My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Visual Effects Society Honors Bungie

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    The Visual Effects Society named Halo 3 the recipient of its award for Best Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game. CJ Cowan, cinematics director on Halo 3 answers a few questions about his recent trip to the awards show.

  • Card Sagas Wars?

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    Merc found a YouTube video that shows off a bunch of characters in a 2D fighter… Master Chief holds his own.(Louis Wu 22:31:30 UTC)

  • Turtle!

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    Dustbunny27 was looking to make a human version of the Scarab. How did he do?(Louis Wu 22:26:37 UTC)

  • Netflix Drops HD DVD! Blu-ray Stands.

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    I just received this email from Netflix:

    “We’re Going Blu-ray
    Dear …,

    You’re receiving this email because you have asked to receive high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard, most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order to provide the best selection of high-definition titles for our members, we have decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray as well.

    While we will continue to make our current selection of HD DVD titles available to you for the next several months, we will not be adding additional HD DVD titles or reordering replacements.

    Toward the end of February, HD DVDs in your Saved Queue will automatically be changed to standard definition DVDs. Then toward the end of this year, all HD DVDs in your Queue will be changed to standard definition DVDs. Don’t worry, we will contact you before this happens.

    You can click here to change your format preferences.

    We’re sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please call us at 1 (888) 638-3549.

    -The Netflix Team”
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    This saddens me greatly as it looks like my recently purchased 360 HD-DVD player is now going the way of the Betamax. Could this be the beginning of the end for HD-DVD?

  • RT: Forced Enjoyment Week 3

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    Hey everybody, Jack here sharing the all the sweet love and warmth I have with all of you. Entries for the first-ever “Halo 3 Scavenger Hunt for Stolen Goods” are now closed. I’ll be digging through the three thousand or so images to pick out…

  • Frag a Friend

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    LordGideon let us know about Frag a Friend, a Halo Nation event being coordinated by PraetoriaGuard. If you are a leader of a Halo clan or community, swing by and sign up! Next game night is February 28, at 9 pm EST.(Louis Wu 20:57:48 UTC)

  • Top-Notch Visuals – Halo wins some VES awards

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    Marty O’Donnell pointed out the 6th Annual Visual Effects Society awards, announced in Hollywood last night. Halo-related winners included Marcus Lehto, Jonty Barnes, Stephen Scott, and CJ Cowan, whose Halo 3 footage took home “Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game”, and Matthew Gratzner, Alan Scott, Seth Curlin, and Greg Boettcher, whose work on the Halo 3 Believe campaign (and the John 117 Monument Miniature in specific) won “Outstanding Models or Miniatures in a Broadcast Program or Commercial”. Nice work, guys! (Louis Wu 20:37:02 UTC)

  • Multiplayer Tips and Map of Month: Construct

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    Dialpex

    Grab a full sniper and jump off the map with it, so the other team won’t have it.

    Got better tips than this one? Then send them in… This week we will be sharing with our listeners all the multiplayer tips that you have for the halo nation. Com’on click on the green button to the right and send us some smoking tips to help people level up and stay there.

    Throw a shield drainer on the big lift and a frag grenade right after.

    Well, im sure you guys can do better… So, how about we get some tips and useful info on our map of the month which is Construct. So go ahead, send us some stuff that will improve our games on this map.

    Ps. The deadline is tomorrow at 6:00 PM EST. So, lets get going!

  • Yes, You Can Has Recon

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    The auction of Frankie’s Mister Chief Masterpiece, for charity, is going astoundingly well – high bid is now over $1000, with four days to go! If you scroll down to the bottom of the auction, there are a number of questions asked by viewers – the most common of which is “Can I has Recon?” The answer is a resounding Yes! – the winner of this auction will also receive Recon armor for his or her gamertag on Xbox LIVE. BONUS!(Louis Wu 20:15:02 UTC)

  • Stuffing the sausage into a sock

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    Back in November, we listed a bunch of talks to be given by Bungie employees at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, coming up next week. Today I heard from Mat “OMG TALK ABOUT ME” Noguchi, who’s now on the schedule… and it looks like an interesting session! Mat’s going to discuss how Halo 3 was optimized to play without a hard drive. (Louis Wu 20:08:24 UTC)

  • That’s gonna leave a mark.

