My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Zune Contest – Machinima Voting Opens

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    A number of you have already noticed that the Machinima finalists are now up for public voting in our Zune Giveaway – swing by, watch the movies, and pick your favorite! Voting is open until Monday morning.(Louis Wu 13:58:25 UTC)

  • Scoring free copies of GTA4

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    FiringSquad was at the Halo 3 Beta Press Event in New York in May – and they’ve gotten around to posting the interview they did with Frank O’Connor while they were there. Nothing earthshattering – but it’s a nice read. Thanks, Mariachi.(Louis Wu 13:54…

  • Illusions are teh bomb

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    BOLL is known for his sanity-bending Flash creations – but this time, the creation is just an image, no Flash in sight… and we need to seriously warn people prone to epileptic seizure not to follow the link. For the rest of you, the image is pretty …

  • Brothers of War: Episode 10 Trailer

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    Time Glitch stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for ‘Brothers of War: Episode 10’. Nice voiceover, nice camera shots. Looking forward to the film!(Louis Wu 13:28:18 UTC)

  • Harenil Betatage 2

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    Harenil released his second Halo 3 montage – nice kills, nice cuts, a fun watch. It’s pretty large; 177 mb for a 7 minute flick. Great quality, though.(Louis Wu 13:24:23 UTC)

  • Humpday Challenge: Steaktacular

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    Bungie played another Humpday Challenge this week; this one was for something REAL – steak dinners. (This was mentioned in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update – Frankie and Joe Staten had to go 31-50 against Luke and Joe Tung in order to win free dinner…

  • Xbox Live Friends 3.0

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    Wil Gieseler let us know that version 3.0 of mindquirk software’s Xbox Live Friends, a Mac OSX program that lets you access your friends list from your Mac) has been out for a bit – lots of new features, like gamerscore charts, sortable achievements, …

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Twelve new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section this week – busy writers! Go read.(Louis Wu 12:06:45 UTC)

  • When Spartans Don’t Measure Up

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    Devin Olsen found an article on the Baddest Bottle Openers on the Planet. Many of the respondents in the thread disagreed with the inclusion of the Halo Spartan opener on that list… go read why.(Louis Wu 11:56:34 UTC)

  • The Future of Online Gaming

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    There’s an interesting read over at 1Up.com – it’s about the future of online gaming, and it has some pretty cool concepts discussed in it. Halo 3’s Lead Designer Jaime Griesemer was one of the developers interviewed for it – and Halo gets mentioned a…

  • The Man Behind the Iris ARG Curtain?

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    Do you know this man? If you hang with us, you should. His name is Jordan Weisman, founder of the company 42 Entertainment, ARG and storytelling extraordinaires, and he’s most likely the mastermind behind the current “Iris” ARG we’re currently losing …

  • Hail To The Chimp Coming To Xbox 360, PS3

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    The first trailer for Hail to the Chimp, Wideload’s upcoming political party beat-’em-up, is available now at 1Up, and it shows actual gameplay, including the creation of a temporary player alliance. 1Up has also done a preview. The basics? Up to fou…

  • “Video Game Addiction”

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    JVB

    Welcome back for our second roundtable episode. This weeks topic was about “Video Game Addiction”, which was inspired by a recent article about how the American Medical Association is investigating whether or not to include videogame addiction as a me…

  • “Video Game Addiction”

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    JVB

    Welcome back for our second roundtable episode. This weeks topic was about “Video Game Addiction”, which was inspired by a recent article about how the American Medical Association is investigating whether or not to include videogame addiction as a me…

  • “Video Game Addiction”

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    JVB

    Welcome back for our second roundtable episode. This weeks topic was about “Video Game Addiction”, which was inspired by a recent article about how the American Medical Association is investigating whether or not to include videogame addiction as a me…

  • THX on G4’s Attack of the Show

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    The Hushed Casket was featured on Attack of the Show on the G4 cable network on Wednesday the 20th. J-DOGG passed along these pictures today. Thanks for capturing these, J. I think we may have also been on there last week when we lead with the HALO…

  • Humpday Challenge: Steaktacular

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    With pounds and pounds of meat on the line, battle is waged, grudges are settled, and bets are ended.

  • Band Of Bugs.

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    JVB

    The code is: M3MF3-72HJJ-69VW7-MHVJD-VRR6W This code only works once. GOOD LUCK..:-)

  • Slick Halo Signatures

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    Venom at SimpleGFX.net wrote up a tutorial for creating cool-looking signatures you can use on Halo forums around the net. Thanks to The Photoshop Roadmap for pointing this out.(Louis Wu 20:11:17 UTC)

  • Working on Efficiency

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    Overswarm has written a new article entitled ‘Working on Efficiency’ – playing to stay alive, rather than playing to get kills. There’s a nice example of how this works in a common stalemate situation on Lockout. Good read!(Louis Wu 20:06:15 UTC)