My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2008

  • TTL Promotes Census Guessing

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    Tied the Leader is holding a special contest in honor of 117 day (January 17th): guess how many unique users will be listed on Bungie.net’s homepage at exactly 1:17 PM Central Standard Time on the 17th, (without going over), and win one of 21 Halo 3 soundtracks (one of which is signed by Marty O’Donnell).…

  • Play and Win at Xbox.com

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    Over at Xbox.com, there’s news of a new Play & Win contest sponsored by the US Army Sniper School – register before January 25th, and play an online multiplayer match between January 19 and 25th (exact timing is in the news post), and you’re entered to win artwork, or a bunch of MS Points. Go…

  • Clantac Token Rewards for playing Halo Customs

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    Clantacular.com has released the first token-based rewards system for playing Halo 2 and Halo 3 Customs. This includes their existing “Halo 2 & 3 Ranked Clan Match System” as well as their just released “Ranked FFA and 1v1” system. Earn Clantac Tokens for playing clan matches, FFA’s, 1v1’s, tourneys and contests!

  • Send In Stuff for This Week’s Show: Callins and Tales from the Foxhole!

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    Everyone’s favorite show is back, and you’re the star! Yes, I’m looking for a Mr. Rotch. First name: Mike. This is your chance to get your voice heard by the Halo Nation! Whether it’s a tale from the foxhole, a halo song, a halo joke, an opinion about something we said on the show, a…

  • RT: Talk back to me

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    Rooster Teeth News

    Hey guys, we are trying to consolidate a place for community created content to be stored, and that monumental task has fallen on my shoulders. We are looking for community created images, videos, stories, pictures, anything like that. If you have anything…

  • A Cowboy Outfit.

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    Last Friday’s Weekly Update had some comments about upcoming maps. Today’s One One Se7en has some comments about those comments. Call them map metacomments.(Louis Wu 22:01:32 UTC)

  • Bungie’s Soliciting (Questions)

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    Luke Smith posted a note on the Bungie.net forums, soliciting questions to be answered in the next Weekly What’s Update – stop by the thread and add your own query if you’re burning to know something that hasn’t been addressed. Thanks, Decommissioner.(Louis Wu 20:54:13 UTC)

  • Podtacular 141

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    Podtacular 141 has been released – an hour long, 29 mb, focusing on the campaign level The Storm. Thanks, Samus 117.(Louis Wu 20:52:44 UTC)

  • McFarlane Packaging Made Public

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    Littlebigman noticed that the McFarlane Halo toy packaging is now viewable at Toy News International – I’m not sure how exciting this is to most people, but hey, you never know.(Louis Wu 20:45:59 UTC)

  • Gaming Records, in Print

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    Phan7om pointed out a new publication from the Guiness World Records folks – this one is devoted to games, and the preview contains a pair of pages from the Halo section. As several of the thread contributors point out, the info in the preview is awfully out of date.(Louis Wu 20:42:51 UTC)

  • DualView – cool? Or lame?

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    This product looks like it could be awesome… or it could totally suck. If it works, it means full-screen Halo goodness for two people – on a single screen. If it doesn’t… it means a chunk of money out of your pocket, for something you’ll never use. I guess we’ll wait and see!(Louis Wu 20:40:52…

  • MC Sculpture

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    SnprTw is putting together a ceramic Master Chief sculpture for his art class – it’s not fired or glazed yet, but it’s already looking pretty amazing!(Louis Wu 20:38:00 UTC)

  • MLG Halo 3 Gametypes for 2008 Season Announced

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    Major League Gaming has announced the rules/gametypes that will be used during the Halo 3 2008 Pro Circuit – you can grab them from their FileShare on Bungie.net. Thanks to GotFrag eSports for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:28:15 UTC)

  • Wow, they must all be Level 60

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    Heh – Kotaku.au got hold of a screen from Halo 3 matchmaking that suggests that the algorithm that counts online players might have… some problems. (Remember that Xbox LIVE just passed 8 million total subscribers a few weeks ago.)(Louis Wu 19:47:03 UTC)

  • Bustin’ Halo Myths

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    Hawty McBloggy found a video called ‘Halo 3 Mythbusters’ – it looks at burning Halo multiplayer questions, and does its best to answer them. (Okay, maybe they’re not actually burning. But some of them might make you curious!)(Louis Wu 12:21:43 UTC)

  • broken Iris Halo Machinima Contest

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    HaloGrid.com has kicked off a new contest – create a music video using one of three songs by the band broken Iris, win some cool schwag (mostly involving the band itself). Full details can be found at HaloGrid. (Louis Wu 12:05:38 UTC)

  • The Riot 81

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    Yesterday was a bit light, newswise – blame Bioshock. I’ll do my best to clean up the queue this morning. Sigafoos wrote to us about The Riot 81, almost half an hour (11 mb) of community news, with discussion about their Community Awards, along with other fun stuff. Full details at Second Foundation.(Louis Wu 11:56:30…

  • Episode 141: The Storm Campaign Show

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    Download | Shownotes This week we have JVB, Lilkuke and I along with the Halo nation who sent in tips. We’re all talking about how to move into Voi, destroy the scarab, and disable the stationary gun. Pod Art this week is from XViva La JoshX in the screenshot section. Be sure to check out…

  • More discussion of server browsers

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    Mr. Titan’s call for a server browser generated some pretty interesting discussion – but there are two posts, in specific, that you should read. One is from Narcogen – it gives a decent fans-eye view of why a server browser might be a bad thing in the Haloverse… and one is from Achronos, who makes…

  • Mmm… Green (or Blue)

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    Hawty McBloggy found a pretty slick Halo-themed case for your Xbox360 – it glows! Check it out.(Louis Wu 18:12:46 UTC)