Month: August 2011
-
Riot Fest – if you couldn’t be there
Dani pointed out a link to Riot Fest – the Running Riot podcast that took place over the Halo Fest weekend. (We’d mentioned it before it happened, but it’s online now.) 3 hours of Ketey goodness! (Louis Wu 20:00:24 UTC)
-
It’s flattery, right?
Lomis noticed a Kia commercial that feels an AWFUL lot like something else you may have seen… (Mykke’s followup’s pretty cool, too.)(Louis Wu 19:47:38 UTC)
-
Nice bonus for UK Anniversary Preorders
It looks like if you’re in the UK, and you pre-order Halo Anniversary from Gamestation or GAME, you’ll pick up a free special edition of ‘The Art of Building Worlds’. (It’s 24 pages culled from the full 400-page hardback due this October.) Not too sha…
-
Drunken Halo: Episode 26
Justin Bryce let us know that Drunken Halo: Episode 26 is now up – it’s got discussion of the new multiplayer updates, as well as Drunken Mail Sack shenanigans. (Louis Wu 19:23:19 UTC)
-
Halo 2 Version Flash
Paula sent word of a series of Flash animations telling the Halo 2 story… in Spanish. It was created by rafita7878. Quite impressive – even more so if you speak Spanish! (Louis Wu 19:21:02 UTC)
-
Talkin’ Smack in Space
io9 posted a list of the ’10 Greatest Examples of Space Battle Smack Talk’ – Truth’s ‘vermin’ speech makes the cut. Nice! (Louis Wu 19:18:23 UTC)
-
Awards are cool (and embarrassing)
Laird posted a couple of short films from Halo Fest’s VIP party last Friday night – the first shows the presentation of an award that 343 MEANT to offer to a productive community leader (silly people, they gave it to me instead), while the second show…
-
War (or War) Comic
Firestorm12 let us know that Halopen has repurposed a war satire machinima project that didn’t get off the ground into a war satire comic – War (or War) Issue #1 and Issue #2 are now online. They’re planning on releasing new issues each Tuesday and Th…
-
French Translations of Halo materials
Cox wanted us to let you know that the French Halo fan community is translating all official videos and providing French subtitles. You can find their Halo 4 playlist here, their Halo Anniversary collection here, and their Reach collection here. They’r…
-
Halo Game Finder – now on PC
xBLACK V3N0Mx continues to update Halo Reach Game Finder – now there’s a desktop version! Check it out – it can help you find that awesome game you played recently but forgot how to get back to!(Louis Wu 18:33:35 UTC)
-
Halo Legacy: Cielo Negro Episode 3
Paul Shelley told us about Cielo Negro Episode 3 on Saturday – we haven’t posted a lot of news since Saturday. So go watch it. The story of Nueva Seville continues! (Louis Wu 18:31:05 UTC)
-
Concept Art of Condemned
Dani posted a bit of concept art he discovered for Condemned, the map released in the Defiant Map Pack. It was created by Jason Borne at Certain Affinity – and it’s really nice.(Louis Wu 18:28:38 UTC)
-
Oh, come on. He’s at LEAST 12.
In celebration of Halo Fest, Frank O’Connor created a new Mister Chief masterpiece. It hung on the wall in the display space. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up the event… and noticed the picture. The caption on their photo is priceless. Thanks…
-
Gorgeous new covers for Reach and ODST
Over at NeoGAF, enzo_gt put together some cover art for Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST. Yes, you already HAVE cover art for these two products – but he went the minimalist route, and the result is gorgeous. We’ve hosted mirrors of his files, to save you …
-
Halo Faith Dates
France’s Halo Destiny has a short bit with some dates for the fan film Halo Faith – the trailer will be out on September 2 (that’s Friday), while the full film will be available just after the release of Halo Anniversary. (Google’s English translation …
-
GI looks at Halo 4
Game Informer put together a feature on Halo 4 – nice summary of what we know. (Well, except for this.) Thanks, excowboy83 (and Flipyap). (Louis Wu 18:11:30 UTC)
-
More Halo Fest Photos
necro2607 took another batch of pics at Halo Fest last week – swing by Flickr to check ’em out! (Louis Wu 18:00:36 UTC)
-
Blue Realms’ Halo 4 Armor
Revenant1988 noticed an article on the 405th about the Halo 4 armor that Adam Grumbo (and others) showed off at Halo Fest last week. Really amazing work – go see! (Louis Wu 17:58:37 UTC)
-
Nake3dHalo Guide to Co-op Dash in under 4 minutes
Nak3d Eli has some rather huge ambitions – he plans to create tutorials for every Halo: Reach challenge ever posted. (That’s a lot of challenges.) He’s starting with a tutorial showing you how to beat the current extremely-high-value Weekly Challenge….
-
Sword in the Stone
TDSpiral created Sword in the Stone, which is pretty clever Halo fan art. I love it – I bet you will too. (Louis Wu 17:48:23 UTC)