Year: 2006
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Last T Update
Just a reminder: your last chance to buy an HBO T (and register for the poster art raffle and/or the DeanFest raffle) is midnight tonight, central time; that’s a bit over 14 hours from now. It’s 1 am on Tuesday EST, 10 pm PST, and 6am Tuesday UTC. After that time, the raffles will be…
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LEGO Halo Summary
Cool. Saber-Scorpion, a long-time LEGO Halo fanatic (check our news for some older posts) has put up a nice summary page of LEGO-based Halo creations around the web. Thanks, Jono.
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As Twilight Falls
This is one of the stranger bits I’ve seen… but Elnea has created a Halo-themed Waltz – As Twilight Falls can be found on her .Mac space (with an explanation and lyrics), or via direct download from us (3.1 mb, MP3 format) If we bring down the .Mac page, we’ll host a mirror of it,…
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Dustbowl Megabattle
Wow. rockslider has discovered a new, untapped location for a megabattle in Halo – the dustbowl in Truth and Reconciliation (just before the gravity lift area). Go read up on it at the Bad Cyborg site!
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Net Neutrality, and Plasma Grenades
This Spartan Life has a new video blog up – it looks at the subject of tiered internet service, and why it might be bad for you, me, and everyone except the large corporations with the cash to pay for premium service. Funny stuff about a serious topic! (10.8 mb, QuickTime format.)
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Would cannons really make it better?
Over at PALGN (an Australian gaming site), there’s a column called ‘The Wrap’ which takes a quick look at gaming stories from around the web. The one up now looks at, among other things, the news that MLG Pro has inked a deal to put video gaming on cable television. The author thinks it’s a…
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Podtacular.com Outage
Hey everybody, I got the notice Thursday night that the site wasn’t working and have been doing what I can to get everything back to normal. This was a matter of an issue with my hosting provider and none of the site content has been affected or lost. The site was simply using too many…
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Podtacular.com Outage
Hey everybody, I got the notice Thursday night that the site wasn’t working and have been doing what I can to get everything back to normal. This was a matter of an issue with my hosting provider and none of the site content has been affected or lost. The site was simply using too many…
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New work from an old friend
Interesting. An artist known as GT Gundam over at DeviantART has been turning out great Halo artwork for years – we recently added a bunch of missing images to our Miscellaneous Art section, with his permission. Today, Juan Anselm points out that he’s gone and created a new DA account, and has begun to populate…
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Individual Recognition
Over at MLG, there’s an interview with Gh057ayame – he’s been nominated for the Scion Player of the Year award. Go read about what that means. Thanks, 3Suns.
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Halo References in Pop Culture
Heh. Over at Fark.com, one of the tidbits picked up yesterday was a story about a new pirate-fighting center opening in Mombasa. Fark’s footnote: “Prophet of Regret unavailable for comment” – cute. Thanks, Paul Marsh.
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Near-Cinematic Brilliance
IGN’s got a nice review of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2 – with minor exceptions, they gushed over it. Go read!
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The snarkiness of critics
Wow, what a nasty shot. Some guy writes a daily blog on MS stuff – and in a paragraph making fun of MSN as a portal (and some of the silly things they tried in an attempt to gain market share), he made this snide comment:Those days are largely laughed about today, in the same…
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We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Patches
Blayne’s got another batch of UNSC/UESC patches for sale – the first batch of 50 sold pretty quickly. If you missed it, but want one of these puppies… swing by MaraMERCH!
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Vomitous Lumps
Weekly Update is up – pretty short, because Frankie has no time, but hey. OMG – no Mister Chief. Louis am cry. Update: DOH! Forgot to mention that this was available in our Weekly Update Archive, as well. Update 2: Frankie rocks – he added an Angsty Mister Chief, just for me. I’m printing that…
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Hey, amigo, how you been?
Captain Spark submitted another couple of dozen dialogue snippets – swing by his site, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank.
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Careful What You Wish For.
Stuntmutt takes a look at the darker side of wish fulfillment in today’s One One Se7en.
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RvB Season 4 – Now on DVD
The Red vs Blue Season 4 DVD is now available for purchase – swing by the RvB site for details. Even if you watched them all online, there’s a ton of stuff on the DVD that makes the purchase worth it… looks like Saeka was the first on our forum to notice.
