My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • UTC – now easier to read

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    Kudos to Nick, who suggested a small change in our news post layout; we’re still posting news with UTC timestamps, but the link now goes to a page that should make it easy to see what that time is in your local zone. Thanks, Nick!(Louis Wu 11:34:53 UTC)

  • Replay It Again, Sam: What Makes Games Re-Playable?

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    narcogen

    It’s hard to escape the concept of repetition in entertainment, especially in gaming. While the word “repetetive” itself is often used as a criticism (hello Halo 1’s interiors) games are designed to be played repeatedly, and incorporate repetetive elements into their designs. It’s understandable. As an object lesson in entertainment economics, look at the DVD…

  • Happy Birthday Hushed Casket

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    Combination Halo fansite and gaming group The Hushed Casket is celebrating its fifth anniversary; head on over and check out Midnight’s recap of the past year, as well as their more exhaustive site history.

  • Peter Marks needs our Support

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Peter Marks has been a part of the Bungie community, both inside and out, for more than ten years. Click for full story.

  • PALGN: Marathon Among ‘Best Values’ on XBLA

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    narcogen

    Australia’s PALGN has posted a review of Freeverse’s XBLA port of Marathon: Durandal. Their verdict: Marathon: Durandal is one of the best value games on the XBLA. You could spend more time playing through this than Halo, and at a fraction of the cost. There are aspects of the game that are archaic and it’s…

  • Bungie Studios Podcast: Forgetacular

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    The Bungie Podcast returns with Multiplayer Designers Lars Bakken and Tyson Green discussing Halo 3’s Forge.

  • Gamertag Radio gets temporarily shut down and ransomed by greedy web host

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    foomojive

    Godfree at Gamertag Radio just informed us that Gamertag Radio has been shut down without warning by his hosting company and held at ransom to bring it live again. Here’s the email they sent him: Your site gamertagradio.com was suspended because it consumed an excessive amount of resources. One of our techs was doing a…

  • Hypomatic

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    Tied the Leader this week contains content from community members – a substantial writeup of PAX (from lots of people), and a review of the IMAX event last week, from TTL L Askan. Thanks, as always, to XerxdeeJ, for keeping us from digging for this stuff.(Louis Wu 18:59:32 UTC)

  • Baggy McBaggington

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    Did you like that messenger bag that Laird posted a pic of this morning? How about that sling bag over at Gamestop, as noticed by X1Zero? Well, okay, fine – then what about THIS messenger bag, picked up by Boxer? All of these are alternatives to the huge number of bags being marketed by Enmon,…

  • Grunt Plushie Templates – Complete!

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    A couple of weeks ago, Horus stopped by with news that he’d posted some of the templates needed to sew his Grunt Plushie – Brandon dropped into our forum today to point out that the other half of those templates have now been posted. Go grab the Head and Armor Front pages – and you…

  • Hush yo’ casket!

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    rapture was first with the news that The Hushed Casket has reached its fifth birthday – go read about it (writeup by Midnight)! Lots of pics, and news of a halo 3 LAN coming up in October. Congrats, guys!(Louis Wu 14:36:30 UTC)

  • More Revisiting Halo

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    LoneRanger 2.5 pointed out that the Retronauts blog on 1Up has been updated – Part 2 covers Silent Cartographer to the Library.(Louis Wu 14:32:31 UTC)

  • The Minibosses Rock the House

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    The Minibosses played some Halo music at PAX this weekend – folks loved it. You can watch it on YouTube – thanks, Laird.(Louis Wu 14:28:55 UTC)

  • New stuff at BeintheGame

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    chewpathingy noticed that the Halo 3 Slurpee Sweeps page has been updated – there are new wallpapers you can download, if you have UPC codes from special limited-edition Halo products, along with a list of prizes, and some other stuff – go poke around!(Louis Wu 14:25:04 UTC)

  • New Bungie Stuff from PAX

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    Laird took a few shots of the new Bungie schwag he was able to buy at PAX this weekend (this stuff should be available at the Bungie Store in the not-too-distant future). That stuff looks great!(Louis Wu 14:21:54 UTC)

  • Top of the sales charts – before release

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    There are no references for this, but if it’s true, it’s pretty interesting; Portalit lists the top ten selling games (all platforms) on the US sales charts (for this week? Dunno) – and Halo 3 – the UNRELEASED Halo 3 – is in there twice; once at 2nd place (!!) and once at 7th place…

  • All Things Considered discusses Halo 3

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    NPR’s “All Things Considered” had a piece on the Console Wars yesterday; the gist of the piece is that hardware has been driving Nintendo’s current sales lead, but with the release of Halo 3, Microsoft is betting that software will take over (and the tide will turn). Thanks, Cornballer.(Louis Wu 14:07:24 UTC)

  • HaloClix Preview

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    GamesFirst has a preview of the Halo 3 ActionClix game (along with new shots of the pieces) – go look!(Louis Wu 14:02:30 UTC)

  • McFarlane Hunter?

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    Interesting – Littlebigman noticed new listings at his favorite toy store – one of them claims that a McFarlane-created Hunter will be available in March 2008. This model is not listed on the Series 1 or Series 2 releases, as posted in July. New stuff?(Louis Wu 13:58:24 UTC)

  • Five Years of The Hushed Casket

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    Midnight

    Today marks the date five years ago that Foulbreed and I decided to call our fledgling Halo chapter on Bungie.net “The Hushed Casket” (THX). Much has transpired between then and now. THX has ballooned to encompass over 100 people playing a multitude of games. THX’ers have participated in gaming tournaments all over the United States,…