Month: February 2007

Gamasutra has a podcast interview with DB Weiss, the most recent Halo screenplay writer. He talks quite a bit about the process, and about working with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. My copy seems to have gotten corrupted at about the 28 minute mark – but by then he was pretty much done with Halo…

Andras Ostrom is working on a new piece of Halo machinima called ‘Machinima for Dummies’ – you can watch a teaser trailer for it in WMP9 format (22.7 mb) or QuickTime format (17.3 mb). Looks to be a fun project!(Louis Wu 13:17:26 UTC)

There’s an interesting article about the PMS Clan (and Hot Chief, the head PMS’ Delta Division) in the Miami New Times – go read about what they deal with, and why they do it.(Louis Wu 13:14:25 UTC)

Z sent word that 360forum.com is having an Intro Contest – create an intro for them win cash. Halo, obviously, is one of the tools you can use. More details in the forum thread.(Louis Wu 12:37:41 UTC)

A couple of years ago, comradx started a pretty ambitious project – he was going to create a full-length feature film based on Halo 2. He released the first of seven episodes, covering Cairo Station… but then abandoned the project. Jamie98s has just picked it up; he’s starting from scratch, and has plans to actually…

Last week’s Update from Bungie mentioned variable gravity in Halo 3 multiplayer games (a feature, we should add, which may or may not make it into the final build; just because they played with it last week doesn’t mean you’ll be able to play with it when you get your hands on Halo 3). Stuntmutt…

Wow… remember the bear suit guy who made a Mjolnir-like suit for soldiers? Looks like nobody wanted to buy it from him – so he’s selling it on eBay. Bit over a week left, current bid is $5100 US (reserve is not yet met). Ouch! Thanks to Planet Halo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:37:53 UTC)

On December 1, the Halo Everywhere contest went live. In 2 months, there were 700 artists submitting 1200 entries, and half a terabyte of bandwidth was burned through. On February 1, voting ended, and LordGideon and the crew began sifting through the votes. Today, the winners have been announced – go check ’em out!(Louis Wu…

It’s been years since we had a real Haiku thread on our forum (though someone tried last year) – are they coming back?(Louis Wu 14:01:19 UTC)

Sigafoos dropped us a note about The Riot’s First Annual Community Awards podcast, now available at Second Foundation. Awards are presented by community luminaries (heh), with a musical guest and everything. Congrats to all the winners – and in fact to all nominees; this community is only as strong as the people who help build…

3Suns pointed out an article on MLGPro.com in which Anarchy makes his list of Halo’s top 20 players, with reasons. Interesting read…(Louis Wu 13:32:51 UTC)

We hate bad news – but it happens. We got a note from Matt6908, of HollywoodNHouse – they got in over their heads, hosting-wise, and are down for a while. Details can be found on their front page (which is the only page they’ve got for now). Folks – the Halo community is BIG. Catering…

Over at Team Xbox, there’s a press release about the First Annual Dream Awards, a production of Hollywood Arts, a non-profit that reaches at-risk teens through the arts. This year, they’re honoring Tommy Tallarico, the man behind Video Games Live – and the awards ceremony will be a fundraiser for the organization. They’ll be auctioning…

MLG has posted their 2007 Pro Circuit cities and dates – the playoff and national locations are still to be announced, but the regular season will take place in North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, and Florida from mid-April through the end of September. Hexudus was the first to point it out.(Louis Wu 13:08:28 UTC)

Paul “stickygerbils” Maestri wrote to point out Halo Heads 45 – to remind you of that idiot we’ve all played online with. (The sad part is, they rarely understand what the problem is…(Louis Wu 13:05:07 UTC)