My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Bad Intel

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    Sane Intolerant has updated his Halo Toy Box series – today’s episode compares Cortana to the Crackdown announcer. Even if you’re Jillybean, you HAVE to admit our Cortana is better than this vision.(Louis Wu 20:49:35 UTC)

  • The Riot 38

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    Sigafoos pointed out that The Riot 38 is now online – 9.5 mb, 23 minutes long. Highlights include site design discussion, clan challenges, halo news, and monkeys. (Bungie’s monkeys, not Second Foundation’s.) Enjoy!(Louis Wu 20:41:31 UTC)

  • The Uneven Elephant

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    Coweh stopped by to point out The Uneven Elephant, a new Halo-related blog he’s started up. The first real post is a speculation about the X-button functionality, but he promises more activity as the Halo 3 beta gets going.(Louis Wu 13:00:24 UTC)

  • Bubble Shield Animation

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    DocOctavius and his buddies at the yayap.com forums were trying to work out the mechanics of the bubble shield shown off in last December’s Halo 3 ad; he rendered a local version, and it look pretty cool. Check it out! (QuickTime format, 232K)(Louis Wu 12:56:39 UTC)

  • Crackdown Hidden Orb Locations

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    Midnight

    If you’re looking for info on Crackdown, the MS-Xbox World forums has it. You can view maps of every race location, stunt location, and hidden orb location. Furthermore, you can find the map of hidden orbs with screenshots of every orb here. FoulBreed and I have been tagteaming the hidden orbs and it’s a beast…

  • Pod TV Episode 7: Grunt Birthday Skull

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    foomojive

    iPod Version | YouTube version How cool is this? Cryptoflix releases two Pod TV episodes in two weeks! This time he tells us how to get a skull that does something pretty cool: makes enemies’ heads explode like a plasma grenade when you get a headshot! ‹ Official Podtacular wallpaperupPodtacular Radio ›

  • RvB 91: Missed Direction

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    The latest episode of Red vs Blue is now up for sponsors (thanks, Angrist) – Sister gets oiled up and nekkid, Simmons gets jealous, and Caboose tries to get dead. Or not to get dead. Go watch! (Unless you’re not a sponsor – in which case, come back in 48 hours, read this again, and…

  • New Podtacular Eps

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    ImmortalThree reminded us that Podtacular 102 (Customs and Call-ins) and Podtacular 103 (the Halo 3 Show, with George from aeropause.com) are now online – go listen!(Louis Wu 12:47:58 UTC)

  • Halo Vicis goes live

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    We got word from SourceGuy, about a new website on the Halo modding scene – Halo Vicis. Right now, they’ve got a couple of exclusive tidbits you might want to check out – a new app known as H2Core, for working with Halo 2 maps, and a tutorial to help you convert a HaloCE map…

  • Monkeys and Cheaters

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    The Bungie Weekly Update this week has some cool H3 info (chetz and waters), a tiny bit of info about the upcoming Halo 2 maps, and some scary stuff about Marty. Really scary, in fact. And some stuff about Video Games Live. And some more scary stuff about Marty. Go read – either at Bungie.net,…

  • Half-Wit

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    Mister Froggy pointed out Halo, Articulated #18 – in which a dirty secret is revealed.(Louis Wu 01:42:48 UTC)

  • Halo Tourneys in OH and WA

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    Couple of different Halo tournaments mentioned on our forum today – Relentless Azn mentioned a pair of Gamebreakerz tourneys in Kent, Washington on March 23 (2v2) and March 30-31 (4v4), and Scooter let us know about Game Junkie’s “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre” near Cincinnati, OH on March 17. Get to playin’!(Louis Wu 01:41:22 UTC)

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Welcome to another Bungie Weekly Update, where we keep you apprised of stuff happening in the creation of Halo 3. This week, animation, grass, water, weather, weapons and more. And Sketch pops in with a little hot dish of Halo 2 mappery.

  • Going In Manually.

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    Some fans have expressed unhappiness with the spate of Halo-branded merchandise being announced in recent weeks… Stuntmutt, as usual, has his own take on the situation, spun off from a comment in last week’s BWU. Check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:09:29 UTC)

  • It’s Rumor Week, I Guess

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    This one’s DEEP in the rumor category – and remember, the Mole is right, at best, about half the time. According to Planet Halo, OXM’s Rumor Mole suggests that Certain Affinity, the team started by Halo Multiplayer Lead Max Hoberman that is currently working on some Halo 2 maps to be released soonish, is ALSO…

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Later than usual, but there are now 13 new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 17:49:52 UTC)

  • Are you a Gears master? Prove it!

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    foomojive

    You’ve been practicing, you can no-scope shotgun, grenade tag, beat everyone to the chainsaw, and master the cover system with the best of them. Well now’s your chance to show that you have the skills to compete with the best. Klutch and Ultima Killa are running the first ever Gears of War tournament at Podtacular.…

  • It’s getting clearer.

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    Yesterday afternoon, The J3ster noticed that the static-filled image at the bottom of the HaloWars update had changed; it still isn’t discernable, but it’s getting closer. Keep your eye on it!(Louis Wu 13:24:11 UTC)

  • Massed Hunters on Silent Cartographer

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    Heh – Rockslider’s still at it. New section at Bad Cyborg today – gather 6 Hunters together on Silent Cartographer, and have some fun!(Louis Wu 13:10:48 UTC)

  • Halo Wars Is Playable

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    narcogen

    The February Halo Wars update by Thunder has a lot of fuzzy, censored pictures, but we’re told flat-out that the game is in a playable state, and has been played by Microsoft bigwigs like Shane Kim. Still, he reports there is “a long way to go” and there is still no officially announced release date.