My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • A Terminal Condition

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    narcogen

    The Hushed Casket told you how to get the armor permutations; if you now need to find all the terminals (without looking yourselves, you lazy bastards) check out the 7th Columnist’s terminal guide.

  • How Halo Graphics Evolved

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    narcogen

    GameSpot has a nice feature out that lets you compare in place screenshots from all three Halo games so you can see the changes in the graphics; very slick. Check it out.

  • Bungie Confirms Halo 3 Runs in 640p

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    narcogen

    The latest Bungie update covers a number of topics, including achievements and skulls, but the real revelation is that unlike most Xbox 360 games, Halo 3’s native resolution is 640p, as rumored: Naturally it’s more complicated than that. In fact, you could argue we gave you 1280 pixels of vertical resolution, since Halo 3 uses…

  • Halo 3 Is A Chore

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    narcogen

    Penny Arcade doesn’t hate Halo anymore (well, at first they loved it, then they hated it, then they sort of… well, at any case, now Tycho says: I’m not sure people understand that the time to bag on Halo was years ago, when everyone liked it, as opposed to now, when they’ve finally delivered a…

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 09/28/07

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    We’re playing you guys online as you read this. BUt we do address a couple of items.

  • (Re-)introducing the Gallery Forum

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    The Gallery Forum is back! Weekly caption contents with our development outtakes.

  • A Sweet Deal for Tourney Newbs

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Whoa. So you know we post MLG news when we find it (or when it’s sent to us)… but did you know we were looking to make your lives a little better, tournament-wise? MLG Las Vegas kicks off on October 12 – and if you’re not a pro (or even if you are), participating can…

  • More Lock-In Writeups

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    So it’s been a little while since I looked – some of the other participants in the Community Lock-In have now posted writeups. (Mine, if you missed it, was mentioned on Wednesday.) In alphabetical order: Aeropause | Gamertag Radio | Grunts R Us | Podtacular | XBL10kClub I’m sure more are coming. (Louis Wu 21:26:43…

  • Isolation Changes – Nailed

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Heh – cool. Noticed at Xbox 360 Fanboy that someone’s discovered what happens on Isolation after you’ve been playing for a while. (Ferrex hinted that there was a change a little while back… now we know what he meant.) (Louis Wu 21:26:03 UTC)

  • Halo3.com now fully fleshed

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    Stuntmutt (fast becoming PostWhore) pointed out that all the blacked-out boxes on halo3.com (in the Characters and Vehicles & Weapons pages) are now filled out. Not surprising – but finished.(Louis Wu 21:05:44 UTC)

  • Unco-op.

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    Poor Stuntmutt – Halo 3’s been out for 2 days in the UK, and he ALREADY don’t get no respect. Check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:34:29 UTC)

  • Like WoW gold mining, but harder

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    Penny Arcade looks at the lengths people go to nail down achievements – thanks to many, but Stuntmutt was first.(Louis Wu 17:23:56 UTC)

  • More reviews

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    A couple more reviews popped up – Gamestyle gave Halo 3 a 10/10 (thanks, Garry Webber), and TotalVideoGames says it’s only worth 8/10. Update: Stuntmutt (triple post!) noticed a review at Game Revolution (A-). (Louis Wu 17:21:04 UTC)

  • Lord of the Ringworld

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    Online Journalism Review has posted an interview with our own Louis Wu, talking about online communities in general and HBO in particular. It offers a peek behind the curtain at some of the hows whys of HBO. Thanks to the author, Noah Barron, for letting us know it was up. (GhaleonEB 15:03:38 UTC)

  • More Machinima Stuff

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    Yesterday, we described what you need to do in order to lower your weapon in Halo 3. We got a note from Burnie, over at Red vs Blue, with some followup info; a similar combo (swapping only DPad-Down for DPad-Up) will give you camera global coordinates and look vectors; this info should help you reproduce…

  • Section 3

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update contained a section called ‘Sketch’s Build-Your-Own-Halo-Comic’ – it showed off a series of screenshots, with some basic Photoshop filters applied, and suggested that they could easily be turned into a comic. Apparently, V10L3N7 JAY and friends did exactly that – Section 3 is a comic composed of screenshots taken in…

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – could it be that everyone’s playing a new game or something? (See if you can figure out who ‘Angel at the Tomb’ is – here’s a hint, he’s been around for a while.)(Louis Wu 13:26:21 UTC)

  • Campaign Tribute to Halo 2

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    TM22 edited a Halo 2 tribute video – 15 minutes long, 170 mb, WMP9 format. You can grab a copy (or watch it streaming) over at Halo3Forum.com… tons of trick moves and grenade bounces – some really nice clips. Thanks, Z. (Louis Wu 12:53:27 UTC)

  • Custom Female Spartan Statue

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    Wow. Joseph Ryan pointed us to this one-of-a-kind hand-sculpted Halo statue on eBay; polymer clay, almost 12 inches to the top of the sniper rifle. 10% of the sale price goes to the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Opening bid is $200, you’ve got just under a week. (Louis Wu 10:47:51 UTC)

  • College Review

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    The Emory Wheel reviewed Halo 3 – they found parts repetitive, and some gameplay gripes, but in general liked it a lot. (Louis Wu 10:43:54 UTC)