Halo fans may have another item to add to their holiday wishlist – the Halo Trilogy – The Complete Original Soundtracks boxed set. Sumthing Else Music Works’ has just announced that the five disc release, which also comes with four tracks from Halo Wars will be available both in stores and for download on December 2, 2008. Amazon‘s currently listing the set for $26.99. If you search for Halo at Sumthing Digital, the Halo soundtracks are $9.99 each, so the boxed set ends up being a pretty good deal.

The Halo Wars special DVD that’s included with this set may be the most appealing to fans. It not only has four unspecified tracks from the forthcoming Xbox 360 real-time strategy game set in the Halo universe, but it also shows the recording session where the Halo Wars theme was created and the opening “Five Long Years” movie that will appear in Halo Wars.

The contents of the pack are pretty standard, aside from the Halo Wars special DVD. There are four CDs…

If my eyes are getting worse, I might have to blame game developers and publishers. No, I’m not sitting too close to the TV while gaming (10 feet away, thank you). Instead, the in-game text is getting smaller and more difficult to read.

Case in point: I physically measured the word “CAMPAIGN” in Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3 on the same TV being played through the Xbox 360. Yes, I took a measuring tape and pressed it against a TV screen.

The word “CAMPAIGN” appears in the menu of all three games in the franchise and should be indicative of the menu text used throughout each game. In each case it is white on a dark background and written in all caps.

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There was never any doubt that Halo 3 would rewrite video game history, at least not in Microsoft’s mind. Microsoft is so confident of Halo 3’s potential success that it is training its eyes on a few records set by previous games in this haloed series.

The cumulative sales figure of Halo 1 and Halo 2 is an impressive 11 million copies sold, and Microsoft expects Halo 3 to single-gamedly better the combined sale of the two games. Microsoft’s Chris Di Cesare said they were well ahead of where they were with Halo 2, and on course to outsell the previous two games…

Halo 3 has gone gold. I’m not sure I need to say much more than that since, if you are a fan, you’ve likely already passed out, face first onto the keyboard and hit enough random keys to take you to some Hello Kitty porn site. This latest incarnation by Bungie Studios has already set more »

As we saw at ComiCon, many companies are producing Halo tie-in products from inexpensive stickers to pricey life-size replicas. Somewhere in the middle are the affordable fun stuffs, like WizKids’ Halo ActionClix.

Being released a week before the Xbox 360 Halo 3 game in September 2007, fans can start collecting colorful 3D plastic miniatures based on the Clix tabletop game franchise. Each pack runs $10, but you get 4 game figures, 4 stat cards, 2 tiny dice and…

The recent further delay of Halo 2 for Vista is due to “an unfortunate, obscure content error which includes partial nudity.” In the wake of Rockstar and Take Two’s “Hot Coffee” fiasco, where a sex game could be unlocked from the original code via third party modifications, game developers have been under close watch regarding more »

In a move that isn’t that surprising, Microsoft has again delayed the release of Halo 2 for Windows Vista. The original release date for the title was May 8, 2007. As the release date rolled around Microsoft announced that it would be delayed for unspecified reasons with a new release date set for May 22, more »

In a move that represents the good kind of customer service, Microsoft and Bungie have fixed the “Rule of Three” fiasco that accompanied the Crackdown/Halo 3 Beta launch. Due to an unforeseen glitch in the system, many of the players that put in the time and effort to secure a Halo 3 Beta code by more »