My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

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    We don’t do this very often (heh – more like ‘never’)… but he asked so nicely! ViralSyris asked us to wish his girlfriend a happy birthday today – what a guy!(Louis Wu 13:10:31 UTC)

  • The Riot #39

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    Sigafoos writes to let us know that The Riot #39 has been released – the usual stuff, plus info about this summer’s Riot LAN in Western New York. 30 minutes, 12 mb – go listen!(Louis Wu 21:16:26 UTC)

  • Top o’ the world, mate!

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    Mostly, we leave tricking to the folks at High Impact Halo – but occasionally, there’s a trick vid that reminds everyone how beautiful it all can be. dantheman87 reproduced an old trick – launching to the top of the MAC gun – but did it with a new technique that shaves hours off the setup…

  • Gears of War sequel coming. GoW dev background.

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    This past week at GDC, Cliffy B hinted at a sequel to GoW. They’ve always dodged questions about more GoW’s in the past. What’s interesting is some of the things that didn’t make it into GoW. Read below from this article at Gamespot. SAN FRANCISCO–It was a big week for Cliff “Cliffy B” Bleszinski. The…

  • Halo 2: The Series Episode 3: Metropolis

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    Jamie98s continues his feature-length movie of Halo – today he releases Halo 2: The Series Episode 3. This one is set in Metropolis – a Covenant Scarab is wreaking havoc on New Mombasa, and it’s up to the Chief to destroy it. The episode is nearly 21 minutes long, and weighs in at 152 mb…

  • Prometheus Lead talks to HaloVicis

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    SourceGuy pointed out an interview with Nick, Project Lead for Prometheus, the upcoming Halo CE map editor, over at HaloVicis today. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 11:50:13 UTC)

  • German Action Comics

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    Shady IIV stopped by with an episode of Barbie & M!KE (a German Halo comic). Pretty pictures, even if I can’t read the balloons…(Louis Wu 22:20:35 UTC)

  • X-Plane Longsword Redux

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    Mid7night continues to work on his Longsword model for X-Plane; check this post out for formation flying! (Nice cockpit, too!(Louis Wu 22:18:13 UTC)

  • New H2Vista Screens

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    A few days ago, 3 new screenshots from Halo 2 Vista circulated the web; we mentioned several articles about the program (news from GDC, mostly), and most of the articles contained one or more of these three pics. I didn’t really see the need to draw special attention to them. Today, though, WorthPlaying has posted…

  • Meet the SparrowHawk

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    The Halo Wars forum post with the slowly emerging image now contains the fully decrypted image – it’s a shot of the new UNSC SparrowHawk. Nice! Thanks to everyone who kept us informed on the forum – final image was first mentioned by j41m3z.(Louis Wu 21:51:03 UTC)

  • GRAW 2 First Impressions

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    Having missed out on the original GRAW and looking for some gaming excitement to hold me over until some of the new summer releases, I bought GRAW 2 from BestBuy last night. FYI, I had them pricematch Circuit City’s online price, so I got it for $49.99. Gamespot gave it 8.7. You can read the…

  • You say Efficient, I say Effective

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    Sane Intolerant has updated Halo Toybox with not one, but two comics – check this forum post for details.(Louis Wu 12:50:53 UTC)

  • Always looking to get better

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    Walshy looks at his strengths, and weaknesses, in an interesting player commentary at MLGPro.com. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 03:13:17 UTC)

  • The good, the bad, and the powerless

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    Bungie HQ suffers from a blown transformer, so the Weekly Update is image-less (though Frankie promises to try and rectify that tomorrow). The update contains a bunch of tidbits of polish progress – sounds like we’ll even get to see some of that in the upcoming beta. (No, no dates yet.) Go read! (As usual,…

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Thanks to a blown transformer, the Weekly Update is lacking imagery. That said, there’s a few nuggets of information in here for folks looking forward to the forthcoming public beta, and a revelation or two about what options will be available.

  • Hairy Situation Pt. 4

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    Paul Maestri has updated Halo Heads – The kitties finally meet their attackers! Just when you thought you’d seen everything…(Louis Wu 01:27:48 UTC)

  • Not so Serious Threat

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    Mister Froggy pointed out Halo, Articulated #20 – sometimes, you just can’t give a threat the weight it asks for.(Louis Wu 01:21:17 UTC)

  • Humpday?

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    If all goes well, today is the day that the image at the bottom of the Halo Wars update post will be revealed in its entirety – Stuntmutt gets a leg up with the current One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:57:05 UTC)

  • Predator And Prey

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    Edgeworks Entertainment has released Episode 3 of their series, The Heretic. Not a lot of action, but some great plot development – and current political commentary. (Shh…) Nice camerawork, as always. Thanks to Da Nang for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:43:31 UTC)

  • 1Up Yours – Halo 3 Speculation from GDC

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    The 1Up Yours podcast is being recorded this week at the Game Developers Conference… and the most recent podcast (dated 3/8) has a small teaser related to Halo 3. Apparently, they were discussing how many titles are being released this fall, and how rough that’s going to be on Joe Average Gamer (who’s got $300…