My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Most of the cool info was revealed on Tuesday in the Multiplayer Vidoc, but here’s some stuff on matchmaking and more.

  • Half a grand for a 2 man team

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    tS_veXed stopped by to announce an online 2v2 Halo 2 tourney, being hosted by NXGamers – free entry, $500 top prize. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:54:38 UTC)

  • Ethereal Haggis

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    The crew’s been dormant for a while, but Jillybean awoke recently to process a bunch of the accumulated missives to the Halo Story Page. Ooh… tasty.(Louis Wu 19:18:04 UTC)

  • Bg 021.

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    I think Stuntmutt might be confused about a current Microsoft naming scheme; check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:45:35 UTC)

  • RvB Season 1 – now for sale on Marketplace

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    Hmm… I’m not sure I like where this is going, but according to Major Nelson’s blog, the first five episodes of Red vs Blue (yes, Season 1) are now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace – for a buck a pop. (Before you get totally bent out of shape about this: in theory, these…

  • Man Cannons, Trip Mines, Portable Grav Lifts, Bubble Shields, ATV’s, Lasers, Spiker Grenades – Where is H3 going?

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    rapture

    (and Bungie has many more special effects, weapons, and interactive objects waiting for us to discover in the game. Saving the best for last?) Reading a news post by Wu got me thinking. What is happening to HALO? Is it changing into a game that is too big for our gaming preferences? Do you welcome…

  • Halo: Fall Of The Flood

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    A couple of days ago, we got mail from Benjamin Bailey-Webb, touting a short animated vid he and a friend made – I didn’t find time to watch it until this morning. It’s short, it’s sweet. 4 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats; check it out!(Louis Wu 13:00:25 UTC)

  • Podtacular Episode 109

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    Big Goalie Dan noticed that Podtacular Episode 109 is now up – discussion of the Vidoc and the Halo 3 Beta. 1:27, 80 mb. (Louis Wu 12:58:07 UTC)

  • Covenant Fleet, Rendered

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    Nabsuh is rendering an entire Covenant fleet for an upcoming story; check out the work in this post. (The followup contains the same video, with some overlaid story text.)(Louis Wu 12:55:44 UTC)

  • X-Plane Sparrowhawk

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    DuBbLe continues his X-Plane work – he’s got some shots of a scratchbuilt Sparrowhawk. Not textured yet, but still fun!(Louis Wu 12:53:46 UTC)

  • Sonic Halo

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    Cheesemaster64 found this Halo/Sonic combo by TheWax at DeviantART – wild.(Louis Wu 12:49:44 UTC)

  • Thermopylae Now

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    CaptainKirk let us know that he’s writing a Halo Fan Fiction, being released serially on his blog. The preface and Chapter 1 are up now.(Louis Wu 12:47:37 UTC)

  • New Montages at the360forum.com

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    Z let us know about a couple of montages they’ve announced over at the360forum.com; both are hosted by Mythica. The first is inX 2Bit’s Best of Both Worlds Volume II Trailer – a melange of Halo 2 and Gears of War. WMP9, 3:39, 76.3 mb. The second is J Mayne’s 1v1 Trailer (edited by Zola)…

  • Fantastic AR now for sale

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    communityhq.org noticed that link4044 is selling his AR model on eBay; nine and a half days left on the auction, current bid is $227.50, and the reserve has not been met. Remember, you can see lots of pictures of this gun on the gallery page we put up for him. Sounds like it’s gonna be…

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    The Seven Streak is broken; for three weeks running, we had seven new pieces each Friday in the Fan Fiction section… but today there are 11. It’s a natural!(Louis Wu 12:29:33 UTC)

  • A Halo 3 Beta Tourney?

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    Bizarre – Escape Station is trying to set up a Halo 3 Tournament, using the beta test. (Since there are no custom games in the upcoming beta, scheduling play is going to be…tough.) Thanks to RevDotNed for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 12:23:13 UTC)

  • Multiply your fun

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    Now that Bungie has made public the fact that there are ‘deployables’ in Halo 3 (we know of the bubble shield, the trip mine, and the portable grav lift, and Bungie’s made it clear that there’s more stuff we’re not being shown yet), folks are having a blast speculating on what happens when you mix…

  • Episode 109: Halo 3 vidoc/beta Special

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    Download | Shownotes IMHO this is one of the best episodes we’ve had in a while. We’ve _finally_ got some concrete info about Halo 3 and the beta, and we waste no time getting right to the point with some fascinating detailed conversation about the …

  • Episode 109: Halo 3 vidoc/beta Special

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes IMHO this is one of the best episodes we’ve had in a while. We’ve finally got some concrete info about Halo 3 and the beta, and we waste no time getting right to the point with some fascinating detailed conversation about the vidoc and what Halo 3 might be. Joining us this…

  • Lots of new art from Bryn Casey

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    Bryn Casey stopped by to let us know he’d updated the Halo Art page at Yayap.com – we’ve added the 8 new shots to his gallery here, as well. (Scroll down to the bottom; I’ve really got to set up a better navigation system on that page, there are WAY too many pictures now).(Louis Wu…