My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • One, from Kraynium

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    Z wrote to point out Kraynium’s ‘ONE’ – a 1v1 montage. According to Z, it’s the best 1v1 montage he’s ever seen. It’s 208 mb, and hosted at Filefront. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:03:58 UTC)

  • Innocent Minds

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    trigger119 sent word that CROSSFIRE’s Innocent Minds has now been released. (We mentioned the trailer a few days ago.)(Louis Wu 15:00:42 UTC)

  • Marathon Mix 3

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    Nick Singer has posted the third of his Marathon/Halo music mixes; I can’t hear it yet, but if it’s anything like the last two, I know I’ll love it. Check it out for yourself!(Louis Wu 14:56:13 UTC)

  • Halo Live Action Short a Bonus

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    According to Pro-G, the latest episode of Consolevania contains “a Halo short film” after the credits; this file is too large for me to download on my two-cans-and-a-string connection, but the crack HBO investigative team has looked at it, and the verdict is that it’s pretty good – “A goofy, live-action short”. The episode itself is 300 mb (or 550 mb for the BitTorrent version); it’s up to you to decide whether the other material in the episode is worth such a large download. Go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:49:15 UTC)

  • Amsterdam Press Interviews at Gamersyde

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    Gamersyde posted a video containing group interviews done in Amsterdam with Frankie and Sketch, on a wide variety of subjects – it’s 112 mb, and covers a lot of subjects – go grab a copy! Lots of people told us – the first email I saw came from Dolbex.(Louis Wu 14:36:54 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fan Fiction

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    Just six new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – shouldn’t take long at all to read them! (Louis Wu 14:27:40 UTC)

  • RT: Infectious Diseases

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  • Game 1 shows off press games

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    The blog Achievement Junkie points out a video from Dutch gaming site Game 1 (There’s a large version on Game 1’s site) – it’s a montage of the press event in Amsterdam this week, and shows off some pretty fun stuff Microsoft set up for journalists. Target practice, using Brute and Elite cutouts and pistols or crossbows, laser tag, an actor in a Master Chief costume… looks like it was a good time to be a game journalist. (AJ talked about campaign footage – it’s clear that they didn’t watch the E3 2007 Halo 3 vid, because all the campaign footage in Game 1’s video was pulled directly from that.)(Louis Wu 20:04:08 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Zune Reviewed

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    Windows Now has reviewed the Zune Halo 3 Special Edition – go check out what they thought.(Louis Wu 19:33:21 UTC)

  • A 60-90 day dead period – thanks, H3

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    According to this article at 24/7 Wall St., the combination of Halo 3 in September and GTA 4 in October is causing gamers to stop spending money right now; these two games are being blamed for a general downturn in sales of other games. Ouch!(Louis Wu 19:18:07 UTC)

  • Bungie can’t win.

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    A couple of weeks ago, a quote from the then-upcoming EGM article began circulating, and online co-op in Halo 3 was suddenly in doubt. (Before this article had come out, there had been zero information about the mode – and nobody had been talking about it.) The internet seemed to catch fire with the flames Bungie began receiving from all sides – people stated that they’d boycott the game if online co-op weren’t present, journalists lambasted Bungie for laziness and lack of consideration for their fans. Bungie asked people to be patient; they didn’t want to announce something they couldn’t GUARANTEE would be in the final shipping product, so they were keeping their mouths shut. (Online co-op was cut very, very, VERY late in the development cycle of Halo 2, and many people were strongly disappointed.) Finally, this week, they announced that yes, online co-op would be in Halo 3 – and in fact it would be four-player co-op, not just the two-player that was in the original game. And how does the community respond? Well, Cinema Blend says it’s a disappointment. It’s a tack-on, they say, and there’s not even a four-player offline mode. Um… what? (There IS an offline 4-player mode – System Link is supported, no internet needed.) I guess I should be satisfied that they’re not complaining that you can’t play as Cortana…(Louis Wu 19:08:47 UTC)

  • Food Nipple Not Included

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    There are a couple cool new items in the Bungie Store today. The first is a nifty orange Grunt mug and the second is a battle-damaged Halo 3 tee. Thanks to X1Zero for his post in the forums pointing this out.(KP 18:26:38 UTC)

