Year: 2006

Gamespot has put up an interview with several Bungie employees (Frank O’Connor, Brian Jarrard, and Jaime Griesemer), looking back at Halo and Halo 2, and discussing where the franchise goes from here. It’s a pretty interesting read. For some odd reason, it’s filed under Halo PC, even though it discusses ONLY the Xbox versions. There’s…

It took a little over 2 years… but Halo 2 has finally, for the first time since its release, been toppled from the position of Most Played Xbox Live Game this week. Gears of War now sits on top of that hill. It remains to be seen how LONG GoW stays up there… but it’s…

3Suns stopped by to point out that MLG Vidcast 6 is now online; Jason and Trunkers look at the chances of the up-and-coming teams, in terms of which ones have a shot of breaking into the top 3 at Nationals, which start today in Las Vegas. It’s a 10 minute piece – lots of detail.…

Argodaemon has whipped up a whole bunch of Halo PSP wallpapers – if you’re looking to make your PSP more Halo-like, swing by the Halouvre and see what’s there!(Louis Wu 16:36:46 UTC)

Omega spent some time going through Ghosts of Onyx for written descriptions of some of the new characters we meet in that book – he’s now drawn them, as he believes they appear. Great job – don’t visit if you’re trying to avoid GoO spoilers, but otherwise, check this out!(Louis Wu 16:31:52 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is posted over at Bungie.net – and in keeping with the ‘make your head spin’ motif of the week, it’s full of things that’ll surprise you. Hints about what’s to come (soon), and major changes to the XBL playlists are the biggies. Go read! (Of course, it’s also available in our…

Red vs Blue Episode 83, ‘In Memoriam’, is now available for sponsors. Sarge is forced to sit through the lamest funeral service EVAR. Most of us at least have the benefit of being dead when our own services come around… Thanks to halofreak1991 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 01:05:55 UTC)

weephun noticed an analysis of next-gen games by a market research firm called BrandIntel – they list the top 50 ‘next-gen games’ (new or soon-to-be released titles for the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360), and Halo 3 makes 4th on the list, behind Gears of War, Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Madden NFL 2007.(Louis Wu 00:57:22…

The 1Up Show, Episode 56, is now available from the 1Up Show page – it contains 10 minutes of Halo 3 analysis (in-depth looks at the three maps the EGM guys got to play, including strategies and fighting highlights), starting around 26 minutes in. If you want just the Halo portion (there’s tons of other…

Jamie98s let us know about a new movie he’d completed, ‘The Melody’. The MPRRS is still closed for reconstruction, but I found The Melody to be an interesting departure from the normal Halo fare, so I told him I’d host it. You can grab it in WMP9 format (56.7 mb) or QuickTime format (50 mb)…

Wow. Every year, Penny Arcade’s Gabe and Tycho host a Charity Auction Dinner for Child’s Play, a charity they began a few years ago to get games to kids in hospitals. This year’s auction is December 13th, and today Gabe posted a list of some of the goodies you’ll be able to bid on during…

Brandon stopped in with an update of Oblivion – the Spartan Project, a Halo-to-Oblivion (PC) conversion. Lots of pictures, lots of written info – check it out!(Louis Wu 20:35:21 UTC)

OXM’s Ryan McCaffrey wrote to point out KOXM Episode 39, the latest episode of the Official Xbox Magazine podcast; it’s Halo week, so they’ve interviewed Frank O’Connor and Eric Nylund, and topics of discussion range from the announcements made a couple of days ago to Ghosts of Onyx. Nearly an hour long, playable 14 mb…

Stuntmutt takes a look at a new Halo 3 weapon in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:13:55 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped by to let us know that there are a bunch of new movie reviews posted at Penitent Tangential, his Halo movie review blog. Go read – and chime in with your own views!(Louis Wu 15:29:37 UTC)

Once again, the Miscellaneous Art queue has been emptied, and there are 31 new entries in the collection. Normally, I don’t like to draw attention to specific pieces when posting a large group, because I worry that folks will look at the highlighted bits and ignore the rest. (Don’t do that – everything posted today…

We got word from Marc, at Germany’s Halo Universe – their sister site Xbox Aktuell has an opportunity to take part in a Bungie Q&A. Readers can post questions until next Thursday morning. The page is in German, but English questions are welcome (that’s less work for Marc, translating). Questions should be posted on Xbox…