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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • RT: School Spirit

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    Today’s comic is posted below. I hope to have a sponsor comic up later as well. This is a quick post, as we have another one coming here pretty soon, and I have to get back to working on 99. Ta ta. Go Horns (not really)

  • When Pigs Fly.

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    Almost forgot to post this – rapture found a version of Halo 2 for a platform nobody ever expected. (Local version of the image, if they happen to fix it.) Nice typo!(Louis Wu 16:56:49 UTC)

  • A Phoenix Tat

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    This isn’t exactly Halo-related… but phoenix.bungie.org is pretty dead, and the Phoenix team DID all move on to work on Halo 2, and it’s cool. John Andersen dropped Gholsbane a line (Gholsbane created the original EPS line art that folks messed with to make their phoenix fan art), to let him know that he (John) liked the logo so much he’d gotten it inked on his arm. Looks great!(Louis Wu 14:44:16 UTC)

  • Just Vid It.

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    Dang. Those High Speed Halo guys are HARDCORE. Check out Full Path Halo – a project designed to see how fast Halo levels can be speedrun… with all baddies being killed. The Halo Vidmaster is finally defined. Thanks, Ducain.(Louis Wu 14:35:40 UTC)

  • Master Chief Model

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    Kiory dropped in with pictures of his new Master Chief model. Take a look!(Louis Wu 14:20:31 UTC)

  • Noobs Gone Wild: Beta!

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    BoneKin has put together some fun “omg what did you do!” moments in a video he calls “Noobs Gone Wild: Beta!” If you’ve never done any of these yourself… I don’t ever want to play with you.(Louis Wu 14:16:55 UTC)

  • I wonder if it goes faster because of…

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    ManKitten has been playing a lot of Forza 2 lately… but he never forgets his roots. Props.(Louis Wu 13:51:50 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Box Art – revisited

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    Last week, we pointed out that Amazon had posted an image nobody had seen before as the Halo 3 Standard Edition box art; we suggested it could very well be the final version. A couple of days ago, SPARTAN-137 noticed that the box art shown on xbox.com had changed – it was using the ‘Emotion’ image Bungie released in late April. (I suggested that this wasn’t definitive – but later learned that this image was, in fact, being used internally in many places.) And today, GhaleonEB let us know that Amazon, too, has changed their box art to match this image. For better or for worse – it looks like we now know what the Standard Edition box art looks like.(Louis Wu 13:43:37 UTC)

  • Podtacular Ep 115

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    Big Goalie Dan points out that Podtacular Episode 115 is up – 56 minutes, 40 mb, guest hosted by George from aeropause.com (a general gaming blog). Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:31:53 UTC)

  • Video Head-to-Head

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    If you’re an IGN Insider, you can download a ‘Video Head-to-Head’ comparison of Halo 2 Xbox and Halo 2 Vista (as well as H2V vs H3 Beta). It’s sort of an interesting concept; they tried to play through Cairo Station on both boxes at similar speeds, with the video set up next to each other… but 1) you can NEVER get the gameplay exactly the same, 2) it’s hard to tell how much of the graphic glitches are due to the video compression and how much can be attributed to the platform. Judge for yourself. (If, of course, you’re an Insider.)(Louis Wu 13:24:28 UTC)

  • Press Coverage

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    Halo press for the day: Gamespy has a review of Halo 2 Vista (3/5, they thought it was too little, too late) – thanks, HaloPlanet; The New York Times has a profile of Lil’ Poison, the (now) 9 year old Halo pro (don’t forget about Bug Me Not if you don’t have a NYT account), and FG_Jolly sent along a local review of the beta from the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader. There’s a lot of Halo buzz out there these days!(Louis Wu 13:17:17 UTC)

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    Download | Shownotes

    So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George from aeropause.com, the baddest of the badass gaming blogs. We talk all about the latest tomfoolery with custom games, info about the customizable armor and the brute chopper, and a plethora of other stuff. Pod art this week comes courtesy of the ever helpful Logan Payne. Show’s about 56 minutes. Enjoy!

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    foomojive
    115.jpg

    Download | Shownotes

    So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George from aeropause.com, the baddest of the badass gaming blogs. We talk all about the latest tomfoolery with custom games, info about the customizable armor and the brute chopper, and a plethora of other stuff. Pod art this week comes courtesy of the ever helpful Logan Payne. Show’s about 56 minutes. Enjoy!

  • Episode 115: Hack attack!

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    foomojive
    115.jpg

    Download | Shownotes

    So in case you didn’t know, I was all worried the audio was gonna turn out really choppy on this show. It turned out to not be nearly as bad as I thought, and it’s a technical issue we’ve since fixed. This week we have George from aeropause.com, the baddest of the badass gaming blogs. We talk all about the latest tomfoolery with custom games, info about the customizable armor and the brute chopper, and a plethora of other stuff. Pod art this week comes courtesy of the ever helpful Logan Payne. Show’s about 56 minutes. Enjoy!

  • Bubblehead Over Heels

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    Paul Maestri has sent along Halo Heads #60, ‘Bubblehead Over Heels’. We’re back to Kitty 117… and things are getting messy. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:22:46 UTC)

  • This week’s show: Interview stew

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    Last week’s show will be coming out very soon. Sorry for the delay. This week we’ll have an interesting inside look at one of the top Halo communities with a variety of cool interviews. We’ll also be talking to the one person I know of that actually owns and plays Halo 2 Vista. We’ll ask him every question we can think of about the game but feel free to send in your own questions too. Just click submit news and tips on the right side of the page and send in your question about Halo 2 vista with your gamertag. If it’s good, we’ll ask it on the show! Deadline is Thursday night at about 5pm EST, so be sure to get your questions in quick.

  • Unaccustomed.

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    Stuntmutt’s thinking ahead, looking for potential gotchas in the Custom Game options for Halo 3; check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:18:13 UTC)

  • Co-opted.

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    Wow. IGN put together their list of the Top 10 Best Co-op Games… Halo 2 made the list (at number 7), but Halo is nowhere to be seen. Bizarre. Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 15:12:44 UTC)

  • MC Graces Digital Life

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    Spu7n1k posted the cover of the weekly tech magazine from a Singapore newspaper – now THERE’S a pretty cool armor permutation! (As Luke mentions on Bungie.net, the customizations are cosmetic only; they won’t affect gameplay.)(Louis Wu 14:34:17 UTC)

  • Halo: pixelated project update

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    A few months ago, Leviathan mentioned he was working on a 2D version of Halo – today he’s back with new screens. Looking good!(Louis Wu 14:28:44 UTC)