Year: 2006

Monday night, a bunch of us got together for something Dweezle calls ‘Dead Man’s Potluck’. Everyone had to bring a silly gametype. (I was not allowed to use the Team Carnage options – party poopers, all of ’em.) It was a fun time – and Dweezle’s written it all up. And Eisen Feuer filmed the…

Doh! Almost forgot to post today’s One One Se7en. Maybe it was my subconscious… telling me to keep away from Halo Wars jokes…(Louis Wu 20:09:08 UTC)

No Soup 4 You was reading nba.com, and ran across the blog of Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards. What’s this guy doing with some of his extra cash? Why… he’s sponsoring Final Boss! Nice.(Louis Wu 20:07:23 UTC)

Wow. So the letters on the news page (I’ll be yanking them soon, so look now) were noticed by two separate groups within 60 seconds of going live. (Probably more – but c0ld vengeance mentioned them in IRC’s #hbo channel, and Pratch sent mail about them; nobody else pointed them out to ME.) c0ld started…

A press release went out over the wire this morning – Verizon and IN-FUSIO (the mobile games publisher with rights to Halo on mobile phones) have launched ‘Halo: Mobile Portal’ for Verizon Get It Now customers. If you have a Get It Now phone, you can download the portal and have access to Halo wallpapers,…

MLG’s feature on pro picks continues, with Samurai providing his predictions for the coming playoffs. Same 8 teams that Elamite Warrior picked… but not in the same order. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:28:56 UTC)

Stian Øby Johansen sent word about a huge Norwegian Halo 2 tourney – largest ever in that country, apparently. (The info page is in Norwegian.) FFA, 1v1, and 4v4 competitions, with lots of prizes (including one surprise prize). November 17-19 in Oslo… be there or be Swedish!(Louis Wu 12:44:53 UTC)

Over at HaloGrid, imSuck put together ‘The Rescue’, a webcomic that uses screenshots from the Halo Wars trailer and his own very internet brand of humor. lolz.(Louis Wu 12:40:23 UTC)

Lukey25 found a pretty funny comic at Wayneker.com. The art’s nothing to write home about – but the strips are great. (And the one above is Halo-related.)(Louis Wu 12:37:29 UTC)

Narcogen has noticed that a lot of people are reacting in not-so-rational ways to Halo Wars; recently, he’s done his best to dispel some of the worst reasoning. You can find some great arguments about the handling of the Halogen project in this thread (try here, here, and here), and over at Rampancy.net, he’s written…

CNN takes a look at the rise of episodic gaming – and games like Halo 2, with its cliffhanger ending, are credited with opening the door, in a way. Give it a read. Thanks, Obienator.(Louis Wu 12:20:52 UTC)

At GameTrailers.com, you’ll find a pair of new Halo 2 Vista gameplay trailers (in regular and HD), recorded at X06. (Look for the October 3 content.) As with previous H2Vista gameplay vids, it’s clear that folks aren’t used to the controls yet; there’s a lot of standing in one place going on. However, you should…