Year: 2007

QuickTactical noticed an interview with Chris Barrett and Joe Tung from MLG Vegas last week – it’s a little hard to find. The link he gives is the same one MSN gives me – but it doesn’t get you there. Do a search for ‘Game Makers’ on that page, though, and you should find a…

Kitt, a Fragdoll who lives in the UK, discussed Halo 3 for about 7 minutes on this videoblog. She invented a word I like quite a lot – ‘intrepidation’. I’m gonna be looking for places to use that one. Beyond that, she has some interesting things to say about the game. Stay away from her…

ZZoMBiE13 has been around the Halo community for quite a while; we first heard from him in 2003, when he started submitting Halo artwork. More recently, he’s been filling in for Stuntmutt on some sanctioned One One Se7en guest spots. He’s done enough of these, actually, that we’ve taken him on as a new comic…

Maluu has been around the Halo jumping scene since the early days of Halo 2 – he and friends are back now with ‘Telerunning’, using teleporters to increase jumping speeds. Go check out some of their Forged maps and videos in Cow’s forum post. Looks like fun!(Louis Wu 12:08:02 UTC)

Continuing the ‘out of multiplayer map’ series, Cow found a guy who got out of Narrows, The Pit, and Snowbound. That brings the total of the documented maps to 8 – only High Ground, Guardian, and Isolation remain.(Louis Wu 12:04:33 UTC)

Wolverine Monkey pointed out an article on Moetaku (a parody blog – see if you can guess who they’re modeled after) about ‘Mayo 3: Finish the Sandwich’. Oddness at its finest. (There’s no way to link to the story directly; scroll down when you get to the page.)(Louis Wu 11:58:52 UTC)

PlasmaFire found a cosplayer with a Master Chief outfit built of fiberglass-reinforced cardboard. There are four pages of pictures at the Photobucket link, showing lots of stages of development. Great work!(Louis Wu 11:50:46 UTC)

Glasser created a machinima project for school. He looked at economic problems for farmers in the 1800s… using the Halo 3 engine. Some of it works wonderfully. Some of it is a stretch. All of it got him credit.(Louis Wu 11:46:09 UTC)

V10L3N7 JAY let us know that Section 3 has been updated with Issue #7 – the invasion has begun. Nice work!(Louis Wu 11:42:05 UTC)

Omega found a way to get out of most campaign maps from saved films (no glitching, just finding holes in the outer walls). He’s posted a bunch of pics. Coolness!(Louis Wu 11:37:51 UTC)

Treeskunk Productions is back, with an announcement about Outpost: Isil, a new series that updates the long-running Outpost machinima to the Halo 3 engine. There’s an announcement trailer up now, along with wallpapers and avatars. (Louis Wu 11:35:38 UTC)

Inside Bay Area has an article about Brett ‘Nade’ Leonard, a pro Halo gamer that plays for The Agency. Most articles about gamers making money focus on the dozen or so that have quarter-million-dollar contracts – but this article points out that there are other players that are making decent money without being in that…

sorahn is trying to make a huge screenshot collage – and he needs screenshots. To that end, he’s written a small script that will scrape screenshots from Bungie.net RSS feeds – but he needs gamertags to seed the system with. If you got some cool pics, add your gamertag to the list. (Once he’s got…

Very cool – a current resident of Mombasa looks at Bungie’s imaginings of what his city will become in 500 years; it’s a fun read. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 22:12:55 UTC)

Joe Staten clarified the release date issue about Contact Harvest; it was originally supposed to be out on October 14, but the date slipped two weeks because of Halo 3. (If you visit the TOR site, you’ll see that both dates are listed on the CH press release page.) As Joe says, you might be…

Agamemnon let us know about an open letter to “anyone who had anything to do with Halo 2 Vista” – Hired Gun, MIcrosoft, and Bungie. It’s really long, and not particularly proof-read, but it’s clear that a bunch of people in the Halo 2 Vista community are very unhappy with the state of the game,…

Whee! Kotaku has a story about making the Legendary Helmet fit a normal human head. You’re blind, and your chin is still exposed… but it’s mostly on. Thanks, UNSC Trafalgar.(Louis Wu 19:00:51 UTC)