Year: 2006

Simulation 2: Snowbound tells a story of an army simulation – a live-fire exercise where nothing is real. (It’s the followup to HollywoodNHouse’s Simulation). The MPRRS liked it – so we’re hosting a WMP9 version (40.9 mb) and a QuickTime version (37.9 mb) – grab the one that works best for you!(Louis Wu 21:57:32 UTC)

MLG has a nice writeup of the 1v1 bracket (which Karma dominated) in New York; I find it interesting to compare how the top 1v1 players do in team situations. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:50:09 UTC)

Treeskunk Productions have released Outpost: Backwash, Episode 0; it ties this series together with their older ‘Outpost: Coagulation’ series. It’s available in a wide variety of formats from their Media page – go pick one! Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 20:58:34 UTC)

Haloplayer submitted ‘Lost: Halostyle Episode 9 – Protect This’ to the MPRRS a couple of days ago; it passed with flying colors. Great quality, great filming, great audio, and it’s funny to boot. Go grab a copy – it’s available in WMP9 format (47.1 mb) and QuickTime format (48.6 mb). This is definitely one of…

wheeler found a pixelart community that’s populating the moon with familiar characters. If you scroll over to the black 2001 Obelisk, at the top of the image, and then scroll down from there a ways, you’ll run into a familiar character. (Look at the whole pic, there’s some amazing stuff in there.)(Louis Wu 14:10:05 UTC)

DPAD has an interesting writeup of the Upper Bracket Finals in New York last weekend (the first matchup between Final Boss and Carbon) – it’s written from the perspective of someone who’s not a huge part of the console gaming community, so you might get a better understanding of what’s going on if you don’t…

More goodness from Mothergoat – he released ‘Last Dance (of the Demon)’, a new piece he composed for a Halo CE map called Akathisia. He’s not sure when the map’s coming out, though, so he’s releasing the song now. Almost 6 minutes long, 10.6 mb in MP3 format… great piece. Go listen! (We’ll mirror it…

Spartan Jag noticed that Finn’s been stealthily updating the Halo Story page over the past couple of weeks – you even gotta go back into September to see all the stuff we didn’t comment on. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:44:55 UTC)

Looks like it’s the day for Halo references in cartoons. demus found an entry in a contest that depicts what most of us have wanted to do, from time to time, on XBL… and BitMaP shared a comic he’d drawn that looks at some potential work opportunities for Jeff Steitzer (the ‘Voice of God’, who…

This is being added a bit late – but in all honesty, I ALREADY ADDED it once. I have no idea what happened to the news post – I blame the ferrets. Anyway, as I said earlier, Stuntmutt toyed with a new bling scheme in today’s One One Se7en. In retrospect, EternalSlayer’s forum post makes…

Gah. A video submitted by Kusho to the MPRRS, entitled ‘Trailer Trash’, passed last night – it tells the story of 4 contestants, each with a movie trailer they’re proud of, in a game show in which the winner takes all… and the losers die. Almost 12 minutes long, available in both WMP9 format (112…

Cybiotik wrote to point out that the fan-run video contest on Bungie.net we mentioned back in August has had its winners announced – congrats to the winners!(Louis Wu 13:19:21 UTC)

ICDedPpl found a fun article in a Papua New Guinea newspaper – ‘Halo, one of the best video games created’. Amazing what passes for news these days…(Louis Wu 13:04:00 UTC)