My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Prophet of Crock

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    Elnea’s son replaced Terence Stamp with Chris Crocker in a cutscene from Crow’s Nest. (If you haven’t PLAYED Crow’s Nest (mission 2), you’ll be faced with some minor spoilers here.) I’m disturbed by how well it works…(Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC)

  • R.net Weapons Guide – SMG

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    Rampancy.net has posted another entry for its Halo 3 Weapons Guide – this time they’re looking at the SMG.(Louis Wu 12:24:44 UTC)

  • Purple Light Sold Separately, Apparently

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    Hawty McBloggy points out a somewhat risqué custom-made Cortana statue for sale on eBay; this can probably be considered NSFW. That said, it’s a pretty amazing piece of work. Starting bid is $200, with just under 5 days to go.(Louis Wu 12:18:27 UTC)

  • Halo 3 helps MS sell 360s in September

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    September numbers are expected to be announced today – but there are plenty of people already predicting what they’ll say. Next-Gen has an article which quotes Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter as predicting that the Xbox 360 numbers for the month of September will be around 450,000, beating out the Wii, and due in large…

  • Play N Trade National Halo 3 Tourney

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    Play N Trade stores will be hosting a Halo 3 tournament in most of their stores through the US, with national winners competing for thousands in in-store credit and Halo merch. You can read all the details in the press release, over at BusinessWire. Tournament rules are on Play N Trade’s website.(Louis Wu 12:03:15 UTC)

  • News Summary – Catch-Up Mode

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    I woke up to a mailbox full of older Google News Alerts – a few dozen messages from Saturday through Tuesday, that all came in together. Much of the news they contained has already been mentioned, but here’s a roundup of the interesting tidbits we hadn’t gotten to: MSNBC.com has an article about how Halo…

  • Pass The Mead, Master Chief

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    Inari Vaissi Nagy at the University of Ottawa’s Fulcrum wonders if Master Chief isn’t a good modern equivalent of ancient epic heroes: The violence, the big, nasty guns and speeding vehicles, and the brutal competitiveness, are all undoubtedly major attractions to the gaming world–much to the alarm of many from the pre-gamer generation. But is…

  • Bubbleshield Glitch Hits Halo 3

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    Frag The Cullen forwarded to me a film clip made by Jihaku of a Team Slayer game played a few days ago. In that game, player Geo Stelar seems to have an infinite bag of bubble shields. No matter how many times he deploys it, he always has another, a fact he uses to his…

  • Tanks Do Beat Everything

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    deadox1138 has created a site for Halo motivational posters. It’s fantastic, check it out right now.

  • Halo 3 Soundtrack Announced

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    Amazon.com has a page up for the two-disc Halo 3 Original Soundtrack, due out on November 20, 2007. It will include the music created by Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori for Halo 3 and be published by Sumthing Else Records. However, it will also include a track by the lucky winners of a contest being…

  • SMG

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    Today’s entry into the Halo 3 Weapons Guide is the SMG.  Click here for the complete text.

  • Goozex HD DVD contest winner!

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    Congratulations to Goozex member sLiM2269 from TX. He was randomly chosen as the winner of Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player! We have already contacted him and confirmed his shipping address. Thanks to everyone that entered and to Podtacular for letting us interact with everyone here! Remember, the coupon code you used, Pod-HD-DVD, is valid and will…

  • News Summary For October 17, 2007

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    A few items of note that slipped through the cracks lately: ForgeHub is a site featuring descriptions and links to custom maps and gametypes people have created in Forge. Some very interesting stuff up there now, with more sure to follow. High Speed Halo is still getting up to speed on Halo 3 speedruns, but…

  • RT: Portal Potty

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    Sorry for the late posting of today’s comic everyone. I got really busy and stuff. Feel free to mention it on my quarterly performance review. Halo 3 – 990/1000

  • Trot out the ‘experts’, it’s time to bash games again

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    Wow. I’m as disturbed by the fallacies presented by last week’s The Morning Show as GamePolitics is. Someone needs to open a dialogue like this when there HASN’T been a school shooting in the past few days; we need people to be thinking rationally when they’re making decisions on concepts like this. Thanks, GryphonOsiris.(Louis Wu…

  • Submit to Halo

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    Sh0rtBusKid found an interesting picture at DeviantArt – it’s generated a lot of discussion on our forum, but I’m not sure everyone’s seeing the same message. What do you see?(Louis Wu 21:24:24 UTC)

  • Sketch Cards, from Topps Artist

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    Kevin Graham is one of the artists tapped by Topps to create sketch cards that have been inserted into their Halo card packs. Kevin wanted to share his work with the Halo community – so we’ve put up a page containing almost 3 dozen sketch card images. Check ’em out – they’re beautiful!(Louis Wu 20:43:41…

  • Oregon Trail, 2552 Style.

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    AnTi PRO let us know that ArmTheFlag.com is in the process of creating the first episode of a Halo 3 machinima project titled ‘ Oregon Trail: Pioneering Evolved’. They released a trailer a month ago, using the Halo 2 engine… but didn’t want to spread the news too widely until the Halo 3-based first episode…

  • Halo 3 Carbine – good for lucky headshots

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    Rampancy.net has posted another installment of their Halo 3 Weapons Guide – this one looks at the Carbine. (Louis Wu 13:46:03 UTC)

  • Halotivational Posters

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    deadox is kicking off a new blog, showing off motivational posters made from Halo 3 shots. He’s looking for your input.(Louis Wu 13:21:42 UTC)