My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Humpday Challenge: Game with Fame

    This week we brave the perils of Matchmaking in honor of Xbox Live’s birthday.

  • War Time Creed or Motto e Motto

    We Just started this new group and have yet to decide our true official Motto So I have made a list please tell us what your favorite is then we will make a poll based on your choices and see who wins.

  • Gears of Bored

    Another Halo Comic Strip takes a look at what’s happening on other parts of Xbox Live… heh. Bad ZZoMBiE13.(Louis Wu 21:19:13 UTC)

  • A Voice in the Dark

    Grantix stopped by to point out Helljumper, Issue 2 – looks like that Spartan’s in trouble.(Louis Wu 21:14:46 UTC)

  • RT: Nerfed

    Gus has been all in a tizzy lately over the news that the fine people of Blizzard have released a patch to World Of Warcraft that makes it significantly easier to get from levels 20-60. Apparently this “waters down” the experience of getting to…

  • Play Against Bungie in the Humpday Today

    A bunch of us are going to be online from 3 p.m. Pacific to 5 p.m. Pacific today in Halo 3. The results of some of those matches will become this week’s Humpday Challenge.

  • Mike Gravel, Sword Hog

    Mike Gravel has been excluded from the Democratic debate this evening in Las Vegas; you can watch this video to see him explaining to NPR’s Diane Rehm why this is… or you can visit this YouTube page to see him explaining the REAL reason in today’s episode of Elevator, a web-based video series created by…

  • Key word: Original

    Major Nelson has clarified that the Xbox Originals, officially announced yesterday as older Xbox games to be available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace, will NOT contain additional functionality; they will not have Achievements or be used in your Gamer score. And though it wasn’t mentioned specifically, I’d GUESS that this means that the downloadable…

  • More Cortana Cosplaying

    MsValentine continues to hone her Cortana outfit; last month, she added a very cool wig to the outfit… and a Grunt Birthday Skull. There are some really amazing poses in this group… including a bunch of shots with MC’s helmet, and a few with a nice reversal of the MC/Cortana standard placement. Go check out…

  • Metallica DLC Confirmed for Rock Band

    The tracks Ride the Lightning, …And Justice for All, and Blackened will be available for download as a track pack when Rock Band is released next week. Track packs will be priced at 440 Microsoft points to combat Guitar Hero’s pricing of 500 Microsoft points for its track packs. Tracks will also be available for…

  • Playin’ With the Chief

    Strangely enough, we have word of ANOTHER video that looks at what happens to Master Chief in Multiplayer… DigitalPh33r, the guy behind the Master Chief Sucks at Halo series (and other funny bits) has released Playin’ With the Chief, a video that might give you an idea of just how single-minded Master Chief really is……

  • After the Ark

    Raulboy posted a piece he made for class – how does Master Chief deal with matchmaking? (Not too well.) About 10 mb, in either QT or WMP9 formats, linked from his forum post. (Louis Wu 14:26:44 UTC)

  • Ogre 2 and Ghost hold forth on Halo 3

    Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a dual interview – Ogre 2 (from Final Boss) and Ghostayame (from Carbon) – discussing Halo 3, how it differs from Halo 2, and what the future might hold. Good reading! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:17:22 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Leaderboards

    Cody Miller noticed a new site – Halo 3 Leaderboards. It’s unclear where they get their data from (a few forumgoers suggest that they’re not in the rankings but should be), but it’s a great place to go for aggregated leaderboards. Here’s hoping it doesn’t lead to the cheating that made Bungie pull down THEIR…

  • BattleItch Shoots the Noob Tube

    In honor of the M203 grenade launcher in Call of Duty 4 (often called the noob tube by frustrated gamers who can’t form an effective strategy to combat a player using it) here is a video of an actual M203 in action, in the hands of my wife. At The Basic School every company holds…

  • GWF Developers: details

    A couple of days ago, we mentioned the Game With Fame Developers day – which is today. Participants, and a time for the Bungie dev team participation, were unknown at the time. They’re up now – you can see who from the Halo Wars dev team will be playing from 9am – 1pm today, and…

  • Free Halo 2 theme on XBLM

    Yesterday morning, x Zero x mentioned that Tuesday night’s episode of Caveman, a comedy on ABC, contained a Halo reference. I didn’t get around to mentioning it in the news… but last night darthbob noticed that there was a clip of it on Kotaku. I’m gonna have to agree with them – it looks more…

  • When ad dollars stretch too far

    TKD 117 was the first to let us know that Halo: Combat Evolved is the Featured Article of the Day on the English version of Wikipedia today – Happy 6th Birthday! (While it’s true that the game itself was released a few days before the 15th, nobody could PLAY it until the Xbox hit the…

  • Halo: Featured on Wikipedia

    TKD 117 was the first to let us know that Halo: Combat Evolved is the Featured Article of the Day on the English version of Wikipedia today – Happy 6th Birthday! (While it’s true that the game itself was released a few days before the 15th, nobody could PLAY it until the Xbox hit the…

  • Go Forge Yourself

    Cozmo23 let us know that Clan O7AH is hosting the First Annual Go Forge Yourself Contest; you’ve got until December 17 to create something cool. There will be prizes for the Most Creative Map, Best Looking Map, and Best Overall Map. Check the site for full details and rules. (Louis Wu 21:43:13 UTC)