My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Post-production is important.

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    Edge Magazine (via Next Generation) has a great interview with Marty O’Donnell – for an old guy, he’s pretty wise.As an artist, the more you do customer surveys, or do focus testing, the more you will completely lose focus on what it is that caused you to be a creative person in the first place.…

  • Zen-like Simplicity

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    A column known as The Unreasonable Stance (not without reason) has taken the position that Pac-Man beats Halo in every gaming category. Heh. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 11:36:45 UTC)

  • Itunes Store Spills Sandwich Cookie Secret

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    narcogen

    If you were one of the (undoubtedly) many who grabbed the Halo 3 Official Soundtrack from the iTunes Store since it became available in the last 24 hours, take a look at disc 2, track 5. “No More Dead Hereos” From any other game publisher, of course, this would be attributed to a simple clerical…

  • Durandal Escapes The Closure, Lands On Xbox

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    Mark “Have Blue” Levin of Freeverse has written up a Gamasutra postmortem of their port of Marathon 2: Durandal to the Xbox 360. What’s revealed is that the Xbox version isn’t so much a port as it was almost a complete from-the-ground-up rewrite: Going beyond a port. Without an emulator, huge chunks of the game…

  • Thanksgiving

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    Thunderbirds’s Recent News

    Its time agean for everyone to give thanks for the wonders that life brings I would like to take alittle time to tell you what I am thank for for… 

  • Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III

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    How much will the privilege of playing one of gaming’s most beloved (not to mention most rocking) scores in Guitar Hero III cost you? How does 0 Microsoft Points sound to you?

  • Halo 3 Legendary – for Cheap

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    Khanh Huynh noticed a story on Kotaku – apparently, some of Amazon’s Black Friday deals have leaked a bit early; you’ll be able to grab Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $79.99. Nice!(Louis Wu 21:34:01 UTC)

  • Halo theme for GH3 – free tomorrow

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    MLG’s Ryan Thompson was the first to let us know that Activision and Microsoft are teaming up to release the Halo theme, MJOLNIR Mix edition, for Guitar Hero III, for free – tomorrow only. You can read more details at most big gaming sites – say, Joystiq.(Louis Wu 21:31:27 UTC)

  • Tsavo Highway Legendary Tip

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    RVideo accidentally stumbled on a way that makes one of the toughest battles in the Tsavo Highway levels get a lot easier… he wrote it up for you.(Louis Wu 21:21:25 UTC)

  • Kane & Lynch “Get the Cash” winners

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    CapnKrunk

    First, we have to thank the GamerCast Network and Eidos for making this possible and inviting us to be a part of the community event and coverage of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. They provided us with some nice goodies to hand out and we wanted to make sure that everyone here could have fun…

  • Knock Bite.

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    Stuntmutt played with one of the easter eggs in Halo 3 in today’s One One Se7en. Geddit?(Louis Wu 16:33:41 UTC)

  • Eclipse

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    Jamie98s has released a new machinima project – this one is called ‘Eclipse’, and it’s about a mysterious planet that is engulfing suns as it passes through galaxies. When it reaches Earth, ODSTs are deployed to investigate. This movie is 12 minutes long, and created with a modded version of Halo 2, plus lots of…

  • Sometimes, it pays to comparison-shop

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    As mentioned previously, the Halo 3 Official Soundtrack went onsale yesterday, in record stores everywhere (well, everywhere in the US, anyway). For those having trouble finding it locally, it’s also available via download – you can swing by the iTunes Store, and spend $19.98 for it (you’ll get DRM-encoded 128kbps AAC files)… or visit the…

  • Terminal shapes – in vector format

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    A couple of days ago, we mentioned some wallpapers created by Capt Spanish, based on Terminal-inspired artwork he’d built in a vector drawing program. There was some interest expressed in the vector files – so he’s obliged. You can snag an Adobe Illustrator file (340k, zipped) or a generic EPS file (556k, zipped). The Illustrator…

  • I will miss you, sharer of my gas…

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    Captain Spark has been collecting dialogue for a while now, even though his website is currently offline. He recently sent us several dozen snippets from grunts and marines – there are some hilarious ones in here! Go listen to the newest editions in our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank.(Louis Wu 13:27:28 UTC)

  • Oh, Snap.

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    Trindacut is tired of all this hype about Halo 3. He’s written a piece over at Rampancy.net explaining how Halo 3 should be more like Pokemon Snap. I’m not sure I agree with all of his points… but it sure wasn’t cool for Bungie to kill his dog.(Louis Wu 12:36:07 UTC)

  • Travelogue: The Search for a New Stage

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    This Spartan Life has posted Episode 5, Module 4 – a travelogue that continues the storyline from earlier modules, which uses the new Halo 3 maps to great advantage. Nice camera angles! More details can be found on their front page, and their Episodes page.(Louis Wu 12:35:47 UTC)

  • Archimedes

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    TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer: Chapter Two, Part One is now online – this is your chance to meet Team Viper(Louis Wu 12:35:31 UTC)

  • Lost Spartan Video

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    Delta, inspired by SilverBrin’s Lost Spartan release yesterday, spent several hours putting together a video for it. I think it works really well, actually, and is pretty impressive for an afternoon’s work!(Louis Wu 12:35:12 UTC)

  • HBO-COERCE: Back, for a limited time

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    Whoa, nostalgia. JayWHY stopped by to annnounce that for a limited time (tomorrow, through the weekend, though it seems to be up now), the HBO-COERCE HaloPC server would be up and running for a Thanksgiving Reunion. The forum post also has a link for a Ventrilo server. Jump in and remember the good old days!(Louis…