Year: 2007

Apparently, the idea of video game music performed by professional orchestras is catching on; Music 4 Games has an article about a show coming up in Holland in a couple of weeks. Games in Concert will contain music from over a dozen video games, including Halo. The performance will be conducted by Laura Karpman.(Louis Wu…

Sigafoos wrote to say that The Riot 75 is now up – 16 mb, 41 minutes of good stuff. There’s an interview with Athena and Excardon of halo3.junk.ws, and the beginning of the Community Awards (no registration needed to vote). Go listen!(Louis Wu 23:20:15 UTC)

In the midst of this holiday weekend, I managed to forget to post the week’s Fan Fiction submissions – they’re up now. Sorry. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:18:04 UTC)

Kotaku has a pic of a Master Chief cake made by a reader for her husband (well, commissioned, I guess). Rice Crispy Treats for brains! Mmmmm… thanks, Ross Mills.(Louis Wu 17:11:43 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a couple of new Halo 3 themed Xbox 360 faceplates on eBay – go see if your Xbox needs a lift!(Louis Wu 16:33:03 UTC)

Yahoo says Halo 3 is one of the games you should be looking at for holiday parties. Right up there with Smarty Pants and Super Mario Galaxy. Thanks, TylerDurden76.(Louis Wu 17:48:34 UTC)

Maximum Fear let us know that the Campaign Contest kicked off by Community Projects (we mentioned it on the 17th) is now over – the winner is Ezandora, who submitted a run of the Covenant which scored an insane 347,620 points. Read about it on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 15:44:50 UTC)

Another Halo Comic Strip looks at a problem many of us have right now… excuse me, I need to go make some soup.(Louis Wu 13:49:45 UTC)

We’re a bit late this time around… but Sodagod reminded us that his Inside Halo news program is still going strong on Machinima.com – Episode 2 was released a couple of weeks ago. Watching it gives you a whirlwind overview of the Halo community over the past month or so (with lots of humor) -…

Aglor pointed out a small vid made by Team Banana Yellow – it’s a parody of the old ‘I coulda had a V8!’ ads. Brought a chuckle…(Louis Wu 13:01:02 UTC)

The most recent Halo Wars update was posted earlier this week on the Halo Wars forum – it contains a shout-out to Joe Staten for his work on Contact Harvest, and a nice tidbit about the addition of voice snippets to the sound mix of the game. I wonder if, down the road, there’ll be…

Today’s One One Se7en is a groanworthy addition to the collection.(Louis Wu 20:54:46 UTC)

Wow, very cool. There’s a new article at Xbox.com which discusses a gorgeous Halo 3 theme based on the Emotion pic – it’s free, but it’s only available at Xbox 360 kiosks in your nearest game store. Go get it! (Bring a memory card.) Thanks to Xbox 360 Fanboy for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:54:11 UTC)

bs angel found a new Master Chief outfit on eBay – this one is for your dog. Say WHAT? Yep, go look.(Louis Wu 20:47:35 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted Chapter Two, Part Two of his Reclaimer comic – he seems to have shifted completely away from the filtered look of his earlier artwork; this one is straight screenshots. Viper’s about to find something… big. (Louis Wu 16:54:45 UTC)

IGN felt that this issue has little depth, but pretty pictures. “Flawed but enjoyable” is how they put it. Thanks, AfroRyan.(Louis Wu 16:50:42 UTC)