My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Museum now on XBL

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    MffnMn pointed out that the Museum ad is now on Xbox Live Marketplace; check ‘Game Videos’, New Arrivals’, ‘Halo 3’ to find it. Nice quality!(Louis Wu 19:53:31 UTC)

  • Behind the Diorama

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    Kotaku has a great article about the Halo diorama featured in the Halo ads tearing up the internets this week. The concept of game spoilers is addressed directly (don’t worry, there aren’t any), and there are a bunch of cool photos. Go look! Thanks, Tex.(Louis Wu 18:01:06 UTC)

  • Racing to Finish The Fight

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    The Xbox.com Launch Week Announcement (we mentioned it yesterday) noted that a NASCAR entry would be Halo-themed – but there’s a full press release about it now. I heard about it from Hawty McBloggy, who pulled out all the good bits for you.(Louis Wu 17:58:48 UTC)

  • Catching Up with Bungie’s Frank O’Connor-Shack News

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    There is an interview with Bungie’s Frank O’Connor over at Shack News. I thought it was worth reading, but one part really disturbed me.

    “DLC is never based on scraps we swept away from past games, it’s always new maps we decided would be good for specific reasons. For example, we already now see there will be a need for more smaller symmetrical maps.”

    I hope there is at least a few small symmetrical maps, I am sure a few can tide me over until DLC comes out. Fingers crossed for Midship redesign shipping with the game.

    Catching Up with Bungie’s Frank O’Connor

  • RT: Beard of Shame

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    First off, I bet no one gets my reference in this post’s title. Prove me wrong kids. Prove me wrong (of course you will just google it and pretend to have gotten it along. for shame). Moving along, today’s comic is below, and the sponsor comic is here. Like…

  • What’s the final tally gonna be?

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    According to Next Generation, a financial analyst is predicting that Halo 3 sales will ‘quickly reach $200 million’ – but no word on whether ‘quickly’ means ‘less than 24 hours from release. I guess we wait and see how accurate that is…(Louis Wu 16:51:22 UTC)

  • Sensationalism at its worst

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    Not totally sure why this is news – but it’s shown up on both SPOnG (thanks again, Narc, this time in #hbo) and CVG; a couple of Sony developers were chatting about the Museum ad and decided to post the chat online. And yes, one of them says a bad word about Halo. (What’s more interesting than the bad word is the reaction to the trailer. THAT’S worth reading – it’s a pretty thoughtful exchange.) (Louis Wu 16:24:22 UTC)

  • Lofty Goals, Realized

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    Shacknews has an interview with Frank O’Connor, discussing how he feels about the final product, what’s next (Bungie employees are ALREADY WORKING on Halo 3 downloadable content!), tidbits about the Peter Jackson project, and more. Good read! Thanks again, Narcogen.(Louis Wu 16:05:26 UTC)

  • IMAX Event Recap

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    Some news shamelessly stolen from the Rampancy.net front page (thanks, Narcogen): Zanzibar, over at Evil Avatar, took part in the Pontiac ‘First to Play’ event at the IMAX theater in San Francisco (the New York event happens tonight) – he wrote up his experiences. Factoid that might make a difference for the New York crowd – you can bring a guest.(Louis Wu 15:52:02 UTC)

  • Analyst Predicts Quick $200M For Halo 3

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    narcogen

    Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian says Halo 3 sales should reach $200 million, quoting Microsoft executives who expect $155M in first day says, up $30M from Halo 2’s total.

    Next-Generation has the story.

  • Get a FREE gaming shirt from Split Reason!

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    foomojive

    Our homeys at Split Reason have some of the coolest gaming shirts on the planet, especially for Halo fans. And they want to give you one for free! Here’s how it works. The Podtacular logo is hidden in a five places on splitreason.com. If you’re one of the first three people to find all five, click submit news & tips on the right side of the page and send in links to the five pages that have the logo. The winner gets a Split Reason shirt of his choice sent to him for free! What are you still doing reading this? Your friends are searching for the logos right now…

    UPDATE: So far we have two winners. Still one more shirt to give away!

