Month: February 2008

VG Resource Center has posted their top Xbox 360 games of 2007 – Halo 3 took the top spot. (Marathon 2 was in the top 5, as well!) Thanks, Dennis Wyman.(Louis Wu 13:33:06 UTC)

Mid7night has finished his UNSC Hornet for X-Plane… in fact, he’s built two of ’em. (Read the post for details about the difference.)(Louis Wu 13:28:57 UTC)

Last night, Pixellated also wondered about the origins of 343 Guilty Spark – and the thread brought out a number of potential inspirations for the character. Check them all out – see which ones you think might have given Bungie some ideas! (The video that Pixellated started with is 10 minutes long; you can see…

Joystiq has written up one of the Bungie-led GDC sessions – the audio post-mortem of Halo 3, presented by Jay Weinland, C. Paul Johnson, Mike Salvatore and Marty O’Donnell. You can download the slides to this session from Bungie’s newly-opened Publications page, but it won’t give you everything that’s in Joystiq’s piece. In addition to…

J C pointed out a (definitely NSFW) link at Gizmodo… it’s describing a novelty item that is Halo-related. Past that, you’ll have to read for yourself. And that’s all I’m saying about that.(Louis Wu 23:18:06 UTC)

Brian Jarrard and Mike Zak talked to Eurogamer last week at GDC about the upcoming Legendary Map Pack, and specifically about Ghost Town. The interview is online now, and it’s an interesting read. Go look!(Louis Wu 19:58:03 UTC)

Over at Grifball.com, you can watch Week 5 Highlights (the last regular-season highlight film) in either streaming flash or QuickTime formats. Some nice floats… and a pretty funny sword betrayal. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 18:12:27 UTC)

There’s an interesting interview with Bungie designer Francois Boucher-Genesse (originally published in Game Developer magazine) over at Gamasutra – how did Bungie make Legendary interesting again, after the complaints about Jackal Snipers and areas like Cairo Station’s second bay from Halo 2? What makes ‘hard’ still ‘fun’? Check it out.(Louis Wu 17:40:03 UTC)

Coding Horror has a great article on why you shouldn’t listen to your users. Okay, that’s not really what it’s about – it’s about why what users SAY can be different from what users DO, and why it’s important to measure what they DO when figuring out how to improve your product. One example they…

Sometimes, Stuntmutt’s timing is sublime – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:17:55 UTC)

The US Army-sponsored Halo 3 Championship has been promoted quite a bit – great downloads on Xbox LIVE, teasers on Xbox.com – but there’s finally an info page up that tells you how to enter, what’s going to happen, and what the rules are. Thanks, evildoctorwill.(Louis Wu 14:50:50 UTC)

More signs that MLG has hit the big time – Dr. Pepper is now the Official Beverage of the 2008 Major League Gaming Pro Circuit. I guess ad-slathered controllers are next!(Louis Wu 14:43:43 UTC)

MasterChief2829 was the first to point out that Bungie’s put up another new and exciting section of their web space: Bungie Publications. Here you’ll research and presentations given by Bungie employees – the current batch of files are all PowerPoint presentations given at the Game Developers Conference last week. Bungie is releasing these in .pptx…

ZZoMBiE13 sent along a bunch of wallpaper-sized images that were either requested by readers of Another Halo Comic Strip, or that he thought would make decent wallpapers. I’d meant to post these yesterday – oops. They’ve now been added to our Wallpaper section. (He, too, would like to apologize for taking so long to respond…

According to Major Nelson, CoD4 is still at the top of the LIVE charts; apparently, the release of the auto-update wasn’t enough to pull back the crowds. Bungie’s not worried, though – according to an interview SketchFactor gave Eurogamer last week at GDC, they see CoD4’s success as a plus for the platform – which…

For our international readers – we’ve run across two more Chris Butcher interviews… unfortunately for some of us, these are not in English. If you can read French or German, though, swing by Gamekult.com (French) and Golem.de (German) for substantial pieces! (Louis Wu 17:46:42 UTC)

Another Halo Comic Strip adds a new race to the mix. I don’t think ZZoMBiE13 likes ’em very much.(Louis Wu 16:56:48 UTC)