Year: 2006

Thirteen must be today’s lucky number, because that’s how many new desktops you’ll find in the Wallpaper section. A really interesting collection – lots of different styles. Some really striking work in there…

As I’ve said before, there are a really large number of dialogue snippets in the queue right now. I’ve managed to process almost 50, from Hellhawk, today; you can find them listed in the Dialogue Databank. There are still almost 400 in the queue, from four different submitters; even if some turn out to be…

Wired’s Clive Thompson wrote an article glorifying the First Person Shooter, and the niche it fills in our hindbrain’s desire to be stimulated. Halo gets a nice mention on page 2. Thanks, Target4Hire.

Stuntmutt comments on Frankie’s discussion of a Mister Chief t-shirt in today’s One One Se7en. I hope he’s wearing armor after a joke that bad…

Treeskunk Productions, the guys behind Outpost: Coagulation, have started a new series, entitled ‘Outpost: Backwash’. The series trailer made it through the MPRRS yesterday; they weren’t looking for hosting, but since their downloads page offers only WMP9 format (22.9 mb), we’re providing a QuickTime link (21.4 mb). Looks to be funny, well-filmed, entertaining – check…

Over at Rampancy.net, vector40 has written up part 5 (the last part) of his Banshee Handling Tutorial – this one covers a number of techniques he hadn’t gotten to yet. And in case you were wishing he’d included some of the sillier tricks… he wrote a separate article on our forum, detailing the stuff you…

Halogen’s updated again – 4 new skinned items. (You can also read it on their forum.) I like the Gas Facility… thanks, Logical2u.

DropShock Episode 14 has been posted – discussions of the new books, as well as a couple of April Fools jokes. 40 mb, almost an hour an a half. Check it out.

Dojorkan posted a bunch of pics yesterday on our forum – they show grunts and the MC getting into, and driving, the Creep (the Covenant bus that shows up on Outskirts). Apparently… driving animations for these guys were actually created, even though you’re never actually allowed to get in and drive one! Fun stuff.

Stephen Loftus submitted a pair of updates for his Scale Comparison article; down near the bottom, you’ll find new weaponry scale charts (one for the Covenant, one for the UNSC) – and each one has a corresponding hi-res PDF document you can download, if you need or want higher quality silhouettes of the items. Good…

Recently, we altered the information that MPRRS reviewers had access to about their own reviews; we gave them the ability to easily see when their reviews were wildly different from the norm. There aren’t any solid rules about where you have to be in this regard – we’re not looking to censor reviewers simply because…

Rocksiider continues his investigations into fun battles you can set up on Silent Cartographer – check out this forum post for more details.

Michael Katcher looked at the MLG model and extrapolated to sports in general; could we see internet-based subscription content supplanting one-size-fits-all TV options in the future? (My guess – not if cable companies have anything to say about it; video-on-demand might make this whole concept moot in the next couple of years.) Comments can go…

During my travels through the Red vs Blue community, I ran across HyperSoldier, who’s got quite a bit of Halo-related artwork up at DeviantART (as well as a few extra pieces in his RvB images collection). Give it a look!

Stephen Loftus shows no sign of slowing down in his quest to fully delineate the known vehicles and structures in the Halo universe; his latest subject is the Phantom Troop Carrier. Armaments, interior space, carrying capabilites – he (with the help of Dojorkan, who supplied some of the pictures) lays it all out for you;…

There were a bunch of questions that came in, asking for clarification about the rules for the 7 on the 7th contest – can you photoshop your images, can you use extra (non-Halo) action figures, how do you specify your caption and theme… we’ve added answers to these questions in the Rules section of the…