Year: 2006

There’s an article at TMCnet.com about a Halo tournament that took place in Spokane, WA a couple of days ago. It’s interesting because it was clearly written for non-gamers; it’s nice to see this sort of stuff get coverage in more mainstream press. (It says they got this from the Spokesman-Review, but I couldn’t find…

Yesterday, Jillybean updated the Halo Story page with a choice collection of emails – evolutionary theory, sex drive, mad AIs, and… um, mad AIs. Apologies for not notifying you sooner; yesterday was pretty far from fun here.

Oh, before I go… Rockslider has added another piece to his second-level fun suggestions at Bad Cyborg; Mad Banshees. Ever feel like the enemy AI is letting their emotions override their logic?

It must be that time of year – there are posts all over the place from folks looking back on Halo 2, and trying to decide where the community stands. On the HaloGrid forum, trigger119 looks at what keeps him coming back to a game he thought he was done with. And on our own…

Mintz sent a note about what’s new over at Halo: Portable – a pair of psp-compatible vids (they were pretty popular in their original formats, so good choices), and the Weekly Update; go grab new content for your PSP!

In keeping with their Heretics & Heroes episode/flashback alternation, Slacker Entertainment has released Flashback 3: Fun with Numbers. Wellington runs up against a challenge he simply can’t overcome… counting to five. Yeah.

Another movie made it through the MPRRS this morning – this one’s from KingChuck and Team Conquest, and it tells the story of a man getting revenge for the death of a friend. The entire story (all 12 minutes of it) is told with music and visuals only; there is no dialogue. Powerfully done, though…

Heh – Hminn noticed a writeup on some funky computer games in which humans are pitted against protozoa… and the writer starts out by suggesting that he hopes he could beat the protozoa in a Halo match. I hope so, too.

QuickTactical submitted another segment of Soldiers of War to the MPRRS, and got approved – you can grab Episode Five in either WMP9 format (46.5 mb) or QuickTime format (44.9 mb). The Russian attackers are ambushed by a small contingent of Americans.

There’s an article about the perks afforded to pro gamers in the upcoming season over at MLGPro.com – travel stipends, free registrations, and other perks are available to the top players. Go read about the 2006 season! Thanks, 3Suns (who suggested a summary of ‘The Rich Get Richer’ for this piece – ouch!).

Short (but pretty sweet) update this week, over at Bungie.net – soon-to-be-updated playlists, detailed info about the Soundtrack Volume 2, some KILLER artwork, and some nice case mods. And a Mister Chief that makes me wonder what Frankie does on his off hours. Go read – either at Bungie.net, or right here, in the Weekly…

Captain Spark continues his dialogue snippet collection – 22 more tidbits either on his site, or browsable, in our Dialogue Databank.

Many of us miss the weekly updates of the Halo Babies comic; Stuntmutt’s view is that maybe if he taints your memory with bad puns, you’ll miss them less. Go read today’s One One Se7en.

There are 18 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read. I had to delete a surprising number of stories from the queue – either there is a large influx of new writers, or there are community members who simply don’t want to read the rules. If you don’t want your…

I doubt they do this for EVERY applicant – but the fact that they do it at all is pretty darned nice. weephun (a forum regular, and a major contributor during the I Love Bees ARG) applied for a job as a Test Engineer a bit ago. He didn’t have the game programming experience to…

This Spartan Life has released module 3 of Episode 3 – it’s the second part of the interview with Marty O’Donnell. It’s a great discussion of the power of sound design, set amidst the battle for bodyguard position… with a nice homage to Newman and Redford at the end. (I have to say – while…

Wonga. So there’s a project over at High Speed Halo to complete Halo (the first one) in 77 minutes – and they’re currently 6 seconds from that goal. I have no doubt that once it’s completed, they’ll work to bring every difficulty level up to Legendary – but for now, the whole concept of finishing…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a project to put together a ceramic Master Chief – last night, boltofaire stopped by our forum again with new pics. Check ’em out!