My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Halo 3 Live Spaces Theme

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    Xbox.com has a new Halo 3 Theme for Windows Live Spaces sites; swing by to Halo 3-ize your Spaces page. Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 16:18:47 UTC)

  • New Scores from Sean Mortensen

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    Sean Mortensen sent along two new scores; Arrival was inspired by the idea of a Halo movie from Hollywood (mp3, 1.6 mb | PDF, 951 kb), and We Go Feet First! was written for the ODST Helljumpers (mp3, 3.1 mb | PDF, 438 kb). Go listen!(Louis Wu 16:02:03 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Xbox 360 Down Under

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    Gamespot points out that the Halo 3 Xbox 360 console has now been priced and dated in Australia; it’ll be out on September 20 (a day after the US), and cost $AU$680 (US$534, a significant chunk more than it costs in the US).(Louis Wu 15:50:45 UTC)

  • Sydney-based Halo 3 Hands On from Kotaku

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    Kotaku’s got a writeup of the third level of Halo’s single player campaign, as played in Sydney – along with a discussion of the Saved Films option (which they see more as a cool screenshot composer). They’re happy with what they saw.(Louis Wu 15:43:16 UTC)

  • The sun hasn’t exploded yet, either.

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    I’m not sure how CVG thinks this is news… but they’ve put up an article that states that Bungie hasn’t started work on Halo 3 for PC. In fact, there’s no word from Bungie about whether there WILL be a port, eventually – and Frank is quoted in their post saying that “it’s not even a twinkle in [Bungie’s] eye” at this stage. So… there you go. (I’m posting this to ward off the emails saying “hey, there’s a story at CVG about a PC version of Halo 3!”)(Louis Wu 15:30:41 UTC)

  • Legendary Edition now at Amazon UK

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    Amazon UK is finally selling the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 – if you’re in Great Britain, and haven’t ordered a copy yet, here’s your chance.(Louis Wu 15:26:04 UTC)

  • If you make it backwards, is it original?

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    kornman00 ran across a Wikipedia page about a new superhero from DC Comics – her name is Forerunner, and she’s been tasked with serving The Monitors. Hmm… sounds like a DC writer has been getting some naming inspiration from video games!(Louis Wu 15:24:00 UTC)

  • Let’s just go back to Frogger, okay?

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    GameDaily has posted an article entitled ‘Five Reasons Game Trilogies Suck‘. Halo is one of their prime sources of examples.(Louis Wu 15:21:22 UTC)

  • An analysis of the new Content Usage Rules

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    trigger119 let us know that he’s put up an article discussing the new Game Content Usage Rules Microsoft posted recently. It’s pretty pessimistic; it looks at how these rules will affect current Halo moviemakers, and what you can no longer do without risking the wrath of Microsoft’s lawyers. (To be fair, none of the things in the newly posted rules should be a surprise; most of the “can’t”s were no-brainers. What’s changed is that Microsoft has explicitly LISTED them as “can’t”s, and stated that they’ll pursue violators.) Here’s hoping it’s not as bad as it all seems. Update: we just heard from Steve Gemmiti, of the Cops and Robbers team; they’ve put up a video response to the rules, as well – you can find downloadable versions of ‘Biting the Hand that Smacked You’ on their website, or at YouTube. (Louis Wu 15:19:15 UTC)

  • Yesterday was a great day for Canadian Halo Fans

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    Ah, bummer. Xbox 360 Fanboy discovered a fantastic deal for Canadians; the Canadian Dell Store was offering (yesterday only) a bundle that included an Xbox 360 Elite (MSRP is CA$499) and a copy of Halo 3 (MSRP CA$70) for a bundled price of CA$459 – this is cheaper than you can buy the two items for in the US! Sadly, as I write this, the price is back up to CA $558. Sorry!(Louis Wu 15:12:02 UTC)

  • New Halo 3 Achievements?

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    Xbox360Achievements has discovered the existence of a second Halo 3 Achievement list on Xbox.com; these are all listed as ‘Secret’, and there is no real information about the individual achievements… but one thing that jumped out at me was that if you compare the new list to the original one, they match, line for line, in the number of points. Could these be the same list? Or is there a mirror list of extra achievements? It’s all speculation at this point.(Louis Wu 15:04:59 UTC)

  • UNSC Armory Opened

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    George was the first to let us know about a new article at Bungie.net which takes a close look at four updated human weapons in Halo 3 – the pistol, the frag grenade, the SMG, and the shotgun. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 15:00:14 UTC)

  • Massive Info Dump at IGN AU

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    Bungie revealed a new multiplayer map yesterday, to IGN Australia; it’s called ‘Narrows’, and you can see seven new screenshots of it at their site. There’s also a new campaign shot, of a level played by press in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and an interview with Frank O’Connor – IGN AU was busy! I read about this at Geekpulp, a New Zealand gaming blog.(Louis Wu 14:56:29 UTC)

  • Frankie and Lars talk Halo 3

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    Yesterday was insanely busy; I missed a lot of Halo news because of it. Thank goodness for Google News. (I’m sure much of what will follow today was also posted on our forum – but I haven’t had time to read that yet.) First up, Bungie in Australia. There’s a seven and a half video minute interview with Frankie and Lars Bakken at The Technet Australia Blog – seven questions which get a decent amount of feedback from the Bungie guys.(Louis Wu 14:55:11 UTC)

  • Marathon: Durandal Reaches New Fans

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    I’ve been playing the heck out of Freeverse’s Marathon: Durandal on Xbox Live. As it’s an “old school” shooter missing a lot of the technical features found in more modern games, I had always assumed that the majority of its players would be old-time Bungie fans like myself.

    When I saw SniperStealth atop the single-player leaderboard with over thirty million points, I felt here must surely be an old Marathon hand who knows every twist and turn of each level without even glancing at the map.

    That’s not true, as it turns out. SniperStealth only had a chance to play the original briefly before diving into M:D on XBLA, but that can only be good news for Freeverse if more Bungie fans who haven’t played Marathon check in to see where the roots of Halo came from.

    SniperStealth was kind enough to spend a few moments to answer my questions about what drew him to this classic game.

    Click “read more” from the front page for the transcript of Rampancy’s interview with SniperStealth, the leading Marathon: Durandal campaign player.

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  • Halo Universe: UNSC Weaponry

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    An in-depth look at some of the UNSC’s armament in the war against the Covenant.

  • Halo Nerdism

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    Heh – if the image on this page at the Xbox Domain makes its writers think that this is the epitome of ‘Halo Nerdism’… well, they haven’t looked too deeply into our site. That said… it’s a nice pic.(Louis Wu 20:06:29 UTC)

  • HALO 3 Achievements revealed

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    Spoiler warning. XBOX.com has a listing showing the achievements available in HALO 3. There are not any major spoilers in there. In fact everything mentioned in the achievement list has been discussed on the THX website before. If knowing things like the number of missions in the campaign bothers you, then quit out now.

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  • King of the Shill.

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    Stuntmutt shows how Bungie could be tying in to external merchandise even when they’re not, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 14:38:09 UTC)

  • Dan Chosich – Reel 2007

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    Dan Chosich dropped in to point out his latest creation – a video reel showing off a bunch of work he’s done in the past two years. A significant portion of it is Halo-related (mostly MLG promo stuff) – all of it is gorgeous. He’s got it available at two sizes, in QuickTime format, and we’ve added local mirrors for both to save his bandwidth. I think back on 2002, when he started out making Halo montages, and I’m amazed by how far he’s come. The man makes beautiful movies.(Louis Wu 14:36:40 UTC)