Year: 2006

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on women gamers; they focused on Kari ‘The Don Wan’ Toyama, and how gaming pulls her together with friends and supporters. It’s a great read. Look for her online, but don’t get mad if she beats you…(Louis Wu 21:48:53 UTC)

Over at 1Up.com, part of their Monday Halo 3 content – a writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge between Bungie and the EGM staff – is now online. Written in the style of the Bungie.net humpday writeups, this chronicles the blatant cheating and general poor sportsmanship of the Bungie team… and reissues the ‘X-button’…

Bungie asked recently for community feedback about an idea to add a female spartan death scream to Halo 3 multiplayer. Stuntmutt looks at one of the possibly unforeseen consequences in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:46:55 UTC)

I finally got a chance to go through our uploads directory – and buried amongst all the movies that people keep uploading (even though it says REALLY CLEARLY at the top of the page not to upload movies), I found a song submitted by StitchLips, called Killtacular. It’s pretty hard rock; he says it’s inspired…

Voting ran for a week on the 2006 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and while a significantly smaller group of people voted this year than last (under 2,000, compared to last year’s nearly 6,000), there still emerged a clear winner – congratulations to Lacie O.! Michael Coffing, who won the last two years, and was…

MereCatfish writes to point out that the Halo CE 2v2 Tournament is now accepting team registrations. As the title might suggest, this will be a league of 2-player teams for Halo: Custom Edition on the PC. This is the successor to the Halo CE League; there are no prizes, this is for fun. If you’ve…

Cody Brigan has created a Halo 3 Countdown Timer – it currently counts down to Christmas 2006, because he doesn’t have a release date for Halo 3, but it’s pretty nonetheless!(Louis Wu 23:35:51 UTC)

3Suns points out a couple of interesting things at MLGPro.com right now – a preview of FBI GamerGraffix, and a newly launched online tournament. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 23:34:29 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to point out WikiRiot 24, which discusses the December issue of EGM, the new MLG TV stuff, the Podtacular league, and lots of clan/wiki stuff. 35 minutes, 14 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 20:28:40 UTC)

We’ve got one more from Bryn Casey – it’s a scene from the Ghosts of Onyx, and if you haven’t read the book, this could be classified as ‘spoilers’. Fantastic piece, though – check it out if you can!(Louis Wu 17:41:02 UTC)

If you missed the first episode of the MLG Pro Circuit on the USA Network yesterday, the MLGPro.com website is rebroadcasting it in its entirety. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:08:18 UTC)

Chryton noticed an advertisement for the H5K Project, a Halo 2 tournament in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on November 27-29. $35 to register, $5000 first prize. More details on their website.(Louis Wu 17:05:17 UTC)

Germany’s Halo Orbit has renamed itself Halo Base – and they’ve posted 5 new Halo 3 ‘screenshots’. (These are technically scans from the December EGM magazine – but they got them by screen-capturing the images off the recently released 1Up Show vid; as video screen caps, they’re definitely legal for posting on the web.) Thanks,…

Gears of War was released this week – and while it rocketed to the top of the Xbox 360 Top Live titles, it couldn’t unseat Halo 2 as the top overall Xbox Live title. We’ll have to see if another week or two of folks buying the game can accomplish that… thanks, Major Nelson.(Louis Wu…

A quick reminder – you’ve got another day or two to vote for your favorite pumpkins in this year’s Guilt O’ Lantern contest. Vote turnout is way, way down from the last couple of years – I’m not sure if that’s because we haven’t done a very good job of promoting this, or if folks…