My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Potential Spoilers

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  • Better than dynamite

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    It… I don’t… guh. Frogblast has invented a NEW Halo 3 sport – Fish-stunning. Read his post, watch the movie. Then go play. (Louis Wu 12:43:39 UTC)

  • Bungie – still stacking the deck

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    The first real Halo 3 Humpday Challenge (that is, between Bungie and people outside Bungie, with filmz you can download and everything) was played this week; five Bungie guys went into the Social Slayer matchmaking list, and barely squeaked out a win over a bunch of randomly selected casual players. Hmm… I wonder what’s going…

  • Friday Review Roundup

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    Another four, today:Blogcritics gave it 5 stars, LOVED the multiplayer, were disappointed by parts of the campaign. (Thanks, Rampancy.net)The Eastern Progress had three separate writers look at it; they all agreed, it was a winner – apparently it has “pushed people to the limit of class attendance policies.”The Tracy Press gives Halo 3 a 10/10A…

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Eleven new pieces up for you this week in the Fan Fiction section… get to reading!(Louis Wu 12:08:46 UTC)

  • 300 Mill? Pfft.

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    Jon Ogg, at 24/7 Wall St., says $300 million is nothing – Halo 3 will hit $500 million soon. (I suppose if ‘soon’ means ‘sometime in the next two or three years’, I’d agree with him. If he means ‘before the end of 2007’… I’m not sure I’d take that bet. He probably means something…

  • ActionClix, on the ground

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    Sean “Shidarin/ig98” Wallitsch (longtime bungie.org readers might recognize the name; ig98 was one of the first maintainers of myth.bungie.org, back in 1999) picked up some Halo ActionClix goodies, and was kind enough to blog about his experience. Check it out!(Louis Wu 11:53:42 UTC)

  • Podtacular 4 Players Co-Op Tourney

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    What’s up everyone! It’s now time to get your BR’s and Carbines out and get your team of 4 ready because on October 13th at 6:00PM EST Podtacular will proudly bring to you the first Online 4 Players Co-Op Halo 3 Tourney around. In this touryney teams will compete against one another for the maximum…

  • Bungie Prevails In First Official Halo 3 Humpday

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    Shishka saved Bungie from humiliating defeat in the first post-launch Halo 3 Humpday, as the boys from Kirkland waded into Social Slayer and got socially slayed. Check Bungie.net for the full writeup as well as links to the Saved Films; this is the first time we’ll be able not just to read about the humpday,…

  • Halo 3 Completes Your Collection

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    Brian Szabelski at Blogcritics.org gives a thumbs up to Halo 3: Halo 3 is just about everything we’ve been led to think it would be. It falls short in some areas of campaign, where things seem like the generic FPS cliché of “here’s a room full of bad guys, kill ’em!”, but it absolutely shines…

  • Halo Movie Is Deader Than Dead

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    Creativity Online interviews film director Neill Blomkamp about the promotional shorts he did for Halo 3, and in the process, finds out that the Halo movie project is a lot more dead than most fans think, and that the shorts were entirely separate, and not part of an attempt to lure Hollywood back into the…

  • Blue Filters In Stock

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    The Bungie Store has got the blue filter you can use with Halo 3’s video calibrator in stock now. For a limited time, it’s free with any other order!

  • Halo 3 Cracks $300 Million

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    Halo 3 zoomed from its first day US sales of $170 million to a first week total of $300 million, according to GamesIndustry.biz. It was also heavily played on Xbox Live, garnering the top spot: Microsoft stats reveal that more than 2.7 million people have played Halo 3 over Xbox Live in the past week,…

  • Humpday Challenge: Halo 3 Debut

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Click the left stick. And up, and down and up, and down. It’s the Humpday Challenge.

  • Blomkamp discusses Halo

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    Creativity Online interviewed Niel Blomkamp about the Halo shorts he made recently (and about the Halo movie he didn’t make). It’s a pretty interesting read; he’s pretty clear that the Halo movie, in its most recent form, is quite dead… but he’s certainly willing to reconsider it if things change. The discussion about the shorts…

  • A different view

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    The Slate review of Halo 3 basically says Campaign is a total waste of time, that Multiplayer is where it’s at. “Think of it as Madden for the science-fiction crowd. It ain’t art, but it sure is fun.” Um… I’m not sure we’re playing the same game. Thanks, Salen Stormwing.(Louis Wu 21:19:43 UTC)

  • RT: Dad of the Year

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    Rooster Teeth News

    You’d have to be living under a rock to not know about every little iota of Britney Spears’ life lately, from what she eats, to what her underwear looks like, to which hair extensions she’s wearing this week, to her custody battle over her kids. We’re not…

  • A homemade MC outfit in Sweden

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    Speaking of Master Chief costumes – Gustav Ljungdahl, a Swedish Halo fan, sent us some pictures of his homemade Master Chief outfit – total cost was $40. MC photographed by a semi-naked man | MC fighting Samus Aran | MC in bed with a cute girl Not a bad job!(Louis Wu 18:27:02 UTC)

  • Art meets commerce

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    Hawty McBloggy has been busy; she’s got an interview with Pavel Dolgov, who does a lot of Halo-related art (check our news for links), plus a couple of fun eBay items – a foam sheeting Master Chief costume, and a Master Chief sculpture made from real engine parts. Whee!(Louis Wu 18:20:49 UTC)

  • A/V Calibration Filter: Now Available

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    The Blue Filter, a non-essential tool you can use to finely tune your television is now available at the Bungie Store.