Year: 2006

Heh – Cress77 stopped by to show off a fun shirt he made; I wonder how many people look at him funny when he walks down the street?(Louis Wu 18:16:41 UTC)

High Hat 314 wrote to let us know that MediaGamers.com is back online with the start of the new month; this is relevant because we mentioned a 2v2 tourney they’re setting up about a week ago – but they immediately ran out of bandwidth, and folks couldn’t sign up. If you were interested, but couldn’t…

Troy Hudzinski sent along word of an upcoming paintball game in Kingston, Michigan – ‘Searchings’ will take place on September 9, and has a backstory based on a fanfic. The event is to raise money for Carriage Town Ministries in Flint, MI – so if you’re in the area, sign up and get to role-playing!(Louis…

Derik Olsson spent a ridiculous amount of time weeding through our Links page, listing dead or duplicated links – we’ve pared down almost 200 no-longer-valid entries. Stop by and see what IS fresh! (Thanks, Derik!)(Louis Wu 17:46:58 UTC)

deftangel dropped by our forum with a story about a very cool Spartan model, made from sculpy, then cast in resin – check out the pic in his post, and then follow the link to the sculptor’s website for more angles. (You might want to check out the rest of his portfolio, as well -…

This weekend, a music video set to Nickelback’s ‘Hero’, submitted by MaritalBlaze54, passed the MPRRS – but our bandwidth was getting tight, so we held onto it until today. The song’s been used in a lot of Halo vids before – but never really as a story by itself. Very nicely filmed. Grab it in…

Captain Spark turned in another 16 dialogue snippets, including some new Cortana tidbits. You can browse them in our Dialogue databank, or grab a zipfile from his website.(Louis Wu 17:18:00 UTC)

New artwork from Pinkuh – a shout out to a Halo artist who shares her name. I’m gonna have trouble looking at Elites the same way again… (We’ve added this to her gallery here, as well.)(Louis Wu 14:18:46 UTC)

Ian White stopped by to point out a new game blog he’s started up; A couple of his recent articles discuss Xbox Live, and Halo. (He also mentions that an interview with a Bungie employee is coming soon…) Give it a look!(Louis Wu 14:10:08 UTC)

Couple of nice montages over at halo3forum.com – Don Miguel’s The Real has some great multikills (though I could have done without the acid-trip effects in the middle), and Halzred’s editing a new trailer for Talent (apparently his last) – full montage is due out in the fall. Go watch! Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 22:48:31 UTC)

If you uploaded an entry to our Faceplates contest in the last 3 days… we need to ask you to upload it again. AAAAAAUUUGGHH! We had a disk meltdown, coupled with a backup failure; the last (good) backup is from a ways back. I have SOME of the entries – but the vast majority didn’t…

Interesting – one of the panels at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, coming up in about a month, looks at videogame fans, and how they influence PR budgets:Forums, Blogs and Fanbois: The Role of Community and PR in the Game IndustryThe hardcore community (yes, our community) is cranky and unpredictable yet is still the most…

Defy Logic has just released an old-school-style variety tricking vid called ‘Epidemic’. Lots of tricks – not too many explained, so you might have trouble figuring out what’s ‘tricky’ about certain segments, but there should be interesting stuff nonetheless. I held off posting this last night, because the High Impact Halo thread referenced by FooFoo…

Stuntmutt takes a look at the serial Halo comic (announced for next year) in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:38:55 UTC)

Luke McKay whipped up a really nice little sketch of an ODST – we’ve added it to his gallery page here. Thanks, Laird.(Louis Wu 12:41:12 UTC)

Scaraby posted a note about an upcoming Halo-themed paintball game in Wasaga Beach, Ontario. Be ready – event takes place on August 19!(Louis Wu 12:26:33 UTC)

How did this make it onto Kotaku?(Louis Wu 12:24:27 UTC)