Year: 2006

I hate to say it… but sometimes One One Se7en is actually quite clever. (Not today, of course. I’d never admit that. But sometimes.)

Episode 73 of Red vs Blue, ‘Under the Weather’, has been posted for sponsors – it had me laughing out loud more than once. Poor Tucker is sick… but don’t let that get you down. It should be up for the general public by tomorrow sometime. (I’ve been watching the Videos page since Saturday, when…

Phil Rock has been putting together some animated GIFs of the Master Chief and his adventures with piranhas. (Killer piranhas. Piranhas big enough to EAT him.) The GIF animation was cool, but pretty wasteful, bandwidth-wise (and Phil wants to host these himself), so we helped out with QuickTime and WMP9 conversions. The first three episodes…

Gwen Horsley wrote a poem about her husband’s addiction – he suggested she send it to Bungie, who sent it to us. And we’re giving it to you. (With Gwen’s permission, of course.) Which side of this equation are you on?

Dang – Peter Jackson visited Bungie, and nobody even gave me a t-shirt. (Frankie was first, of course. Front-page h00r.)

Dang – two GORGEOUS new pics from Bryn Casey – check out Spartan, and Swamp! Wow.

People have been surprisingly patient in their wait for our next bungie.org/bungie.net contest – but it’s finally here. This one is called ‘7 on the 7th’, and may become a more stable paradigm than ‘every week’; we’ll see. This time around, we’re looking for jokes – Halo-related jokes. (Don’t worry – what Stuntmutt does doesn’t…

Speaking of Rampancy.net, the next part of Narcogen’s in-depth discussion of Stubbs the Zombie has been posted; this one delineates many differences between Stubbs and the Master Chief – but also some similarities. Nice work! Go read.

I HATE it when I forget stuff. Rampancy.net posted a piano arrangement for On A Pale Horse a couple of days ago – I spaced on posting it. You must be logged in to download – but it seems like a solid piece from Devin Eastman – go grab it!

Z points out a new montage at Halo2Forum.com – gameplay by BiGmAc2121, editing by MikeMan27. Nice work all around. The vast majority of the gameplay is on Lockout and Midship – but there are plenty of good sticks and snipes. 119 mb, WMP9 format.

3Suns, our man in the (MLG) field, sends word that details about the upcoming Championships in NY have been posted at MLGPro.com. Lots and lots and lots of money on the line (total Halo purse is more than $60,000). Check it out!

Whee! MORE rumors! (Although this one is said to be coming out soon in EGM, which makes it a little more confirmable…) NintendoRevolution.ca is reporting that Jason Jones (yeah, the one from Bungie) has been interviewed in the latest EGM – saying he’s interested in the idea of creating a first-person shooter on the Nintendo…

MLGPro’s Player of the Week this week is TuLegit – 15 years old, and with a pretty dang impressive performance at MLG Chicago. Go read about it! Thanks, 3Suns.

Major Nelson has posted a top 10 XBL games list on his blog (which seems to be down at the moment) – the number one game? Yep, still Halo 2. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Kashoki writes to point out that work proceeds apace on First Contact, a Half-Life 2 mod – you can see a pelican model and a Covenant Capital Ship on their Mod DB page. They’re still looking for animators, skinners, coders, and modelers… if you like what you see, join up! Showcase cinematic coming soon.

Central writes to say that he’s got a new series in production, called ’54’. He’s already got an introductory movie for you (23.3 mb, WMP9 format, zipped), but he’s looking for voice actors. If you’d like to help, contact info is in the readme – drop him a line! This one uses HaloCE nicely; the…