My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • RT: Red vs. Blue vs. Green Beer

    First of all, I hope you’re enjoying today’s Irish-themed festivities, which I’m pretty sure just means you’re drinking gallons of green-colored alcohol, although it might also involve killing snakes or something. Anyway, for those of you still sober enough…

  • RT: Too many energy drinks?

    It seems like lately, there’s a new video of Tom Cruise being crazy every week. The latest is him celebrating at his Scientology Birthday Bash. If you are so inclined, you can check it out here. As today’s comic points out, that dude has a hell of a lot…

  • RT: Drunk Tank Week 9

    The drunks are back for another week of burning bridges. Burn, bridges! Burn! Heather Mills and Paul McCartney finally settled their divorce and she will be leaving with $50,000,000.00. [link] Burnie — Sure, it seems weird when you say it…

  • RT: The way the wind blows

    Today’s comic emulates the struggle a lot of early HD DVD adopters are being forced to make (myself included). What to do? While you’re mulling it over, read today’s sponsor comic. dggeoff

  • RT: No Good Deed Goes Unpublished

    So it saw it mentioned over on Hawty McBloggy that RT site member RagingTerror (and my Grifball teammate woo!) recently got a little present. I don’t know if you’re familiar with his saga, so here’s a quick summary: he sent a busted 360 off to MS to get…

  • RT: Spirit of Competition

    So this week, Ubisoft very quietly purchased the rights to the Tom Clancy brand name for all video game and related ancillary products. We at RT Comics HQ imagine it will only be a matter of time before EA (not to be outdone) makes a response similar to…

  • RT: Forced Enjoyment Round 3

    Hey everybody Jack here with the conclusion of Forced Enjoyment Volume Two and the beginning of the next volume. Playing a game with a bunch of digital girls jumping around, bouncing up and down, getting splashed, rubbing oil on each other…well…it…

  • Insinuating Chaos Places 2nd in Rock Band Tournament

    On Saturday March 22nd the semi-official Rock Band band of THX, Insinuating Chaos, performed and finished 2nd in a Rock Band tournament hosted by GameStop at Madison Square Mall. It was terrifically entertaining and some of the most fun I’ve ever had with my clothes on. Like most of my bandmates, I went to GameStop…

  • Driftwood Mauler

    Omega continues his compilation of a Brute driftwood arsenal – he found a Mauler in the swamp. Strange swamp…(Louis Wu 22:33:56 UTC)

  • MC Armor on eBay

    It’s Adam Grumbo Day, I guess. One of his suits of Master Chief armor is back up on eBay (the original buyer has decided to resell). Buy it Now price is $7500 (what he originally paid for it), but it’s up for best offer, as well. Thanks to Mid7night, who found this on the 405th…

  • GBSL08 Kicks Off

    If you’re playing in the Grifball Spring League, you might want to swing by Grifball.com and check out the schedule – first week games through Thursday are scheduled now (first games are tonight!), and the entire first week should be up by tomorrow. Get Hammered!(Louis Wu 20:13:51 UTC)

  • Halo Wars preview at CVG

    Computer and Video Games has a short preview of Halo Wars up right now – thanks to P1 Groupe Italia, who found it at the Halo Wars website.(Louis Wu 20:10:25 UTC)

  • Chris Butcher Podcast – a reminder

    So last Friday, Bungie mentioned, at the very end of their Weekly Update, that the latest podcast (with Chris Butcher) was available for download. They’re reminding you again today, which suggests that maybe a few of you missed it. Go listen – it’s a good interview! (There’s also a clip with Major Nelson.)(Louis Wu 18:17:15…

  • Reminder: Latest Bungie Podcast is Live Now

    The most recent episode of the Bungie Podcast is live and ready to pump noise into your skull.

  • Contamination Trailer – now downloadable

    If you watched the Contamination trailer last week, and wished you could see it in higher resolution… swing by GamingTV. There are WMP9 and QT download links with 640×480 versions. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 17:10:07 UTC)

  • Slippery When Wet

    Rock Opera Jr pointed out that Halo got a mention in today’s Angry Robot webcomic.(Louis Wu 17:02:57 UTC)

  • Podtacular is finishing its fight

    Podtacular is shutting down its podcast in April; they’ll still be represented by Pod TV, but JVB and foomojive are moving on. Read the details, and the rationale, at Podtacular.com. We’re gonna miss you guys! Thanks, Kia.(Louis Wu 16:30:56 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Violet CQB Spartan from BBTS

    Deimos Fawkes noticed that the Big Bad Toy Store will be selling an exclusive Violet CQB Spartan from McFarlane, as part of the Series 3 batch coming this fall. No pics yet… but you can preorder. (You can buy the entire regular series 3 set (8 figures) plus their exclusive for $94, saving a few…

  • Dell Living the Game ad – now with sound

    Last week, we mentioned a Dell computer commercial that showcased Adam Grumbo’s custom Master Chief armor (among other things) – but the link we provided had no sound. Adam posted a new version soon after – but we didn’t hear about it until this morning, when Crisis Panda dropped us a line. Go watch with…

  • We’re all thinkin’ it

    Larry The Marine has discovered one of the problems with snagging vehicles designed for other races… thanks, 2phast.(Louis Wu 13:40:35 UTC)