Month: July 2007

Retro Remakes has queried “various members of the Indie community, Gibbage forums, a few commercial game developers, YakYak forums and […] the wonderful readers of Retro Remakes” and come up with a list of the Top 100 Games Ever. Halo came in at 32,…

Did you like the simplicity of the original Halo 3 T-Shirt from the Bungie Store, but weren’t so fond of the color scheme? It’s now available in Ice Grey (in fact, once the current brown stock is sold, it’ll ONLY be available in ice grey). Thanks, x1z…

Action Figure Insider has an article about some upcoming Halo goodness to be seen at San Diego ComicCon this week – the Halo laser tag set from Jasman Toys, last mentioned a month ago, will be on display at the Tor Books booth. (These products, a plas…

An article in the Daily Herald (covering Cook County, IL, outside Chicago) lays out a situation in which a library in Mount Prospect, IL is planning a Halo tournament this weekend, but being fought by the National Institute on Media and the Family. The…

Nominations for the 2007 Game Critics Awards have been posted (thanks, Kotaku) – Halo 3 is up for ‘Best Action Game’ and ‘Best Online Multiplayer Game’, and Halo Wars is up for ‘Best Strategy Game’. Winners will be announced July 31. Good luck to both…

broony noticed that the next episode of the Bungie Podcast is now up – 67 minutes and 60 mb of (presumably) awesome discussion. (I haven’t listened to it yet, figuring it was probably good enough that you’d rather hear about it 67 minutes earlier, san…

trigger119 points out oDinzu’s Betatage, over at GamingTV – video quality isn’t really high, but gameplay’s quite good. About 25 mb, in WMP9, QT, or Flash.(Louis Wu 22:08:14 UTC)

Stuntmutt was taken with the cover for ‘Contact Harvest’ – check out today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:10:29 UTC)

Chris Burke, of This Spartan Life, is asking the Democratic candidates in the ’08 presidential race where they stand on Net Neutrality; you can see a Youtube version of the video in This Spartan Life’s 1UP club. It’ll be interesting to see if he gets …

Adreniline is putting together a Flash collaboration, set to the Halo 3 E3 trailer. It’s not finished yet – but there’s some pretty nice work so far!(Louis Wu 14:57:57 UTC)

It’s nowhere near Christmas – but Nox Invictus has written ‘The Twelve Days of Halo’ anyway.(Louis Wu 14:56:29 UTC)

Wow. There’s a pretty astoudingly rude editorial over at Daily Game today – I can’t call it news, because it reads more like a forum rant than anything else. I’m actually sort of surprised to see something like this on a big-name gaming site. But you, …

Congratulations to Carbon, who beat Final Boss 6-2 in the MLG Championship at Dallas!(Louis Wu 23:28:31 UTC)

Ms. Valentine will be at the San Diego ComicCon this week – and on one day she’ll be going as Cortana. If you have a Red vs Blue account, you can read her journal entry about the changes she’s made to the costume – but if you don’t, here’s the bottom l…

Sigafoos sent along his weekly notice about The Riot Podcast – Episode 57 is now out, 35 minutes (14 mb) of community news, plus word of an exclusive Treeskunk video and a new composition from Sean Mortensen, composed for Second Foundation. Go listen!…

Back in Late June, Skavenger kicked off a puzzle on our forum – it was a word search, but the writeup made it clear that there was more to it than that. The deadline for the solution was a bit over a week ago – he’s now sent in a full solution, for th…

ratboy stopped by to point out a new website from his stepbrother, Ross Gemuend – it’s full of new renders and movies that should be of interest to the Halo community. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:45:23 UTC)

Sane Intolerant let us know about two new Halo Toy Box episodes (The Day That All Are One and Destroy The Evil Forces), continuing the Halo/Transformers story. (Louis Wu 15:09:07 UTC)