My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Upcoming Videogames Live Album To Feature Halo Music

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    narcogen

    Videogames Live has announced that EMI Classics will be publishing an album of the concert series’ greatest hits, available this coming October 15. Music from Halo will be featured. Check the press release for all the details. Thanks again, Wu, this time in #hbo.

  • VGL Announces Greatest Hits Volume One

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    Interesting. Video Games Live has announced that they’ll be releasing an album in October. (Are they still called ‘albums’?) It will include medleys from all the games they play live in concert – including Halo. Music is performed by the Slovak National Orchestra, the Crouch End Chorus, and Martin Leung, the ‘Video Game Pianist’. Release…

  • Candland: Bungie Is Not A One-Trick Pony

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    narcogen

    Video Gaming Refugees Blog Confessionals has a two part interview with Bungie’s interface guru, Dave “Evil Otto” Candland. It covers a wide range of topics, but perhaps of most interest to fans now that Halo 3 is almost in our hands is– what will Bungie do next? Evil Otto: Well, who knows? I’d love to…

  • Evil Otto Smiles on VGR

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    Over at Video Gaming Refugees, Yaters has posted an interview with Dave “Evil Otto” Candland, Bungie’s Interface Designer. It’s in two parts (Part One | Part Two) due to the characters-per-post limit on their forum. It’s a pretty interesting read – fascinating tidbits about design issues that did (and didn’t) work out, ways that Bungie…

  • Believe.

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    Spu7n1k went to another “Believers” event in Singapore – his sister took a bunch of pics. The Rocket Launcher was pretty big… but the Spartan Laser was Lilliputian. I guess you can’t win ’em all! (Nice UNSCDF shirt!)(Louis Wu 13:00:18 UTC)

  • Armor permutations at 1Up

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    Another new 1Up article – this one on armor permutations. Thanks, Gravemind.(Louis Wu 12:39:34 UTC)

  • Windows Live Free Stuff

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    Bunch of goodies available from Windows Live – swing by the page to see. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 12:31:28 UTC)

  • IGN Walks You Through Marathon: Durandal

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    narcogen

    Ma1agate tipped us off that IGN has started offering a walkthrough for Marathon: Durandal. It’s got a section on basics to familiarize players of more modern games with the Marathon series and its unique quirks (no jumping, no reloading) as well as a section on gameplay tips and a level-by-level walkthrough.

  • Silent Cartographer 3:29 – Legendary Co-op

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    goatrope

    goatrope and devin use their versatile bag of tricks to shave off even more time from their Silent Cartographer run.

  • Revenge

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    Bzerker let us know yesterday about Revenge, a new video from Treeskunk and Team Conquest. As the title might suggest, it’s the story of… well, revenge. Lots of fun action. 12 minutes long, roughly 100 mb, depending on version – you can download it from GamingTV. Go watch! (There’s also a ridiculously large version hosted…

  • Honk if you love Cortana

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    Awesome. Skull Leadr works at a retail design firm in the Detroit area – he decided to show his love for Halo 3 by putting together some graphics for the back window of his jeep. NICE! If you live near Detroit, keep an eye out for his rig!(Louis Wu 10:55:19 UTC)

  • Halo ActionClix – in the News

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    Gamespy has a feature called ‘Videogames Unplugged’ – it looks at card, board, and tabletop games that are related to videogames. There are a couple of new stories about Halo ActionClix – a Hands-on and an interview with WizKids. Check ’em out! Thanks, Black Six. (There’s also a new press release for Halo ActionClix over…

  • Not a bad percentage of the total

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    Stingraid noticed a list at Guns Lot – The Fifteen Most Influential First Person Shooter Video Games. The comments would suggest that there are lots of fans that disagree with some of the choices – but hey, Halo’s there. And so’s Marathon… and Pathways, even!(Louis Wu 10:46:54 UTC)

  • Pontiac giving away Halo 3, chances to play

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    Noticed this on Digg – Pontiac is running a Halo 3 promo with a bunch of options – visit the page, fill out your info, play the mini-games, and you might get a chance to play Halo 3 on September 13! (Hurry; the play events will have 2500 tickets distributed, but only 200 will be…

  • CJ Cowan to speak in Montreal

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    Anton P. Nym noticed that CJ Cowan will be speaking at //ADAPT 2007 in Montreal on September 27. It’s not an inexpensive conference – with an earlybird discount, prices are still up around $400 for the Masters programs – but if you were headed there anyway, CJ’s discussion of Halo 3 is a really nice…

  • Banshee Flies Over Sandtrap

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    narcogen

    Those “hidden” screenshots on Xbox.com? Turns out there were three of them. Gamersyde put up all three; here’s the one that wasn’t obvious to find, a multiplayer shot, seemingly from Sandtrap. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

  • Set Your Spoiler Preference Settings

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    narcogen

    The second part of the new spoiler system is now in place; user account level front page preferences. Click the My account link near the top of your account box in the lower left-hand column. You should see a tab called “roles”. Here you’ll see a list of all the spoiler settings, just like on…

  • Episode 126: Video Overload

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes This week we talk all about the many videos recently revealed on YouTube and such which reveal lots of details about Halo 3 and Halo Wars. Joining JVB and I this week are Quality Jeverage and Crimson Viper. Show’s about 51:30. Enjoy!

  • Marathon: Durandal Gets An Update

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    narcogen

    Freeverse’s XBLA port of Bungie’s FPS classic Marathon 2: Durandal recently got an auto-update; you may have noticed the last time you played the game. Freeverse’s web page has a news post up about the update. The highlights are: Survival mode in demo More sensitivity controls FOV setting (for people with motion sickness problems) For…

  • Cowan To Present On Halo 3’s Cinematic Tools

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    narcogen

    According to GameDaily Biz, Bungie Studios’ own Director of Cinematics, CJ Cowan, will be giving a special feature presentation at ADAPT 2007 in Montreal. The presentation will be on Halo 3, focusing on the in-house use of Maya along with Bungie’s proprietary cinematic tools. Cowan’s presentation will be on September 27th; the conference runs from…