Month: January 2007

It’s been more than 2 months since the various flavors of Halo 3 were made public – it’s been known since early November that $60 would buy you the bare game, $70 would buy you the ‘special’ edition (game plus bonus disc(s)), and $100 would snag you the Legendary edition – helmet and 4 discs,…

Paul Maestri sends word of a new Wallpaper at Halo Heads – tasty!(Louis Wu 21:43:02 UTC)

Heh – BOLL’s been playing again…(Louis Wu 21:41:15 UTC)

Stuntmutt takes a closer look at the Mongoose, and Bungie’s claims about it, in today’s One One Se7en. Paging Robert Pirsig…(Louis Wu 16:15:26 UTC)

WortroW found some cool work towards the Spartan III armor from Ghosts of Onyx over at the Scifi Meshes forum; most of the images so far are visible without a registration. Nice stuff!(Louis Wu 12:30:38 UTC)

Dojorkan posted 3 fun screens, and asked for user-submitted captions – no prizes in this contest, but see how creative you can be!(Louis Wu 12:09:35 UTC)

Retsof-Noraa stopped by last night to point out a website that takes user-created art (in this case, his renditions of One One Se7en, in the initial post, and a Grunt, in a followup) and animates it in a huge rave scene. Bizarre… but fun. Check it out! (Add your own creations to the thread; it’s…

MereCatfish writes to point out that Lifepod #6 is now up for your listening pleasure – HaloCE news, the standard community roundtable, and an interview with Zeph round this one out. 29 minutes, 26 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 11:49:37 UTC)

Remember the Halo Everywhere contest sponsored by the Halo 3 Webring? LordGideon posted the prize packs yesterday – and man, there’s some nice stuff in there! Go see what’s on the line, and then make sure you’ve submitted your entries – contest deadline is February 1, 2007. Still plenty of time!(Louis Wu 11:46:18 UTC)

Riccardo Lee Davies wrote to point out ENDURANCE IV, a Halo 2 tournament in Birmingham, UK coming up on February 3rd and 4th. Entrance is £15/person to play in either the FFA or the 4v4, with thousand of pounds in prizes and cash on the line. Check out all the details at the TriStarGames website.…

Greg O’Connor-Read writes to point out that Nile Rodgers, the Halo 2 Soundtrack Album producer and founder of Sumthing Else, will be in Cannes for the MIDEM Music for Images Conference next week; he’ll be participating in a session set up by Music4Games entitled ‘Video Games – The Latest Challenge for Labels and Composers’, and…

trigger119 wrote to remind us that the Video Intro contest they announced about a month ago has had its entry deadline extended until Tuesday (the site was down for a short time, so the January 3 deadline was pushed back). If you’ve got the interest, check the details at the GTV website, and submit your…