Year: 2006

We haven’t heard from mrsmiley in a while – but he sent a note this morning, pointing us to a thread on the Halo Babies forum that contains a picture created entirely in MS Paint. (If you’ve ever worked with MS Paint, you know how limited its toolset is.) This picture is astounding, given its…

Lots of articles out there about yesterday’s MLG Playoff results in New York – Amped eSports has a summary of Carbon’s win over Final Boss, and a spotlight on FBI GamerGraffix.com, who earned themselves the single available berth to MLG’s Las Vegas Final next month – and MLG themselves have a summary of the 4v4…

Congrats to Carbon, who came back from being beaten in the Winners Bracket Finals in New York to play Final Boss again, in the overall finals… and win! I wish I had VoD…(Louis Wu 22:30:04 UTC)

Sigafoos points out that Wikiriot 20 is now online – 33 minutes, 13.3 mb. Full of… you know, stuff. Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:26:57 UTC)

Keyboard Killer, of Pothole Studios, submitted another Totally Random Short Video to the MPRRS; they liked this one, too. It’s called ‘Shoplifters will be Prosecuted’, and it’s short and sweet. Great filming, great use of mods. You can grab it in its original DivX format (17.4 mb), or in WMP9 (16.4 mb) or QuickTime (18.2…

No, not like that. Zukan found a 2D arcade game called ‘Super Mini Halo’, created by Jpdeathblade at DcEmu. The forum thread contains a shot showing off the sprite art, and a short video showing the first level’s gameplay. 1.3 mb download, available for 1.5 and 2.71. I can’t tell you what it really plays…

The Tied the Leader Gunslingers celebrated their 1-year anniversary yesterday – thanks to both Quikthnkr, who invited people to say hi in their forums, and XerxdeeJ, who challenges the world to a duel in a blog post – beat the Gunslingers, win a buck. (Read for details.) Congrats, guys – you’ve had a great first…

Playoffs in New York are underway – the 1v1 Championship concluded yesterday, with Karma coming out on top (and winning the $5000 first-prize purse). Thanks to 3Suns, who pointed out the MLG article. There’s also a writeup on GotFrag, for people looking for every perspective. The 4v4 competitions take place today.(Louis Wu 13:38:01 UTC)

Will “Dracc” Curry pointed us to his blog, ‘ModIt’, which discusses (surprise, surprise) modding. Not just Xbox/Halo modding – but it certainly touches on that. In fact, his latest entry tries to draw a distinction between modders and cheaters on XBL, with respect to Halo. If you’re interested in the idea of modifying your hardware…

Amped eSports has interviews with a couple of MGL Pro gamers you don’t hear from very often – elamitewarrior, and MimiC. Check ’em out as the league gears up for the New York playoffs!(Louis Wu 12:54:09 UTC)

Luke McKay is on a Halo sketch kick – another image showed up in his RvB journal last night, and we’ve added it to his gallery here at HBO. Nice action!(Louis Wu 12:10:31 UTC)

Wow, very cool. We’ve received quite a bit of mail over the past 3 years from people who’ve lost their Halo PC CD Key (because they lost the case it was attached to) – and wanting to know if we knew how to extract that CD Key from their registry. Up until now, we’ve had…

GameBattles has concrete dates for the broadcast of MLG content on USA Networks starting in November – check it out, and mark the dates on your calendar!(Louis Wu 11:55:19 UTC)

Eric Nylund talked to Gamespot yesterday, as well (not wanting to make them feel left out after the IGN interview, I guess) – again, he does a pretty good job of filling the interview without actually saying much about unannounced material… but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. Looks like Maxmidget was first.(Louis Wu 11:44:03 UTC)

Today’s weekly update is full of useful answers, as asked by fans of our site in this thread. A very strong warning to modders and cheating in general. Nice tidbits on the latest news. Thanks to wortwortwort for the reminder.(Cybrfrk 20:44:52 UTC)

Wow. Rooster Teeth has released Episode 80 of Red vs Blue, ‘Baby Steps’, WAY early (by their normal timeframe) – sponsors can grab a copy right now. They seem to have fixed the Video Archive issue, as well… thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:03:37 UTC)