Month: October 2011
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Another CGHub Find
When poking around CGHub, I stumbled across an artist known as ‘alp’ – Allen Altiner is an art director in the film industry, but he does a lot of Halo work on his own time. Here are some of his pieces. Concept Painting – Spartan vs Elite Halo Fight…
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Jun
Jarod Lenz Erwin, who created the UI and painted background for the Waypoint mobile app, posted a pretty cool picture of Jun he did for 343. Love that detail! Thanks to NeoGAF’s TheOddOne for finding it. (Wait… does this mean we’ll be seeing Jun in …
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Podtacular 267
Podtacular 267 went live this weekend – Dust Storm talked to CruelLEGACEY about his series Playtime, and to one of Playtime’s characters about the plot. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:39:08 UTC)
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The Halo Project
It’s been a long time since we heard from ICDedPpl – but he sent us a link of his buddy’s Photobucket album showing off some great armor pics. thorn696 is a 405th regular who doesn’t even play Halo – but he makes armor good enough to win contests (thr…
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Halo Comic Poster
CaptainTony pointed out a pretty cool Halo Comic poster created by Riznof he found on deviantART – look at that six-pack! (Louis Wu 22:35:49 UTC)
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Starting Strong
Morpheus noticed a GameInformer article on the Top Ten Launch Games of All Time (how do you measure this?) – Halo made the list. Pretty high up, even! (Louis Wu 22:35:27 UTC)
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An amazing Spartan Laser
DaFrontlineTrooper put together a video showing off a Spartan Laser he built – very cool! Thanks to robofin117 for the heads-up – and for pointing out DaFrontlineTrooper’s Facebook page, which contains blueprints for his weapons! (Louis Wu 22:35:01 UTC)
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Community Forge Remakes
nillapuddin is into remakes – check out his post for details on where you can find his work, and the work of his friends! (Louis Wu 22:34:20 UTC)
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…aaand… we’re back.
It’s been 17 hours – but it looks like AT&T managed to get a generator on the switching hut near HBO Central. The fiber line has power again, so things are running. Forums are back. We’re sorry for the downtime.(Louis Wu 22:05:19 UTC)
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HBO fritzing
Quick note, parts of HBO central are without power. Expect power back up fairly soon. Everything’s cool otherwise… how’s by you?(Ding 15:35:20 UTC)
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deviantHaloART
More deviantART rounded up by CaptainTony (including one of his own) – and I finally put together the fact that DA’s X38 posts as Ken on NeoGAF! (Love his Emile sketch.)(Louis Wu 22:11:31 UTC)
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Living Monument, hmm?
Imrane-117 brought our attention to some newly-registered domains – what do YOU think they mean?(Louis Wu 22:09:22 UTC)
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Will Anniversary kick off a remake trend?
Financial Analyst Michael Pachter takes a look at the remaking of ‘classic’ games in light of the release of Halo Anniversary in his regular Pach-Attack! feature on Gametrailers – interesting to see this game being appraised so clinically! Thanks to Z…
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Life-sized LEGO Sniper Rifle B
lack Six noticed a pretty killer life-sized LEGO Halo sniper rifle at The Brothers Brick – go check it out! (The final shot is money.) (Louis Wu 20:43:13 UTC)
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Halo Waypoint Goodies
Speaking of Halo Waypoint – if you visit today, there seems to be quite a bit of cool new content. Unfortunately, a Silverlight update my browsers prompted me for this morning has made much of it inaccessible. If you haven’t updated, though, Grifball H…
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We still wanna see your pumpkins (twss)
It’s a sad year here at bungie.org – it’s the first time in 7 years that we’re not hosting a pumpkin-carving contest for Halloween. That doesn’t mean folks aren’t carving Halo-related pumpkins, though! We’ve seen a couple – one on Halo Waypoint’s twitt…
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There’s Something about Kira
wheeler noticed some similarities between the AI assist in Edgeworld and another AI you might be familiar with…(Louis Wu 12:06:16 UTC)
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Halo 2 Delta Halo Ghost Launch
Wow… the dedication of some Halo tricksters blows me away. Grumpy sent along a link to a YouTube video (and a corresponding jumprs.org thread) showing him using a Pelican on Delta Halo to make it (in a ghost) all the way to the middle tower. There a…
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Fan-Made Helmets for sale
Omega_East is selling a couple of helmets he’s made – he needs to clear the space (and bring in a bit of cash for the next build). Both are linked from this page – there’s a Carter helmet, and an unpainted Noble Six helmet. Check ’em out! (Louis Wu 12…
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Halo Anniversary Skulls
Sam Becker let us know that he took the Skull screenshots from the recent BTS video and matched them up with their actual names and effects. Swing by HaloEasterEggs.net to see (or don’t, if you’d rather figure them out on your own).(Louis Wu 12:04:25 …