My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • HBO’s Zune Contest Winners Announced!

    Halo.Bungie.Org’s Zune giveaway has found four winners. Now their entries are up for your perusal.

  • Gamers, Geeks, and Google . Episode #1.

    It is interesting how internet users find our website. Most all of our traffic comes from Google searches. How people end up here is sometimes quite funny. I am afraid that my leet search engine optimization skills have owned your internets. Allow me …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • Hello, Iris? Are you still there?

    Over the weekend, I thought maybe I was just too busy to keep up and would come back to a whole new wealth of info on Iris, but after some checking… has nothing really happened in the last five days? Did I miss something? After all the excitement of …

  • HBO Zune Giveaway: Results

    Took us a little while to reach everyone, and get all our ducks in a row… but the results for the HBO Zune Giveaway are now online! On top of the 4 Zunes we promised when this whole thing started out, we’ve convinced Bungie to provide some extra pri…

  • More info (and pics) about Master Replicas guns

    A week ago, we mentioned the new stuff coming from Master Replicas – a pair of weapon replicas – but at the time, the only info about these could be found on store sites. Last night, ODSTAdrianFii noticed that some info – and a pair of photos – are no…

  • RvB in Wired

    Wired has posted an article commemorating the 100th episode of Red vs Blue (due to be released tomorrow evening), and looking back over what RvB has stood for (and inspired in others) over the past 4 years. Good read. Thanks, MC_Leprechaun.(Louis Wu 1…

  • Frag Fest T

    Tango pointed out a new Halo t-shirt (also available in 2XL ) available at Hot Topic – sort of elaborate, but interesting.(Louis Wu 11:23:23 UTC)

  • Labor Intensive

    Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #50 – the strip contains things you never knew about the Covenant, and the page contains info about his next project. Go look!(Louis Wu 11:15:00 UTC)

  • Cross The Party Line

    Portions of the Hail to the Chimp website to promote Wideload’s upcoming party game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that were previously “coming soon” have just opened. “Meet the Candidates” takes a look at five of the characters, “The Campaign Trail”…

  • RT: Hocus Pocus to the third

    Episode 3 of 1-800-Magic is now visible in the video archive. This episode is kind of like that trick where a magician cuts a girl in half, only more violent. Enjoy! You do not have the most current version of Flash Player installed. …

  • JAPAN’S MOST POPULAR FILM COMES TO DVD!

    The Ghost in the Shell series reaches feature status in this full-length film, recently Japan’s No. 1 theatrical and home video title. On July 3rd, Manga Entertainment and Bandai Entertainment release the animated GHOST IN THE SHELL: Stand Alone Com…

  • Zune Giveaway Update

    We promised that the Zune Giveaway results would be posted by this evening – but we’re having trouble reaching some of the winners, to get higher-resolution versions of their entries for display on the Results page. As soon as they come in, we’ll post…

  • Mario vs. Spartan

    trigger119 sent word of Mario vs. Spartan, a short machinima with a very well-done battle scene between Mario and a Halo 2 Spartan. It’s only a few megs – go grab it! (If you’re curious about the new TLD for GamingTV, read this post.)(Louis Wu 21:50:0…

  • Whippersnappers

    Heh – a reporter for the Edmonton Sun challenged Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor to a 1v1 match on Lockout. Here’s his side of the story – and here’s MLG’s take. Funny stuff. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:40:22 UTC)

  • Playing with Numbers

    rapture was messing around with Google’s new Hot Trends feature, which replaced Zeitgeist. (Check out the top searches for the week ending May 18, 2007…) Hot Trends lets you compare search terms, with lots of interactive features to play with. For e…

  • Flugtag Halo Entry, On Film

    eddie m noticed that Red Bull USA posted a video of the Halo Ghost Bike entry to the Flugtag competition this weekend in Nashville… watch the guys ham it up for the camera before their attempt… and then watch the attempt itself. I give ’em straigh…

  • 2v2 Slayer Tourney in NYC

    Nitro288 noticed that the NYCLAN website is advertising a 2v2 Slayer tournament with a $1000 purse, to be held in NYC on July 15. If you’re in the area, give it a shot!(Louis Wu 20:37:14 UTC)

  • Outpost Backwash: Before the Beginning

    Bzerker wrote to let us know that Treeskunk Productions has released Outpost: Backwash Episode 0: Before the Beginning – it’s available in multiple formats, ranging from 21 to 74 mb. It sets up the mission the Elites have before them… and the intera…