My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2007

  • Podtacular Invades Seattle

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    JVB

    Foo Mo Jive and I had the honor of attending the Halo 3 launch event in Seattle. We had a chance to interview and meet a lot of great people. Our proudest moment had to be the interview we had with Marty O’Donnell, which made me a bit nervous, so nervous that I called myself…

  • Ultra Super Mega Uber Bundle

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Check out this Halo bundle on eBay. Zowie. Got a bunch of spare money, anyone? 😉 (Thanks to MffnMn for the link)(mnemesis 16:10:02 UTC)

  • Welcome back to the madhouse

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    halo@bungie.org
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    The HBO forum is now back online – if you haven’t finished the game, I’d caution you to be careful. We ask that folks not post spoilers without warning (and not to put spoilers in subject lines); we’ll do our best to remove or relabel spoiler posts if it does happen (and we’ll ban folks…

  • Scratched Discs

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    halo@bungie.org
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    We got more than a few notes over the last couple of days that some of the Limited Edition buyers were finding that their discs were scratched. Today, Microsoft is offering to replace those discs free of charge.(mnemesis 15:41:14 UTC)

  • Sick Skillz.

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Looks like no One One Se7en today. Hope you get better, Stuntmutt! Mythomania is a terrible affliction.(Louis Wu 15:35:08 UTC)

  • Welcome to my KILLIONAIR!

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    halo@bungie.org
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    A 2old2play regular, BatmanKM, has done a really cool retro-comic-cover of the MC. Looks great! Thanks to King Drewsky for the note.(mnemesis 15:33:39 UTC)

  • Angry Robots do Halo

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Angry Robot had a few Halo-related items yesterday that I forgot to post. They played through the first two games (writeup and video), wrote up a rant on cliffhangar endings (specifically, Halo 2’s), and then played through Halo 3 for a few hours and did a podcast afterwards. Check it out, and thanks to daragh.(mnemesis…

  • Halo 3 Community Lock-In

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Back at home, after a crazy few days in Seattle… it’s amazing how much news mnemesis and KP managed to post in the last couple of days. You’d almost think I was expendable… heh. Where did I go? Well, Microsoft hosted an event titled ‘Community Lock-In’ – and I played some Halo 3. And stuff.…

  • Halo 3 Splitscreen Doesn’t Use Entire Widescreen

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    narcogen

    Ah, aspect ratios and high definition televisions. Just as fans bitched and moaned last month about the fact that both Xbox 360 and PC versions of Bioshock locked displays to a single horizontal FOV setting, whether the user had a 4:3 or a 16:9 screen, now Joystiq is on about how splitscreen works in Halo…

  • Forum reopening

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    halo@bungie.org
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    If you’ve been itching to discuss Halo 3 with your fellow halo.bungie.org pals, then I’ve got great news for ya. The forum should reopen in just a few hours! So just scratch that itch for a leeetle bit longer, ‘kay?(Ding 13:08:06 UTC)

  • Pro-G: Bungie Not Developing Halo 4

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    narcogen

    Of course, we’ve heard this before. After Halo 2 was released in 2004, there were rumblings and vague remarks about Bungie wanting to do something else, non-Halo-related, for a change. Which is entirely understandable. Now, Pro-G is quoting Bungie’s Joe Tung as saying Bungie wants to work on something else for a change, and is…

  • Ultimate Halo Auction

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    narcogen

    Major Nelson points out an auction to benefit charity that includes some pretty one-of-a-kind items, including an Xbox 360 autographed by Bill Gates, a Zune autographed by J Allard, and a pretty complete collection of Halo games and bonus content.

  • Twas the Night Before Halo 3

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    JVB

    Twas the night before Halo 3, when all through my room Not a 360 was whirring, not even a vroom. My money was secure in my wallet with care, In hopes that my game soon would be here. My Brothers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Master Chief danced in their…

  • Halo 3 Not Trying To Be Photorealistic

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    narcogen

    Cinematic designer Lee Wilson at Bungie responds to some criticism that Halo 3 isn’t as much of a graphical tour de force as games like Bioshock or Gears of War in an article at Pro-G: He said: “It’s completely immersive. The art direction is immaculate. It’s not trying to be incredibly photo realistic or painting…

  • Brains Behind The Brutes

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    narcogen

    The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about Bungie AI programmer Damian Isla: Animal emotions such as surprise, interest or disappointment can be useful parts of an AI creature. “They can have an impact in the game,” he says. “Our characters have an incomplete knowledge model – they depend on line of sight. If you…

  • Halo 3 Is All About Details

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    narcogen

    An article in Wired talks about Bungie’s attention to detail when doing multiplayer and campaign level design: Some of the details in Halo 3 verge on the obsessive. While creating several environments based on the area of Africa surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro, Bungie designers used a satellite map of the region to make sure the geography…

  • RT: Cough Cough

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    Rooster Teeth News

    So uh… Today is September 25th – Halo 3 day. Have you beaten it on Legendary yet? No? Then what the hell are you doing on the internet? Get to it.

  • Spartan And The City

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    narcogen

    Major Nelson has posted up some pictures of the Master Chief and the Bungie crew in New York at the Halo 3 launch.

  • Limited Edition, Limited Warranty

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    narcogen

    If your Halo 3 disc was scratched in the box, Microsoft will replace it. However, you only have until the end of this year.

  • Acronymonious Disputes

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    narcogen

    HBO posted the box acronyms for the regular (SLMCWMYOW) and Legendary editions (WWYANOFAWD) of Halo 3.