My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • HALO 3 Achievements revealed

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    Spoiler warning. XBOX.com has a listing showing the achievements available in HALO 3. There are not any major spoilers in there. In fact everything mentioned in the achievement list has been discussed on the THX website before. If knowing things like the number of missions in the campaign bothers you, then quit out now.

    Achievements Gamerscore

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  • King of the Shill.

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    Stuntmutt shows how Bungie could be tying in to external merchandise even when they’re not, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 14:38:09 UTC)

  • Dan Chosich – Reel 2007

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    Dan Chosich dropped in to point out his latest creation – a video reel showing off a bunch of work he’s done in the past two years. A significant portion of it is Halo-related (mostly MLG promo stuff) – all of it is gorgeous. He’s got it available at two sizes, in QuickTime format, and we’ve added local mirrors for both to save his bandwidth. I think back on 2002, when he started out making Halo montages, and I’m amazed by how far he’s come. The man makes beautiful movies.(Louis Wu 14:36:40 UTC)

  • Perceiving the Dimensions of IRIS: Episode 3

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    Avateur pointed out a new episode of the ‘Perceiving the Dimensions of IRIS’ series of videos that summarize the happenings in the IRIS arg. Swing by Mythica to download this. (Episodes 1 and 2 can be found here and here.)(Louis Wu 13:40:38 UTC)

  • Game Content Usage Rules from MS

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    Laird noticed that over at Xbox.com, Microsoft has posted their Game Content Usage Rules, spelling out what their game content can, and cannot, be used for. For the most part, it’s great news; there’s now an official policy in place stating what you need to do in order to legally use footage from, say, Halo in a fan creation – no more worrying that you’re skirting the law, or that the MS legal team will come down on you like a ton of Brutes. However, some of the rules might give Halo machinima makers pause; there are, for example, rules like this:

    You can’t add to the game universe or expand on the story told in the game with “lost chapters” or back story or anything like that.

    As I think back about some of the best machinima I’ve seen, an awful lot of it ‘adds to the game universe’ – does this new policy mean that these projects will have to be taken down?(Louis Wu 13:33:48 UTC)

  • Jonathan Ross – a bad guy?

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    Anton P. Nym found some interesting information about a potential voice actor for Halo 3 – this page contains info about Jonathan Ross agreeing to voice one “of the most evil aliens in the new game” for free (due to an exclusive contract he has with the BBC). We have no confirmation on this story, so for now it needs to be labeled rumor – but it has the ring of truth to it.(Louis Wu 13:27:05 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Achievements – 9 Images Changed

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    Monster 2 of 2 let us know that the Achievement list for Halo 3 has been updated again – in his words, “the 3 campaign completion achievements (10-12), the rank achievements (22-24), and the kill achievements (27, 28, 31) now sport new graphics.” You can check them out either at the Achieve360Points.com website, or at Xbox.com.(Louis Wu 13:21:45 UTC)

  • Microsoft Allows MMO Developers To Require Hard Drive

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    narcogen

    Two and a half years ago, I said that rumors that the Xbox 360 would not have a hard drive as standard were evidence that either the speculators, or someone at Microsoft, were on crack.

    I thought it was silly for Microsoft to become the first company to make a hard drive standard in a console instead of an option, only to become the first company to remove the same feature.

    I thought it was silly to tease developers into depending on the hard drive, and then take that away.

    I thought it was silly to divide the Xbox market into hard drive haves and hard drive have nots, because eventually, no matter how strenuously Microsoft asserted the opposite, it seemed inevitable to me that some Xbox 360 games would come to require the hard drive, and that eventually most would.

    Some of that came to be almost immediately: the much-touted backwards compatibility feature of the Xbox 360 requires a hard drive, not only because many of the games that feature emulates depended on it (like Halo and Halo 2) but because the emulators themselves need to be downloaded and stored somewhere, although they are conceivably small enough to fit on a memory card.

    Final Fantasy XI was the first 360 game to require a hard drive, and Next Generation now says that MMO developers will be allowed to require the hard drive as long as they display the requirement on the front of the box.

    The other shoe has just dropped.

    Hey, Microsoft– while you’re allocating that $1B charge for ring of death warranty repairs, why not give every Core owner a free hard drive? You might as well.

  • Fully Equipped

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    The third Red vs Blue Retail Exclusive Video is now online at Gamestop – episode 3 looks at the equipment options in Halo 3. Simmons, as usual, faces a difficult situation. Thanks, macegac.(Louis Wu 20:30:04 UTC)

  • RT: Caring, Sharing

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    Rooster Teeth News
    Hey kids, Today’s comic is posted below, and it’s a tasty comic treat, complete with zany deliciousness. Be sure to brush your teeth after reading.

  • New movies from GTV

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    trigger119 let us know about a pair of videos available at GamingTV – Slaughter comes from Dagerus, and Letter to My Sister comes from Teh Filmer. Descriptions of both films can be found at GTV.(Louis Wu 20:09:41 UTC)

  • The Hog Tage 2

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    Z let us know that there’s a new Gauss Hog montage over at Halo3Forum.com – killtacular after killtacular after killtacular. 10 minutes long, WMP9 format, 172 mb.(Louis Wu 19:54:00 UTC)

  • TTTLWTF

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    It’s Tuesday, so there must be new content at Tied the Leader. Let’s see… there’s a 22 Questions interview with Christiaan Allebest, of Game Almighty… and a discussion about the loss of clan support – and its possible replacements – in Halo 3. Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 19:54:23 UTC)

  • Free Bioshock Artbook Available for Download

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    Bioshock: Breaking the Mold is the title, and because the limited edition of the game couldn’t ship with a book of concept art as the developers initially wanted, it’s now being offered for download in PDF format in both standard and high resolution versions. Gamers interested in the plot may want to skip the foreward by Ken Levine as it contains spoilers.

    Get your copy of the art book here.

    ‹ Thx Pics! Sparta = lumberjacks? ›

  • He’s doing Frogger, the Movie, next

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    Dolbex pointed out a new interview with Michael Bendis over at Gamespot (via NewsPail, which you should use more often cause it rocks). Bendis talks about the upcoming Halo Uprising comic – a fun read.(Louis Wu 06:36:18 UTC)

  • Halo Artwork in TSW

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    Ross Mills commissioned a piece of art from the folks that do the Tiny Sides Wide webcomic; a shot of it was added to their latest comic. (You should be able to guess which one is his…)(Louis Wu 06:33:26 UTC)

  • RT: Firing Main Camera

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    Rooster Teeth News
    I just got a note from our very own Sheila The Tank, otherwise known as Yomary Cruz. She recently moved from Los Angeles to Miami to accept a new position as a reporter for CBS 4 in Miami and you should all check out her page. We have worked with Yomary…

  • Maybe it’ll be snow day… nah.

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    Warbow’s found material for a new Calvin and Halo– I’m with Calvin. Go read.(Louis Wu 06:26:13 UTC)

  • 2160 AD Trailer

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    ODST Epsilon stopped by our forum recently to point out a trailer for a new machinima series, ‘2160 AD’. It focuses on a section of Halo canon that’s only been mentioned a little bit – they’re trying to stay true to the info that’s out there, while still making an entertaining movie. The trailer suggests they’ve got an interesting project on their hands. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube than via the download link he put in to his post, you can do that.(Louis Wu 06:24:11 UTC)

  • Out of the Frying Pan…

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    Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #65 is now up – this series is getting weirder and weirder.(Louis Wu 06:18:36 UTC)