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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: March 2008

  • Pre-Game Lobby: O Hai

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    On our forum, Harabek announced a new machinima series: Pre-Game Lobby. Interesting bunch of characters, an ongoing Matchmaking-based storyline. This first episode is 19 minutes long, viewable on YouTube in two parts, or downloadable from Filefront in hi-res (almost 300 mb). This one shows potential!(Louis Wu 11:43:00 UTC)

  • Special Delivery

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    While we slept last night, news on a whole lot of machinima crossed our desks. First up: Spriggs Episode 8 was posted. The storyline’s getting more serious (though it’s still pretty lighthearted in tone) – and my view of Spriggs is changing. 12 minutes long, downloadable in AVI format or streamable on YouTube. Go watch!(Louis…

  • Important Announcement About the Podtacular Audio Podcast

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    foomojive

    This is a hard article to write, but it has to be done. The Podtacular Audio Podcast, started in July 2005, will be retiring in April. The last show will be recorded on April 8th, 2008. No, this is not an April fool’s joke. This may be bad news, but I have good news too.…

  • Episode 154: Multiplayer Tips and Map of the Month: Narrows

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes It’s the multiplayer tips show, where we read off a bunch of tips for Narrows sent in by the Halo Nation. There is also a special announcement in this show about the end of the Podtacular audio podcast and the rise of Pod TV to take it’s place on your iPod. Another…

  • Helljumpers in HD

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    Bandwidth usage due to the “Our Favorite Things” video released Friday has dropped below 75Mbit… so I guess it’s time to release more HD Halo 2 cutscenes. Today we’ve got Helljumpers, the opening scene from Delta Halo, along with the ‘delta’ version (showing the variations in different difficulties). Go grab ’em! Thanks, as always, to…

  • The Riot 92

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    Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 92 is now up – 21 minutes, 9 megs of community news, map discussion, and a discussion of lolcats pics… without the actual pics.(Louis Wu 16:20:33 UTC)

  • Hooking Up with Halo – a Followup

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    Yesterday, I asked for stories of people who met (or just played with) their significant others on the Halo battlefield. The thread started off really slowly… and I was afraid it was a bust. (The first couple of posts were dumb jokes, and the next series was totally off-topic.) However, I woke up this morning…

  • Life after Stunt

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    ZZoMBiE13 pays tribute to a true inspiration in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. Great stuff!(Louis Wu 16:05:08 UTC)

  • Halo 3 is for lovers.

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    Mike sent us a note wondering if we’d be interested in doing some coverage of couples that play Halo together. I think it’s an interesting subject – I know some of our forum denizens are Halo couples, and I’ve been playing a lot recently with a couple (in fact, the party usually includes his mom,…

  • ForgeHub Video Tutorial 7: Gravity Lift Techniques

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    TheShadyGnome has another ForgeHub Video Tutorial for you – Episode 7 covers Gravity Lift techniques. Use them to constrain your players, or expand the range of their motion – it’s up to you!(Louis Wu 14:53:55 UTC)

  • AA Gun Megabattle

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    Rockslider is back with another megabattle setup – up to 52 Covenant enemies under the AA gun at the end of The Storm. Go read the details at Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 14:52:16 UTC)

  • X-Plane Halo Gallery

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    In other Halo news, Mid7night announced that he’s collected all the Halo vehicles he’s ported to X-Plane in one place – swing by and take a look!(Louis Wu 14:47:09 UTC)

  • Halo 3: It’ll beat on your server.

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    Wow. I think we might have weathered the storm. Last night, we helped Bungie host “Our Favorite Things”, a trailer that should pump you up for the Heroic DLC (whether you have it or not) – We served nearly 25,000 copies of it from three separate pipes in the past 12 hours, eating almost a…

  • Heroic Trailer Links – the Short Version

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    Okay, this is just a quick post because there’s some confusion about the Heroic trailer being linked to in tonight’s Weekly Update, over at Bungie.net. We’ve put up three separate mirrors of the videos – grab the one that’s the right size and filetype for you: QuickTime 360p (17 mb): files1 | files2 | files3…

  • Avalanche. HALO’s Sidewinder coming to Halo 3. Similar to original.

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    rapture

    Let’s face it.  Coagulation was kind of close to being the remake of Blood Gulch.  And we know HALO 3’s Valhalla wasn’t quite Coagulation or Blood Gulch. A new map is being released by Bungie for Halo 3.  It’s called Avalanche it is a near-remake of Sidewinder.  “It has the same familiar U-shape, multiple ways…

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 3/21/08

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    Short, sweet and the Heroic Maps are about to be free.

  • Podtacular 153: Tales from the Foxhole

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    foomojive

    Download | Shownotes It’s tales from the foxhole from last week that we hadn’t released yet. Guest this week is Kiaffex, rec clan overlord and podtacular community homee. This week’s pod art is by Plasma Qrenades. Enjoy the show!

  • Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Acheivement Glitched

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    TOO Psychotic

    I didn’t see this posted anywhere else, so I thought I would share this info. If you could care less about achievements, have never played the original Rainbow Six: Vegas, or if you have already loaded this game onto your profile (ie. put it in your Xbox 360), then you can go ahead and ignore…

  • A Halo 2 Review, of Sorts

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    A few months after Halo 2 was released, a number of long-time Halo fans got together on AIM to discuss what was right – and wrong – about the game. The original plan was to use a cleaned-up version of this discussion as an official HBO review of Halo 2 (any of the participants were…

  • MS says sorry

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    Wow. Remember a couple of weeks ago, when Bungie made a bad situation better by sending a huge box of schwag to the guy who’d had his artwork erased when he sent his Xbox in for service? It doesn’t end there. Microsoft sent him ANOTHER box of stuff – this one contained a surreal amount…