Year: 2007

2old2play is looking to give away some cool schwag (a copy of the Legendary Edition and a copy of the Standard Edition of Halo 3) – all you have to do to have a shot at it is create a funny caption for a screenshot they’ve posted on the contest page. You’ve got until November…

Slothboy started a site that will make me cry, if I’m not careful. Tell him he’s a bad person.(Louis Wu 19:45:38 UTC)

Been a while in preparation, and it won’t be fully fleshed out for a couple of weeks, at least… but the Halo 3 Cutscene Library is now online. Arrival, plus all of the ending variants, are now available for download. At the moment, you have two choices for download size: 856×480 (widescreen 480p), or 428×240…

Gamasutra has an article about how the movie industry could learn from the gaming industry in leveraging fan communities – and Bungie is held up as a shining example. (There is a slightly odd focus on Luke Smith as the driving force behind Bungie’s success in this field – I’m pretty sure even Luke will…

Davidgojr has a little trouble with some of the people he runs into on Xbox Live. Let him tell you about them at 1P Start. (Language warning.)(Louis Wu 16:41:41 UTC)

LaurenOboe, who’s been a part of the RvB community for quite some time and appears here periodically for her machinima and musical offerings, has started a series of multiplayer map walkthroughs – first up is The Pit. She covers what’s available, weaopns/equipment-wise, in the stock version, and discusses layout and basic strategy. If you find…

rockslider has been a long-time Halo 1 advocate, and a staunch Halo 2 hater; he let us know about his feelings for Halo 3 this morning. Overall verdict – still doesn’t live up to the original, but he’s not returning it. (Louis Wu 14:57:25 UTC)

ElephantDropBomb put up a pic of his brother’s birthday cake – Frankie would be proud.(Louis Wu 14:32:35 UTC)

Fadefury pointed out an article at Xbox360Fanboy which details a series of egg-shaped objects hidden high in Sandtrap, covered with a multicolored texture. The texture has been seen elsewhere; it’s a standard test texture that shows off a huge range of colors, and so is useful for debugging purposes. I’d be very, very surprised if…

For the most part, we’ve stopped reporting new Halo 3 reviews; there are so many of them that if you really want a summary of what’s out there, you’re better off looking at a place like Metacritic or Gamerankings. I read one this morning, though, that had me scratching my head… it seemed to be…

Alacaboose let us know about a pair of episodes of Cockbite Radio (a podcast with a focus on Red vs Blue) you might be interested in – Episode 18 has an interview with Kathleen Zuelch, who plays Tex (there’s some insider info at the end), and Episode 16 has an interview with Gavino, who interned…

Hawty “I shop better than you do” McBloggy let us know about a couple of Halo-related street signs you can buy right now on eBay – they’ll certainly set a mood in your gameroom!(Louis Wu 12:46:59 UTC)

Heh – darthbob found a small egg on The Storm; one of the buildings is labeled ‘Section K-434’. This is almost certainly a nod to Bungie’s Kirkland offices, at 434 Kirkland Way. Oh, the little things…(Louis Wu 12:44:00 UTC)

Heh – yesterday we mentioned a blog post that suggested that you could make pictures in Forge – we received this image from AfRo SaUcE. He and his buddy Shadow300 made a copy of the Deathbat logo of the band Avenged Sevenfold – took ’em a couple of hours. Nice work!(Louis Wu 12:25:53 UTC)

This weekend, I noticed a new film announced at High Impact Halo – ‘Shraptain’, a jumping vid from jagg3d Shrapn3l and CaptainCrunch41. (That link contains a high-res WMP9 download and a YouTube link.) Last night, nomis78 pointed out an MLG Gameroom link for the vid, as well. These jumps are often useable in tactical situations…

Juxtapose let us know that over at Arbiter’s Judgement, there’s word of a deal from Sympatico, an internet provider in Canada; if you sign up for a 3-year deal at $60/month, they’ll give you their ‘Total Internet’ package (normally priced at $45/month in a bundle), an Xbox 360 Elite, a copy of Halo 3, and…

I missed this a couple of days ago, but Rooster Teeth posted the video they created for the European Machinima Festival for their sponsors; I would assume (though I have no evidence for this) that it will be available for everyone soon. It looks at what Red vs Blue would have looked like had it…

Looks like a significant chunk of the Essentials Disc One (the extra disc that comes with both the Limited and Legendary editions of Halo 3) will be available online, via Comcast’s Game Invasion, starting Thursday (the one-month anniversary of the relase of the game). The entire ‘Anatomy of a Game’ documentary, plus the 24-hours-in-the-life-of-Bungie piece…

Lucko let us know that his ‘Everyday is exactly the same’ has been announced on Halo Front – it’s a Halo 3 music vid set to NIN music. 82 mb, WMP9 format.(Louis Wu 20:44:17 UTC)