My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Xbox Live Gold Free At Best Buy

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    narcogen

    Frankie has posted at Bungie.net that Best Buy may be your best friend come Halo 3’s launch day:

    During the launch period of Halo 3, the 25th, 26th and 27th of September, Best Buy will be sponsoring the Xbox Live Gold service and making it free for everyone. Think of it as Halo Free Gold Days. That means that even if you only have Xbox Live Silver, or you picked up a 360 just for Halo 3, that you’ll be able to try almost all of the features – online co-op, Multiplayer, Forge editing, viewing networked Saved Films – however, you will not be able to use our File Share system unless you subscribe to the paid Xbox Live Gold service.

    Interesting restriction. Looks like nobody wants a lack of a Gold subscription to get in the way of Halo 3’s online multiplayer numbers.

  • A Day Of Halo 3 News

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    narcogen

    While many Halo fans are trying to keep themselves off the Internet to avoid spoilers, I’ve had trouble getting on it– the new DSL line is installed, but not yet working, and the old line decided to go on vacation for the past 24 hours. With that in mind, here’s a summary of the news in that time:

  • This Spartan Life talks to The Raiders Guys

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    This Spartan Life has posted Module Two of their Fifth Episode – it’s an interview with the makers of ‘Raiders of The Lost Ark – Adaptation’, a shot-by-shot remake of the original, begun when they were 12. Go find it on the Episodes page!(Louis Wu 02:32:55 UTC)

  • Wood Pulp Army Invades G4

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    Our paper spartan queen, Nomi, was contacted by G4 TV; they want to feature her work on Game Heads. She said sure, and even made them a special spartan. Isn’t she great?(Louis Wu 02:26:54 UTC)

  • Rumors True! FASA Shut-down 🙁

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    Mitch Gitelman posted today was the official last day of employment for those who had not moved on to other positions. About half of the team has found positions at Microsoft game studios. It is always sad to see a studio close, especially one like FASA.

    Shadowrun forums

  • New Screenies at 1Up

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    1Up posted 33 new screenshots today – I tried to find out if they were part of the media kit distributed this week to journalists (since those are embargoed until September 23)… but had no success. So I’m posting them. There are a couple of dozen new campaign shots, and a dozen new multiplayer shots… no information in them that hasn’t already been released by Bungie. Go look! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 01:53:01 UTC)

  • Good things, and waiting…

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    On Monday, PraetoriaGuard released Trinity, Episode One, because they said they would. It was sort of a mess, though, and they asked me not to front-page it, because they wanted to clean it up. So I didn’t. And they did. It’s worth the wait – the cleaned-up version has better audio, better synching, better… stuff. This is good, because the episode itself is pretty impressive, and it would be a shame to detract from that with less-than-stellar production values. No worries there any more! While you’re there, the latest episode of PRaetoriaGuardLive is available for download – it chronicles the mistakes they made with this episode – and promises that they won’t happen again. (Mostly, they’ll keep this promise by removing hard release dates.) Go grab Episode One (in one of five different flavors), and then PG Live Episode VI (in two flavors)… watch watch watch!(Louis Wu 01:39:40 UTC)

  • Relieve.

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    Stuntmutt submitted a One One Se7en that was related to the recently-released ‘Museum’ ad – I couldn’t wait until Friday to post it, so you get an extra one this week.(Louis Wu 01:20:48 UTC)

  • 1Up wraps up their Halo 3 Minisite

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    1Up’s 3 Weeks of Halo comes to an end, with Halo 3: The Final Word (“Ten Things We Love about Halo 3… and Five Things We Don’t”), as well as a Retronauts blog covering Marathon Infinity (they wrote about Marathon 2 yesterday – chewpathingy was first to let us know – but I passed on posting it because it’s only marginally Halo-related, but if I’m putting up a post anyway…). Go read! Thanks, Menelven.(Louis Wu 20:32:56 UTC)

  • Striking Accord.

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    The Covenant Weapons Data Sheets published last week at Bungie.net all have a line at the bottom that worked some of our forumgoers into tizzies. Stuntmutt, never one to let a tizzy pass unnoticed, comments in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 20:02:45 UTC)

  • Museum Delivers

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    Wow. The press for the ‘Museum’ ad is simply amazing. Joystiq says “we’re not sure if we’ve ever been so moved by a Halo commercial“. Ars Technica says it’s “stunning“. Be A Design Group says it goes way beyond marketing to gamers – It’s “emotionally bigger, and almost too big at that” than Halo. I’d agree – with all of these. It’s a very powerful piece, and one that has much wider appeal than a game-specific ad. 2OpGaming (thanks, Avateur) and GamesIndustry.biz both have informational articles about the piece itself, that go into greater detail than the simple page at Yahoo. There’s also a nice description over at Xbox.com’s Believe page – thanks again, Avateur. If you haven’t watched this one yet, do so. And show it to your non-Halo-playing friends/family, and see what their reaction is. Update: Hmm… maybe it isn’t ALL positive. Delta found this commentary at Canada’s National Post – you can’t please everyone.(Louis Wu 19:48:13 UTC)

  • Where would you buy those, anyway?

