http://www.halos-finest.com Halo Tips, Gossip & Video Clips for Bungie's Halo Video Game Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:20:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So how would you go about getting your Halo fix if your Xbox 360 has RRoD'ed and is back in warranty repair? Sure you could go play with the dozens of licensed action figures. Or you could even go play with the Laser Tag Halo, but if you're wanting to ... http://www.halos-finest.com/bungies-halo-gets-board-game-in-halo-interactive-strategy-game.html If you're getting pwned in Halo 3, dominated in Mario Kart, feeling blue that there's no MGS4 for the Xbox 360, or down in the dumps because your 360 Red Ring of Death-ed, then watch this video and sing along.This "I Love The World" video is a parody off Discovery ... http://www.halos-finest.com/i-love-the-world-video-parody.html In the latest study commissioned by RealNetworks' RealGames division, RealNetworks aims to correlate casual gameplay with improvement of bad habits. Thereby making "casual gaming" good for you. Need to lose weight, quit smoking, quit hitting the potato chips? Play a game it seems. According to their study, 59% of the survey ... http://www.halos-finest.com/realnetwork-study-break-your-bad-habits-with-casual-gaming.html Contrary to what you might think, this is not Nvidia's latest graphics card, this is in fact screenshots from ensemble studio's latest game-in-progress Halo Wars. The team over at Ensemble Studios got around to updating their website, adding some screen shots and info on 2 of the units to be ... http://www.halos-finest.com/new-halo-wars-screenshots-info-on-warthog-firebase-units.html Previously, we reported about last week's MLG San Diego unveiling of the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved's popular "Chill Out" map for Halo 3. Well, Bungie has graced us with two screenshots of "Cold Storage" with MUCH better quality. One's above, but the full resolution photos are after the jump. http://www.halos-finest.com/bungie-releases-screenshots-of-cold-storage-chill-out-remake-for-halo-3.html San Diego's famous Comic-Con is only a couple short weeks away! If you're planning on going, you'd better make your plans and you'd better make it snappy (most days are already sold out you know). But the best part about going? These Halo bobbleheads are for sale! According to the Bungie ... http://www.halos-finest.com/will-halo-bobbleheads-get-you-to-san-diegos-comic-con.html We recently reported on the upcoming sixth Halo novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol. Well, the Cole Protocol will also be published simultaneously with an audiobook. Great news, now you can so you can listen to the next iteration of the Halo story while playing Halo. What a great life we ... http://www.halos-finest.com/hands-too-busy-to-flip-pages-hate-reading-listen-to-the-next-halo-novel.html The 6th(wow sixth already??) Halo novel has been announced by Bungie. This latest novel will be called "The Cole Protocol", and it will center around the story of the mysterious "Spartan Gray Team" as they take "readers into an unexplored conflict of the Human-Covenant War where unlikely alliances are formed ... http://www.halos-finest.com/bungie-announces-next-halo-novel-the-cole-protocol.html Halo is, without a doubt, Microsoft's biggest and best bread-winner. By a long shot. And even with the Master Chief's trilogy now complete, you can bet your bottom dollar they're looking at ways to leverage the brand's popularity into more money. The next round for Halo is of course, Halo Wars ... http://www.halos-finest.com/future-of-the-halo-franchise.html So who remembers Chill Out? One of the all-time greatest hits for Halo gamers from the ol' Halo:Combat Evolved days. Well good news for Chill Out fans is, the cool level is getting a makeover and will be coming to Halo 3 soon. Bungie debuted "Cold Storage" at Major League ... http://www.halos-finest.com/bungie-chill-out-level-remake-debuts-at-mlg-san-diego.html