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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Myth World Cup 2007 This Summer

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    narcogen
    Myth Logo

    InsideMacGaming notes that the Myth World Cup 2007 website has launched with a fan-produced promotional video. More details are “coming soon”.

    For Halo fans unfamiliar with the game, Myth is a fantastic real-time tactical combat game that eschews resource management and focuses solely on managing troops in battle. It was released for Macs and PCs, and the fan community has kept the games updated for running on modern operating systems. Two online communities exist at PlayMyth and MariusNet.

    If you really don’t know what Myth is, this page at ProjectMagma will tell you; if that sparks your interest, you can get a demo of Myth 2: Soulblighter.

  • Matchmaking Playlist Update

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    Originally we indicated that this week was our target for updating the Halo 2 Xbox Live matchmaking playlists and resetting all player rankings. We are holding this update while we investigate and fix some of the Xbox Live download problems that people have been reporting.

  • Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

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    JVB





    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

    Our friends at Gamertag Radio and The Xbox Domain, are going to host a community event for gamers in the New York area. Read bellow for the full details

    We are teaming up with TheXboxdomain.net & Gaia Industries for a community event that will take place May 5 @ 2pm EST in New York City. You’ll get to play & see their new Xbox Live Arcade game “Street Trace: NYC“

    Here is the Addy:

    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!
    197A Grand Street #2S
    New York, NY 10013

    Grand Between Mulberry and Mott in Little Italy.

    RSVP by May 4th to my email godfree7@gmail.com if you would like to go. Pizza and refreshments will be served too!

    I’m talking with many community sites that are planning to go. This will be a great event for all of us to meet up and hang out in New York City.

  • Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

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    JVB





    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

    Our friends at Gamertag Radio and The Xbox Domain, are going to host a community event for gamers in the New York area. Read bellow for the full details

    We are teaming up with TheXboxdomain.net & Gaia Industries for a community event that will take place May 5 @ 2pm EST in New York City. You’ll get to play & see their new Xbox Live Arcade game “Street Trace: NYC“.



    Here is the Addy:



    Street Trace NYC Community Day 5/5 @ 2pm EST!

    197A Grand Street #2S

    New York, NY 10013



    Grand Between Mulberry and Mott in Little Italy.



    RSVP by May 4th to my email godfree7@gmail.com if you would like to go. Pizza and refreshments will be served too!



    I’m talking with many community sites that are planning to go. This will be a great event for all of us to meet up and hang out in New York City.

  • Hello there

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    rapture

    Who’s got an XBOX 360 with a hard drive and didn’t buy Crackdown? Just wondering…

    🙂

    BTW: Is anyone still playing Crackdown?
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    rapzilla blog | Shadowrun | HALO 2 Vista | cooked Gamers

  • GamePro Loves Puppies

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    halo@bungie.org
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    GamePro has posted a list of their top 52 video games of all time, ranked in order of importance – the amount of influence they’ve had on the industry. Halo fits in at #45, slightly more important than Super Mario Kart but slightly less important than Nintendogs. Halo 2 comes in at #20 for its relevance to online console gaming. Thanks to madcowjim for the heads up.(KP 16:24:34 UTC)

  • We Hardly Knew Ye

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    Last night we reported a story from PlayThree.net which was making some pretty outrageous claims. Narcogen filed his dismissive rant last night, which does a fine job of defeating these rumors with logic. FoolsRun wrote this morning, however, to alert us to a post by Frankie on NeoGAF:

    It’s total BS, but it’s so confidently written. You have to admire their brass ones.

    There you have it, straight from the devilishly handsome horse’s mouth.(KP 15:55:41 UTC)

  • Bungie Giveth…

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    halo@bungie.org
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    Stuntmutt takes note of the recent autoupdate, and how certain… er, substances might work against it in today’s One One Se7en.(mnemesis 15:36:40 UTC)

  • Str8 Rippin and 5k Interviews

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    MLG has updated its site with a couple new interviews with two of its teams. There’s one with Str8 Rippin which focuses on their revamped roster and how they look to improve this year and then an interview with 5k, a team that qualified via online play and took fourth place at Charlotte. Decent reads, thanks to 3Suns.(KP 15:28:10 UTC)

  • Eyes On Your Own Screen

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    Awesome O and pillar of awesome have concocted a Halo quiz which it seems they’ve put a fair amount of work into. The questions aren’t half-baked and there are definitely a few head-scratchers. Go check it out and share your score with the forum.(KP 15:20:16 UTC)

  • No Achievements for The Armory, c0ld

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    JeBr0nie pointed out last night that Major Nelson made a quick blog post yesterday afternoon running through his initial experience with Halo 2 Vista. He describes the ease and fimiliarity of the experience and tells us about the three achievements he got. Take a look at Major’s achievements page (you will need to have an xbox.com account) to see what he’s earned thus far. Those are some very cool icons.(KP 15:09:33 UTC)

  • Cavernous Conundrums!

