My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Contact Harvest – a Bestseller

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    Contact Harvest went on sale 3 weeks ago – and the press release sent around yesterday (visible, among other places, at Game Daily) suggests it’s a hit. It debuted at #3 on the November 18 New York Times Bestseller list, and is still at #4 this week. (You probably have to be logged in to…

  • Top Montages, Summarized

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    Z pointed out an article written by Steam, over at 360WTF; it covers some of the top montages made in Halo 2, the Halo 3 beta, and Gears of War. (Examples are included.) Go watch! (Louis Wu 14:37:00 UTC)

  • Halo 3 – a hit with casual gamers?

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    I saw this article via Google News yesterday morning – but passed on front-paging it for a number of reasons. Anton P. Nym noted it on our forum yesterday afternoon – but I was busy, so I didn’t take a second look. When I got up this morning, the report, from a company called ‘BrandIntel’,…

  • Halo 3 Should Be More Like Pokemon Snap

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    Trindacut

    When I played through Halo 3, all I got was a bitter taste in my mouth from sucking on my neighbors lemons, who forced me to allow him to play with me. Halo 3 is crap, I am trading it in for Pokemon Snap, aka the World’s Greatest Game. I’ll have none of this [b]unrealistic…

  • Three New Maps For Halo 3

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    narcogen

    Bungie’s “big news” for Monday was, as many predicted, the official announcement of the first installment of downloadable content for Halo 3. In this case, three new maps: Standoff, looking quite similar to parts of Tsavo Highway or The Storm, Rat’s Nest, based on Crow’s Nest from the campaign, and Foundry, based on the warehouse…

  • Call of Duty 4 Mile High Club walkthroughs

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    rapture

    Call of Duty 4 has a beast of a campaign on Veteran mode. It’s probably the toughest difficulty I’ve played in a FPS (certainly the CoD series). Be sure to hang around after the credits and you’ll get to access a bonus mission. This mission is accessible on any difficulty, however you can only unlock…

  • DLC, with a Bungie Spin

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    If you missed the initial announcement of the upcoming Halo Downloadable Content, or the followup screenshots, you should swing by Bungie.net, and read this story. Actually, even if you DIDN’T miss that other stuff, you should read the story. A large chunk of it is a Q&A with Chris Barrett, the creative director of DLC…

  • Send in stuff for this week’s show: Multiplayer Tips & Map of the Month

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    foomojive

    It’s time to get freak again with some multiplayer tips to help you level up and stay there. This week we have two of the best Halo 3 players at Podtacular joining us to really take it to another level: Tarheels32 and MaesterGXL. Here’s a tip: don’t try to play hacky sack with a sticky…

  • Heroic Map Pack Announced for Halo 3

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    With the content announced and priced, we talk to a couple of the DLC leads for some more details.

  • Gratuitous Humor.

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    Stuntmutt looks at the downloadable version of the original Halo (due on December 11) in today’s One One Se7en. Funny man.(Louis Wu 20:17:45 UTC)

  • Extra Medals in Halo 3

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    Blackstar has been creating new medals for new experiences in Halo 3 for a few weeks; we’ve finally gotten around to adding a page for them. His latest medal is ‘What Goes Around’, awarded to bark0de for an amusing death on Sandtrap. Check out the whole collection!(Louis Wu 20:08:52 UTC)

  • GeeVeeGrab – Halo 3 films, without a capture card

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    Interesting; cortinator points out that GeeVee.com is offering a beta service whereby they’ll automatically convert your fileshare’d saved film clips to streamable video… this could be pretty useful for folks without a capture card! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:41:58 UTC)

  • Heroic Map Pack Screens

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    Thanks to Edelman; I hadn’t noticed the link to screens earlier.Standoff: 1080p (517K) | 480p (121K)Rat’s Nest: 1080p (470K) | 480p (106K)Foundry: 1080p (441K) | 480p (102K)Gotta say… they’re pretty! (Louis Wu 17:58:01 UTC)

  • Lycos releases web search numbers

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    Wow, this is truly strange to me. According to EarthTimes.org, Lycos has posted its 8th annual list of the most popular toys and video games, based on web search activity… and Halo 3 came in 10th, well below 6th-place Halo 2. How is this possible? Are Lycos users living in the past, or something?(Louis Wu…

  • Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack

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    Over at Xbox.com, the big announcement alluded to in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update has gone up – on December 11, 3 new multiplayer maps will be available for download, for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 US). These will all be free by spring 2008, just in time for the NEXT wave of downloadable content. Go…

  • Halo Flash games down under

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    Stuntmutt sent us links to a couple of Flash games available on Australian websites; there’s ‘Halo Fore’, a golf game on the Red v Blue charity site, and ‘Grunt Attack’, a twitch shooter. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:19:29 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack announced

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    CapnKrunk

    Last week over at bungie.net, the Bungie Weekly Update hinted at something big dropping this week, and here it is! After launching to incredible acclaim and fanaticism, “Halo 3” players will be able to enjoy three all new multiplayer maps on Dec. 11 as part of the Heroic Map Pack, the first in a series…

  • Saving Grace

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    TTL Demag0gue has posted the last part of Chapter One of his Reclaimer comic – we’ll be moving on to Team Viper soon.(Louis Wu 14:44:17 UTC)

  • Wall Painting Update

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    John_117 has updated our forum on his progress of his Cortana/Master Chief wall painting – you can see the latest screenshot in his post.(Louis Wu 14:42:42 UTC)

  • Music Transcriptions at R.net

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    Also at Rampancy.net this morning are two music transcriptions from spartan182 – a partial solution of the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer, for piano, and Unforgotten (the main menu screen music). You must be logged in to download.(Louis Wu 14:41:09 UTC)