My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Bay Area Tourney this week

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    JeBr0nie found a tournament in Fremont, California, coming up this Thursday at the Irvington High School. If you’re in the area, you might want to check this out!(Louis Wu 19:38:02 UTC)

  • A Bunch Of Grrr Apes.

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    Stuntmutt finishes up (for now) his analysis of the Halo 3 ad in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:12:00 UTC)

  • Why, Gunns, what big teeth you have!

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    RVideo swapped out some other biped models, again demonstrating that the lip-synching is stored with the dialogue, and not strictly with the character model. (There’s a more complete description in this post.) As RVideo says – it’s not really hard to do this, but the results are pretty cool!(Louis Wu 14:34:57 UTC)

  • A Legendary Back

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    GothicSlayer stopped by to show off the beginnings of his Halo tattoo – I gotta say, that’s dedication! It’s just an outline right now (even so, it’s pretty impressive), but as he gets the time/money for more details, he’ll post updates. (I would suggest that he NOT try Stuntmutt’s 4th pickup line suggestion.(Louis Wu 14:15:18 UTC)

  • Video Madness at Halomega

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    CiphA sent in his regular weekly update from Halomega – lots of videos for you this time around. Montages: nAhtA/Epilogue, NNastYY/ConoR. Dualtage: BigMike/BloodyPingu. Gameplay: SmallParrot vs Brohan 1v1 Lockout, Qwikstrik3 vs Sly Fox 1v1. They’ve also got a Signature contest running.(Louis Wu 13:18:00 UTC)

  • Heretic Wallpaper Available

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    Over at the Edgeworks Entertainment website, you’ll find a new wallpaper for download, created by Major.Dump for the upcoming Heretic video series. It’s called ‘The Spartans’, and it’s a pretty nice render!(Louis Wu 13:10:33 UTC)

  • Halo 3 trailer piano solo transcribed

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    Over at Rampancy.net, spartan182 and young kaos have transcribed the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer piano solo, and it’s available for download in Finale Notepad format. Nothing else, right now, and don’t forget you’ll need to be logged in to see the download link – but if you’ve got Finale Notepad, and a Rampancy.net account, go grab this!(Louis Wu 13:07:40 UTC)

  • A rare Halo auction

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    Okay, I had to fight with myself about whether or not to post this – it’s an eBay auction I’d love to win myself, but it might be out of my price range. (Not front-paging it would significantly increase my chances of winning – but if I can’t afford it, why keep it from those who can?) MasterShamen noticed that someone is selling a Halo Cortana action figure original artist proof – this is a casting made from Curt Chiarelli’s original molds, in pressurized designer resin; it’s pretty darned rare. The auction has 2 days left, so there’s plenty of time – but the reserve might be higher than you’re interested in exceeding. (Current bid is $104, and the reserve has not yet been met.) If you’re independently wealthy, and a Halo fanatic – get to bidding!(Louis Wu 23:23:53 UTC)

  • Ventriloquism at its best

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    RVideo swapped Cortana’s biped model into a cutscene for a couple of other characters… and the really odd thing is that Cortana lip-synchs nicely along with the dialogue. This is dialogue she was never intended to speak, mind you – it belongs to other characters (they identify themselves, fergoshsakes). Pretty cool to watch! Available in WMP9 or QT formats, links are in the forum post. (For what it’s worth, the cutscene itself should be considered to contain Halo 2 spoilers, though nothing in this news post does.)(Louis Wu 23:15:52 UTC)

  • The Riot 29

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    Sigafoos writes to point out The Riot #29 – he and Brathnok are back. lost of community updates, plus Halo news from around the web. 19 minutes, 7.5 mb. Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:17:47 UTC)

  • Reid 18’s fifth montage

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    Z wrote about Reid 18’s fifth montage – worth watching. Great gameplay, great quality… and really nice synching (especially the second song). Check it out – WMP9 format, 138 mb, over at Halo3Forum.com.(Louis Wu 16:20:21 UTC)

  • The last word on the WSVG Finals story

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    You thought it was over – but WSVG wanted a chance to tell their side of the WSVG Finals confusion. Amped eSports has all the details. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:18:02 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Announcement Trailer Piano Solo

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    After working on it for almost 4 months, I have decided that this is good enough. It is only for Finele Notepad; so if you dont have that program, you can’t view it. If you can view it, then enjoy! I am currently working on the rest of the trailer and hopefully will have it posted here soon again for finale notepad. Sorry, I will try to make a PDF sooner or later for those who are unable to view it. Anyway, here is the Halo 3 Piano Solo, transcribed by spartan182 and young kaos.


