Year: 2007

Omegga let us know that he’s created a ‘sightjacker’ for HaloPC – use it, and you can see what another player in your game sees. He suggests using it to detect aimbotters. Visit Goemitar for more details and a download.(Louis Wu 15:32:30 UTC)

Captain Spark took it upon himself to clean up our Halo 2 Dialogue Databank; he characterized all of the generic dialogue snippets (‘marines’, ‘marines_female’, ‘elites’, ‘grunts’, etc) into their more specific categories, based on Marty’s character br…

ActiveCamoElite noticed a mention of an upcoming Game Fuel TV ad, looking like it might feature footage from the Halo 3 Announcement trailer, on the Game Fuel website. Keep your eyes peeled!(Louis Wu 12:09:12 UTC)

SEspider let us know that he’s done an interview with Rahll, an artist with several pieces already in our Miscellaneous Art section, over at 360style.net. Rahll discusses his work and motivations, and shows off his newest Halo-related creation, Aliens…

Aeros pointed out a very cool sculpt of a grunt, created by hapakid88, over at the Mjolnir Armor forum. Adorable! (Check out the whole thread; there are some neat pictures of potential Halo lawn gnomes to be had…)(Louis Wu 01:51:31 UTC)

Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #64 is up; I think the lesson is “Don’t fall in love with MC.”(Louis Wu 01:47:07 UTC)

If there wasn’t enough info in tonight’s Weekly Update, swing by Gamespot; there’s a Q&A with Frankie that clarifies a few things, and discusses more. I liked the last question (and answer) a lot. Thanks, Sir Topham Hat.(Louis Wu 01:44:47 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is online – and man, it’s a tasty one. There are seven panels from the upcoming first Halo: Uprising comic (man, does it look nice), and there are a whole bunch of questions taken off our forum last night, answered to a greate…

Wow. Very interesting article about new flame-related weapons in Halo 3 – the flamethrower is IN, and so is the Firebomb! Go read at IGN. Thanks, TheSneak. (The 3D view is great!)(Louis Wu 23:20:06 UTC)

The next Bungie Podcast is available at Bungie.net, and iTunes (soon, I guess) – 72 mb of Bungie goodness. Go listen!(Louis Wu 23:14:10 UTC)

Foo Mo Jive pointed out that Podtacular 124 part 2 of 2 is now up – more discussion of ‘the new Halo 3 Hotness’ (as discussed in EGM). Go listen!(Louis Wu 18:36:04 UTC)

Stuntmutt wants in on the current Halo 3 Marketing craze – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:44:37 UTC)

Devastator decided to upgrade his Nightmare Armor Spartan helmet – no more painted ridges, now they’re REAL! Very snazzy.(Louis Wu 16:02:15 UTC)

BlackouTT let us know that he’s working on a new machinima project, entitled ‘Haven’. He’s released a teaser, which we’re mirroring in both QuickTime (20.4 mb) and WMP9 (17.3 mb) formats. Great effects – looks to be an interesting project! Check it ou…

Thirteen new stories this week in the Fan Fiction section – busy week!(Louis Wu 14:18:28 UTC)

So a few hours ago, Frankie stopped by to post a request for questions for tomorrow’s (today’s) Bungie Weekly Update; I’d planned to go to bed and post all the Halo news in the queue in the morning… but once I saw his note, I wanted to clear the que…