My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Podtacular 114

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    Podtacular Episode 114 is up – 1:15, 63 mb. Guest this week is Talli, from the Cayote Gavegirls (and Gamerchix). Go listen! Thanks, Big Goalie Dan.(Louis Wu 13:44:30 UTC)

  • Handmade Medals

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    Wayward Spleen™ has been working at reproducing the Halo 3 medals in high-res – you can find a few in this post, and a few more here. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:33:48 UTC)

  • Tuning Lightmaps for Gameplay

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    D. Scott Brown wrote up an interesting article about tuning lightmaps to improve gameplay. Examples from Halo 3, Halo 2, and Gears of War are included. If you’re not interested in the stuff behind the magic of what you see onscreen, this won’t be for y…

  • StatsReloaded – Reloaded

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    We got word that Statsreloaded.com has been completely overhauled – lots of new features, more capacity, with Halo 3 Beta stats coming in the next few days. Give it a look-see!(Louis Wu 13:23:02 UTC)

  • Halo 2 Vista Achievement Guide

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    Grunts’R’Us has posted a full Achievement listing for Halo 2 Vista, complete with pictures and discussions about how to best access these. (We mentioned a couple of these last month – but the first was text only, and the second had smaller pictures, a…

  • Location, Location, Location

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    CinemaBlend has an article looking at the three maps in the beta, and discussing what works (and what doesn’t) on each of them.(Louis Wu 13:13:38 UTC)

  • Longsword for X-Plane – Released

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    Mid7night has released his Longsword model for X-Plane – if you have the program, you no longer need to look at his pretty pictures, you can download the model and play with it yourself. Nice!(Louis Wu 13:08:21 UTC)

  • Wow, those would be fun.

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    Karol117 pointed out a Polish website with pictures of a Halo 3 marketing campaign I’ve never seen before… (text is in Polish, obviously, but the pictures speak for themselves.)(Louis Wu 13:06:15 UTC)

  • Replayability And Brute Force

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    I’m going to start with a really, really tiny detail and try to use it to come to a sweeping statement about what makes a game fun. The detail we’ll start with is weapon spawns in the Halo games: why timers are fair, but not fun, and why slightly rand…

  • H3 Beta Quick Report: Is It Pretty Enough?

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    Okay, so not everybody is in love with Halo 3. Over at the Hushed Casket, Midnight calls it “fun” and details the changes. Rapture calls it a bigger, prettier Halo 2, and it’s most decidedly not a compliment. Of course you can’t please everybody, and …

  • Bungie Bolsters Beta With Big Team Battle, Banshees

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    Bungie has swapped out the Team Training list for a Big Team Training playlist. This features Banshees when played on Valhalla.

  • Every Time You Play The Beta, God Pets A Kitten

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    More articles about the Halo 3 Beta around the web: GamingExcellence likes what they see but think Bungie has taken a “safe approach” to changes in Halo 3. Hushed Casket has impressions of Halo 3 by Midnight and rapture; they’re not nearly as impresse…

  • Halo 3 Legendary Edition Pics from the Wild

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    Somebody got their hands on the Halo 3 Legendary Edition (the monster version) and thought it would be a good idea to take lots of pics. I take my hat off to this person. It’s going to hurt to lay down $130 + tax for this, but you only have to …

  • Episode 114: Halo 3 beta community show

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    Download | Shownotes This show is kind of a mixed bag of community impressions of the beta, gameplay tips, and tales from the foxhole. This week’s guest is Talli from the Cayote Cavegirls and Gamerchix. Special thanks to Logan Payne who contributed …

  • Needleshock

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    Mister Froggy sent word that Halo, Articulated #41 is online – it’s a look at the new Halo 3 Needler. I think a lot of us have felt this way.(Louis Wu 23:24:12 UTC)

  • H3 playlist updated. Hello Big Team Training 6v6.

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    Bungie has updated their HALO 3 beta playlists: “Like any good chef we’re making some changes to the recipe in the Public tastetest we call the Halo 3 Beta. This week we’re making our first change to the Matchmaking Playlist . We’re swapping out Team …

  • And… they’re out.

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    Wow, that was fast. Over at High Impact Halo, there’s already a video of some folks exploring Valhalla in a Banshee… OUTSIDE THE MAP. Looks like some texturing still needs to be done…(Louis Wu 22:13:18 UTC)

  • Weekly Porridge #52: THE FINAL EPISODE

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    Yep. That’s all folks! It’s been great fun watching you guys enjoy the strip, so while it’s a little painful to bring it to an end, it’s a little satisfying too, to know that for most intents and purposes, Weekly Porridge was a success. I hope you enj…

  • Guess who’s back…?

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    Check out Tina Leyk’s Halo Fan Art gallery – the top two pics are new. (Well, I’m embarrassed to say that the second image was posted at DeviantART back in December, but I didn’t notice.) Mombassa Sandstorm was created for her brother several months ag…

  • Banshees Are Back

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    The Halo 3 Beta Matchmaking Playlist has been updated – Team Training has been swapped out for Big Team Battle Training (6v6, no Snowbound), and Team Skirmish has been tweaked. More details at Bungie.net. Thanks, Mike Scott.(Louis Wu 21:09:45 UTC)