Month: April 2006

Wow. There’s so much new content on the Halo-related blog Dead Man’s Hand that I can’t even list all the new articles, much less summarize them. The most recent item is an interview with Stuntmutt that’s definitely worth a read – but there’s plenty of other stuff; I liked the Legos to Halos rant, for…

Interesting juxtaposition of articles; at the same time that Gamasutra posted an earnings report on Microsoft, in which it reported that Microsoft officials admit that even today, at the end of their lifecycle, “…the first generation Xbox consoles continue to have negative margins”, IGN put up a piece discussing ‘The Xbox Effect’, which talked about…

A quick note – if you haven’t yet voted for your favorite images in the 7 on the 7th Halo 2 Soundtrack contest, go do it now; I’m going to close voting late tonight or early tomorrow. There are some funny pics in there – help their creators to win a free signed Halo 2…

Kenneth Wan points out a fundraiser tournament over at 2Old2Play; they’re raising money to send a team to MLG Dallas next month. Swing by and read the details – and sign up!

This isn’t Halo news, but it’s the longest ‘groaner’ thread I’ve seen in a while. It’s like the whole forum is channeling Stuntmutt or something. Mothergoat pointed out that the Nintendo Revolution has gotten it’s REAL name (Revolution was a working title)… and the forum community sort of… tore it a new one. Ouch. Maybe…

We usually leave the Halo tricking to High Impact Halo these days – but there’s a cool vid over there that’s worth pointing out. A bunch of guys got underneath the air vents on Foundation – insanity. The video is encoded using WMP9 Professional audio, which will give Mac users a headache… so we’re providing…

Monthly gaming parties at a hotel in downtown Toronto… fun stuff. 🙂

No pictures yet, but Stephen Loftus found mention of the upcoming Series 9 Halo action figures – details are in this forum post. Battle-damaged Ghost… mmm.

Ewen dropped us a note about a tabletop RPG adaptation of Halo he’s working on called “Halo: The Covenant War.” You can find some sample artwork for the miniatures in this blog post. Great start!

Roger Wilco noticed a great article at Gamasutra, discussing storytelling and game design (and how they’re inter-related). Halo 2 is held up as a ‘mixed success’ – some of the storytelling is done in-game, but some of it is done via ‘agency-violating cutscenes’. Go read!

The Halo2Forum montage contest deadline is fast approaching, and a goodly number of montages are coming in at the wire. Today ArKiVe’s 3rd Montage was released – some serious sniping action. Swing by and grab a copy! (94 mb, WMP9 format.)

AJay created some Master Chief contact boxes to use on MySpace profiles (if you have one, you probably know what a contact box is, if you don’t, don’t worry about it) – check this link to grab one (and the code needed to use it). If you want to see one in use, check his…

Today’s One One Se7en refers to a forum thread that blew up last week; it started with a simple question, and ended with some gaming philosophy. (Trust Stuntmutt to boil it down to a bad joke.)

Wow… only four hundred of you voted for the entrants to the 7 on the 7th Soundtrack contest yesterday… c’mon! We need more than that! Swing by, check out the pics, let us know your favorites! Thanks.

Alstrong discovered that the Bungie Webcam, dormant since before the move to Kirkland, is live once again. Currently it seems to be sitting in a room with a server rack in it (though I’m having trouble figuring out why there’s plywood in the image…). No Halo content – yet – but hey, you never know!

The playlist changes noticed a few hours ago are now official – as evidenced by the nice article on Bungie.net. There are some fantastic-looking changes – check it out! Thanks, Spartan Jag.