My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Farewell, Adjutant Reflex

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    CapnKrunk

    In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it. After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inabili…

  • Farewell, Adjutant Reflex

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    CapnKrunk

    In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it. After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inabili…

  • RT: Excuses, excuses

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    Rooster Teeth News

    We realized that after the whole Paris Hilton comic series, we never actually wrote Jason out of jail. I wonder how he’s doing… dress to kill

  • And the Spoilers Begin.

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Wow. Not sure where the info came from – but Xbox360Achievements.org has posted a full list of 49 achievements for Halo 3. Peripheral information that can be gleaned from the list is enormous (including level names, gameplay hints, and more). Do not lo…

  • Videotaping your man blogs

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    Major League Gaming has expanded into Canada! MLGCanada.com opened today – you can check the press release at MLGPro.com, GameBattles or Marketwire, or a story on CTV’s Canada AM – or just check out the new site. There’s tons of new content already – …

  • College student gets hundreds of cell phone calls due to HALO 3 viral marketing campaign

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    rapture

    The first causality in the newly named "Iris" marketing campaign for Microsoft’s HALO 3 is a college student from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michael VanderZand, a marketing and advertising major at Grand Rapids Community College, has recei…

  • ARG now named ‘Iris’. We wait. Update 4.

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    rapture

    Microsoft announced that the HALO 3 marketing event is to be called “Iris”. In mythology, Iris is the “messenger of the gods”. In the HALO3.com/comic/, we learn that “the gods” built a machine in Africa. We also know that the file name for Adjutant R…

  • Ace Combat 6: Bringing Back the Flight Simulator?

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    Midnight

    I haven’t played a flight simulator in years, but I used to love them. Back in the days when a PC didn’t have to be good to run games I destroyed many a SAM site, enemy radar, and plenty of MIGs. I know virtually nothing about Ace Combat 6, but if i…

  • HaloGrid CapCon (recurring)

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    HaloGrid is running a series of Caption contests – week one kicked off 5 days ago, and the top captions for the first picture are now up for public voting. Thanks, Trindacut.(Louis Wu 13:25:13 UTC)

  • vnunet finds H2V underwhelming

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    vnunet.com has reviewed Halo 2 Vista – they felt it took too long, and it offered too little. 3/5.(Louis Wu 12:24:12 UTC)

  • I’d buy THAT for five dollars…

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    Wow. Now THAT’S cheap. sorahn points out a deal at Slickdeals.net whereby you can pick up Halo (the original Xbox version) for $6 – $5 for the game, plus a buck to ship it.(Louis Wu 12:21:28 UTC)

  • Halo Mac 2.0.2 released

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    Last summer, Halo Mac went Universal – you had to pay $5 for the upgrade, but for folks with Intel Macs, it would run considerably faster. HookMeUpImLocal noticed that 2.0.2 was released yesterday – mostly bug fixes and tweaks. Grab the update from A…

  • TTL Update

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Dweezle stopped by this week with the Tied the Leader update – swing by their site for a couple of new pieces (they’re still recovering from their Halo 3 bacchanalia) – there’s a 22 Questions interview with Kevin Steele, of RetroBlast (not even REMOTE…

  • EGM’s gonna get their minds blown

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    GhaleonEB noticed a small item on the latest EGM Live podcast – sounds like the crew is headed up to Kirkland to see some Halo 3 singleplayer this week. Yes, you can be jealous now. (Louis Wu 10:29:21 UTC)

  • Murphy’s Law

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    Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #48 is now up – and I must say, it’s a little disturbing. (Looks like Gravemind noticed it before I got a chance to post this.)(Louis Wu 10:20:18 UTC)

  • Muscle Cars

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    Luke, on Bungie.net, has posted a short article, showing off some of the fan-created Forza cars that have resulted from Bungie’s offers for free (virtual) schwag – I’m thinkin’ Pimp My Ride’s gonna be calling any minute. Thanks, Fires7orm.(Louis Wu 10…

  • Halo Designs Flood Forza 2

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Artists, infinitely more talented and patient than us, created some amazing Halo-themed cars in Forza 2. We drool, they rule.

  • Master Replicas Weapons – coming soon

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    Interesting – X1Zero noticed a pair of scaled weapon replicas up for preorder right now at GameStop – a BR55 Battle Rifle, and a Covenant Carbine, both being attributed to Master Replicas, and both due in early September. (No pictures yet.) Back in Fe…

  • Shadowrun + Halo 2 PC = $39.99

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    Midnight

    This week Circuit City has a sweet deal on the only two GFWL games out there. Not only is Halo 2 PC discounted $10 to $39.99, but Shadowrun is free with purchase of Halo 2. Obviously, both are PC versions. __________________________ Top Ten Guitar He…

  • Halo 3 action figures coming from McFarlane Toys

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    CapnKrunk

    It appears that Joyride Studios is no longer set to produce more Halo action figure goodness for the release of Halo 3, because McFarlane Toys has announced that they will be doing just that. The line-up includes characters from the game such as Maste…