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    Whoops. RvB Episode 95 came out for sponsors a few days ago, but we missed Twilight Draco’s post. Quality episode, lots of laughs and yet another cliff-hanger ending.(KP 15:00:59 UTC)

  • RT: Episode 95

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    Rooster Teeth News
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  • Get Your Salt Out

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    There’s an article over at PlayThree.net which is reporting a rumor that Halo 3 will support true 1080p, as opposed to upscaled which is what most were expecting. According to the article, Xbox exec Shane Kim believes that 1080p is becoming increasingly important which has resulted in pressure on Bungie to make true 1080p happen. The article goes on to state that Bungie currently has a build of Halo 3 running internally at 1080p and 60FPS. They then go even further into their stash as they predict the existence and a rough launch period for Halo 4. Remember not to take anything too seriously unless you hear it from the horse’s mouth.(KP 20:49:30 UTC)

  • Hired Gun Talks About UI

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    Shogo Ishii has updated Hired Gun’s IGN blog with an interview with their Software Design Engineer, Kevin Weston. The interview touches on several UI issues and the obstacles overcome in creating it. After that Ishii goes on talk about a bunch of minor yet interesting issues that you may have been wondering about. Thanks to PsychoRaven for letting us know about it.(KP 20:30:23 UTC)

  • Send in stuff for episode 111: Halo 3 leaked video special

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    foomojive

    Hm, what should we talk about this week? Oh, thanks internet. This week a major bombshell dropped in the form of a very busted guy that recorded a video of the halo 3 beta and posted it on the interweb. The footage shows off quite a few significant things that hadn’t been revealed yet. We want to know what you think! Here’s some ideas on things to send us about the video:

    1. What do you think of the new layout of Zanzibar?
    2. How about the new graphical touches on the map, the vehicles, the weapons and the HUD?
    3. What do you think of the bubble shield and it’s (totally overhauled) generator?
    4. Did you see the new pregame lobby? Notice the veto system? How do you think that works? Do you like the idea? See any other cool stuff in the lobby?
    5. We know there are custom and ranked matches but what is a social match?
    6. The video showed a new deployable: the “power drainer.” What the heck is that?! The guy didn’t use it.
    7. What is the object right below the fan where the sword used to be?
    8. Find anything we missed?

    We’ll be covering this and more in the next show, so click submit news and tips on the right side to send in your thoughts. Deadline is Thursday night at about 5:30pm EST and the earlier you get your stuff in, the more likely it’ll be on the show. Check out the video and let us know what you think! But please… for the love of God… mute your speakers. Smile

  • Geekdad Visits Bungie

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    Wired’s Geekdad blog has some really interesting stuff for Halo fans this morning. Geekdad was lucky enough to spend a day at Bungie Studios recording dialogue for Halo 3 and goes into a fair amount of detail describing the process. There’s a lot of cool content there, including a live performance of the Halo 3 Fanfare by The O’Donnell. Geekdad even posted pages of his mission dialogue… from which our forumers are beginning to derive quite a bit of plot. Thanks to SpecsOps_Assault for the linkage.(Crux Fidelis 12:09:00 UTC)

  • TTL Cries Like Little Girl Over Playlist Changes

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    Xerxdeej made his weekly forum post apprising us of all the goings on of the folks over at TiedTheLeader. This week they lament the loss of the Big Team Battle Skirmish playlist, give TheGameDame her day in the TTL sun via 22 Questions and celebrate their second anniversary. Go read and comment!(KP 11:58:59 UTC)

  • Featuring Tom Arnold as Admiral Hood

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    halo@bungie.org
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    In Halo, Articulated #34, the darkest of our Halo 3 casting and plot nightmares are realized. Thanks to Mister Froggy, for the heads up.(KP 11:53:38 UTC)

  • New HCE Maps from Halomaps.org

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    Dennis over at Halomaps.org has written to tell us of two new maps they released last night. Aside from being beautiful new maps, Fragment V2 and Snow Grove both feature rebalanced weapons and retooled graphics as well as some minor tweaks to gameplay. If you’re still out there rockin’ HCE, give these maps a try.(KP 11:46:43 UTC)