Year: 2006

Today’s One One Se7en reminds people that behind many successful ventures are older iterations of those ventures.

Eep – forgot to post this yesterday – thanks to Capt 0bvious for reminding me. Geary noticed a new trailer at GameTrailers.com, showing off Nicole beating up on some of the other characters in DOA4. It’s nice, hi-res footage; not nearly as artistic as Dan Chosich’s vid, but high-quality, and fun to watch. (Love the…

The cutest little guy arrived in the mail yesterday (closeup | for scale)… Halo fans rock. To AngelicLionheart and crew… thanks. When I get sad or stressed, I’ll put this guy on my shoulder, and let him suck out my brains.

This week’s Fan Fiction pull is 18 pieces – and people are clearly reading the directions, because I didn’t have to delete a single one! Go catch up on your reading.

Today’s Halo Babies comic is a bitter look at the cheating scene on Xbox Live… methinks Gruntsbane’s been hit once too many times.

Last night, Sniper2477’s Mission Impossible 3 Trailer passed the MPRRS – so you can grab it in WMP9 format (28.1 mb) or QuickTime format (20.6 mb) from us. It’s an attempt to remake the Mission: Impossible trailer, down to camera angles and shots. (It actually helps if you watch the original trailer – it’s available…

Silver Stars/Purple Hearts pre-Episode 0.3 is now up for download at 7Pandas.com. You can find a variety of versions on their Downloads page – and we’re mirroring the hi-res WMP9 version, and offering a hi-res QuickTime as well. This particular pre-episode has no Halo content in it (it’s all Sims2 this time around) – but…

w00t – Mothergoat has released the WASP, a very cool flying vehicle for use in HaloCE maps. (If you’ve never seen it, visit this forum post, and download the movie therein – you’ll see it in action. For HaloCE Mapmakers, you can now include this vehicle in your own maps… for players, you just have…

Swing over to Wired.com – they’ve got a preview up of an article that’ll come out in February’s issue. It’s about The Dream Factory, a Lego custom kit builder – and one of the kits on display was designed by Bungie’s Rob’t McLees – it’s a Warthog! Now we just need the Feb issue…

Yesterday, we pointed out a new video from insidi0us, called Maptacular. It received nearly universal approval on our forum (multiple threads – this is the first), and while I can’t tell you how much traffic the hosts in the MLG thread handled, I can tell you we served over 15,000 copies in the past 24…

This morning, a new trailer from CROSSFIRE (previously known for machinima such as ‘The Harvest’ and ‘Hell Quarters’) passed the MPRRS – Havoc is a new ‘experimental film’ on its way, and the trailer might show you a bit about what you can expect. Superb effects, great camera angles – I’m looking forward to the…

Heh – Frankie pointed out a thread on the Bungie.net forums yesterday, in which a fan has suggested that next week (January 9-15) should be Elite Week; folks should switch over to the Elite model on Xbox Live for the week. Heck… we’ve certainly done SILLIER things…

netjak has reviewed Stubbs the Zombie – and mostly, they liked it. (G Allen, who pointed this review out to us, noted that a 6 from netjak signifies a pretty good game, and a 9 would be a game of the year – Stubbs pulled in a 7.7, which suggests both that they liked it,…

Yesterday’s Day to Day program on NPR looked at the future of video programming… and the first interviewee was Bryan Dann, a teenager from New Jersey (who posts on our forum as HunterXL). During the interview, Bryan brought the interviewer into his basement, and logged into XBL to play some Halo 2 to illustrate how…

Newcity Chicago (a city paper in – yep, you guessed it – Chicago) has a writeup of the MLG Chicago event a couple of weeks ago. It’s a pretty interesting read, because it’s a subject we’ve seen a lot of press on recently – but none from outside the Halo community. (This is pretty mainstream.)…

A couple of tidbits over at MLGPro.com – the Player of the Week this week is Lil Poison, the 7-year-old wunderkind; “pound for pound, Lil Poison is quite possibly the best gamer in the world.” Heh. Nice interview. (Thanks, 3Suns.) And they’ve started a fun new feature – Pro Player Cards, where you can get…

Yesterday, the Village Voice posted their picks for ‘Best Video Games of the Year’… and Halo 2 is on it. (I tried to find their 2004 list, but I wasn’t successful – I was curious to see if Halo 2 would have been on that one, too.)

I love days like this. (Well, not really.) Finally catching up on Halo news – sorry for the delay! Last night, Bungie put up a new Top Story – a number of the staff put forth their New Years Resolutions. There are a couple of TINY Halo mentions, which allow this post to squeak by…

Tied The Leader has another rant up – this one looks at folks complaining about the ‘problems’ with Halo 2. It’s definitely confrontational… but then, this issue always is. Read it with an open mind.