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    Heh – The Onion Radio News has a piece (it’s labeled ‘podcast’, but it’s only a minute long) on ‘blown skulls and nearly-fatal bowel movements’ seen since Halo 3 was released. Funny. Thanks, dzejms.(Louis Wu 19:47:09 UTC)

  • Overkill Extermination Mongoose Mowdown

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    thehomeland ran across someone bragging that they’d gotten an extermination with a mongoose; he didn’t believe it, but the film is still in gizmo777’s fileshare. (It’s slot 1, labeled “WTF!!!”) thehomeland decided to make it more accessible to those without access to the film, so you can watch it on YouTube, or you can download higher-quality versions from us (WMP9 or QuickTime, both a bit under 15 mb). Pretty nice!(Louis Wu 17:19:08 UTC)

  • Backseat Driver

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    Today’s Halo Action Figure Theater takes a turn for the weird. Well… a farther turn. Okay, so we’ve gone completely around now, and have begun spewing pea soup. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:06:18 UTC)

  • Entertaining vids for your Monday morning

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    Obienator found a couple of funny vids from female gamers – you can watch OboeCrazy’s funny ode to ‘Standers’ (folks who join social matchmaking and don’t actually play, assuming that at least some of the time they’ll finish in the top 3 and thereby gain an experience point without having to participate), and you can check out Little Miss Gamer’s review of Gitaroo Man. Wait, what does Gitaroo Man have to do with Halo, you might wonder? Well, there’s a really fun hand-drawn intro for this review which has Little Miss Gamer playing Rocket Race in Matchmaking. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:23:50 UTC)

  • The Final Run, in LEGO

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    Very awesome – Nannan Z. has recreated a vignette from Halo 3’s final run (if you haven’t played the game all the way through, this probably contains spoilers) – out of LEGO bits. You can view the piece, from a number of angles, either at MOCpages.com or Flickr. This one’s display-worthy, for sure. Thanks, Unique Name.(Louis Wu 14:13:18 UTC)

  • ITS A TRAP

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    2phast wrote to say that the next Larry the Marine comic is up – I’m guessing Larry’s gonna have some trouble with this particular strategy.(Louis Wu 14:05:00 UTC)

  • Marty O’Donnell – Style Setter

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    The UK’s Times newspaper has a bit in its online News in Brief this morning about Universal Music that caught my eye:

    Universal Music, the record company whose artists include Amy Winehouse and Eminem, is advertising for monks to record an album of chants after the popularity of the Halo computer game. Dickon Stainer, from Universal, said: “It’s going to be a challenge. You can’t open Yellow Pages and call a monastery.”

    Heh.(Louis Wu 13:59:32 UTC)

  • Podtacular wins “Best Tournament”

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    You heard it right!!! The Podtacular community won “Best Tournamnet” at the community award hosted by the Second Foundation guys.

    The 2007 Summer Season Tournament had a big and positive impact in the halo community to the point of achieving recognition from fellow friends and community members. It was a pleasure to have all the people that participated in this because without everyone this would not be possible.

    So i want to first thank Kiaffex and CapnKrunk for being my partners in this project, because every season is truly a project that lasts weeks, and of course thank all the Podtacular Community that supports what i do here. You guys are the reason and the fuel to keep me going in order to achieve milestones such as this one.

    Thanks SigaFoo and the SF crew and for more discussions at the podtacular forum click HERE.

    See you guys next season!

  • Podtacular All Stars vs Tied the Leader Gunslingers

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    On Saturday night, the Podtacular All Stars had the privilege to square off against the Tied the Leader Gunslingers. TTL, the short name for the site, has been around for quite some time. Although we did not have the chance to face off against TTL in Halo 2, we had to take this opportunity. The All Stars and TTL played a best out of five series, with the All Stars picking two and TTL picking 2 and we all agreed on a fifth game. The Gunslinger’s site can be found Here.

    Wanna see what happened? You can find the whole write up regarding this amazing match right HERE.

  • Episode 148: Callins and Tales from Foxhole

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    This is my favorite show and this week I get to host it since Foo Mo is in England! Here we talk about and give voice to the people to share the coolest stories they have from their halo time, along with the Halo Nation’s voice mails. CapnKrunk narrates those and makes the bad ones walk the plank. Plasma qrenades joins JVB and I this week for the tales from the foxhole. Pod Art this week is from Plasma qrenades himself.

    Ps. I hope you guys bear with me on this one since it was my first time editing. Also the show notes will be up tomorrow morning. I had a problem with the hosting. Hope you all like it!