Month: January 2007

Over at the Red vs Blue Sponsors forum, there’s a new sponsors extra – How Babies are Made. It’s in Flash format, and it basically gives away the secret to how Tucker’s baby is filmed. (Hint – it’s WAY more low-tech than most people thought it was.) Pretty cool! Thanks to MffnMn for the heads-up.(Louis…

Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #8 has been posted. Poor Barbie!(Louis Wu 13:49:29 UTC)

Planet Xbox 360 has an opinion piece about MLG, and whether or not they have what it takes to be ‘taken seriously’. Read it for yourself – but I have to say, and I’m saying this as an MLG outsider, some of the arguments used in the piece are silly. The author argues that watching…

We got a note from Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark; he recently bought a new utility for his wife, and it gave him an idea for a product Microsoft could market. Imagine getting your house cleaned by 343 Guilty Suck… with Tim’s voice saying things like “MMMMMmmm Hmmmmmm Oh Hello! Please… let…

As is usual on Fridays, the Bungie Weekly Update got posted last night – it’s a short one, with a little bit of info about XBL playlists (Team SWAT is making a comeback next month, unranked), a cool little bit of Halo 3 Alpha trivia, and a teaser for a new… SOMETHING. Hard to tell…

A couple of weeks ago, Edge put their January 2007 article on Bungie online for all to read – and an enormous number of gaming news outlets jumped on a single quote from the piece – the one where Chris Butcher, expressing his disappointment with the gap between what he felt Halo 2 COULD have…

Over at MLGPro.com, Ogre 2 has written up his thoughts about being voted Best Overall Player by his peers. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 18:28:40 UTC)

Stuntmutt looks at the problem with ringers in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:21:59 UTC)

Eric Trautmann was asked recently to review Lost Planet – and in doing so, he took a look at storytelling in general in videogames. In specific, he looked at Halo, and pointed out that there’s a clear difference between ‘story’ and ‘plot’ – and Halo has more of the latter than the former. There’s no…

On Wednesday, the Halopeño So Hot Editing Contest (announced in November, submission window closing in December) had its winners announced; Kanbo, who won second place, let us know a few days earlier, but the actual results page went up this week. Congrats to Jamie98s, Kanbo, and Devlin, for pulling in First, Second, and Third Place,…

Z wrote to point out the H3F ModTage – a video from Nastadon and Callous, showcasing a number of modded maps (and the weapons and vehicles that go with them). 154 mb, WMP9 format – swing by Halo3Forum.com to pick it up!(Louis Wu 12:51:23 UTC)

Ten new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 11:47:20 UTC)

There was a new Halo 3 Humpday this week, and it got posted last night. Once again, a coordinated team of Bungie employees went into Halo 3 matchmaking against 3 separate ragtag groups of whoever showed – and surprise, surprise, they won. (Good thing it’s still early in the Alpha cycle, and they can keep…