My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • New RvB series coming soon

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    Over at Xbox.com, there’s a promo page explaining the next project coming from the Rooster Teeth crew. It’s a commercial series; looks to be available for (probably paid) download from a variety of retail websites, starting on Tuesday. It’s a five-episode special series of Red vs Blue, helping the transfer from Halo 2 to Halo 3. Go read the details! (I think that’s it from me – the connection is gone.)(Louis Wu 18:35:25 UTC)

  • The Riot 58

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    I might have been wrong about Halo coverage being kept up while I’m gone; there don’t seem to have been any updates since I left. Unfortunately, I was correct about my lack of internet access here – I have almost no connection at all, so I won’t be able to post most things. There are still a couple of things I can point out – for example, Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 58 is now up at Second Foundation. This podcast ep is 37 minutes long, 15 mb large, and covers community news, tournaments, and more. Go listen!(Louis Wu 18:31:04 UTC)

  • HALO 3 campaign details – Humongous AI battles, Scarab is AI, Map Editor

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    The press has recently attended preview sessions at Bungie HQ.  They’ve gotten to play parts of the campaign and magazines have been given renderings and screenshots to publish.  HALO 3 looks mature, spectacular, and deeper than HALO 2.  See what I mean:

    Scans of Famitsu H3 images from Neogaf.com
    Scans of Joypad H3 images at JeuxFrance.com
    Summary of Interview with Jamie Griesemer from MSN.ca:

    The Scarab conflict is part of The Storm, the fourth mission of the single-player campaign component of “Halo 3,” and just one portion of the mission, has more enemies and allies than the entire first mission of “Halo 1.”

    The size really ramps up as you go through.”But in ‘Halo 3,’ The Scarab is an AI (artificial intelligence). He’ll chase you around, he’ll acquire targets. If he can’t find you, he’ll search for you. He’s the biggest character we’ve every done, essentially. And there are dozens of ways to kill him.”

    “All equipment in multiplayer shows up in single-player and the AI will use it on you,” said Griesemer.”The main way you’re going to get equipment in the single-player game is by killing guys before they can use their own (on you).”

    On the multiplayer front, a nifty feature called The Forge allows the gamer to redesign maps by changing the placement of weapons and vehicles, as well as changing the rules of engagement.

    The game becomes more complicated via hidden skulls. Scattered through the game, these change the rules – for example, one skull calls for both players to die and be sent back to their last checkpoint if just one player is killed.

    The ultimate task will be to finish every mission on legendary difficulty, with all skulls turned on, in a certain time limit with style.

    It’s looking like HALO 3 will not disappoint on the campaign front.  We are going to get more vehicles, more enemies, better vehicles and better enemies.  We are going to get rich environments and complex engagements that are sure to add dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of replay value to the campaign.

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

  • RT: Hello? Is anyone there?

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    Rooster Teeth News
    I don’t know who would be reading this, as I’m pretty sure that everyone on the planet is inside the convention hall right now, but just in case, here it is – today’s comic!

  • Gone.

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    Okay, I’m out of here for a while. The site is in the capable hands of the HBO grunt crew; If you have news you think they should be posting, send it to halo (at) bungie.org. Do NOT send anything to lwu (at) bungie.org that you want to have read in the next week or so. That’s about as clear as I can be; if you insist on mailing stuff to me personally, it’s gonna sit in limbo until I can read it. Be good.(Louis Wu 12:22:36 UTC)

  • Halo Kitty Convention Badge

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    Pinkuh created a pretty cool convention badge for a friend – check it out in her gallery here!(Louis Wu 08:13:02 UTC)

  • New Brute Halo 3 T at Hot Topic

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    Wow, this is sort of odd – there’s a pretty nice new t-shirt design at Hot Topic; it celebrates the Brutes in Halo 3, and has some cool artwork. The odd part? It features Tartarus – the guy you killed in Halo 2. Thanks, Megan Stewart.(Louis Wu 07:31:13 UTC)

