Year: 2007

Yoshiary pointed out a study/event in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, happening November 3. They’re going to be studying participants playing video games (including Halo 3) on a giant movie screen, with time for the public to participate in the morning. If you’re interested in more information, visit FFgaming.tv.(Louis Wu 17:06:25 UTC)

Slava Nossar sent along three new panoramas – one, entitled “Nothing Sacred”, from the Campaign level ‘Covenant’ (mild spoilers, 3857×1252, 512 kb), one from Snowbound (“Endless”, 7350×1252, 1 mb), and one from Last Resort (“Beach Front”, 7850×1252, 1.3 mb). These are rather amazing. go look.(Louis Wu 16:56:33 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 stopped by to let everyone know that a teaser for Prophecy, called “Hope”, is now available at the 508th Brigade website. Pretty nice piece of work, modeled after the Halo 3 ‘Believe’ ad. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:51:36 UTC)

V10L3N7 JAY posted the next episode of Section 3 – a secret mission goes wrong. The artwork and layout continues to rock… go check it out!(Louis Wu 16:48:46 UTC)

There are more and more fun pics and film clips from Live games showing up around the net – here are a few of the most ridonkulous from our forum:LX925 pointed out a film of a rocket that got deflected by a grenade explosion, and ended up killing a couple of people who had no…

Elnea realized she’d introduced a major continuity error in Halo Action Figure Theater – or did she? Problem solved, in episode 98.1. (Why not 98.6, that’s what I want to know?)(Louis Wu 15:22:18 UTC)

Looks like this was bought with Buy it Now between when Arancio Atlas pointed it out on our forum and now… but someone hacked up a life-sized Halo statue and sold just the head, as a bust. Not a bad finishing job!(Louis Wu 15:20:01 UTC)

Haloplayer came by yesterday to point out a new comic from Injured Knee Productions – the strip is now called ‘The Newbs’, and this strip is called ‘Them’s The Breaks’. It looks at the current melee system in Halo 3… (Louis Wu 15:17:00 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 took umbrage at Nolan Bushnell’s comments about Halo 3 being “Doom 1 in different clothing” – go see his take in the latest Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 13:54:58 UTC)

We totally spaced on letting you know about this ahead of time… but Mig and I were on Spike TV’s Game Head last night. It SHOULD be on GameTrailers later today, and you can watch it again on Spike TV next Friday night (well, Saturday morning) at 1 am if you’d like. (It’s the Simpsons…

Red vs Blue: Recovery One Part One (in HD) is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace, for 80 points. Burnie has said that it will be available for at least sponsors on their website at some point – but it’s not there yet. Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 13:41:00 UTC)

Trindacut let us know that the Missile Pod glitch that lets you go weaponless was discovered (and documented) by Unreal Studioz about three weeks ago. and Bryan Burns suggests that there’s a way to go weaponless without Forge; it involves dropping a flag and deploying equipment, but I couldn’t make it work. In general: we’re…

Omar Raja sent us pics of the M90 shotgun he built from Mega Bloks – colorful!(Louis Wu 13:37:07 UTC)

I spent yesterday evening at the birthday party of Miguel “Ding” Chavez’s oldest – and yes, it was a Halo party. We discovered that old and wily often beats young and fast… remember that.(Louis Wu 13:35:40 UTC)

3Suns let us know that the championship films from MLG Las Vegas, showing the Final Boss shutout of Carbon (among other matches) are now up in the Video on Demand section of MLGPro.com. Nice! (Louis Wu 13:31:07 UTC)

Hawty “if it’s on eBay, I’ll tell you about it” McBloggy found a Covenant Elite costume for sale on eBay – it’s made of hard plastics and latex, and fits folks between about 5’11” and 6’2″, and can be shipped by Halloween. Starting bid is $900, and you’ve got a day and a half to…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live – and it’s full of useful info. There’s stuff about the banhammer, the rank system, meleeing, a resolution issue that affects a small group of people, info about upcoming downloadable content, direct downloads of Halo: Landfall, and info about the Recon armor. You want goodies? You can’t HANDLE goodies!…

Whoa. The Cyberathlete Professional League is hosting a Halo 3 tournament during the Extreme Winter Championships – with a purse of $1,000,000. First place gets a quarter of that, as an instant cash payout… the rest is split between at least 64 places. More details are at the announcement page on the CPL’s website, with…