My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Foo Mo sez “I’m Easy!”

    With a keen eye and ever-sarcastic gaze, the folks over at Sarcastic Gamer have just discovered a stunning, earth-shattering truth about our great leader, Foo Mo Jive. He plays Halo 3 on Easy. Yeah, really. Also known as Baby Mode, or in the parlance of the streets, Sucka Mode. Yeah, REALLY. Why, you ask? Well,…

  • Buying Spree.

    ViralSyris found a bunch of new stuff at the Bungie Store – swing by his post for direct links. Just in time for Christmas!(Louis Wu 19:06:15 UTC)

  • Be My Monitor

    Eep, almost missed this. Hawty McBloggy has put together a list of the Top 10 Romantic Halo 3 Lines Useful for Forge Proposals. Some of them actually seem like they’d work better as pickup lines (if they worked at all)… but hey, whatever. Go check ’em out! (She takes no responsibility if using them gets…

  • TTL Tuesday – it’s that time again

    Today’s Tied the Leader update from XerxdeeJ mentions some, but not all, of their new content. In addition to a genteel challenge issued to anyone who hasn’t faced the TTL Gunslingers, there’s a piece describing an AP article on gaming as social networking; deeJ was interviewed for it, and has quotes in it. (It’s definitely…

  • In Good Hands

    ZZoMBiE13 seems to be trying to outpun Stuntmutt in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. To make up for the awful punchline, he’s providing you with some killer artwork. Seems like a fair trade.(Louis Wu 16:10:53 UTC)

  • Halo3X – a Stats Manager for OS X

    This looks pretty cool – an open-source stats manager for OS X. Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work on my machine; maybe it’s PowerPC only?(Louis Wu 14:01:01 UTC)

  • Create-A-Hero contest at Halopen

    Halopen is hosting a Create-A-Hero contest; come up with a Halo-based superhero, right down to the costume, and you might find him (or her) featured in Halopen’s upcoming ‘Superheroes’ movie. (Winners will also get some prizes from Gamestop.) Go read all the details, and get to designing! (Louis Wu 13:59:32 UTC)

  • Toms recommends the helmet

    Looks like the Legendary Edition made it into Toms Hardware Holiday Buyers Guide this year – thanks, RVideo.(Louis Wu 13:57:06 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Helmet Edition now $60. That’s $70 off the reg price of $130.

    Update from Amazon: the Halo 3 “helmet edition” is $70 off at Amazon right now. It’s $59.99 with free shipping. The regular price for this thing is $130. This is a Amazon special offering. I don’t expect the price to stay this cheap for longer than a day or two. link

  • Awesome Price on Halo 3 Legendary

    Whoa. Don’t know how long this is going to last… but today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day at Amazon.com is the Halo 3 Legendary Edition… for $59.99. If you want the Cadillac for the price of a Taurus… go buy. Now.(Louis Wu 13:12:17 UTC)

  • Send In Stuff for Episode 137: Tsavo Highway Campaign Show

    It’s time to take a step back and focus on campaign to help you guys get all that cool armor. We’ve got reinforcements, Marines! This month’s campaign show is all about Tsavo Highway, one of the coolest campaign levels in Halo 3 bar none. Lots of vehicle driving, defending a base against waves of covenant…

  • RT: Cyber Monday Blues

    Just a quick note to anyone who is trying to purchase merch from our store and is having a frustrating time with checkout: Apparently all Yahoo-hosted stores (including ours), are experiencing “difficulties” at the moment. Since Yahoo stores…

  • $20 off the Halo 3 Covenant Controller. Now $40. Reg. $60.

    With this deal, I now have both Halo 3 controllers for the XBOX 360.  In our Amazon store, the XBOX 360 Wireless Covenant Controller is $39.99 shipped.  That’s $20 off the regular price with no tax and free shipping.  This is actually $10 cheaper than the standard XBOX 360 controllers.  Our store:  http://astore.amazon.com/hushedcasket-20/detail/B000S1C1LC

  • Halo 3 Track Available in Guitar Hero 3

    The MJOLNIR mix of the Halo Theme, first heard in Halo 2 is now available for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 3.

  • Holiday Console Suggestions

    The New York Daily News needed help narrowing down your videogame choices for the holidays – so they went to the Penny Arcade team. Their advice? You can’t go wrong with Halo 3. Thanks, Quikthnkr.(Louis Wu 18:56:27 UTC)

  • HUDless screens rock.

    argodaemon let us know that the Halouvre has a boatload of new content, built up over the past few months. If you haven’t been recently, you haven’t been!(Louis Wu 18:23:09 UTC)

  • Green Fingers.

    Today’s One One Se7en bugs me a little.(Louis Wu 15:53:55 UTC)

  • Misc Art – Getting There

    Once again, I’d like to apologize for the inexcusably long queue for our artwork sections; I’ve just posted over 50 new images in the Miscellaneous Art section, and this only clears the queue through August 1. Yes, that means there’s still four months of backlog! On the plus side, I’ve also added a (long-asked for)…

  • Awakening

    TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer Chapter Two, Part Three is now online – looks like Viper’s woken up something… bad.(Louis Wu 11:18:06 UTC)

  • Custom Halo and Marathon action figures on eBay

    Blayne Scott has created a bunch of custom Halo action figures – he’s currently selling them on eBay, because he’s moving. Swing by his forum post for links and pics (there’s some pretty cool stuff in there!). Near the bottom there’s a general link to ALL his eBay auctions; there are a bunch of non-customized…