My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • Broken Iris Songwriter interviewed at HG

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    We’ve mentioned the HaloGrid Broken Iris contest a couple of times – imSuck just let us know that he’s posted an interview with Tony Verdi, the songwriter for the band. He’s a huge Halo fan. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:49:44 UTC)

  • Halo Wars Monthly Update

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    Thunder has posted January’s Halo Wars’ Monthly Update over at the HW website – they’ve posted a timeline (mostly information from the official Halo timeline, but also some tidbits from Fall of Reach, Contact Harvest, and their own game), and they’ve put up a new piece of concept art that works nicely as a wallpaper.…

  • VGL announces 40 shows for 2008

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    If you haven’t had a chance to see Video Games Live, 2008 might be the year that changes this. They’ve just announced 40 shows in more than 10 countries – you can read the details, and order some tickets, on their website. (Louis Wu 16:08:46 UTC)

  • Jonathan Quail

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    Trigger119 sent word that CROSSFIRE’s ‘Jonathan Quail’ has been released at GamingTV. This is a ‘reinvention’ (CROSSFIRE’s term) of Hell Quarters: Jonathan Quail, a video released a couple of years ago. That film was Halo 2-based, and 7 minutes long; this one is Halo 3-based, and 30 minutes long. On the plus side, the filming…

  • Assassin’s Creed

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    Opening Don’t worry, he won’t see me. I am but a knife in the crowd. Ubisoft’s claim to fame has always been their stealth and special ops games. So I was a bit surprised when Assassin’s Creed was announced. I thought to myself “a medieval game? What are they thinking?” So I followed this game…

  • RT: Return of the crap

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    Rooster Teeth Productions celebrates its fifth anniversary in just a few months and we’ve been compiling some of the old work from the early RvB and Drunkgamers days. We thought it might be fun to bring back some of the old classics. Ones like DrunkTank,…

  • Nailed.

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    Today’s One One Se7en might be considered a little tasteless – but the clever choice of words at the end makes up for it all. Those brutes make EVERYTHING messier.(Louis Wu 21:16:20 UTC)

  • All you need to do is save the universe?

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    Wow. Master Chief made Maxim’s ‘2007’s Dudeliest Dudes of the Year’ list. Sometimes you have to wonder. (Ads are probably NSFW.)(Louis Wu 21:08:37 UTC)

  • The Studio – Experience by Microsoft

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    Interesting – a luxury hotel in Chicago has just opened up an entertainment lounge that’s loaded with Microsoft goodies, and they’re touting the ability to play (among other games) Halo 3 in HD on LIVE as one of the perks of staying at the hotel. (It’s free for guests.) Thanks, Anton P. Nym. (Louis Wu…

  • TTL Tednesday – wait, what?

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    It’s not a T day, but there’s still a Tied the Leader update, thanks to XerxdeeJ. There’s a fun photoblog of a TTL Overlord get-together, and a reminder that you’ve got about a day left for your guesses in their 117 Day contest (they’re closing the voting at noon, Central Time – that’s 1pm EST,…

  • Journey, Frank? REALLY?

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    Wired Magazine has a ‘One and One’ mini-interview with Frank O’Connor; one question about gaming, one question about something totally different. It reminded me of the Roaming Gnome commercials for Travelocity, though. If you have a Red vs Blue account, you can read this old journal I wrote about this phenomenon; if you don’t, lemme…

  • Now, Flip the Elephant

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    Elnea’s posted Episode 114 of her Halo Action Figure Theater – poor O’Hara! (I’m reminded of the rescue scene in Princess Bride, actually.) Great action shots. Check it out! (Louis Wu 15:24:01 UTC)

  • Black is the new Grey

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    Heh – Bungie hasn’t had a ‘Black’ option in your armor customization choices since Halo – but there IS a ‘black’ option in the ‘Force Colors’ team options for multiplayer games. So Gravemind took advantage of it to create a Halo 3 Spec Ops Elite. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:18:21 UTC)

  • Custom Halo Drink Coaster

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    Wow, nova’s got a pretty cool stepsister. She made him a handmade Halo-themed drink coaster – what a perfect place for that Grunty mug! (Louis Wu 15:01:23 UTC)

  • Mario Fusion Demo

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    Last week, we mentioned a Mario/Halo crossover game in development – a demo’s been released. You can grab a copy at Megaupload – thanks, DHalo. (I don’t have any way of testing this right now, so if bandwidth runs out, you’re out of luck; I’m not willing to host something I 1) don’t have permission…

  • Jonathan Quail Release Trailer

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    Trigger119 pointed us to a teaser trailer for Jonathan Quail, a machinima project from CROSSFIRE. This puppy’s been in the works for a while (we saw our first trailer for it back in October), but we now have a release date for the final product – January 17 (that’s tomorrow, for those of you in…

  • Forged in the Pit of… Bungie

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    Over at Bungie.net, SketchFactor wrote up an article about Forging on Foundry – he used his own work for examples, and pointed out some of the things he’s learned by doing. It’s a nice overview of how you might go about building a fun map – things to keep in mind, pitfalls you face, tricks…

  • Newsweek Interviews Joe Staten – Part One, Try Two

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    Yesterday, I mentioned a tidbit from an interview that Newsweek did with Joe Staten last summer (but is publishing now). I forgot to actually point out part 1 of the interview – which is a very interesting read. (Part 2 should be out soon.)(Louis Wu 14:27:38 UTC)

  • RT: Death Starring…

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    Rooster Teeth News

    Today’s comic references the already much publicized addition of Darth Vader and Yoda to Soul Caliber 4. If Lucas is so hard up to cross promote his franchises, why can’t I get Howard The Duck in DOA Beach Volleyball? What about that shit? Huh?

  • MC – support staff

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    Interesting – N’Gai Croal posted a tidbit today that came from an interview with Joe Staten last summer, in which Joe made it clear that the script of the Halo movie, currently on hiatus but not dead, had pushed the Master Chief into an important (but still secondary) supporting role. Go read why! Thanks to…