My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • RT: New Looks

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    Today’s comic is below. A new sponsor video is here. Sorry so brief. Catan is on XBL. Priorities. xoxoxo

  • GiA’s Halo 3 One-liner Results

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    A few weeks ago Games in Action announced that it would be running a Halo 3 Dialog Competition.  Well we recieved well over 1000 entries but there could be only one winner.  The community voted and decided that Awhalesball’s entry was the best.

  • Red Bull Flugtag – Halo Style

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    Porsche6864 stopped by to point out that his team created a Halo-related soaring vehicle for a Red Bull contest – and now they need people to vote for them, to secure the final slot in the 31-contestant field. Swing by the Red Bull Flugtag site – and give ’em some love!(Louis Wu 14:08:18 UTC)

  • Audio Line Contest

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    Johnrap let us know that Games in Action has extended their One Liner Contest – contestants must record one of the finalists of that contest for the new Audio Line Contest, prize is a copy of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2. Go read the details at the GiA site.(Louis Wu 14:04:01 UTC)

  • Follow the Fleet

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    Edgeworks has posted Episode 6 of the Heretic – some amazing CG work on the space scenes, and a powerful storyline twist. Top-notch machinima – go watch! Thanks to clippit for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:59:15 UTC)

  • Mister Cupcake, revealed

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    Jared Rea points out that his girlfriend photo-blogged the making of the Mister Chief cupcakes shown in last night’s Weekly Update – yum!(Louis Wu 13:58:47 UTC)

  • Always gotta be careful with fanatics.

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    Heh – look what darthbob found on bungie.net. 😉 (We’ve grabbed local copies, in case they mysteriously vanish again…)(Louis Wu 13:44:11 UTC)

  • Go to the Airport

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    Over at Red vs Blue, Burnie released Director’s Commentary for Episode 96 – it’s almost more of a podcast than actual commentary on the piece, but there IS some cool stuff about how various shots were put together. (They’re definitely getting fancier in their machinima techniques as the series winds down to a close…) Enjoyable, even though the RvB stuff is minimal. (Louis Wu 13:22:52 UTC)

  • H2V and Dedicated Servers

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    The Hired Gun crew has put up a new blog entry, this time discussing dedicated servers for Halo 2 Vista. (The DS doesn’t need Vista – only Windows Server 2003. This should help tremendously in finding a host that can handle one.) There’s lots of other good info in there – so give it a read!(Louis Wu 12:41:40 UTC)

  • Crazy Secrets Week

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    As usual, Friday night brought a Bungie Weekly Update last night – but I went to see Spiderman 3 instead. (Decent movie, but a bit too sappy in places. I guess that’s what you get when you’re trying to wrap up a storyline. Amazing effects, no matter WHAT else was going on.) The weekly update ALSO talks about effects – the first third waxes poetic about the quality of the ingame cinematics, and let me tell you, I’m dying to see one now. There’s also good info about the status of the Blastacular Map Pack (it should be available to almost everyone, finally, and they’re going to be fixing the geometry errors posthaste), a bunch of cool dev tidbits, some positive news about the Friends and Family program (which now has an official start date), and a welcome to Luke Smith. And some funky Mister Chief stuff. Go see what’s there! (Or read it here, in our Weekly Update Archive…(Louis Wu 12:30:17 UTC)

  • Official Podtacular Xbox 360 Theme

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    Recently, I was playing around with some ideas and cooked up this nifty official Podtacular Xbox 360 theme background for the whole community to use. It’s designed for widescreen displays at full 1080p resolution, so download and display it proudly in your Dashboard!

    UPDATE: I’ve now included a version for older televisions at 480p fullscreen resolution.

    To download the image, just right-click on the attached files below and save the file to your computer. There are several ways to get it to your 360, including copying the file to a USB hard drive or iPod/MP3 player, burning it to a CD or even streaming it across your network via Media Center/Connect 360. Once you see it in the Photos section of your 360 Dashboard (in the Media blade), find the image and press X to “Apply as Background” and you’re all set!

    Oh, and since I know we have some really good and enthusiastic artists in the Podtacular community, I’d like to see if anyone else has some awesome ideas for 360 themes. We recently had a desktop wallpaper contest, and if there’s enough interest, maybe we could have one for 360 themes! Whaddya say?

  • Official Podtacular Xbox 360 Theme

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    CapnKrunk

    Recently, I was playing around with some ideas and cooked up this nifty official Podtacular Xbox 360 theme background for the whole community to use. It’s designed for widescreen displays at full 1080p resolution, so download and display it proudly in your Dashboard!

    Oh, and since I know we have some really good and enthusiastic artists in the Podtacular community, I’d like to see if anyone else has some awesome ideas for 360 themes. We recently had a desktop wallpaper contest, and if there’s enough interest, maybe we could have one for 360 themes! Whaddya say?

  • Seventh Column back online. So is our old group.

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    Recently the Seventh Column came back online. You recall that Bungie.net got a makeover. The old THX group is still on there.

    A lot of information has been lost over the years. It looks like a lot of accounts have been deleted and that most all of the members didn’t port over. I think some information was lost in the port.

    Oh well. That’s why we run our own stuff.

    If thx.com ever goes down, we can always go to the THX site on the Seventh Column if we need to make announcements.

    You can view the chapter at http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/thx/Group/GroupHome.aspx
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  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    This week there is a LOT of information. You pretty much have to read this one. Seriously.

  • Halo 3 Press Event – you might be able to go

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    Last week, we mentioned a ‘press event’ happening on May 11 – very few details. Yesterday, Gamerscoreblog released their latest podcast – and in it they’ve made a pretty amazing offer:

    “…one in New York, and one in San Francisco, for Halo 3. They’re both press events, but we are going to try and open the door a little bit for some community to attend. If some of you live in the New York or San Francisco area, and maybe you have a blog, or a fansite, and you’re interested in checking it out, send an email to gsblog at microsoft.com and we’ll see if we can get you in.”

    I’m not saying go out and start a blog today… I’m just saying if you fit their criteria, this might be something you want to go to. Thanks to RevDotNed for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:30:29 UTC)

  • Time To Bail?

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    Some people have been expressing unhappiness about spoilers from leaks of Halo 3 gameplay. Stuntmutt thinks he might have a solution, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:32:07 UTC)

  • H2V on the cheap (if you’re Canadian)

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    If you live in Canada, boesman found a deal for you – $20 off the cover price of Halo 2 Vista, at Futureshop. (Louis Wu 14:27:29 UTC)

  • Podtacular 111

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    Big Goalie Dan pointed out that Podtacular 111 has been released – 60 mb, 90 minutes, focuses on leaked Halo 3 video stuff. That’s about as close as we’re gonna get to the leaks, ourselves…(Louis Wu 14:26:18 UTC)

  • New Shin Guards for Mjolnir Outfit

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    James Falcon sent us a few pictures of the Shin Guards that go with his Mjolnir Armor outfit – you can find them on his Rifle/Armor page. Gettin’ there!(Louis Wu 14:23:33 UTC)

  • Lithium 1v1 Montage

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    Z pointed out Lithium’s 1v1 montage over at Halo3forum.com – 8.5 minutes, 155 mb, nice editing, and some sick sticks and snipes. The use of fusion cores as placement engines is great – haven’t seen much of that before. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:56:54 UTC)