My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Hi-Res Halo 2 Rank Icons

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    Matt6908 wrote to point out a thread at the HollywoodNHouse forum – he’s created high-res versions of the Halo 2 Matchmaking Rank icons (currently just the first 43 levels, but the special levels are coming soon). Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 12:34:49 UTC)

  • Gaming Nation Halo 2 Tourney in Tennessee

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    An article in the Kingsport (TN) Times-News describes an upcoming tournament to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. If you’re going to be near northeast Tennessee on February 24, stop by!(Louis Wu 12:15:52 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Beta Signup Info – Updated

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    darthbob posted the newly-updated contents from halo3.com on our forum last night – the info is useful to anyone in the US trying to clarify when they’ll know whether they’ve gotten into the Halo 3 Beta program. (There’s also a more concise note about this over at Bungie.net – thanks to 3Suns for pointing that…

  • Wideload Applies For New Trademarks

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    GameSpot has an item up that says Wideload Games, makers of Stubbs the Zombie for Mac, PC and Xbox, have applied for several new trademarks that may be connected to as-yet-unannounced game projects: Another trio of trademarks was filed for by Wideload Games, the development studio behind Stubbs the Zombie. The trademarks don’t appear to…

  • Halo 3 Is Like An Onion

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    You know, because of the layers. Layers of detail, like the layers in Frankie’s latest Bungie Update. Between those layers are morsels of information: like the fact that every campaign level is now in the game, which is playable “from end to end”; like the fact that the usual levels of difficulty: easy, normal, heroic…

  • H3 beta testers notified this week

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    Start: 01/22/2007 – 8:00am End: 01/26/2007 – 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 The following is a release from the halo3.com website. Post a comment here if you are in. Greetings Halo® Nation and thanks for your interest in participating in the Halo 3 multiplayer public beta. The Xbox Live multiplayer public beta, which is a pre-release version…

  • Halo 3 Beta Sign-up Information

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    Halo3.com has updated to explain the three ways in which you can enlist for the Halo 3 beta. They also note that if you signed up for the beta after seeing the Halo 3 commercial last month, you can expect to hear between January 22nd to 26th.

  • Mad World

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    Hellhawk stopped by this morning with an announcement of a new vid – a music video set to Gary Jules’ version of Tears for Fears’ ‘Mad World’. Very nice synching of Halo action to the song’s powerful lyrics – nice job! I was unhappy with the interlacing on the video, though, so I fixed it.…

  • New Map Pack Release from CMT

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    Over at Bungie.net, there’s news of a new map pack release from the Halo:CE mod group CMT. Four new maps, with custom HUD, new weapons, and more. You can find screenshots and download links on the H2Vista.net forum. Thanks to newDeviLedeT1 for the heads-up. Update: In case the CMT website goes down (180 mb download…

  • Halo Dos

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    IXI CHAM IXI stopped by our forum to let us know about a Halo song created by his cousins Aphrolyph: Sonsketched and Entellekt; it’s called ‘Halo Dos’, and though I’m not particularly a fan of rap, this is pretty well done. We’ve put up a local copy if you’re not excited about waiting for FileFront…

  • More Allies = More Baddie Carnage

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    Rockslider has written up a nice method for doubling the number of allies you have during the Grav Lift fight on Truth and Reconciliation – thanks to Two Finger for the suggestion! Take a look.(Louis Wu 17:17:21 UTC)

  • Blasts from the Past

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    Happy New Year, from the Halo Story Page crew! Jillybean has rooted through the mailbag, and come up with a bunch of Halo-Marathon connection theories (and some other stuff). Go read!(Louis Wu 17:15:40 UTC)

  • Halo 3’s Shield Bubble

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    Over at the Halo 3 Data Archive, there’s an article about the shield bubble from Halo 3 (visible in the Halo 3 Commercial), and how it might be implemented, and controlled, in-game. There are a lot of assumptions (and frankly, some circular reasoning), but the fact is, Bungie hasn’t given us much to go on…

  • CMT Releases #1 Map Pack

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    The Halo:CE mod team, CMT, has done it again. They have released the first map pack of a series. This map pack includes 4 new Halo:CE maps, Coagulation, Icy Swamps, Dissolution, and Fragment. All of these come with a custom HUD, custom weapons, and more.

  • Space Dementia – Redone

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    Back in early December, Jamie98s released Space Dementia, a movie about a guy on a space station who wasn’t in full control of his faculties. It was actually a very well-done vid, but Jamie wasn’t happy with it; he didn’t like the ‘Chapters’ that broke up the action. So he remade and re-released it. You…

  • Paper Spartans – Now DIY!

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    A bit over a week ago, we posted some pictures of some paper Spartans created by Nomi for her friends in the Halo community. Nomi can’t make spartans for everyone – but she CAN show you how to make your own… and, in fact, has done that, with a tutorial and a template you can…

  • Encounter (Collaboration)

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    Veegie (who’s got a gallery here) dropped in to point out a collaborative work he put together with HawaiianPig (whose wallpapers brighten our Wallpaper collection, who’s done quite a bit of Red vs Blue scenework, and who’s won at least one HBO art contest) – the final product is a pretty amazing night scene. (Read…

  • Halouvre Update

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    Prometheus dropped by our forum to point out a sizeable update at The Halouvre – 65 new images, from 3 artists. He also pulled out a few highlights – to his list, I’d add this one; nice pose. (Louis Wu 13:54:40 UTC)

  • The tail sort of kills it.

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    Ross Mills has been playing the recently-released World of Warcraft expansion, ‘The Burning Crusade’. He noticed some similarities between one of the new character types there… and some old friends of ours.(Louis Wu 13:48:47 UTC)

  • Say Again?

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    Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #6 is now online – Julie Benz talked to reporters about the Miranda Keyes character last summer, and the Master Chief has now gotten a chance to toss in his two cents.(Louis Wu 13:46:13 UTC)