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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • 1Up Halo 3 Flood Starts

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    1Up.com has begun its nearly month-long Halo 3 intense coverage – the first three items are up now. A new screenshot gallery (with a great collection of new shots), a hands-on preview of Halo 3’s fourth campaign mission, and a blog from editor Jeremy Parish, looking back on Halo’s roots, round out the first day’s content. Nice! Thanks, darthbob (and doober187).(Louis Wu 10:38:21 UTC)

  • IMAX show continues to wow

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    More writeups of the IMAX Halo 3 showing Tuesday night – from professional journalists at The Seattle Times and fansites like GruntsRUs. Everybody loved it!(Louis Wu 10:31:50 UTC)

  • Another clip roundup

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    More footage, mostly from Leipzig: Daily Motion and TeamXbox both have different sizes of the same IGN video – a nice multiplayer montage. In fact, Oliver from Halo Base (in Germany) sent us a link that contains all the clips they’ve found so far – go ahead and check it out if you think you’re missing something.(Louis Wu 10:21:39 UTC)

  • RvB thoughts

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    Computerworld has a look back on Rooster Teeth’s effect on machinima, triggered by the fact that the Season Five DVD is now available (my preordered copy arrived last week) – go read, then (if you don’t already have it) go buy!(Louis Wu 09:58:54 UTC)

  • Uprising – now on shelves

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    A lot of people pointed out that we neglected to mention that Marvel’s first episode of Halo: Uprising went on sale yesterday. Consider yourself informed. (Feedback on our forum – full of spoilers, so don’t read this unless you’re done with the issue – has been positive.) Stories like this one, from the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, will show up a lot this week.(Louis Wu 09:50:58 UTC)

  • Gentlemen Prefer Marathon… Or Halo

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    The most recent Preferred Player column over at Xbox.com, penned by KP, is on Freeverse’s XBLA port of Marathon: Durandal; specifically, an XBL cooperative game of Marathon the author played with yours truly and other notable Bungiefen Geary11 and ZuP101.

    Not to be outdone, TriXie did an interview with Halo and Marathon player SniperStealth, the very same that Rampancy interviewed last week when SS nailed the top spot on the Marathon: Durandal single player leaderboard.

  • Bioshock show postponed

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    Sorry guys but a situation came up where I can’t be at this week’s podcast. And since JVB is at PAX, we can’t record this week’s show quite yet. We hope to be able to do a makeup session for Bioshock shortly. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

  • HALO 3 video round up. Over a dozen videos. New vehicles. New maps. RvB videos. Other.

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    Lots of HALO 3 videos are making there ways from camera phones to the series of tubes between you and me. Have a look at what’s out there after the break.

    5-minute sneak peat at HALO 3 Limited and Collector’s Edition DVD @ GameInvasion.

    Red vs Blue HALO 3 Editions

    Gamestop HALO 3 marketing video

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  • I think he needs the space for a banquet table.

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    PFG is selling off the doubles in his (rather ridiculously large) Joyride Action Figure collection – go see what there is, and make him an offer!(Louis Wu 23:54:04 UTC)

  • Spartanarena

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    We got email from Tucker Barrie, who let us know about one of the coolest stop-motion Halo films to pass through our doors in quite some time. It’s called ‘Spartanarena’, and probably not for the reason you’re thinking. You can download it in QuickTime (26.4 mb) or WMP9 (21.1 mb) formats – or you can watch it on YouTube, if you must (the quality’s better on the downloadables). Don’t miss this one.(Louis Wu 22:10:02 UTC)

  • Pairing Up

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    Gamespot has a nice writeup of Halo 3 Coop, as played in Sydney. Thanks, Sir Topham Hat.(Louis Wu 22:05:40 UTC)

  • Even more gameplay clips

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    Astounding number of singleplayer clips appearing today – Nucflash found another one at IGTV, and Bootsman found a pair (one | two) at GameVideos.com. I’m sure there’ll be more – but I’ve got to call it quits at this point. (Louis Wu 21:53:36 UTC)

  • RT: Season Five is here!

