Year: 2006

The Halo Graphic Novel preview hit comic stores in the US a few days ago (Wednesday was the release date); I hadn’t realized this, but it was supposed to be a freebie. My local comic store was charging $.99/copy (not much, but when you want to grab enough for your buddies in Europe…), and comic…

Marty, taking pity on us poor fans, posted a list of all the individual characters in Halo 2, and the actors who played them. We’ve added this list to our Names behind the Voices page – thanks, Marty! (At some point in the not-too-distant future, there’ll probably be some reclassification going on in our Halo…

Dan Chosich put together a pretty cool montage of his E3/D3 (Dean’s post-E3 lanfest) experience; it does a wonderful job of showing the insanity that is E3, and has a few Halo-related clips from the lanfest to boot. Two versions are available – a ‘small’ version, 87 mb, QuickTime format, 640×360… and an HDV version,…

Major Nelson posted the Top Live Games lists again, broken out by platform (Xbox/Xbox 360)… but also pointed out that on a combined list, Halo 2 would be number 1, followed by all 10 Xbox 360 titles. Thanks, Smandon.

A reminder – Video Games Live will be onstage in Philadelphia tonight, with lots and lots of extra goodies (including the chance to meet your favorite Halo soundtrack composers). tyguy101a, from the RvB community, swung by to invite people as well – if you’re in the area, there are still tickets left… go!

insaneidiot found this article that had been linked off the Xbox.com forums – it’s a discussion of the Xbox Live Vision Camera, built by GestureTek, coming out this fall. The company that made it, according to the article”earlier hinted something about the camera being put into use in Halo 3 gaming wherein once a player…

QsK King submitted a trailer for the first montage from QsKGlobal.com – the MPRRS liked it. This is the rebirth of someone who was banned for plagiarism a while back; it warms me to see solid, non-stolen work being produced. (There are some very nice editing touches in this vid.) It’s short – only 1:23,…

Davidgojr put together ‘Memo 2 Bungie: Halo 2 BS Montage’ – a look at some of the humorous stuff that can happen on Xbox Live. Humorous, that is, if it’s not happening to YOU. It’s one of those ‘you gotta laugh so you don’t cry’ things. Nicely filmed, and the MPRRS reviewers said yea, so…

The Weekly Update is up over at Bungie.net, even though they had a major power outage today (probably that enormous bank of cooling fans in the back going rampant) – info about Video Games Live (and PLAY!, a different series altogether, though you wouldn’t know it from the way Frankie wrote it up tonight), plus…

The One One Se7en guest strips come to a close today – the final strip was created by BOLL. It requires a bit of knowledge of the Halo novels (specifically First Strike) to make sense… and, like all stuff BOLL does, is more than it seems at first. Enjoy.

I’m lovin’ the thank-you notes we’ve been getting from the Soundtrack Contest winners; this hasn’t really happened before, but it’s cool. The latest comes from SnowVapor – take a look!

Thirteen new stories are available in the Fan Fiction section today – I had to toss a few of the submissions. In today’s day and age, there is absolutely no excuse for misspelling more than 25% of the words in a submitted story (I’m NOT exaggerating) – even if you don’t have an app that…