Year: 2007

Nevan noticed an interview with Brian Jarrard, over at Gamesradar; it’s part of a piece looking at whether developers listen to their fans. Brian says ‘yes’.(Louis Wu 14:20:06 UTC)

Last night’s Bungie Weekly Update was chock full of goodies – discussion of future DLC maps, foundry creations, grifball, forge tips, foundry tips, and a very violent Mister Chief. Read it at Bungie, or read it here, in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 14:18:03 UTC)

Bungie’s posted blank versions of all three Heroic Maps (cleaned by a Bungie.net user) in the Bungie Favorites section of their website. (These have been created by others, but this is a nice central place to pick ’em up.) Useful if you’re trying to build your own gametypes!(Louis Wu 20:49:25 UTC)

Xbox 360 Fanboy is giving away a couple of codes for free downloads of the Heroic Map Pack; swing by and tell them how you’ll use it, they’ll grab two random entries in the comment thread, and send ’em codes. (If you don’t win, don’t worry – we’ll be offering some of these by Monday…

Elnea posted Halo Action Figure Theater 101 over at Red vs Blue a couple of days ago, but has now made it available to folks without an RvB account – the story’s getting a little… dark, but never fear. It’ll all work out in the end. (Or it won’t. Nobody tells me anything.)(Louis Wu 18:19:54…

So I feel like a heel… kilaMOMjaro, of The Blue Skittle, contacted us last month about contributing to a cool community-based Advent calendar at The Blue Skittle. I sort of wimped out – but Stuntmutt didn’t. (He was featured on December 5. And TBC was even kind enough to link back to us at the…

Today’s One One Se7en Advent offering is a Red vs Blue joke. An almost-funny Red vs Blue joke. Well… okay, maybe not.(Louis Wu 18:01:47 UTC)

Alex Songer pointed out that Bag Republic has a ton of Halo-branded leather goods from Enmon – messenger bags, wallets, belt buckles… go see what you can find!(Louis Wu 14:57:52 UTC)

Harabek pointed out a trailer for ‘The Seventh Day’, a new project he’s working on. Looks promising!(Louis Wu 14:18:33 UTC)

Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:03:50 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted the next chapter in his Reclaimer comic – Chapter Two, Part Ten looks to give Team Viper a way out. (Good thing, or this would be a much shorter comic.)(Louis Wu 12:18:47 UTC)

Back in August, blackouTT released a teaser for his latest machinima project, ‘Haven’. It was (duh) built in Halo 2, because Halo 3 hadn’t been released yet. He was planning for the film itself to be made in Halo 3 – but on September 25, he discovered that there were no maps that worked for…

This week’s Humpday Challenge is posted over at Bungie.net; they faced off against Clantacular on the new DLC maps. As an example of how big and powerful Bungie.net has become: near the bottom, the automatic censoring code in the website rewrote something Luke put in – it’s 6:30 in the morning here, and I haven’t…

Heh – yesterday, I mentioned that the community could really use a searchable database for Forge creations – and today, Rampancy.net opened a Forge maps database. You can browse/search/download maps without logging in, but you’ll need to have an account to submit them. (They need to know who they belong to, after all.) Ask, and…

RotaJota noticed a couple of Halo articles at Gamasutra – both are interesting, though one has lots of meat and the other’s just an appetizer. For snacks – an article suggesting that Halo 3 sales caused many, many fewer than expected sales for Stranglehold. (What… mediocre reviews might not have something to do with it?)…

Bungie’s posted a ‘Quick and Dirty Guide to the Heroic Maps’ – layouts, weapon locations, vehicles, basic strats – absolutely worth reading if you want a leg up on the competition when you jump into the Heroic DLC playlist. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 23:29:48 UTC)