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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • CMT Progress

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    darthbob pointed out a thread on the Gearbox Forums with some pretty intriguing pictures – a Halo CE mod with lots of tweaks to emulate eyecandy in the Halo 3 trailer. Check it out!

  • Helpful Hints.

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    Today’s One One Se7en was guest-written by c0ld vengeance, and looks at one of the more entertaining side effects of Halo 2’s helpful user interface. (Entertaining, that is, if you’re not the person involved.)

  • Popularity, it’s a funny thing

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    Heh… bizarre. Thomas Gonzalez used Google’s Trend Labs to compare search interest in Halo vs George Bush. I’m not sure what it says about us, but in every region of the world, in every city tracked, in every language… more people search for Halo info than for George Bush info. Update: Taugosz pointed out that Bush searching actually edged out Halo searching in one city – Washington, DC. I suppose that’s a good thing.

  • Southern Florida Halo Tourney

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    r2 writes to point out a Halo 2 tourney coming up this weekend – May 27, at SubZero Games LAN Center in West Palm Beach, FL. 2v2 Team Slayer MLG Rules, $40 to get in $400 for first place. Directions and contact info can be found here.

  • MS Corporate Guy talks about the future

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    Shane Kim sat down with IGN to talk about E3 and what’s coming down the road. Halo got mentioned a lot – there’s nothing really hard there, but there’s discussion of Halo 3 (and the platforms it might be available on), the Halo movie, a rumored Halo MMO, the possibility of a Halo-based Xbox Live Arcade game… thanks, HaloPlanet.

  • Surfing in Barbados

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    Heh – I’m not one to talk, but I have to snicker a bit that Stuntmutt took time out from his Caribbean honeymoon to update his blog; some One One Se7en musings on marriage and traveling. (No, this doesn’t count as today’s One One Se7en; that’s coming a bit later.)

  • Mission: Leave No Man Behind

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    xbryboyremix sent along ‘Mission: Leave No Man Behind’, a standalone machinima telling the story of three survivors attempting to make it home from enemy territory – the MPRRS liked it. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (40.6 mb) or QuickTime format (40.5 mb)… it’ll move you!

  • Another Week, another Number One

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    You know… I’m thinking it’s gonna be news when Halo 2 ISN’T the top game on Xbox Live. That’s not this week, though…

  • TGOSeraph goes HUDless

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    prometheus points out that there’s a new gallery, devoted to the HUDless shots of TGOSeraph, over at The Halouvre; some killer stuff in there! Check it out.

  • Grab Bag Goodies

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    Was sorting through the HBO Uploads directory (it’s been a while – sorry), and amongst the spec scripts (yeah, someone thinks we’re that HBO) and the dozens of movies (is that huge banner at the top of the upload page that says ‘don’t upload movies here’ REALLY that hard to read?) and the rather large collection of Halo 3 Wallpaper (coming soon, I hope), there were a couple of tidbits that don’t fit into standard sections, but are pretty cool nonetheless. Master NOODLE sent along Mr. and Ms. Chief (102k), a nice tweak on the original, and Dameion the *BUSH* Davis sent us a photo of his car (167k), tricked out with props to his new favorite game. More stuff soon!

  • He’s at it again…

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    BOLL tossed up a simple (but rather disturbing) Flash comparison of… well, go look.

  • Wearable Female Armor

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    Jared Morrison has begun work on a wearable MJOLNIR armor outfit – designed for his sister. He sent us a picture of the underbody of the chestplate, which he plans on fiberglassing down the road. He credits Chris Bryan with inspiration; if there’s interest, he’ll send along progress reports. Great start!

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 65: Podtacular Update!

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    UPDATE: Turns out Episode 64’s audio got corrupted. Strangely enough we have to re-record… after we record episode 65. We’ll release them in the right order though to prevent confusion. Sorry for the delay!

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    Episode 64 will be out ASAP. We got 99 voice mails this month! Don’t worry, we won’t play them all, but we had to weed out the lame ones. In the mean time, we better get something to talk about for the next one, especially since we’ll be recording on Wednesday night.

