Year: 2007

Bungie slipped in a few cheap shots in the dialogue of Halo 3 – Stuntmutt helps you find one in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:20:09 UTC)

Heh – this is hilarious. The only downside is now I’m going to lose a ton of time going through the rest of the site…(Louis Wu 17:16:32 UTC)

The newspost about the Game Designers Expo reminded me that the Game Developers Conference is coming soon, as well – February 18 in San Francisco – so it’s time to see who from Bungie will be talking this year. It’s a pretty big list:Chris Butcher will be discussing Matchmaking in Halo 3Hao Chen will be…

In an interesting move to a wider variety of wearables, the Bungie Store has added a Master Chief Thermal Twofer, a Short Sleeved Work Shirt, and a Reversible Beanie. Thanks, ViralSyris.(Louis Wu 17:02:53 UTC)

Very nice – Jay Weinland and CJ Cowan will be giving the Keynote speech at this year’s Game Design Expo in Vancouver, BC (January 2008). They’ll be talking about “the tools and processes that helped create the sound and visuals for Halo 3”. Thanks, RotaJota.(Louis Wu 16:51:01 UTC)

Rockslider has put up a new page at Bad Cyborg; there are directions for putting together large battles on The Covenant. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:57:09 UTC)

RedSpades wrote to say that he’s hosting a Halo 3 FFA Tournament on his site, WinMicrosoftPoints.com – admission is free, prizes include the book Halo Effect, an iTunes gift card, and a 1-month XBL Gold card. Details can be found in this forum post.(Louis Wu 15:55:08 UTC)

Christ and Pop Culture has a podcast devoted to the subject of whether it makes sense to use Halo as a recruitment tool for Christian outreach groups. Yes, this subject is in danger of being oversaturated (we actually suggested that a month ago) – but this podcast talks to someone who games for fun, and…

TTL Demag0gue has posted Wednesday’s Reclaimer comic – in Chapter One, Part Eight, Ferial continues to explore the idea of will, and what you can do with it.(Louis Wu 12:34:35 UTC)

MLG takes a look at some of the things Forge makes possible in an article on MLGPro.com – interesting read. Thanks, Grady Durden.(Louis Wu 12:30:27 UTC)

Chad Souter let us know that ViolatedGaming.com is holding a 256-player single-elimination FFA tournament on November 19, at 6 pm CST. Entry is free, and the entire tourney will be completed in a 2-3 hour stretch. They’ve got 51 players so far – go sign up!(Louis Wu 12:25:16 UTC)

trigger119 stopped by yesterday to announce the OMRA – the Online Machinima Rating Association. They’re planning on it mostly being used for videos released through GamingTV, but they’re also making the ratings graphics available for download, so that machinima makers who elect NOT to host their vids at GTV can still incorporate the ratings. (Because…

Oh no, where do we go? Hawty McBloggy found an entertaining (if NSFW) Halo rap on YouTube – go watch. (She warns that it’s slow for the first 4:50 – she’s got that colon in the wrong place. It’s only 45 seconds.) There’s more information about Warped Corp, the group that put this together, on…

You might remember the name Curt Chiarelli; he was the sculptor that created the molds that Joyride turned into Halo action figures. What came out made a lot of gamers happy – but not as happy as they might have been had they seen the (far more detailed) originals. Many of the details that Curt…

MTV’s got a series of video clips following a Halo addict through the days following Halo 3’s release – how he blew off work, his girlfriend, tennis finals, and his family to play. You might know this guy.(Louis Wu 23:18:35 UTC)

Ruzhyo noticed that there’s a Halo-related comic over at YouGamers’ Limit Break.(Louis Wu 23:16:49 UTC)

If you’re curious about the full Halo 3 Ranks table, halowiki.net has posted one. Thanks, PEZ.(Louis Wu 23:15:19 UTC)