My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Ling Ling… she’s watching.

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    The Bungie Weekly Update went live tonight, as it usually does on Friday evenings – and if you’re looking for things to drool over, give this one a read. Sounds like Campaign is coming along nicely, and that the stuff they have planned for dialogue… well, I should be wearing a bib. If, for any…

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    A fireside chat about graphics, gives way to more talk about combat dialog, which in turn gets to the process of checking out constantly updated versions of the game. Come on in to read about the progress of Halo 3. And some tidbits about Legendary mode.

  • Review Frenzy: Heavy Weapon (XBLA)

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    GLewis and a bunch of others have teamed up to provide high quality game reviews from the Podtacular community. Schweet idea! This review is by OnlyUPS and it’s about a new XBL Arcade game called Heavy Weapon, which is kind of like a side-scrolling space shooter except you’re a tank on the ground. Check it…

  • Halo: Halos In Space

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    Spec ops Grunt found what might be the funniest Halo fanfic ever. Not because of its content – but because of its presentation. (The original is here, actually – thanks, Infinite_7.)(Louis Wu 20:52:07 UTC)

  • Bungie: HALO 2 was unpolished. HALO 3 going to be better.

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    In a recent interview with Edge magazine showing an inside look at Bungie, Chris Butcher (technical lead at Bungie) said that they messed up the schedule and didn’t have a “polishing” time with HALO 2. He said that he hates to play HALO 2 multi-player because of this. He says that HALO 3 is going…

  • You’d Give An Arm And A Leg.

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    Sometimes, Stuntmutt can go too far with his One One Se7en puns. (Wait… sometimes?)(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)

  • Floaty Silence 2 – Heaven Leapers

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    Hellhawk has released Floaty Silence 2 – no relation to Floaty Silence, or even the Floaty Silence 2 Trailer, but funny nonetheless. His forum post contains a QuickTime encoded with h.264; if you’d rather have a WMP9 version (18.1 mb), or a QuickTime that’s more compatible with less powerful machines (18.9 mb), we’re making these…

  • 360Zine Halo 3 Preview

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    360Zine is a free downloadable magazine that covers (surprise, surprise) Xbox 360 news. Issue 2 has a Halo 3 preview. You can grab it (23 mb) from their downloads page. (Some of the features of this secured PDF were a little… buggy for me.)(Louis Wu 13:37:26 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Twelve new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!(Louis Wu 13:08:52 UTC)

  • MLG Division I Halo Final Wrap-Up

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    MLG has posted a wrapup of their Division I Halo Online Tournament – congrats to FBI GamerGraffix! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:44:17 UTC)

  • They’re like squirrels, preparing for winter.

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    Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find the latest Halo 3 Humpday writeup; a mean group of Bungie employees went into Halo 3 matchmaking against 3 groups of brand-new players… and destroyed them. As KP accurately points out in the writeup, the tables will turn as soon as enough players learn the ins and outs of the…

  • Project Magma Launches Myth Vault

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    Project Magma, the guys who keep Myth multiplayer alive and provide patches so the game keeps running on updated operating systems, have launched a new website, Myth Vault, intended to be a catch-all archive for Myth-related files, including films, artworks, and even maps.

  • Keeping The Bungie Edge Sharp

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    What Louis Wu says about the article “Inside Bungie” at EDGE magazine is one hundred percent correct; even those who have been peering at Bungie through spyglasses and telescopes for years can learn a lot of new things about the studio in this rare look behind the scenes. Go. Read. NOW.

  • Halo 3 Humpday: Team Skirmish

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    This week the Bungie crew went online in the Halo 3 Alpha to dish out some good old-fashioned drubbings as new players took to the newly revised matchmaking test playlists for the first time last night.

  • Bungie – Edge’s Take

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    Edge has posted their January 2007 article on Bungie and Halo 3 online – go give it a read. As is true with most Edge articles, it’s well-written, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Everyone can learn something from this – I learned stuff from this. Where Bungie’s come from, where it might be going – how it’s…

  • Halo 3’s MA5C Assault Rifle Details

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    Bungie has released details on the new-and-improved “MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System” which is better known as simply, the Assault Rifle. The AR (version MA5B) was a popular spawn weapon in Halo, but mysteriously disappeared in Halo 2. By popular demand (or b/c the SMG was terrible), it is making a comeback in Halo 3.…

  • Halo 3 Schwag at HotTopic

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    Foxcross noticed three new Halo 3-related items at HotTopic; there’s a beanie, a messenger bag, and a pretty slick Master Chief T. Nice!(Louis Wu 12:26:51 UTC)

  • D is for Dead

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    Ibeechu sat down to create a Halo machinima piece that parodied ‘sub-par machinima’. He was shooting for ‘so bad it’s good’; I’m not sure he got there, but it’s definitely pretty bad. Cheesy story + cheesy dialogue + cheesy cliches… mmm, the power of cheese. He’s put up a 41 mb WMP9 version, and Funkmon…

  • There Are Many Like It, But This One Will Be Yours

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    Don’t call it a gun. In fact, don’t even call it a rifle. It isn’t even a weapon. It’s a system. The MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that KP made that up himself when he penned the description of Halo 3’s default spawn weapon, that hybrid of Halo…

  • A Brick Outhouse With Venetian Blinds

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    Frankie, who’s not very nice, told us about a writeup of the Assault Rifle on Bungie.net. Lots of down-and-dirty details, and scenarios for use. Go read!(Louis Wu 01:18:11 UTC)