Month: June 2007

Tango pointed out a new Halo t-shirt (also available in 2XL ) available at Hot Topic – sort of elaborate, but interesting.(Louis Wu 11:23:23 UTC)

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #50 – the strip contains things you never knew about the Covenant, and the page contains info about his next project. Go look!(Louis Wu 11:15:00 UTC)

We promised that the Zune Giveaway results would be posted by this evening – but we’re having trouble reaching some of the winners, to get higher-resolution versions of their entries for display on the Results page. As soon as they come in, we’ll post…

trigger119 sent word of Mario vs. Spartan, a short machinima with a very well-done battle scene between Mario and a Halo 2 Spartan. It’s only a few megs – go grab it! (If you’re curious about the new TLD for GamingTV, read this post.)(Louis Wu 21:50:0…

Heh – a reporter for the Edmonton Sun challenged Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor to a 1v1 match on Lockout. Here’s his side of the story – and here’s MLG’s take. Funny stuff. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:40:22 UTC)

rapture was messing around with Google’s new Hot Trends feature, which replaced Zeitgeist. (Check out the top searches for the week ending May 18, 2007…) Hot Trends lets you compare search terms, with lots of interactive features to play with. For e…

eddie m noticed that Red Bull USA posted a video of the Halo Ghost Bike entry to the Flugtag competition this weekend in Nashville… watch the guys ham it up for the camera before their attempt… and then watch the attempt itself. I give ’em straigh…

Nitro288 noticed that the NYCLAN website is advertising a 2v2 Slayer tournament with a $1000 purse, to be held in NYC on July 15. If you’re in the area, give it a shot!(Louis Wu 20:37:14 UTC)

Bzerker wrote to let us know that Treeskunk Productions has released Outpost: Backwash Episode 0: Before the Beginning – it’s available in multiple formats, ranging from 21 to 74 mb. It sets up the mission the Elites have before them… and the intera…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en strip was created by BOLL – and it shows that not everyone is enamored with Halo 3’s bubble shield. Folks might want to keep this strip in mind when playing against Stuntmutt this fall…(Louis Wu 17:03:15 UTC)

Sane Intolerant let us know that he’s created two new Halo Toy Box strips – he says they’re both centered around Shadowrun. Look Before You Teleport, and Reusable Targets. I don’t get them. But then, I never played Shadowrun. (Please don’t flood me wi…

Nathan Gibson, who’s maintaining the website Maximum Fear as a repository of information about the Iris ARG, let us know that he’d love some help. If you’re interested in working on extra content for the site (mostly editing and putting together theori…

Skavenger, unhappy that he’s been out of the Halo news for so long, has whipped up a really cool piece of machinima. Oh, wait, that’s right… he’s only really capable of mediocre films. Unwilling to foist that sort of work on you, he’s fallen back on…

Gravemind has taken a look at the human weapons Bungie has included in the Halo series, and wondered a little about how they’d work if Bungie had stuck closer to reality in their design. (As he says in his forum post, it’s just a “what if” speculation…

Wow. bs angel has customized her pink Spartan… with a screaming guitar. LOVE the frets. (Louis Wu 12:32:29 UTC)

TheGhost wrote to let us know that the author of the WowLoader program we mentioned yesterday has released the source code for his work, in the hopes that someone can pick up where he left off. The post he made on h2vista.net explains what’s missing or…

A few days ago, we mentioned an article at the Hushed Casket which detailed the situation with a college student swept up involuntarily in the Iris ARG – rapture just gave us the heads-up about a YouTubed clip from G4’s Attack of the Show in which the…