Year: 2006

Dennis Powers writes to let us know that The Valley of the Forerunners, Part 4 is up for grabs at the Halo CE Chronicles website. 10:23 long, available in WMP9, QuickTime, and streaming Flash formats, as always. Commander Harrington and the marine contingent explore the valley a little bit… and aren’t thrilled with what they…

While you’re at MLG, swing by the Player of the Week section, and check out an interview with Itwasluck. A member of Xit Woundz, Itwasluck can be seen in action in a number of gameplay vids hosted by Halo2Forum.com (search our news for links). Go read the interview, to see how this 18-year-old got to…

Overswarm seems to have taken a break from his Not So Common Sense guide to put some time into articles at MLGPro.com – there’s a great one up right now. It’s called ‘Keeping Your Cool – Anger Management in Gaming’, and it describes why anger is absolutely NOT an emotion that should be part of…

Heh. John Mayer loves Halo – if you’re a long-time visitor, you already know that. emotaku found a short clip on Youtube in which John explains his feelings about the game, and how he wishes it would help him.

Nice. Someone modded their computer case – with a cool Halo 2 theme. There’s an LED bar that simulates the loading progress bar from the game. You can see a couple of photos in the Bungie.net article. Thanks to Spartan Jag for the heads-up.

New Halo sweatshirts at the Bungie Store… and you’re waiting for what? Thanks, Schedonnardus.

Music4Games.net has some solid news on the Halo 2 Volume Two Original Soundtrack – it’ll be available for purchase on April 25th! Fantastic news for everyone waiting for this almost mythical collection… go read the article for more info, including Marty’s philosophy behind this volume. w00t! Update: A little late, but Bungie’s finally posted the…

Friday, Bungie announced the Halo Graphic Novel, and how it would be published by Marvel. Today, One One Se7en points out a potential downside to that teamup.

I’ve said a few times that I wasn’t going to promote Video Games Live any more… but I’m gonna go back on my word, because this seems pretty cool. We just got a press release announcing a meet-and-greet in San Jose, California this weekend – if you go, you’ll have a chance to meet (among…

I’ve begun the rather daunting task of thinning out the Miscellaneous Art queue; today, I’m putting up 30 images, which were submitted between December 29 and January 16. The queue is still large; please don’t freak out if you submitted work to us, and it’s not in this batch. I hope to continue clearing tomorrow…

OXM UK is reporting that the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (is it, by any chance, the APRIL issue?) discusses a plan by Bungie to have Halo (the first one) available online on Live Arcade before summer. I’m viewing this one with a MASSIVE salt shaker at my side until (unless) some corroborating evidence…

Heh – Rick sent us a pic of his Xbox, doing double duty as a drink smuggling device. (He says it’s still workable; he just took the parts out.) The lengths people won’t go to…

DropShock, the officially NSFW Halo Podcast, released Episode 13 last night. Discussion of comics, name rumors, and Live content. 33 mb, 70 minutes. Go listen!

spartanerik found a bizarre little Flash animation over at Newgrounds – Halo Mathness Demo. It wouldn’t run for me; I had to step through the dialogue at the beginning, one frame at a time… but maybe it works better on a PC. Answer math questions, kill Covenant. Oddness to the nth power.

Wow, awesome find. And1balla2829 noticed that there’s a new Halo novel listed at both ISBNdb.com, and Amazon.com. (Amazon also lists an 18-copy lot, for bulk orders, I guess.) The book is being published by TOR Books – whose website is woefully out of date, so there’s no info to be had there… so at this…

Jamie98s used a pretty cool technique in his recent ‘Mombasa Massacre’ film; he had battle scenes with many more than 16 fighters onscreen. He’s not the first to do this (ipushmycar did it in Biohazard, about a year ago, and I’m sure someone will remind me of other examples), but he’s the first to write…

The MPRRS passed two movies in quick succession this morning; the first we just posted, the second is called ‘Totally Random Act 4 – Playing With History’. It was submitted by KeyboardKiller, of Pothole Studios, and tells the story of a couple of friends who invent a time machine, and then try and figure out…

Se7en One has been experimenting with fully-rendered movies in 3ds max; his most recent offering is called ‘A Hole in my Soul’, and it’s a music video, with a Grunt band playing Aerosmith’s “A Hole in my Soul”. I love the concept, and I think it has great potential; personally, I wish the MPRRS had…