  • Halo 3 in Albania – Webisode 1

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    Dave Bergland sent word that the first webisode of the Halo 3 in Albania project is now online. Dave is definitely a pretty hardcore Halo fan – go see how he’s planning to celebrate the release of Halo 3! (It’s also up on YouTube, if you’d rather go streaming.) (Here’s hoping most of the Halo news is being sent to our email address; mnemesis is now gone on vacation, I’m not back in town yet, and I, for one, do not have a connection good enough to read our forum.)(Louis Wu 15:26:12 UTC)

  • New HALO videos and podcasts at HALO:Portable.com

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    Mintz, Tex, and Funkmon have been busy busting out new content over at HALO:Portable. They’ve even encoded videos that will play well with your video iPods, Zunes, and PSPs.

    website: http://haloportable.com

    podcast feed:

    video cast feed:

    Go check out the last podcast and listen to Tex repeatedly own Mintz. Mintz, you got owned, son!

    currently playing: Shadowrun
    on the back burner: Catan, Guitar Hero II, HALO 2 (PC)
    Shadowrun rocks!

  • A redefinition rather than a reinvention

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    Darren Waters has written up a Halo 3 hands-on over at the BBC website, based on a level he played in Amsterdam this week. Here’s hoping the code that’s traveling around is a little old; he was underwhelmed, and noticed some rough edges.(Louis Wu 15:09:57 UTC)

  • Marathon: Durandal on XBLA. jayWHY ranked #1 in campaign.

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    Marathon: Durandal is a cult classic first-person shooter (FPS) that continues the tradition of great gameplay while remaining faithful to the spirit of Bungie lore as the predecessor to the Halo franchise.

    It looks a lot like the old school FPS shooters like Duke Nukem and Doom. That’s because Marathon is an old school shooter.

    jayWHY finally has a use for his XBOX 360.

    XBOX.com’s page about Marathon: Durandal (link)

    currently playing: Shadowrun
    on the back burner: Catan, Guitar Hero II, HALO 2 (PC)
    Shadowrun rocks!

  • Please read and help.

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    DC Crash from DC Combat Radio gave me a heads-up about a Gamer called DX CoreyFear. His house was burned down, and he now has nothing. He has a family too, and needs our help.

    Here is the full story:

    DX CoreyFear House fire

    I’m Pretty sure most people on DC know Coreyfear, well he’s been around along time from the FMJ crew, well i just got of the phone with him, and his House was burnt to the ground.
    His Family and him self are OK no one was injured, everyone was out of the house.
    SO the good News here is that his family and himself or OK.
    The bad news is they lost everything in the fire.
    I have known Corey for many years now and he is a true stand up guy, so his family comes first.
    I told him if he needed anything to call and i would be there for what ever he needs.
    If anyone knows corey feel free to contact me and i will give you his cell#,
    For he can use all the support from anyone at this point in his life.
    Maybe we can get with the admins and try to come up with a donation center for corey, you don’t have to give money.
    You can send him a card of hope.
    money isn’t the only thing that matters to a family that lost everything,
    Just a phone call or even a email to his work, it gives them hope and keeps there head High in times like these.
    So are prayers are there for him and his family, may you hold your head high in times like these, for it takes courage and will to rebuild.

    Link: http://www.dccombat.com/showthread.php?t=10957

  • Game Fuel: an invigorating blast of citrus cherry flavor, or is it?

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    An interesting article over at IGN, discusses the arrival and subsequent taste-testing of the newly branded Mountain Dew Game Fuel. Thanks Grey Wolf for pointing that cherry flavored article out.(Cybrfrk 22:12:37 UTC)

  • Limited Halo 3 Hoodies in AU

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    If you’re headed to the Australian TechEd 2007 conference in Queensland, Australia this weekend, you’ve got a shot at one of fifty extremely limited-edition Halo 3 hoodies to be given away there; pictures available at the istartedsomething blog. Mmm… I wish they were actually selling these… (and that’s it for me; internet access disappears – NOW.)(Louis Wu 18:51:51 UTC)

  • The Halo 3 Albania Project

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    This one’s pretty odd – The Halo 3 Albania Project is a video documentary of an effort to bring Halo 3 to Albania… or more specifically to a Peace Corps volunteer working in Albania. There’s no actual footage up yet, but there are clips from both the volunteer and the filmmaker linked off the documentary page. (PG-rated dialogue warning.)(Louis Wu 18:41:54 UTC)