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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Not Yet September 19

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    New Halo Babies comic up. Nautical theme. Avast.

  • GNF – Phase Two

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    As promised, the second Going Nowhere Fast video is now available for download, via BitTorrent. (Once again, if you don’t have BitTorrent, the client can be downloaded here.) gwdpto runs through the second level of the game in 15:29 – and while his technique for zipping through the 3 Marine rescue missions at the end might be… a bit unfriendly, there’s no denying that it’s really, really fast. You got to know when to fight… and when to walk away. RUN away. We’ll be updating the Going Nowhere Fast pages with more info in the near future.

  • Luckily, he can’t do the tooth thing

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    You know… these Calvin and Halo comics were funnier before I had kids.

  • What the FAQ?

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    It needs a total overhaul… but all I had time for was a bandaid or two. Our Frequently Asked Questions section has been brought up to date, at least the most-asked questions page. The rest is on The List.

  • Decoy Promo

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    Mothergoat has whipped up a preview video for his map, Decoy. (We mentioned this map a few days ago.) The movie, a 20.5 mb WMP9 file, is 3:03 of fun gameplay along with descriptions of the modded weapons. Definitely worth watching. Rated R, for r0X0rs. (If you haven’t downloaded the map yet, you can grab it from him, as well – 7.5 mb.)

  • Was my wife driving?

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    Madrox posted a fun little vid called ‘Under the Glass’, showing some nice vehicle-jamming on AotCR. It’s 4.2 mb, in WMP9 format, and I’ve tossed a QuickTime version up (3.7 mb) for folks who like that better.

  • Streaming Tourney Footage

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    Dolbex writes to point out that MLG and HaloTV are teaming up to bring Halo50k3 to your home, in realtime… assuming you’re one of the lucky 100 (or however many they decide they can handle) connections. Read more details at the MLG site!

  • Dynamic Content Management Systems

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    dmjossel

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  • Those Wacky Bungie Guys

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    gwdpto copied and pasted every single frame from the recently-released 3D screenshot… and discovered that there are exactly 117 of them. Will those guys NEVER stop? (We won’t discuss the absolute insanity in copying and pasting 117 frames of a movie, just to count them…) Update: False alarm. Seems gwdpto can’t count. 2 and 2 make 5, using a much better (automated) tool for the job, showed that there are actually 120 frames. Bah. So much for Bungie Day fidelity, Frankie. You couldn’t have shaved off three lousy frames?

  • Bungie Day Wrapup

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    Yesterday was Bungie Day, as we mentioned – and Bungie celebrated with a whole passel of news posts. The only Halo-related ones were already covered here… but the others are fun reading for anyone interested in the company. Frankie posted about a new poll – judge the Bungie guys’ cars; there’s a contest in the Underground forum where you can win lots of Bungie schwag; Frankie mentioned the opening of a new Bungie-related fansite; and there’s a Top Story that looks back at some of the best and worst days experienced by Bungie employees.

  • Halo 2 recap from Gamespy

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    Gamespy has posted a new article on Halo 2 – it’s an overview of the weapons and vehicles we know about. Some of the info is questionable (in describing how the new Ghost takes location-specific damage, the article suggested that you could explode a ghost in Halo 1 multiplayer, ‘rendering it unusable for anyone who wanted to take it for a drive’), but in general it’s a decent summary of what’s been shown so far. (This is the first of a multipart series of articles.) Credit for this news post goes to Google, though milhouse was only a few minutes behind.

  • Halo 2 Wallpaper theme – you decide

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    Interesting – zoe, the artist responsible for several of Bungie’s coolest wallpaper creations, is asking for fan input on her next creation. She’s got a quickpoll up in her Seventh Column chapter, asking ‘Which paint job would you most like to see in a 3d render of Master Chief for a desktop wallpaper?’ (Choices range from jet black to zebra stripe, with a whole lot in between.) If you want to contribute, go vote! (You don’t need to be a chapter member to vote, though nothing’s stopping you from joining.) Word about this came from MakaVeli4Life1, a moderator over at the Bungie.net forums.

  • Halo 2 LE – for cheap

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    I’d leave this until the morning, because I’m beat… but it’s pretty time-sensitive; there were only 500 to begin with, and 150 are already snapped up. ecost.com is offering the Limited Edition version of Halo 2 for $42.99 – awesome price! Thanks to bentllama, who took time out of his busy pancake-filled schedule to shoot this news along.

  • 3D to the max

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    Holy moley. Bungie has released another 3D screenshot… and this one has a fourth dimension… time. Rotate it, you change the angle of view… but you also change the action. (They blew up a warthog, but good.) I’m way behind on Bungie news today… but this is one you gotta view now. Two versions, 2 mb and 8 mb. Both require QuickTime (for now). Go get it!

  • Halathon – Halo to Marathon TC

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    Eep – a few weeks ago, we got word from Strato about a website devoted to a Marathon Total Conversion – Halo to Marathon. I didn’t want to flood their server, so I wrote to ask about it. Word came back that it should be fine – but the whole issue got buried under other stuff. I was reminded this morning by one of the team members – and when I went to look, I discovered that they’ve actually got an alpha release up right now! Swing by Forge House, and check out Halathon. (The timing is fortuitous – a huge group of new converts to Aleph One have been generated by a recent thread on the Bungie.net forums – and a news post to go along with it.) The weapons are fantastic…

  • Happy Bungie Day!

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    Following a decades-long – well, maybe decade-long… okay a few years’ – tradition, July 7 is once again Bungie Day, a day to bask in the glory of upcoming world domination. SketchFactor has posted a happy little Flash card from MrSmiley commemorating the occasion. Watch it, then go play some Bungie games. Like Halo, maybe.

  • The Problem With A Space Elevator Is…

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    One One Se7en looks at one of the real downsides of a space elevator (a construct designed to move materials from a planet surface into space, mechanically – there has been speculation that one of these will exist in Halo). I’d recommend making sure your speakers are on… and that you’re using a browser OTHER than Firefox/WinXP.

  • ISPS: Inter-Stellar Postal Service

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    Halo: Resolution looks at a tried and true institution… no matter how high-tech it gets, some things never change.

  • More Megabattle Pics

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    The technique pioneered by n00bles continues to inspire; J has posted a pair of screens – quite nice! Check ’em out. Update: and ANOTHER one, from n00bles again! This one is from Claustrophobia, a CE-only level. I’ve got to grab that…

  • GNF – Phase One

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    As promised, we’ve put the first winning run from the Going Nowhere Fast contest online. Condorman dashed his way through the Pillar of Autumn in 6 minutes and 8 seconds in Legendary… it’s amazing to watch. It’s a 480×360 QuickTime movie that weighs in at a bit over 47 mb, and we’re serving it via BitTorrent for the time being. Please – once you’ve grabbed it, leave your BT client open for a while, and share the love! (The ten runs, taken together, will weigh in at a bit over a gigabyte; we can use all the help you can give us, bandwidth-wise.) If you don’t have a BitTorrent client, you can find one here.