The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
Here is the usual transcription package: a PrintMusic file, a PDF, and a MIDI sound file, for the 2:28 long third movement of Delta Halo Suite from the second volume of the Halo 2 soundtrack, entitled Leonidas.
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With the three days to get in your three hours of Halo 2 on Xbox Live play on an Xbox 360 in already passed, and web registration— apparently– about to open, Halo 2 players are poised over their keyboards to attempt to become one of the 13,333 lucky entrants into Phase Two of the selection process for Bungie’s Halo 3 multiplayer beta.
“February 5” is the only clue anyone has to when this registration will begin, and spots are sure to go fast. There’s no note of what timezone it is supposed to be, but smart money bets it can’t be earlier than 12 midnight EST, which is less than half an hour away, so warm up your keyboards, ladies and gentlemen.
The first 13,333 qualified registrants at www.halo3.com today will get email confirmations of their beta invites sometime in February.
While you’re waiting to register, if you’re wondering if you met the three hour requirement but don’t want to do all the math yourself, check this site:
http://rossonline.us/halo3beta.php
You enter your gamertag, and it will total up all the games you’ve played and give you a final figure for how much game time you accrued during the three days, so you’ll know in advance if you qualify. Obviously, there’s no guarantee the number is right, but it looks okay to me. Thanks to Raiden in #hbo who pointed it out.
UPDATE: Now just passing midnight EST, no one has yet confirmed that registration has actually begun.
With the three days to get in your three hours of Halo 2 on Xbox Live play on an Xbox 360 in already passed, and web registration— apparently– about to open, Halo 2 players are poised over their keyboards to attempt to become one of the 13,333 lucky entrants into Phase Two of the selection process for Bungie’s Halo 3 multiplayer beta.
“February 5” is the only clue anyone has to when this registration will begin, and spots are sure to go fast. There’s no note of what timezone it is supposed to be, but smart money bets it can’t be earlier than 12 midnight EST, which is less than half an hour away, so warm up your keyboards, ladies and gentlemen.
The first 13,333 qualified registrants at www.halo3.com today will get email confirmations of their beta invites sometime in February.
While you’re waiting to register, if you’re wondering if you met the three hour requirement but don’t want to do all the math yourself, check this site:
http://rossonline.us/halo3beta.php
You enter your gamertag, and it will total up all the games you’ve played and give you a final figure for how much game time you accrued during the three days, so you’ll know in advance if you qualify. Obviously, there’s no guarantee the number is right, but it looks okay to me. Thanks to Raiden in #hbo who pointed it out.
UPDATE: Now just passing midnight EST, no one has yet confirmed that registration has actually begun.
Initially, I had wondered if you would download the beta by entering a redemption code in the XBL marketplace. It appears the above pic is the definitive answer. Apparently in the “downloads” section of the Crackdown menu you’ll find the option to download the Halo 3 beta. This answers a couple of minor, nagging questions. It appears you will have to insert the Crackdown disc to download the H3 beta, but it does not appear the Crackdown disc will have to be in the tray in order to play H3 beta.
Initially, I had wondered if you would download the beta by entering a redemption code in the XBL marketplace. It appears the above pic is the definitive answer. Apparently in the “downloads” section of the Crackdown menu you’ll find the option to download the Halo 3 beta. This answers a couple of minor, nagging questions. It appears you will have to insert the Crackdown disc to download the H3 beta, but it does not appear the Crackdown disc will have to be in the tray in order to play H3 beta.
Well, thanks to rapture, we have been getting a lot of love over the past 24hours. I bet he didn’t know what he was going to unleash when he took his camera phone and snapped this innocent photo of the ordering panel at one of the local BKs. Well, the Diggers picked it up and ran with it. We made the front page! I know a few of us are quite excited because we’re frequent diggers as well. Well, people seem to like slightly blurry photos of Burger King because we got some action from Kotaku, ArsTechnica, the Wired Blog and Destructoid plastered us to their front page as well. Wow. All there is to say is wow.
The site went down Friday afternoon and rapture and I spent most of the rest of the night scrambling to get it back up. We were throttling down different aspects of the site and finally our host let us back online.
For all the newcomers, welcome to THX!
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Well, thanks to rapture, we have been getting a lot of love over the past 24hours. I bet he didn’t know what he was going to unleash when he took his camera phone and snapped this innocent photo of the ordering panel at one of the local BKs. Well, the Diggers picked it up and ran with it. We made the front page! I know a few of us are quite excited because we’re frequent diggers as well. Well, people seem to like slightly blurry photos of Burger King because we got some action from Kotaku, ArsTechnica, the Wired Blog and Destructoid plastered us to their front page as well. Wow. All there is to say is wow.
The site went down Friday afternoon and rapture and I spent most of the rest of the night scrambling to get it back up. We were throttling down different aspects of the site and finally our host let us back online.
For all the newcomers, welcome to THX!
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