My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Another Beta Egg – Solved (mostly)

    A few days ago, Anton P. Nym noticed that one of the computers in the small room behind the flag on High Ground was emitting Morse Code – it took a little while for a recording to be made, but today, Cocopjojo uploaded one, and in short order Ducain tr…

  • Dune? Croon? Prune? Hell NO! Halo 3 Zune!

    One more item of “gotta have it” merchandise for the Halo collecting crowd.  Grunty-Flakes?  Master Chief Breakfast Bars?  UNSC standard issue Underoos?  Spartan prophylactics? (look out “Trojan Man”!)   None of those…

  • RT: Beta Blues

    If you’re reading this, then you are dumb. You should totally be playing the Halo 3 Multiplayer beta right now. Duh. But, since you’re already here and all, you might as well read today’s comic below, and today’s sponsor only comic here. You know…

  • Rule of 3 Woes

    We’ve received a number of emails from folks who won entrance to the Beta via the ‘Rule of 3’ contest last December, but haven’t yet gotten their invite – and I can only imagine that Bungie has received orders of magnitude more. It truly does suck to h…

  • Bungalo Blues – the Beginning

    Second Foundation, the guys behind the Riot podcast, are kicking off a new project soon – Macro-Syllabic is creating an ‘audio play’ (think I Love Bees style) called ‘Bungalo Blues’. It’s not out yet (they’re not really foolish enough to try and compet…

  • The Paper Spartan Army Grows

    Nomi’s been pretty busy recently; if you check out her Paper Spartans page, you’ll find a number of new spartans (scroll to the bottom), as well as a cool reproduction of the UNSC logo. (It’s hard to tell from that photo, but it’s made the same way the…

  • Halo-wood… gah.

    Dry Ice, our reporter on the ground in Hollywood (heh), found a writeup of the Hollywood press event on Xbox.com – complete with video footage. Get a look at the place, the people, and watch an interview with Joe ‘New0001’ Tung, Halo 3’s Multiplayer Pr…

  • Bobbing for Stories

    Shishka is a name that is familiar to most long-time Bungie fans; he’s been around for quite some time. He went from fanboi to Bungie employee to one of the first members of the Certain Affinity team – and you can read about that path in his new blog a…

  • Soup To Nuts, from Sketch

    Game Informer talked to Brian Jarrard recently about the beta – go read the interview. (He mentions numbers in the interview; he says “I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple hundred thousand people log in and try the beta at some point in time.” Accordin…

  • OMG EMO

    Yesterday was not the Halo community’s finest hour – anywhere you went, you found people frothing about the Crackdown/Halo 3 Beta issue, and while there were a number of cool voices counseling calm, there were many, many more strident ones, screaming f…

  • Seeker Returns

    Deimos, over at Subnova, has resurrected Seeker, the Halo search engine. This time, he’s let Google do the heavy lifting – they’re pretty good at that stuff. This puppy will search, in one fell swoop, a whole bunch of Halo websites (the current list is…

  • Hello Needler, My Old Friend

    BitMaP stopped by with a new episode of Strouperman – it takes a look at one of my new favorite weapons. And takes a shot at the stick-in-the-muds.(Louis Wu 12:49:52 UTC)

  • MLG’s All Over the Beta

    MLG has taken a look at many, many individual pieces of the Halo 3 Beta; each piece gets its own review. Swing by their news page for coverage of everything from maps to equipment. (Thanks, 3Suns.) While you’re there, there are a pair of interviews, co…

  • Halo Wars – Still Coming

    In the midst of all the Halo 3 Beta insanity, Ensemble decided to post a Halo Wars update on their forum – this one discusses playtesting, and the progress of the game’s visuals. Thanks, Littlebigman.(Louis Wu 12:04:16 UTC)

  • THX does H3

    After an unexpected delay, many THX’ers (and practically everyone on my friends list) are checking out the HALO 3 multi-player beta. So what did you guys (and girls) think? How late are you going to be up playing it? Go here to comment on your HALO …

  • RT: Cons and Outages and Girls

    First of all, I just want to point out that we have a new video to welcome everyone to the Halo 3 beta. Burnie posted it right below this post. You can check it out here. There are a few events coming up that we will be attending and I feel it is my…

  • Light Fuse, Run Away

    Sketch has updated the Bnet news post, explaining that the Crackdown issues have been resolved. There will be a quick title update to Crackdown for you to download, which will enable the Halo 3 beta download therein. Furthermore, as a consolation, Bung…

  • You’d have thought it was CRACK.

    Today’s been pretty unpleasant for anyone waiting to get into the Halo 3 Beta with a copy of Crackdown – but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Frankie has posted an update on Bungie.net – the problem “will be resolved shortly”. When there’s more …

  • Haloid – How-To, and Why

    Today’s Penny Arcade is, once again, Halo-related. Been there, done that. (Well, had that done to me.)(Louis Wu 19:14:12 UTC)

  • Jim Beam

    Today’s Penny Arcade takes a look at the Spartan Laser and the potential for, er… unintended consequences one might find. Tycho also continues with his impressions of the Beta that he began Monday on their news page. Check it out!(mnemesis 18:20:47…