My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 7/25/08

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News

    We’re all out of office, but we answered some of your questions, anyway.

  • Around the Ring – Episode 3

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    Dust Storm

    This week, Lancelot and I review a milestone map in the Halo CE community from perhaps the most popular mod group: CMT Snow Grove. Join us as we take you through this excellent CTF map made by the Custom Map Team. Download The episode is also available from iTunes as well. Just search for podtacular…

  • Flaming Ninja Challenge – the Aftermath

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    pete_the_duck posted a followup to his Flaming Ninja Challenge – there might be another one coming, but in the meantime, there’s definitely a cool map to grab, and some info for Forgers. Go read his post!(Louis Wu 12:56:45 UTC)

  • Fate

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    TTL Demag0gue let us know that he’s posted Reclaimer 69. He says there are answers, but I wouldn’t believe him.(Louis Wu 12:49:34 UTC)

  • MaStalee’s Halo 3 Montage 2

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    Z let us know about MaStalee’s Halo 3 Montage 2 – it’s in 720p, with beautiful editing, and some great gameplay. I think what I liked most about this montage was the situational awareness – the clutch flag saves, the precision grenade tosses (I can’t remember seeing predictive throws like this since Halo 1), the…

  • ODST Armor – and a weapon

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    In January, we posted some pics of a cardboard Hayabusa helmet created by SpArtan-270. He’s back – with some ODST armor (Pic 1 | Pic 2 | Pic 3 | Pic 4) – he’s even got a Brute Spiker! (Louis Wu 12:28:28 UTC)

  • Friday Caption Fun, Round 17

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    It’s Friday again? Whoa. Guess that means it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun, over at Hawty McBloggy’s. Last week’s pic, and some of the top captions submitted for it, can be viewed, along with the new pic (which shows off the expressiveness of the MC’s hands). Go see what you can come…

  • Installation 05 Giveaway

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    Tyler Tschida, of Installation 05, let us know that an HBO visitor (UNCLBEN) was the winner of the giveaway we mentioned a few weeks ago – congrats! The site now has the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 2 figures available, if you’re having trouble finding them. (Louis Wu 12:17:22 UTC)

  • Info from the Halo Universe Panel at the SDCC

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    yoshiary let us know about the Kotaku live-blog of the Comic-Con Halo Universe panel that took place today. It’s possible that there might be a film of the panel coming at some point, but until then, this is what those of us who couldn’t be there have got. Apparently, Gamespy did one too.(Louis Wu 11:58:34…

  • MLG/ESPN Top 10 #7

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    evildoctorwill noticed that the seventh MLG/ESPN Top 10 is now vieweable at MLGPro.com. Ten pretty cool clips, and an amazing Moment of Zen. Go watch! (Louis Wu 11:52:14 UTC)

  • Sign my petition.

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    Terminal Failure pointed out a very funny ‘Stump Speech’ over at the New Yorker – it could be Obama, until about the third sentence. The Halo reference that makes this mentionable here shows up about halfway through, but the whole thing is worth reading. Give it a look! (Louis Wu 11:51:37 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    There are eight new pieces up for your reading pleasure this week in the Fan Fiction section – go get ’em!(Louis Wu 11:50:27 UTC)

  • Marathon: Durandal DLC Back Online

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    Hippieman sent me a message on XBL a couple days ago.. the two downloadable netmap packs for Marathon:Durandal, the XBLA version of Bungie’s classic Mac and PC scifi shooter, the grand-daddy of Halo, are now online in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

  • Captain Spark Reviews Halo 3

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    narcogen

    You know Captain Spark. The guy who records all those audio snippets from Halo games? Yeah, that’s him. He’s weighed in now with a review of Halo 3’s campaign. He starts by getting two beefs of his chest (the over-aggressive Arbiter and the so-called “Cortana Moments”) before getting to what he likes. Well worth a…

  • Bungie To Mattrick: We’re Not Laughing

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    narcogen

    Bungie President Harold Ryan denied claims by Microsoft’s Don Mattrick that he laughed and acquiesced with the publisher’s decision to indefinitely postpone Bungie’s E3 announcement. In an interview with Eurogamer, Mattrick once again explains their reasons for delaying the event, with no mention whatsoever of why it was made on such late notice– less than…

  • Escapist Reviews Hail To The Chimp

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    narcogen

    The Escapist is usually a cut above other gaming sites when it comes to content, especially long content. They’ve done a short review of Wideload’s Hail to the Chimp, and the long and short of it is, they didn’t like it much.

  • Double XP Weekend – Team Snipers

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    Team Snipers Double Experience Weekend has started – go shoot someone!(Louis Wu 19:39:57 UTC)

  • Steve Downes to appear at Arlington Racetrack

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    Over at NeoGAF, Chamellion posted what looks like a press release for an event at the Arlington Park Racetrack near Chicago. (I hunted around, but couldn’t find the original.) This Sunday, July 27, Steve Downes (voice of the Master Chief) will be on hand to sign autographs and any Halo merchandise you bring him, and…

  • Halo 3 RPG Released

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    Scotty wrote to let us know that Halo 3 RPG is now online – sign up to play Halo in this web-based RPG. There’s a guest account if you want to see what you’re getting into. Just tried it out… not sure I understand how it works. (I picked a playlist, it said I won.…

  • Ranks

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    The Ranks of our clan