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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Life Size Spartan for Sale

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    kornman00 is selling his life-sized Halo 2 Spartan statue – you can see a thumbnail of it in this thread, or visit the eBay page directly for full details. This bad boy’s a monster! Starting bid is $300, you’ve got 10 days to decide. (Louis Wu 20:57:56 UTC)

  • A New Video Game Search Engine

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    Dennis Powers let us know about Video Game Webs, a new video game search engine. If you have (or know of) a clan or fan website that isn’t already listed… add it in!(Louis Wu 20:57:13 UTC)

  • Reach Countdown Android Widget

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    HaloCharts’ Firestream let us know that he’s created a (free) widget for phones running Google’s Android – it’ll give you a countdown to Reach’s release. He sent along an example image – must have been taken a month ago, because the current count is 68 days. You can grab this by searching for ‘Days to Halo Reach’ in the Android Market (on your phone).(Louis Wu 18:42:19 UTC)

  • Crankin’ the Hardware

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    Bungie’s migrating Halo 3 (and Halo 3: ODST) from their existing servers to the new Reach-generation servers that will be in full use when Reach goes live in a couple of months. No new features, no loss of features – just faster, more powerful hardware. (For the short term, though, it means the File Share will be offline, and stats won’t update right away (though none will be lost; they’ll just take a while to get to the website). More details from Roger ‘Sawnose’ Wolfson on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 18:37:58 UTC)

  • Unofficial Reach 2010 Trailer

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    Lightning0Struck put together a trailer for Halo: Reach – nice energy! Go watch.(Louis Wu 18:33:10 UTC)

  • Dephlogistication: Complete

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    This work is *mostly* complete.

  • Hot Seat Q and A – whaddaya wanna know?

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    Sketchfactor stopped in with word of a ‘hot seat interview’ that Campaign Design Lead Chris Opdahl has agreed to be a part of; add your questions to the thread, and Chris will do his best to answer them for tomorrow’s Weekly Update. (Ask some good questions, now – don’t waste the opportunity!)(Louis Wu 17:01:03 UTC)

  • Wanna buy a Rogue helmet?

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    sqorck wants to a Rogue helmet for Reach – but needs money to do so. He’s GOT a Rogue helmet he built for Halo 3; he’s willing to sell it to raise cash to make a new one. He wants to know where to price it – can you help? (He’s put up some pictures so you can see what he’s asking about.)(Louis Wu 15:49:05 UTC)

  • I gotta show my mom.

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    Antithesis has uploaded another bunch of images, this time mostly of personalized clay Spartans. We’ve added them to his gallery here; the first new one is a streamlined Master Chief, but if you use the ‘Next’ button on that screen, you can see a series of images of very specific Spartans. One might even say they were modeled after real players. Or something. I’m pretty partial to the little grey guy with the ODST helmet. (Louis Wu 15:20:23 UTC)

  • Chronicles of ODS Steve: Bungie Day

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    We missed yesterday’s Chronicles of ODS Steve, special for Bungie Day – so go read it now! (I think I like Steve’s new look…)(Louis Wu 15:16:41 UTC)

  • Tank: Deploy Hologram.

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    Ken Taya used his Twitter account to explain how the Hologram Armor Ability works. Pretty cool – means you can send off your hologram and run in a different direction! Thanks, Kibbles.(Louis Wu 15:14:05 UTC)

  • McFarlane Reach Figures

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    Dielectric pointed out that G4TV was only one of the sites that showed off new McFarlane figures yesterday – there are also new images at Spawn.com (Mark V Spartan, HAZOP Custom Spartan), UGO (Jorge, another HAZOP Custom), USA Today (another Mark V), and Halo Waypoint (Noble 6 and yet another HAZOP Custom). The Spawn link also contains a description of the full line of upcoming figures… go read!(Louis Wu 15:11:04 UTC)

  • AH: Germany vs Spain WORLD CUP MANIA!

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    Netherlands defeated Uruguay in their match which is the first time our prediction has been wrong. This time we simulate the Germany vs Spain match. Will we be right or wrong? Only time will tell! I think this is probably the best simulation we’ve run so far.

  • AH: Scavenger Would be Proud Achievement Guide

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    Hey guys, got a Transformers: War for Cybertron video for you all today, showing you how to transform Autobot symbols in the Decepticon campaign into Gamerscore. Keep watching for the Autobot campaign which will be rolling out soon.

  • AH: Crack down with these tips!

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    I’ve seen a few people asking for some tips for gathering orbs in Crackdown 2, so Gus and I cut together this handy little video showing you a cool trick you can do with your mini-map while orb hunting AND a quick way to pick up the helicopter to make orb hunting a hell of a lot easier! Enjoy!

  • RT: Drunk Tank #69

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    Drunk Tank number 69 is now available for download! We continue with our new enhanced podcast format this week which is totally awesome. You can get the podcast via iTunes, Zune Marketplace, or via direct download (or the mp3 version). You can always check out more info about what we discuss and talk about the podcast with other listeners at our official podcast group. Enjoy!

    If you have some time to spare, we are conducting a survey on people who listen to the podcast. It is totally optional and if there are any questions you don’t want to answer, please feel free to leave them blank. There is a short 3-4 minute version and a longer 6-7 minute version.

  • Bungie Bringing Back Blood Gulch/Coagulation in Halo Reach

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    Red vs. Blue dropped in to announce that the icon of Blood Gulch is back in Halo Reach. Plus, it’s a lot bigger than before. The Rocket Hog is now in Halo Reach. So everyone that was nostalgic about Blood Gulch can go celebrate in their hole. Bungie Link

  • RT: Bungie Day PSA 2010

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    Hey everybody. Today is Bungie Day and we are celebrating with an all new RvB PSA video. I don’t know if you have heard, but everyone’s favorite developer is busy wrapping up their latest game, so they asked us to help out with a new video PSA for all their fans. Doing that meant spending almost four days locked in a room with Reach — so what were we going to say? No?

    We didn’t say no.

    Check it out and Happy Bungie Day!

  • AH: Crack down with these tips!

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    I’ve seen a few people asking for some tips for gathering orbs in Crackdown 2, so Gus and I cut together this handy little video showing you a cool trick you can do with your mini-map while orb hunting AND a quick way to pick up the helicopter to make orb hunting a hell of a lot easier! Enjoy!

  • FLAME ON

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    Have you ever felt jealous of Bungie employees for being able to wear Flaming Helmets in Halo 3 Matchmaking? (You shouldn’t, really, because it makes it very hard to hide when you’re using Invis…) For today only, Bungie’s making that option available to EVERYONE in Matchmaking. Get on, go play, and light that head on fire! (Thanks, Time_Glitch, for noticing so quickly.)(Louis Wu 19:01:44 UTC)