Halo

Laura and Paul bring you the spiciest stories from Microsoft with a lot of flare and hopefully some humor. Enjoy!Control Alt CompeteSalute to VetsLiving monument to HaloMicrosoft translator

Paul & Adam wax poetic about these stories and more:More Microsoft StoresHalo: Combat Evolved will use KinectXP CountdownWindows 8 on Windows 7Mango Rumors

That's right folks- Ping is celebrating its 100th episode! We hope you enjoyed every one Here's some other stuff going on this week:HaloFest at PAXKinect hacks: Carnbonite youNew wall technology

In addition to all the hot stories that you'll hear about on this episode of Ping, Paul and Laura FINALLY played that grudge match of Scrabble. Clearly, one of them cheated. IE9 Beta rocks Halo and classic literature? Super Fun Happy Tokyo Game Show Halo reach hits stores...BIG time

The launch of the next installment in the popular Halo series is almost upon us. At 12:10 AM on Tuesday, September 14th, millions of fans will at last be able to purchase Halo:Reach, the prequel to the trilogy of Halo games already released. But for those fans who live in New York City, there’s an…

What’s Halo 2600? It’s not the 2600th installment in the Halo series of games, actually. It’s a new (and awesome) version of Halo written for the Atari 2600 game console. Yes really!  And it’s playable online right here, with multiple different difficulty levels and even a full-screen…

With Halo:Reach’s launch only weeks away (it arrives Sept. 14th), when I came across the How-To Geek’s latest regarding a complete desktop customization guide for Halo fans, I thought it was worth sharing. Here, one of my favorite “how-to” bloggers offers up custom wallpapers, icon packs and…

In a recent post on the Bungie blog, makers of the Halo series of videogames, the company writes they are rallying their fan community to help the Haiti relief efforts. The company is selling a special shirt where all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross. Sales from all other Bungie “swag”…

Corrinne Yu is Principal Engine Architect at Halo Team Microsoft. She is a 1st Party Halo Lead. She is the first and only female Technical Lead of the whole Microsoft Game Studios. With almost 20 years of programming experience in large companies, she has programmed games and engines since the…

At the Tokyo Game Show, a new release of an Xbox 360 exclusive, Halo 3 Recon, was announced. The Recon game is a standalone expansion that extends “Halo 3” with several hours of a new campaign and multiplayer gameplay. Although Recon is being released after Halo 3, it’s really a prequel that…