  • Faster Than A Speeding Zombie

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    narcogen

    Adowaki has done a speedrun through Wideload’s Stubbs the Zombie, on the Insane difficulty. Check out part one and part two.

  • Believe – online a little early

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    If you can’t wait for an official, high-res copy, Sep7imus found a YouTube version of the upcoming ‘Believe’ ad; it’s simple and powerful. (Later today you’ll be able to download not only a high-resolution version of this, but a ‘behind the scenes’ video showing how the diorama was created. We’ll shoot you a link as soon as it’s up.) For what it’s worth, it seems to me that Microsoft is targeting this campaign at non-gamers. That’s not to say that gamers can’t (or won’t) enjoy it, but I’d bet that far, FAR more people will see (and appreciate) these ads because they’re NOT full of game imagery than would be the case otherwise.(Louis Wu 13:06:16 UTC)

  • Kick the Tires and Light the Fires

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    Nice blog entry (with a handy-dandy calendar of Halo 3 events over at PC World… almost reluctant enthusiasm! (I LOVE the description of the MC as “a kind of generic looking alpha-marine in an gold-flecked olive-colored exoskeletal wannabe bat-suit”!)(Louis Wu 12:49:37 UTC)

  • Do You Believe?

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    The second new Halo 3 ad is out, the one called Believe. It builds on the same theme as the previous ad, Museum.

    Joystiq thought it was a little strange, I can’t help but agree a little bit. I half-expected the gruesome diorama to morph into ActionClix figures. They don’t, however.

  • Master Replicas Review

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    Mr. Titan, over at Planet Halo, got his hands on the Master Replicas gun models – and wrote up a review. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:42:44 UTC)

  • Shacknews Interviews Frankie

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    Shacknews asks Frankie how it feels at Bungie now that Halo 3 is all finished. They also get to cover a few other bases: such as baseball in Forge:

    Shack: How long do you think it will take before you start seeing things made with Forge and the gametype editor that you had never planned for or anticipated?

    Frank O’Connor: Specifically about 23 hours ago–when those guys made [a] baseball [gametype] with rockets and gravity hammers–and that was their first pass at something!–and they even got bases in, we said, “Okay, all bets are off.” We had no idea.

    Also a few notes about DOA and Halo Wars.

  • Xbox Live Gold Free At Best Buy

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    narcogen

    Frankie has posted at Bungie.net that Best Buy may be your best friend come Halo 3’s launch day:

    During the launch period of Halo 3, the 25th, 26th and 27th of September, Best Buy will be sponsoring the Xbox Live Gold service and making it free for everyone. Think of it as Halo Free Gold Days. That means that even if you only have Xbox Live Silver, or you picked up a 360 just for Halo 3, that you’ll be able to try almost all of the features – online co-op, Multiplayer, Forge editing, viewing networked Saved Films – however, you will not be able to use our File Share system unless you subscribe to the paid Xbox Live Gold service.

    Interesting restriction. Looks like nobody wants a lack of a Gold subscription to get in the way of Halo 3’s online multiplayer numbers.

  • A Day Of Halo 3 News

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    narcogen

    While many Halo fans are trying to keep themselves off the Internet to avoid spoilers, I’ve had trouble getting on it– the new DSL line is installed, but not yet working, and the old line decided to go on vacation for the past 24 hours. With that in mind, here’s a summary of the news in that time:

  • This Spartan Life talks to The Raiders Guys

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    This Spartan Life has posted Module Two of their Fifth Episode – it’s an interview with the makers of ‘Raiders of The Lost Ark – Adaptation’, a shot-by-shot remake of the original, begun when they were 12. Go find it on the Episodes page!(Louis Wu 02:32:55 UTC)