My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Arms Race

    Wow – spending so much time with the Halo 3 trailer, I’ve neglected to post a note about the Arms Race short. It’s linked at the bottom of the Bungie.net Media Blowout page , and it’s available (for now) only in WMP9 formats. It’s the first Halo-relate…

  • Torrents for QTs up

    Apparently, a lot of you out there have never read Amaroq’s rant about download accelerators – because a small handful of people are KILLING 300Mbit/sec’s worth of bandwidth by using them. No, we’re nowhere near maxed out on the servers – but when 3 I…

  • Microsoft Press Conference

    Wow, many many MANY great games were shown to any body actually watching G4! But when i watched it the end Halo 3 trailer was cut off by that damned Adam Sessler. But for those that aren’t quite Halo fans (shame) there was quite a few other games shown…

  • Screenshotty Goodness

    If the movies weren’t enough for you… check out the Screenshots gallery at Bungie.net. There are 8 gorgeous new shots for downloading… I’m drooling.(Louis Wu 05:20:33 UTC)

  • Green Xbox 360 To Launch With Halo 3

    The mysterious “fourth console” that was on stage at the Microsoft press event and then surreptituously removed before it began was the rumored additional Xbox 360 SKU– it’s a special edition of the 360 for Halo 3, with a green and orange color sche…

  • Halo 3 Campaign Trailer Shown At E3 Lite

    According to Bungie.net and HBO, Bungie is showing a two-minute video of Halo 3’s campaign at E3 right now. Bungie.net has three sizes of WMV variants, and HBO as usual has (or rather will have) WMV and QT versions. NOTE: The link to the download pag…

  • E3 2007 Halo 3 Trailer

    As expected, Bungie is making a splash at E3 2007 – one of the videos they’re releasing will give you a fantastic two-minute taste of Halo 3 campaign… without really giving anything away about the story. (If you’re adamant about NO spoilers, do NOT d…

  • Halo 3 Campaign Media: Bam

    The drought of campaign related media is eased. Click and sup from the cup of Halo 3 media.

  • Marathon 2: Durandal Confirmed For XBLA?

    Kotaku is liveblogging the Microsoft press event at E3 Lite, and Brian Crecente has Marathon on his list of XBLA titles being mentioned. Stay tuned while we confirm. Rumors of such a port have been floating around for some time, and recently a German…

  • RT: By The Power Of Greystoke

    Wrong cartoon? Whatever. Gus saw Transformers. Idiocy abounds.

  • Nascar ’08 Releases This Month for 360

    I’m a Nascar fan, but if your like a lot of people, you probably wonder why in the world anyone would like a racing event where the drivers do nothing but drive in circles for hours at a time. Much less, why would you want to play a video game where a…

  • The Darkness: $45 shipped @ Amazon

    Link This recent release from 2k Games is getting good reviews (~8.5/10) and being praised for having a great story-line, albeit a little linear. Gamespot thinks that multiplayer feels a little tacked on, but said the game looks great and delivers an…

  • Good Things Coming

    As you may or may not have known, E3 kicks off this evening, with a gigantic press conference from Microsoft happening at 8:30 Pacific time (that’s 4:30 am for you folks in the UK). It’ll be streamed live on Xbox.com, as well as via G4TV (both on TV an…

  • Just a Reminder: E3 Begins Tonight!

    You didn’t forget, did you? The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) begins tonight and Microsoft’s press conference will kick things off. Details inside.

  • GT’s Top Ten E3 Offerings

    Gametrailers.com has put up a GT Countdown – a video detailing their picks for the Top Ten Most Anticipated Games of E3 2007, which kicks off this evening. Halo 3 comes in at number 7 – because, according to GT, there’s “a feeling of sameness surround…

  • Wait – what’s wrong with a used handgun?

    Tied the Leader, absent these past three weeks, is back with a new update – a couple of new articles for your reading pleasure. ‘Geekery Unyielding’ discusses XerxdeeJ’s MASSIVE role in the recent ‘Halo Unyielding’ machinima (what the heck does ‘beari…

  • September EGM to give details on Halo 3 single-player

    I just got my new August issue of EGM and found this on the back page about the upcoming issue. YOUR FIRST LOOK AT HALO 3’S SINGLE-PLAYER STORY The Flood lay waste to a futuristic Pittsburgh! The Covenant die from chicken pox! And Master Chief faces h…

  • September EGM to give details on Halo 3 single-player

    I just got my new August issue of EGM and found this on the back page about the upcoming issue. YOUR FIRST LOOK AT HALO 3’S SINGLE-PLAYER STORY The Flood lay waste to a futuristic Pittsburgh! The Covenant die from chicken pox! And Master Chief faces h…

  • September EGM to give details on Halo 3 single-player

    I just got my new August issue of EGM and found this on the back page about the upcoming issue. YOUR FIRST LOOK AT HALO 3’S SINGLE-PLAYER STORY The Flood lay waste to a futuristic Pittsburgh! The Covenant die from chicken pox! And Master Chief faces h…

  • Leather Stuff – now viewable

    eddie m noticed that Enmon Accessories, a company that makes leather products (we mentioned them in May) has put up an info page with pictures of the Halo 3 products they’ll be making – shots of wallets, bags, patches, and the like. Some of it looks g…