    UPDATE: SIRBOE below provided a PDF version, which I have also added to the page now.




  • Halo 3 Announcement Trailer Piano Solo

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    After working on it for almost 4 months, I have decided that this is good enough. It is only for Finele Notepad; so if you dont have that program, you can’t view it. If you can view it, then enjoy! I am currently working on the rest of the trailer and hopefully will have it posted here soon again for finale notepad. Sorry, I will try to make a PDF sooner or later for those who are unable to view it. Anyway, here is the Halo 3 Piano Solo, transcribed by spartan182 and young kaos.

  • Bungie Bounces Benz As Voice Of Keyes

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    Captain Jacob Keyes started to have bad luck from the first moments of Halo 1. His ship, preparing for a secret mission, was ambushed when the Covenant attacked Reach. They fled blindly, only to arrive at Halo 04 and find the Covenant waiting for them. After a valiant effort, the ship crashes on Halo and Keyes is taken prisoner.


    The Master Chief and Cortana mount a daring rescue, so the player has to get inside a Covenant cruiser, find the captain, and keep him alive until the end of the level.


    Almost immediately after, however, the captain’s search for hidden weapons to use against the Covenant lead to the discovery of the Flood, who take him captive for the second time in the game. The Chief’s second valiant rescue attempt fails, as they recover only the neural implants he needs to set the Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct, destroy Halo 04, and supposedly end this whole nightmare.


    Crashed, captured and Floodified.


    So perhaps Julie Benz should have known going in that there’s a bit of bad luck associated with characters sharing the last name “Keyes” in Halo games.


    Click “read more” from the front page for the entire article.



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  • Bungie Bounces Benz As Voice Of Keyes

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    Captain Jacob Keyes started to have bad luck from the first moments of Halo 1. His ship, preparing for a secret mission, was ambushed when the Covenant attacked Reach. They fled blindly, only to arrive at Halo 04 and find the Covenant waiting for them. After a valiant effort, the ship crashes on Halo and Keyes is taken prisoner.

    The Master Chief and Cortana mount a daring rescue, so the player has to get inside a Covenant cruiser, find the captain, and keep him alive until the end of the level.

    Almost immediately after, however, the captain’s search for hidden weapons to use against the Covenant lead to the discovery of the Flood, who take him captive for the second time in the game. The Chief’s second valiant rescue attempt fails, as they recover only the neural implants he needs to set the Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct, destroy Halo 04, and supposedly end this whole nightmare.

    Crashed, captured and Floodified.

    So perhaps Julie Benz should have known going in that there’s a bit of bad luck associated with characters sharing the last name “Keyes” in Halo games.

    Click “read more” from the front page for the entire article.

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  • Heh – Caboose in Halo 3?

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    According to Kotaku, the winner of the Child’s Play auction for the chance to have a line in Halo 3 was someone from the Red vs Blue crew – nice! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:55:52 UTC)

  • Beginnings of a Spartan III Costume

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    John Cannon posted a link to some pictures showing off the beginnings of his Spartan III costume helmet. Just a few pics so far – but if he continues updating, we’ll let you know.(Louis Wu 14:52:20 UTC)

  • More Halo Panoramas

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    RVideo whipped up some new Panoramas – you can find the two we mentioned yesterday, as well as 3 new ones, here in this post. The first Cortana one is wonderful!(Louis Wu 14:46:12 UTC)

  • Interview with Bungie at CVG

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    ComputerAndVideoGames was one of the press groups that showed up at Bungie’s offices a couple of months ago to play some Alpha Halo. Their interview with Bungie employees that day went live this morning. A lot of the info has already found its way to the public via one of the other press groups there that day, but it’s still got some nice nuggets – for example, I don’t remember reading about the Veto system before this. Go read! (I heard this via Google News Alerts, but Justinian managed to post it to our forum before I got a chance to write the news note.) Update: According to XBWFeenix, this interview first appeared in the Official Xbox 360 Magazine (UK).(Louis Wu 14:31:34 UTC)