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    Okay, I’m starting to worry a little about Warbow – his latest Calvin and Halo seems to be a little too ‘out there’ to be purely fictional.(Louis Wu 19:28:28 UTC)

  • Target Selling Halo 3 LegEd… cheap?

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    Regicid3 works at Target. He noticed a street date warning about Halo 3 last night – which surprised him, because he didn’t think Target was going to be carrying the Legendary Edition. (The Target website lists only the two less expensive editions.) What surprised him more was the price on that warning. (He snapped a pic.) He was also amused by the DPCI (an identification number) – 207 22 0117. (ooooh.) If this isn’t just a mistake, Target might be worth checking out for Legendary Editions… (Regicid3 also noted that Target, like Gamestop, has already received copies of Halo 3 – but that they’re under tight security in a central office.)(Louis Wu 19:08:27 UTC)

  • New ActionClix Figure Pics

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    Avateur pointed out that some new content from the Tokyo Game Show has been added to TeamXbox’s Halo 3 Screenshots gallery. The actual screens aren’t new, but except for fan shots, this is the first view of some new Halo ActionClix characters. (If I told you what they were, I’d have to label this post with a spoiler tag. Which should tell 99.9% of you what they are.)(Louis Wu 18:57:09 UTC)

  • Another Top 5 List

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    GameTrailers has put up a new GT Countdown: ‘Top Five Reasons We Can’t Wait to Play Halo 3’. Our forumgoers had a few things to say about some of the wording – but I can’t really argue with the list. Thanks, chewpathingy.(Louis Wu 18:53:57 UTC)

  • The Important Stuff

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    RVideo has read some of these ‘prepare for Halo 3’ lists, and doesn’t think people really understand what NEEDS to be done before September 25. He’s jumped into the breach with his Real world guide to preparing for Halo3.(Louis Wu 18:45:30 UTC)

  • Cortana – Halo 2, now.

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    MsValentine has been in our news a number of times, for her Cortana outfit – she recently redid it for display at San Diego’s ComicCon this year. It was still based on Halo’s Cortana, though – and we all know that Cortana has changed a bit since then. She just released an image of her new Halo 2 Cortana (thanks, Tex) – and sent us a bunch more. Go check out the whole collection! (I can’t wait for the Halo 3 version… but I’m guessing she’s going to need more than a bodysuit for that one.)(Louis Wu 18:36:09 UTC)

  • Head to Head

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    Okay, now that the forum is down, let’s clear out the existing news there. chewpathingy noticed a new Exclusive vid at Comcast’s Game Invasion – filmed during the Projekt Revolution tour, it shows some head-to-head Halo 2 action between PR guys (Linkin Park and friends) and the Warped tour. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:51:58 UTC)

  • So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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    Yesterday, we reported on a pair of auctions on eBay Australia, purportedly for release copies of Halo 3. These were subsequently pulled by eBay – but not before being confirmed as real by Bungie. Tyson Green posted a note on NeoGAF (thanks, Fadefury) and Marty O’Donnell posted a note on our own forum, both saying the same thing – if you want to avoid spoiler content, get off the internet. We can’t really help you with that – but we can help make sure that WE don’t contribute to your spoiledness. We’re doing what we did before Halo 2, when a pirated copy of Halo 2 appeared on the net – we’re closing down our forum until after September 25. Yes, we know that means we’re taking away a location we offer for discussion of Halo – but it’s only for a couple of weeks, and if it helps in letting your experience the Halo 3 campaign the way Bungie intended you to experience it – it’s TOTALLY worth it. If you have news you’d like us to post, send it to &#104&#097&#108&#111&#064&#098&#117&#110&#103&#105&#101&#046&#111&#114&#103 – we’ll post it here, on the front page, if we think it’s newsworthy. (Louis Wu 17:38:07 UTC)

  • Greatest Bleeping Noise Evar

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    Bungie posted their latest podcast yesterday – an hour long, 66.6 mb (OMG!). Paul Bertone discusses Campaign Mission Design and stuff. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:17:51 UTC)