Year: 2007

Today’s One One Se7en Advent offering (yes, this is the second post of the day) is somewhat wooden…(Louis Wu 17:45:10 UTC)

Natesuter22 pointed out that JibJab’s holiday eCard, “In 2007”, includes Halo 3 among the high points of the year. Right up there with Scorsese’s Oscar. Nice!(Louis Wu 16:21:00 UTC)

If you had a really talented friend who was into Halo… you might get Christmas presents like these: a custom-painted controller (check out the brushwork!) and a custom-made Halo action figure, with one of the oddest Weapons of Destruction, ever. Elnea created these for her friend (and ours), OboeCrazy. Are you jealous yet?(Louis Wu 16:14:31…

appSafari.com has a small web app you can use to check your Halo 3 Stats from your iPhone. Take a look! (You can use it from any browser, actually, but it’s formatted nicely to fit an iPhone screen.)(Louis Wu 15:56:04 UTC)

IGN’s posted it’s Best of 2007 – Halo took Best Online Multiplayer Game and Most Innovative Design, and Bungie’s separation from Microsoft took Biggest Surprise. These are all Xbox360 awards – they haven’t announced the Overall awards yet (and won’t, until January 11). Thanks, Grey Wolf. (Louis Wu 15:38:47 UTC)

Narcogen found a story at Kotaku about a really, REALLY ugly Halo-branded shoe… and speculates that absurd licensing deals might be the rationale behind Microsoft’s allowing Bungie to become independent. After all, if Bungie were still fully in control of the Halo IP, would they ever allow the Halo name to be attached to this…

Haloplayer stopped by with word of a Christmas Comic from Injured Knee Productions – The Newbs #9 looks at the McFarlane controller. (I dunno – I sort of like it…)(Louis Wu 15:18:47 UTC)

While we’re discussing missed comics, I suppose I should apologize (AGAIN) for neglecting to announce a One One Se7en Advent offering. (This going-live-at-noon thing is really hard this time of year; by noon, I’m gone.) Don’t think too much about this one – you might get queasy.(Louis Wu 13:46:03 UTC)

It’s quite late – it was supposed to be posted yesterday – but there’s a Christmas-themed funni over at Another Halo Comic Strip – ZZoMBiE13 reaches out to Stuntmutt in the spirit of the season. Unfortunately, Stunt found those spirits weeks ago, and is now well-pickled… (Louis Wu 13:44:13 UTC)

Wow. Voting took a bit of work – but we’ve whittled down the 127 entries to the Seven on the Seven(teen)th contest to our 7 top choices… you can find the images on the Results page. Congrats to the winners – and to EVERYONE who submitted; almost 50 images got votes from at least one…

Gametap has a Q&A with Graeme Devine, lead designer of Halo Wars, with some great info and a few brand-new screenshots. Give it a read! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:38:53 UTC)

DarkSim found a link to a German page with pictures of a paper pelican – along with a download link containing a 10-page PDF you can print to make your own. Very, very cool! (My German is nonexistent, so I’m not sure how I’d ask permission to link to this, or mirror it… but if…

TeamXbox has posted thier Game of the Year Awards for 2007 – and Halo takes the Best Multiplayer Game of the Year. (It lost to Crackdown in the Action category, CoD4 in the Shooter category, and Mass Effect in the GotY category.) Thanks, Narcogen, at Rampancy.net.(Louis Wu 13:22:27 UTC)

someone_new posted an arrangement of Halo 2’s ‘Unforgotten’ for string orchestra over at Rampancy.net – go download it! (Remember, you must be logged in to see the download link.)(Louis Wu 13:18:20 UTC)

SirTopEmHat stopped by yesterday to announce The Dead Serious Tage 2 Trailer – production values are quite high, and this one looks like it’s gonna be great! Check out the trailer. (It’s not a typical montage.)(Louis Wu 13:16:53 UTC)

Gamespot’s Best of 2007 section is up, and they’re looking for your votes. Swing by and tell ’em what you think! Thanks, JeSteR 343.(Louis Wu 13:15:11 UTC)

Wired’s Game|Life put up their Ten Biggest Disappointments Of 2007, and Halo 3 pulled down two of ’em – the cheesy packaging that caused a bunch of Limited Edition buyers to unwrap scratched discs, and the huge sales of Halo 3 (because of what that says about the REST of the industry). Interesting. Go read…

Gamescore Blog has a video interview that Chris Paladino did with Frankie during the Spike TV awards show – they talk about the awards, about the Heroic Maps (which at that point hadn’t been released yet), about Recon armor. Go watch!(Louis Wu 02:08:33 UTC)