with pics of the Madame Tussaud’s Wax Master Chief, and a bunch of info. Nice!(Louis Wu 09:47:54 UTC)
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Mjolnir Armor on eBay
Adam Grumbo let us know that (a little) against his will, he’s selling his personal Master Chief suit on eBay… check out the pics! (You get an assault rifle with the package, even.) Current bid is just under $1k, bidding’s open for almost 10 days.(Louis Wu 09:27:53 UTC)
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Halo ads to Hit the web this week
Yahoo Games is reporting that they’ve got two exclusive videos to release this week – the ‘Museum’ video mentioned in Brandweek’s release yesterday, and the ‘Believe’ TV ad which went live this week. Keep an eye on the site for these! Looks like Samusaaron3 was first with the news.(Louis Wu 09:15:36 UTC)
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Relic – for Starcraft
halosavior stopped by to point out a map he created using the Starcraft Campaign Editor – it’s based on Relic. (If you’re curious about how close the matchup is, remember that Bungie’s overhead view of Relic is here.)(Louis Wu 09:06:48 UTC)
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Bungie podcast
For those who dont already I would recommend checking out the bungie podcasts.The lastest one for example was about the ‘Forge’ map editor…
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Halo Film Script By Garland Resurfaces
1Up is running a story to the effect that the alleged Halo film script by Alex Garland, famously referred to at Latino Review, and that I also wrote a few pieces on back in 2005, has been “recovered”. As if it had been lost. 1Up’s just running a few pages of it at a time,…
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Yahoo To Debut Exclusive Halo 3 Videos
Kotaku has the story that Yahoo will be hosting two new exclusive Halo 3 videos, Museum and Believe, this week. Both will debut at 9 PM Pacific Time; Museum on Wednesday, and Believe on Friday. Looks like live action and commercial footage, rather than in-engine cutscene or gameplay.
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Retail Halo 3 For Sale On Ebay?
MasterChief2829 pointed out a link to an eBay auction that claims to have the full retail Halo 3 package, including an unboxed shot. It appears to be a PAL version of the game from Australia.
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An old script surfaces
1Up.com has a story in which a regular on their site stumbled across a torrent containing a copy of Alex Garland’s original Halo movie script from 2005. For what it’s worth… the pages exerpted in the story match the copy I have, as well. (I didn’t get it from 1Up, I came by it back…
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Halo 3 is gold
Halo 3 went gold on August 30 2007, so we are definitely good for a September 26th launch in the UK.
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New Halo 3 Screenshots
The Final Fight was poking around the Indian Halo 3 site (it may or may not be the official Microsoft site, but it seems to be), and they found four spankin’ new Halo 3 screenshots. Purty! (You gotta check out the Characters page, as well – I’ve seen insane-looking Cortanas before, but never quite like…