Month: June 2011
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Bungie Launches Aerospace To Support Indie Mobile, Social Games
The reality behind the mysterious Bungie Aerospace and its logo are now revealed on Bungie.net– it’s a new venture to “help independent developers create brilliant mobile and social games.” First up will be a project with Harebrained Schemes, headed b…
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Bungie Aerospace Unveiled
It’s 8 am EST, which means the news embargo related to Bungie Aerospace has been lifted – let me be the first to point you to the official press release (it’s hosted on bungie.org, rather than HBO, because it’s not Halo-related at all). Aerospace is a …
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Hedge’s Week of Halo Love, Part Wed
More beautiful pics from Hedgemony – that first one simply ROCKS. Reach, Halo 3, ODST – they’re ALL gorgeous. (Louis Wu 22:36:10 UTC)
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Catch Me If You Can
Avateur and CrazedOne1988 went into Matchmaking in a full party, and ended up on opposite teams most of the evening. The resultant Spy vs Spy meetings are chronicled in the Catch Me If You Can montage. (Pro tip: Avateur’s in the flaming helmet.)(Louis…
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Don’t Bug Anybody.
Gamepro has an interview with Rooster Teeth as part of Halo’s 10th Anniversary celebration – swing by and read what Burnie (mostly), Gus, and Geoff have to say about Red vs Blue, how they met Bungie, and more!(Louis Wu 21:43:38 UTC)
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Hitmon’s Video Hoedown
Y’ant some video lovin’? I got whatcha need: Here’s your “Top 10” fix with the “Top 10 Amazing Kills” from Anoj. That guy could pluck a golden egg from a rhino’s rear end, I tell you what! TheMightyPnut has one of them Halo 3 failtages …
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Achievement HORSE #30
Achievement Hunter’s Achievement HORSE #30 is live now – Geoff is NOT excited. Some great maps this time around, though – love the last one! Swing by and watch. (Louis Wu 20:54:43 UTC)
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Halo: The New Trilogy
MaxRealflugel let us know he’s written up a new article for The Secrets Within – it’s some pretty out-there speculation about the upcoming Halo trilogy from 343 Industries. See if he’s been hitting the crack pipe too hard or not!(Louis Wu 20:39:16 UTC)
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High Speed Halo Pre-Bungie Day celebration
NOKYARD let us know that High Speed Halo is celebrating the run-up to Bungie Day with a pair of new speed run records each day. Today’s offerings: RC Master aces New Alexandria on Legendary in less than ten and a half minutes… and GewehrM48 and Geva…
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Wishful Thinking
Avcracy stopped in with word of ‘Wishful Thinking’, a machinima of a Falcon crash.(Louis Wu 18:28:45 UTC)
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Second Greg Bear ‘Forerunner’ Novel to Drop in 2012
I figured this deserved a separate news piece: In the “Glasslands” press release, Tor Books said the second chapter in Greg Bear’s “Forerunner Saga” won’t be available until 2012. That gives me plenty of time to catch up. (I’m four books behind. Stupid…
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‘Glasslands’ Cover Art Revealed
If news of a title update wasn’t enough to sate your Halo news appetite today, Tor Books revealed the tentative cover art for “Halo: Glasslands,” the first of a new trilogy from Karen Traviss. “Glasslands” will continue the events and character storyli…
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Signature
Greenskull sent word of a new miniskit – ‘Signature’ is just 30 seconds. Which means no matter HOW badly the punchline makes you groan, it’s over in half a minute. Go watch.(Louis Wu 14:30:17 UTC)
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Halo PC – screenshotted
Bry dug up a TON of Halo PC campaign screenshots he’d taken back in the day – nice collection!(Louis Wu 14:28:25 UTC)
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Ballads of Reach
Timgie let us know that he’s released Ballads of Reach, a Halo music vid in the style of HMV Hell – and I’d say it’s pretty entertaining! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 14:27:10 UTC)
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20 Questions: TTL Askan
CE United’s Willy sat down with TTL Askan, a Gunslinger and a Bungie contract worker. His site has the interview online. It’s a little hard to read (every question and answer is on a separate page, with no links between them), but it’s a pretty interes…
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The Power of Many
Postmortem wrote up an article called ‘We Are Connected’ – it’s all about the power of the Halo community. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:19:51 UTC)
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Title Updates, Auctions, and Rainbows
The latest Halo Bulletin has been posted over at Halo Waypoint – and it discusses some upcoming changes to Reach that will be enacted in time for the release of Halo: Anniversary. (Our forum is full of griping about this – complaints about information …