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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: January 2008

  • Call it Halo, they’ll come play

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    A bizarre little Flash game popped up in my Google Alerts this morning – it’s described as “Halo 3: 1st Boss Encounter!!!!!” – but there’s really nothing Halo-related about it. (And it takes a minute or two to beat it.)(Louis Wu 11:41:07 UTC)

  • Sniper

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    TTL Demagogue is back in the saddle, after some health issues – Chapter Three, Part One of his Reclaimer series is now online. I’m not sure I understand the gamertag info left on the shots… but I’m sure it’ll all become clear in time.(Louis Wu 11:35:32 UTC)

  • The Riot 84

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    Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 84 is posted – no Awards yet, but there’s plenty of clan stuff. (You can see a full breakdown in the news post.) Go listen – 20 minutes, 8 mb.(Louis Wu 21:21:42 UTC)

  • Jonathan Quail OST

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    The Jonathan Quail soundtrack has been released by CROSSFIRE – swing by GTV to pick it up. Ten songs, 35 mb. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 18:17:49 UTC)

  • Installation Disintegration: Preview

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    ZZoMBiE13 has kicked off a week-long tribute to the Halo rings (the ones we DIDN’T blow up). Swing by Another Halo Comic Strip to see the preview of the storyline. This week, there’ll be new strips every day, rather than every other day.(Louis Wu 16:23:49 UTC)

  • HBOL

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    Schooly D and Retsamolah have kicked off the HBOL – the HBO League. It’s a 1v1 ladder (to grow to a 2v2 ladder, and it’s there for fun. (Competitive fun, but fun.) If you want to participate, swing by and join up!(Louis Wu 16:19:06 UTC)

  • Machinimators interviewing machinimators

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    Halo Union has kicked off a series of interviews with people in the Halo machinima community – the first one is with imSuck, of HaloGrid. Give it a read! Thanks, Teh Filmer.(Louis Wu 16:16:22 UTC)

  • Tracking Stats by Location

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    Terry let us know that there’s a site called ‘HALOcal’ – it tracks Halo stats by location (city, state, zip). Seems to be US-only. Swing by to find out who’s the best in YOUR neighborhood!(Louis Wu 16:14:37 UTC)

  • But can you solve it with your FEET?

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    Hawty McBloggy found a video of a homemade Halo 3 Rubik’s Cube – seems to me that most of the pictures are too close to one another, color-wise, to make this really easy to solve… but it’s cool anyway.(Louis Wu 23:13:10 UTC)

  • XBOX 360 sells are down from last year

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    We reported yesterday that Microsoft’s XBOX division turned its first profit – ever.  Today we get word that Microsoft actually sold fewer consoles in October, November, and December of 2007 than in the same months in 2006. Microsoft shipped 4.3 million Xbox 360 systems in the three months ended Dec. 31, compared with 4.4 million…

  • Microsoft Pays Off – Better Late than Never

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    Looks like the ‘free copy of Halo 3 for upgrading 360 buyers’ deal might actually be paying off soon; folks have begun receiving email notifications that the free game will be coming ‘in the next three weeks’. (Some people are even getting the notes when they didn’t do anything to earn them.) Seems like an…

  • Episode 145: Multiplayer Tips and Map of the Month: Foundry

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    Download | Shownotes Finally this episode comes out. This show we have SF Zervon, staff member at Second Foundation where you can hear The Riot, a Halo community podcast. We talk about how to level up and stay there with a focus on Foundry. Pod art this week comes from Woof. You can send in…

  • A second chance at a great poster

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    Wow. A couple of years ago, we helped Bungie auction off a bunch of cool schwag, with proceeds going to help Katrina victims. One of the items was a Halo 2 poster, signed by the majority of the Bungie team. Final price was $1736.70. It’s back up on eBay again, this time with a starting…

  • Inside Halo: Episode 6

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    Sodagod’s Inside Halo series continues with Episode 6 – it’s on YouTube right now (thanks, Major Silva), and will eventually be downloadable from machinima.com, though it doesn’t seem to be posted there yet. Ten minutes long, it highlights some of the better machinima releases in the past couple of months, discusses general Halo news and…

  • Careful what you wish for…

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    ZZoMBiE13 brings back a pair of popular characters in today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip – it’s immature humor, sure, but it’ll make you laugh.(Louis Wu 14:45:19 UTC)

  • Buy an unreleased action figure

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    PFG pointed out an auction he’s running on eBay – it’s for a rare, unreleased Joyride action figure. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:38:00 UTC)

  • Xbox sales info – how did we miss this?

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    Wow – this is the first I’ve heard of this. InformationWeek points out that while Microsoft did a nice job of bumping up weekly sales to finish the last three months of 2007 with 4.3 million units sold… that’s actually LESS than they sold in the same timeframe the year before. So even WITH the…

  • At what point is there ‘too much hype’?

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    Xbox360Fanboy has posted a bunch of pictures of the McFarlane action figures… packaged. We already told you about some of these a few weeks ago – but X3F’s collection contains more shots.(Louis Wu 14:28:20 UTC)

  • Storytelling, the Bungie Way

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    On our forum, there’s a pretty interesting discussion about the Halo story (the overall story, rather than the story from any one game), and how good a job Bungie did in getting it across to you in-game. It touches on the interaction between storytelling and gameplay, on the relationship between realistic and reasonable, on subtlety,…

  • Attitude

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    Xorian noticed yesterday that Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 3 has been posted at machinima.com; see what Recon armor can do? Funny stuff.(Louis Wu 14:02:32 UTC)