My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • 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)

  • (Re)spawning your life away

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    Heh – a couple of guys worked out a script that calculates the amount of time you spend waiting to respawn in multiplayer, assuming an average 5 second respawn. Gives you pause… Thanks, BuckHijo.(Louis Wu 20:07:05 UTC)

  • Spoils of Waaaah.

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    A bunch of recent One One Se7en episodes have contained Halo 3 story spoilers. Today’s does, too. Pretty nice zinger, though.(Louis Wu 17:30:15 UTC)

  • Dealing with the loss of Harvest

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    The Halo Wars website has been updated again, with a new piece of concept art, and some rationale behind its creation. Go read ‘What’s behind a concept…’ on the front page now. Thanks, Marcus-626.(Louis Wu 17:27:49 UTC)

  • The Philosophy of Control

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    Zaam pointed out a school philosophy project he created using the Halo 3 engine – it’s called ‘The Philosophy of Control’, and it looks at various forms of government, and some problems each might face. It’s in two parts, on YouTube (One | Two). I don’t know what grade it earned.(Louis Wu 17:15:41 UTC)

  • Is there a Plan C?

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    Halo Action Figure Theater #119 has been posted – there’s hope! Well, sort of. Things rely on Spartan 212 and his team… and that might not be a really good thing.(Louis Wu 16:51:39 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Afterthoughts: Extended Edition

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    1UP.com sat down with Brian Jarrard and Tyson Green and talked for a LONG time about what worked, and didn’t work, in Halo 3. There’s a huge amount of information, covering what happened at the end of Halo 2, how they made decisions about Halo 3 content, why they’ve chosen some of the things they’ve…

  • Cheeb’s World Tour

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    It’s been a while since you’ve heard from Madda Cheeb, the trash-talking action figure that lives at Xbox Ottawa. Looks like that might be because he’s been globetrotting. Swing by the site for a huge collection of photos of Madda Cheeb, all over the world! (Andrew says he got some pretty odd looks taking some…