My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Halo 3 Box Art – revisited

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    Last week, we pointed out that Amazon had posted an image nobody had seen before as the Halo 3 Standard Edition box art; we suggested it could very well be the final version. A couple of days ago, SPARTAN-137 noticed that the box art shown on xbox.com …

  • Podtacular Ep 115

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    Big Goalie Dan points out that Podtacular Episode 115 is up – 56 minutes, 40 mb, guest hosted by George from aeropause.com (a general gaming blog). Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:31:53 UTC)

  • Video Head-to-Head

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    If you’re an IGN Insider, you can download a ‘Video Head-to-Head’ comparison of Halo 2 Xbox and Halo 2 Vista (as well as H2V vs H3 Beta). It’s sort of an interesting concept; they tried to play through Cairo Station on both boxes at similar speeds, wi…

  • Press Coverage

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    Halo press for the day: Gamespy has a review of Halo 2 Vista (3/5, they thought it was too little, too late) – thanks, HaloPlanet; The New York Times has a profile of Lil’ Poison, the (now) 9 year old Halo pro (don’t forget about Bug Me Not if you don…

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    Download | Shownotes So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George fr…

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George fr…

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George fr…

  • Bubblehead Over Heels

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    Paul Maestri has sent along Halo Heads #60, ‘Bubblehead Over Heels’. We’re back to Kitty 117… and things are getting messy. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:22:46 UTC)

  • This week’s show: Interview stew

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    Last week’s show will be coming out very soon. Sorry for the delay. This week we’ll have an interesting inside look at one of the top Halo communities with a variety of cool interviews. We’ll also be talking to the one person I know of that actually ow…

  • Unaccustomed.

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    Stuntmutt’s thinking ahead, looking for potential gotchas in the Custom Game options for Halo 3; check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:18:13 UTC)

  • Co-opted.

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    Wow. IGN put together their list of the Top 10 Best Co-op Games… Halo 2 made the list (at number 7), but Halo is nowhere to be seen. Bizarre. Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 15:12:44 UTC)

  • MC Graces Digital Life

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    Spu7n1k posted the cover of the weekly tech magazine from a Singapore newspaper – now THERE’S a pretty cool armor permutation! (As Luke mentions on Bungie.net, the customizations are cosmetic only; they won’t affect gameplay.)(Louis Wu 14:34:17 UTC)

  • Halo: pixelated project update

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    A few months ago, Leviathan mentioned he was working on a 2D version of Halo – today he’s back with new screens. Looking good!(Louis Wu 14:28:44 UTC)

  • Player Match Commentary: Shockwave

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    MLGPro has a Player Commentary vid from Carbon’s Shockwave, looking at their Losers Bracket Final series against FBI The Agency. Great tips for folks looking to better their game! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:20:56 UTC)

  • THX Thursday Outing

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    Where: Bowling Alley, Redstone Arsenal, just inside the Patton Rd Gate When: Thursday June 7th, 7 PM Who: Anyone and everyone (THX’ers, spouses, children, pets, unicorns, etc) If you don’t have stickers to get into the arsenal then contact me, JDogg…

  • Retreat To The Citadel

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    Today’s Penny Arcade comic (soon to be available at this permanent link) wonders whether the pleasant world of tabletop gaming will be adversely affected by the introduction of the Halo community. I’d like to hope not – but I’m not putting any money on…

  • GameKings talk to Bungie

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    Wolverine Monkey noticed a video piece by the Dutch program GameKings on YouTube – it’s an interview with Bungie, based on a visit they made earlier this year. Most of it is in Dutch – but the interviews are in English, and the background footage is a…

  • Halo 2 Strategy Guide updated for Vista

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    Stephen ‘SoundEffect’ Loftus wrote to let us know he’d picked up the Strategy Guide for Halo 2 Vista. Basically, they updated the Halo 2 Strategy Guide (for Xbox) with new screenshots, keyboard info (duh), and all the new maps released since 2004. Fin…

  • X-Plane Scorpion

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    Mid7night has run out of flying vehicles to port to X-Plane – so he’s bringing in the rolling ones. (We already mentioned his warthog.) Last night, he pointed out preliminary shots of a Scorpion. I think he plans to take over the X-Plane universe by f…

  • FS2H Weekly Update Se7en

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    Devrous put up a new update for his Freespace 2 Halo mod – a shot of the Seraph, and a second video tour. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:06:03 UTC)