My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Take cool screens, win cool cash

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    The360Forum.com is hosting a Halo 3 Screenshot contest – there are 5 categories, with a $50 prize on the line for each one. Go read the rules! Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 19:16:11 UTC)

  • The Split, Reexamined

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    The New York Times looked at the Microsoft/Bungie split; it doesn’t have a ton of new info over other articles about the subject, but is notable for being in the Times, I suppose. It’s also interesting because of the image at the top of the article; it shows Bungie environment artist Eric Elton working on…

  • Halo 3 meets V8 Supercars

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    PROPH37 sent us some interesting info about Australian racecar driver Rick Kelly, who will be wearing (or wore, I guess; the race happened this weekend) a Master Chief helmet in the Bathurst 1000, a V8 Supercar race. You can actually WIN this helmet, by answering some trivia questions (if you’re an Australian/NZ resident). Go check…

  • I think they missed Stuntmutt’s category.

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    Blogcritics has posted a guide to Halo 3 multiplayer – see if you can figure out which category of player you fit into! I think I’m either the Team Player or the Noob. Or maybe the Noob Team Player.(Louis Wu 18:26:11 UTC)

  • Super Halo Brothers

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    Heh – this is fun. Xbox 360 Fanboy found a video of Sandtrap, modified for platforming, with sound effects from Super Mario Brothers. If you want to see a larger version of it, they grabbed it from GameVideos – and you can actually download the modified level from the FileShare of finjitzu, the guy who…

  • Awesome Guitar – For You?

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    Back in July, we mentioned the first 3 for 3 sweepstakes on Xbox.com – and we noted that you could win a cool Ibanez guitar. Seems Ibanez is giving away 3 more, over the next three months – along with the game and a couple of shirts, each month. Go enter! Thanks, Electric Guitar Review.(Louis…

  • What folks won’t do for schwag

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    Weird. Some guy is trying to play Halo 3 for three days without sleep. He’s already a little over 2 days in – you can follow that link to see his progress. If he does it, he wins a 360 and a copy of Halo 3. Thanks, Mintz. (Louis Wu 15:13:47 UTC)

  • Workin’ through the levels, step 5

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    Jake Seaton’s Mission-A-Day, Episode 5, is now up – this is the last one until Monday. He gave this one a 4/5 – the action was too easy. (Louis Wu 15:09:57 UTC)

  • Saturday Handful of Reviews

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    Just three reviews for you today:Bentley College’s The Vanguard gave Halo 3 8/10, and said that the multiplayer rocked, but that the Campaign didn’t have enough to keep people interested.The University of Hartford Informer says “don’t say, ‘it’s just a game’.”Inland Valley’s Daily Bulletin says it’s no religious epiphany, but it’s solid. Score is 1/2…

  • Marty to talk to Major Nelson?

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    Shinesevens caught a glitch in Major Nelson’s RSS feed – it’s cleared up now, but from what he could see, Sunday’s podcast is going to be an interview with Marty O’Donnell. Look forward to it! (Louis Wu 15:07:07 UTC)

  • Jealousy is an ugly emotion

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    zugy pointed out a video at Tom’s Games that looks at the backlash against Halo 3 in the PC gamer community. Heh – I guess if you’re not IN that community, you might not even have KNOWN about the backlash.(Louis Wu 15:05:11 UTC)

  • Sword GIMPing

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    thePheonix9 played with a bunch of sword shots in multiplayer, adding comic-like filters to them. The end result was pretty nice!(Louis Wu 15:03:08 UTC)

  • Sketch looks forward

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    Great interview with SketchFactor, over at Kotaku – it clarifies a few things about the new Bungie/Microsoft relationship, talks about what might be coming, and confirms that the Halo DS stuff that resurfaced last week was, indeed, real; it was a proof-of-concept project that never got off the ground. (Lots of folks noticed that it…

  • Drink Up.

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    ViralSyris noticed some new party cups in the Bungie Store – perfect for lanfests.(Louis Wu 14:50:08 UTC)

  • Microsoft Owns Halo, No Outside Investors In Bungie

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    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an updated story on the to-all-visible-appearances amicable Microsoft-Bungie split, including comments from Bungie studio head Harold Ryan and Microsoft’s Shane Kim. It’s well worth poring over. Both Kim and Ryan are extremely evasive regarding any of the financial details, but they do say that the Halo intellectual property belongs to Microsoft,…

  • Community Reacts To Bungie’s Regained Independence

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    Here are more links to articles on Bungie’s bombshell announcement: Nobody asked Bungie about the rumored separation in the thread for this week’s update, but Frankie dished on it anyway. Effective October 1, Bungie is an independent company with a long-term publishing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios for Halo games. GameDailyBiz interviewed Frankie about Bungie’s…

  • Bungie Declares Independence

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    SketchFactor has posted a press release on Bungie.net that declares that Bungie Studios will become a privately held company. Bungie LLC will have Microsoft as a partner and a minority shareholder and will continue to make games for the Xbox. “Working with Microsoft was great for us, it allowed us to grow as a team…

  • Stick Different.

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    trigger119 pointed out a vid in the MLG Gameroom called ‘Halo PlasmaTrotters’, made by TTO AceHawk89 as an entry into MLG’s Halo 3 Film Festival, Most Creative category. I LOVE this kind of thing. Man… I could watch these all day.(Louis Wu 23:27:28 UTC)

  • Request for content

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    Over the years, we’ve become known as a repository for certain static types of Halo information. Today, there are more sites out there that are collecting data… but we feel that having local copies of the more important stuff simply… makes sense. Fansites come and go, after all.With the release of Halo 3, we’re looking…

  • Gallinago Gallinago.

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    Stuntmutt notices some new monster design might be more than just eye candy in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 19:14:40 UTC)