Year: 2006

You haven’t heard a lot from PraetoriaGuard in recent months (well, until a week or two ago) – but that’s not because they’ve been slacking. They haven’t been. They’ve put together a slick little promo vid to ramp up towards 2007 – you can grab it off their servers in QuickTime format (6.1 mb) or…

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find the latest Bungie Weekly Update – it’s got an interview with Ed Ulbrich, president of Digital Domain’s commercial division, who answers some questions about the Halo 3 ad, and another with Stephen Dewey, the Sound Designer and founder of Machine Head, who did the sound design for the ad. And…

There are lots of questions people still have about the Halo 3 commercial… but here’s an answer, hard and solid, directly from Frank O’Connor at Bungie. With respect to the children shown at the start of the film:”Those kids are real actors. Not CG or MoCap. Even the grass is real in that shot.”More of…

This morning, we got word from Shaun Escayg, who was involved in an animation project over at CGSociety.org. The short video he pointed us to (5 seconds, about 6 mb) was fantastic – but I didn’t want them to suffer from a bandwidth hit if we front-paged this, so we’re making the video available here…

When studio funding for the Halo movie pulled out a couple of months ago, some people speculated that Microsoft wouldn’t have any trouble funding the development themselves. In an interview recently, Robbie Bach said that this would not happen – Microsoft was not getting into the movie-making business. Today’s One One Se7en suggests a reason…

Camboy45, a member of the Red vs Blue community, sent along a shot of his new Halo tattoo. Nice work!(Louis Wu 18:48:58 UTC)

Fifteen new pieces for you in today’s Fan Fiction update – well, not quite, because someone thought that because they’d mislabeled a series name, they should RESUBMIT the series, in its entirety… but you get the idea. (In the future, please don’t do this.)(Louis Wu 18:04:25 UTC)

Mark MacDonald and Luke Smith (of GameVideos.com/1Up.com/Electronic Games Magazine) have their own deconstruction of the Halo 3 commercial; what’s different about theirs (aside from the fact that these guys get paid for this sort of thing) is that it’s in video format. They walk through the commercial, conversing about all the juicy tidbits as they…

Normally, The Halo Humpday Challenge is a series of three games between Bungie and a community team. Normally, Bungie gets their collective rears handed to them in a majority of those games. This week was no exception, really; Bungie had a team of two (because everyone else was either too busy or too stupid), and…

Mitchell Moore sent word of Outside the Box, whose current storyline is Halo-related. And yeah, I think I’d respond like the second girl…(Louis Wu 22:38:32 UTC)

Jordan117 did some creative writing. Heh.(Louis Wu 21:13:51 UTC)

A couple of weeks ago, Pinkuh finished a new piece of art that had been commissioned for an upcoming contest (a signed, framed print of this piece will be available to be won) – I hadn’t posted it in her gallery because I thought it was supposed to be exclusive to the contest. Today, I…

Yesterday, Bungie.net posted a small note about the Halouvre, and how it had just celebrated its 2nd birthday. Since we mentioned that celebration a week ago, I figured I’d pass on this – but JeBr0nie made me look again… and there IS something of note that’s new in that post; the Halouvre has opened a…

Heh – Ross Mills found a funny shirt. Be sure you read the description UNDER the shirt.(Louis Wu 16:54:03 UTC)

Okay, in general, I’m probably a little burnt out on montages; when it comes down to it, it’s usually just a bunch of stickies and snipes, maybe with some clever BR work tossed in for excitement. Occasionally, though, one comes through that’s got a bunch of stuff going for it – enough to make it…

kinggun sent along a YouTube link showing The Unchosen playing a live, metal version of ‘Mjolnir’ (we hosted an acoustic version yesterday) – different sound!(Louis Wu 15:51:42 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s news of another big shakeup – Final Boss has dropped Saiyan, and picked up StrongSide, in the wake of three consecutive losses to Carbon this year. (Thanks, 3Suns.) There’s another perspective on the change over at Amped.(Louis Wu 14:30:52 UTC)