Year: 2007

GameDaily has posted an article entitled ‘Five Reasons Game Trilogies Suck’. Halo is one of their prime sources of examples.(Louis Wu 15:21:22 UTC)

trigger119 let us know that he’s put up an article discussing the new Game Content Usage Rules Microsoft posted recently. It’s pretty pessimistic; it looks at how these rules will affect current Halo moviemakers, and what you can no longer do without r…

Ah, bummer. Xbox 360 Fanboy discovered a fantastic deal for Canadians; the Canadian Dell Store was offering (yesterday only) a bundle that included an Xbox 360 Elite (MSRP is CA$499) and a copy of Halo 3 (MSRP CA$70) for a bundled price of CA$459 – thi…

Xbox360Achievements has discovered the existence of a second Halo 3 Achievement list on Xbox.com; these are all listed as ‘Secret’, and there is no real information about the individual achievements… but one thing that jumped out at me was that if y…

George was the first to let us know about a new article at Bungie.net which takes a close look at four updated human weapons in Halo 3 – the pistol, the frag grenade, the SMG, and the shotgun. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 15:00:14 UTC)

Bungie revealed a new multiplayer map yesterday, to IGN Australia; it’s called ‘Narrows’, and you can see seven new screenshots of it at their site. There’s also a new campaign shot, of a level played by press in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and an…

Yesterday was insanely busy; I missed a lot of Halo news because of it. Thank goodness for Google News. (I’m sure much of what will follow today was also posted on our forum – but I haven’t had time to read that yet.) First up, Bungie in Australia. Th…

Heh – if the image on this page at the Xbox Domain makes its writers think that this is the epitome of ‘Halo Nerdism’… well, they haven’t looked too deeply into our site. That said… it’s a nice pic.(Louis Wu 20:06:29 UTC)

Stuntmutt shows how Bungie could be tying in to external merchandise even when they’re not, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 14:38:09 UTC)

Dan Chosich dropped in to point out his latest creation – a video reel showing off a bunch of work he’s done in the past two years. A significant portion of it is Halo-related (mostly MLG promo stuff) – all of it is gorgeous. He’s got it available at …

Avateur pointed out a new episode of the ‘Perceiving the Dimensions of IRIS’ series of videos that summarize the happenings in the IRIS arg. Swing by Mythica to download this. (Episodes 1 and 2 can be found here and here.)(Louis Wu 13:40:38 UTC)

Laird noticed that over at Xbox.com, Microsoft has posted their Game Content Usage Rules, spelling out what their game content can, and cannot, be used for. For the most part, it’s great news; there’s now an official policy in place stating what you n…

Anton P. Nym found some interesting information about a potential voice actor for Halo 3 – this page contains info about Jonathan Ross agreeing to voice one “of the most evil aliens in the new game” for free (due to an exclusive contract he has with th…

Monster 2 of 2 let us know that the Achievement list for Halo 3 has been updated again – in his words, “the 3 campaign completion achievements (10-12), the rank achievements (22-24), and the kill achievements (27, 28, 31) now sport new graphics.” You …

The third Red vs Blue Retail Exclusive Video is now online at Gamestop – episode 3 looks at the equipment options in Halo 3. Simmons, as usual, faces a difficult situation. Thanks, macegac.(Louis Wu 20:30:04 UTC)