  • Marathon Mix 1

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    If you’ve got a long memory, you might remember Nick Singer as the guy who was looking for Halo mods that needed original music a couple of years ago. He’s back – and this time, he’s mixing the music of Marathon and Halo, and doing a wonderful job of it. Go check out his Marathon Mix 1.(Louis Wu 03:06:42 UTC)

  • Smoker’s Plight

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    Mister Froggy sent word that Halo, Articulated #60 is up. Looks like the anti-smoking lobby is even more agressive in 2552 than they are today…(Louis Wu 02:58:30 UTC)

  • No more Mac Halo in the UK

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    Wow, bizarre. According to MacGold Direct Online (a Macintosh game seller in the UK), MacSoft has discontinued the sale of Halo for Mac in the UK. There’s no announcement at all on their site, and it seems to still be available in the US – we’ve got no decent guesses as to why the UK has been shut out. Thanks, The More Deluded.(Louis Wu 02:55:53 UTC)

  • Halo Toy Box

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    Sane Intolerant has finished his Halo/Transformers story arc for Halo Toy Box; There are four new strips (There’s Nothing You Can Do, Autobots Wage Their Battle, More Than Meets The Eye, and The War Has Just Begun). If you’ve been following this storyline, go visit and see how it ends! (Louis Wu 02:25:49 UTC)

  • Halo History Pack

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    Wired has an article about the Halo History Pack, a special Japanese-only release that contains Halo, Halo 2, and a disc that contains the system update that allows both games to run on the Xbox 360. (Since both games ran on the 360 on the day it was released, I can only assume that the disc includes all the updates to the backwards compatibility emulator that are relevant to the Halo titles.) nash–housewares wonders how many hardcore western Halo fans will seek this out, simply to have a complete collection?(Louis Wu 02:22:18 UTC)

  • Harvest Suite

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    Sean Mortensen sent along another score, this one inspired by the cover of Contact Harvest, the novel coming out this fall. It’s called Harvest Suite; mp3 format, 1:38, 1.4 mb.(Louis Wu 02:01:28 UTC)

  • Mashing Real-Life-F5

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    The Bungie Weekly Update is posted over at Bungie.net; Frankie and Sketch are off on a whirlwind tour of Europe (starting in Amsterdam), so it’s Luke holding down the fort tonight. He chatted with the Jasman Toys folks about their upcoming Laser Pursuit game – what’s revealed might make you think that $80 and $120 is actually worth spending… he also teases a little with hints of upcoming Halo 3 goodness. September 25th can’t come fast enough! If you need it, this update is also available in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 00:47:56 UTC)

  • Bungie Weekly Update: 7/27/07

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    It’s the end of July and you know what that means? Yeah, it’s not September yet. Sorry. Not even August.

  • Halo Sells Itself

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    Marc Rein, top dog at Epic, talked to CVG about Halo 3’s showing at E3. (Yeah, I sort of wondered about that, too.) He was discussing the lack of awards Halo 3 won this year (due to the lack of a playable demo, most likely) – and how it’s a good thing, overall, for Microsoft.

    “What they wanted to do was highlight all the other great games… that are on Xbox 360 too so people don’t just think it’s a Halo box. They don’t care, they’re going to sell eight million of them anyway.”

    Sounds about right. (Louis Wu 19:27:11 UTC)

  • Mid-afternoon daydream battle royale!

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    LostRock11 noticed that Master Chief makes an appearance in today’s PvPonline – nice.(Louis Wu 17:33:53 UTC)

  • Caption contest. 07/ 27/ 07

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    [IMG]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa288/halo11701/star_wars_freak.jpg[/IMG]

  • Lego Bionicle Elite

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    reticence dropped into our forum to point out a Lego Bionicle Elite he built. (Use the ‘Download’ link on the left for a full-sized version – thanks, Kanbo.) Wort!(Louis Wu 17:08:06 UTC)

  • Elder Of The Dia Tribe.

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    Server 3 just opened up at Halo3.com, moving the Iris ARG forward a bit – a perfect time for Stuntmutt to tie it in to One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:07:49 UTC)