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    Hey everybody! I’m very excited to announce that the RvB Season Five DVD is now officially in stock. All pre-orders have been filled, and any new orders placed will ship out as we receive them. It’s conveniently located right here in our store. If it’s…

  • Those ironic Bungie guys…

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    Awesome. If things go as planned, standbyers in Halo 3 will find themselves playing only other standbyers. (Well… and people with really crappy connections.) Bungie.net forum post found by Nucflash.(Louis Wu 21:43:23 UTC)

  • Halo 3 in airy height play

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    Halo Universe has some photos of the Halo 3 Ferris Wheel we mentioned a couple of days ago, set up at the Leipzig Games Convention – as the pics show, there are 360s set up in each car, so you can play Halo 3 as you rotate over Leipzig. Thanks, Marc. (Post title is Google’s wonderful translation skillz at work.)(Louis Wu 21:37:45 UTC)

  • Halo 3 – IMAX Audio Report

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    360RantRave.com was at the IMAX showing last night; they grabbed some audio from the show. (Bungie’s restrictions barred “Photography, video cameras and cell phone camera use” – no mention of audio recorders, so I guess this is okay.) Thanks, SIRBOE.(Louis Wu 20:34:26 UTC)

  • Peter Jackson, Back in the News

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    There’s an article in the New Zealand Herald that purports to be about Peter Jackson’s Halo game – but really, it’s just about how it’s not really related to the Trilogy, story-wise. Thanks to Blackstar for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:53:18 UTC)

  • Xbox 360 Messenger Kit Release Date: 9/7/07

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    I’m excited about this peripheral. It should aid in setting up games and speed up communication between people that may be trying to get into games with one another. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to send a quick message on the 360 but decided not to because of the effort required. I’m hoping more THX’ers purchase this accessory as well.

    It will cost $29.99 and comes with the chat pad attachment and a headset. Little known fact: Gamespot reports that you will also be able to connect your old original Xboxen headsets to the chatpad, so bust out that old Halo 2 in-ear set if you like.

    How it works: You will be able to type messages faster through the standard “send message” Xbox Live blade, however an additional button on the chat pad will pop up a quick chat interface over whatever current game your playing. It is yet to be determined whether or not you will be able to hit the quick chat button and send a standard Xbox Live message to one of your friends. If you don’t have the accessory it is most likely that you will be able to receive chat messages if your MSN account is synced, however you will have to reply through the standard blade. I would recommend everyone go and get an MSN Messenger account and sync it to your Xbox Live account. This is an easy process and there’s plenty of tutorials online.

    This is a huge improvement to the 360’s current messaging and communication functionality. For only 30 bucks, I’d say it’s well worth it.

    Here’s the official info from Xbox.com:
    “Chatting with friends and family on Xbox LIVE® and Windows-based PCs is easy using the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This device easily connects to any Xbox 360 controller and provides easy to use chat capabilities while maintaining gameplay functionality in one easy-to-hold device. The Messenger Kit includes a Chatpad and Xbox 360 Headset.”

    XBL GT: Mikeulus

  • Campaign Footage

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    There’s a small clip of actual gameplay from Halo 3’s campaign, shakeycam’d off a monitor and recorded during hte Leipzig Games Convention, at IGN (first movie on the page). (Sort of has that start-of-Delta-Halo feel to it… but prettier.) It’s actually linked from this hands-on article, which also contains the “Top 5 Leipzig GC Halo 3 Moments”. Give it a read! Thanks, Spenser.(Louis Wu 18:44:59 UTC)

  • Opus Machinima

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    Andras Ostrom has sent along a new, and MASSIVE, piece of Halo machinima; it’s 30 minutes long, and weighs in at about 200 mb, depending on format. It’s called ‘Opus Machinima’, and it pokes fun at… well, the entire genre. It’s really nicely filmed, has great voice acting, and contains quite a few funny moments – if you’ve got the bandwidth, it’s worth the download. You can grab it in either QuickTime or WMP9 formats; we can, again, spread this out over multiple servers if the bandwidth gets tight. Update: The film has its own website – take a look.(Louis Wu 16:01:34 UTC)