    This just in…

    What’s hattenin’ in Podtacular? Any events coming up? We’ll also be talking about what’s happening in the Halo community, so if you have any Halo-related news, send that in too! Just click the Submit News and Tips link on the right side to send it in. This would also be a good time to send in any Halo-related web resources for people to check out. Be sure to include your gamertag so we can mention it and make you a star!

    Champagne Tips and Glitching

    Err… I mean campaign tips. Yeah, if you have a cool glitch or a useful campaign tip, send it in! We’d love to talk about it. If you sent one of these in last time and it didn’t get read, don’t worry. Just send it in now and hopefully we’ll get to it this time.

    You know you think too much about Halo 3 when…

    Finish this sentence! Let’s have a whole bunch of these jokes, that would be awesome. Deadline to get all this in is by Wednesday at 7pm Eastern. Don’t be late!

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 65: Podtacular Update!

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    UPDATE: Turns out Episode 64’s audio got corrupted. Strangely enough we have to re-record… after we record episode 65. We’ll release them in the right order though to prevent confusion. Sorry for the delay!

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    Episode 64 will be out ASAP. We got 99 voice mails this month! Don’t worry, we won’t play them all, but we had to weed out the lame ones. In the mean time, we better get something to talk about for the next one, especially since we’ll be recording on Wednesday night.

    This just in…

    What’s hattenin’ in Podtacular? Any events coming up? We’ll also be talking about what’s happening in the Halo community, so if you have any Halo-related news, send that in too! Just click the Submit News and Tips link on the right side to send it in. This would also be a good time to send in any Halo-related web resources for people to check out. Be sure to include your gamertag so we can mention it and make you a star!

    Champagne Tips and Glitching

    Err… I mean campaign tips. Yeah, if you have a cool glitch or a useful campaign tip, send it in! We’d love to talk about it. If you sent one of these in last time and it didn’t get read, don’t worry. Just send it in now and hopefully we’ll get to it this time.

    You know you think too much about Halo 3 when…

    Finish this sentence! Let’s have a whole bunch of these jokes, that would be awesome. Deadline to get all this in is by Wednesday at 7pm Eastern. Don’t be late!

  • Matchmaking Cheaters Do It Pro Boner

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    The Bungie Waaaaaaahmbulance KP has hit the ground running at Bungie with a story at Bungie.net that explores the hidden (or perhaps not so hidden) connections between people who cheat at Halo in matchmaking and poor spelling, nonexistant grammar, and general idiocy.


    My personal favorite is the one who tried to plead innocence and then make a legal threat:


    This person has not done “Modding”, “Standbying”, or “Bridging” of that kind. If Bungie seriously wanted to suspend someone of doing something along the line of cheating, then look over some stats. If none of these accusation are settle, you may be hearing from a lot of complaints. Some may be said by lawyers.


    Lawyers say a lot of things, but I think the first thing this guy is going to hear from a lawyer is that one won’t work for a percentage of his milk money.



  • Ive never cheated more then 8 times that I can remember.

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    There’s a very funny article over at Bungie.net – a collection of emails from cheaters who feel they’ve been unjustly banned. (They haven’t.) Give it a read – but make sure you’re not drinking anything that would be hard to clean out of your keyboard. Looks like darthbob was first.

  • VSDA Nominates Halo 2 for GOTY – Again

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    The Video Software Dealers Association announced the nominees for their Game of the Year Awards today – Halo 2 is on the Xbox list, even though it won last year. (The full list of nominees is here.) Thanks, Gamasutra.

  • Cheaters Get What They Deserve

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    check out this awesome story on bungie.net about cheaters whining about getting banned. I love it!

  • Cheaters Get What They Deserve

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    check out this awesome story on bungie.net about cheaters whining about getting banned. I love it!

  • Podtacular’s Weekly Comic Strip: Weekly Porridge!

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    Quality Jeverage has been running this awesome comic strip for a while now and it deserves a mention. In fact, he’s on the 8th week already. If you liked that one, be sure to check out the archive for previous shows.