Year: 2007

The last Bungie Weekly Update of 2007 is now available at Bungie.net (and, of course, also in our Weekly Update Archive – with WAY better html, I might add). Most of it is devoted to explaining the changes to the Halo 3 playlist that went live in the last couple of days, but there are…

A few days ago, we mentioned some fiberglass-based Halo armor, being created by MLC. We’ve been sent some higher-res pictures to start a collection here, and will add to it as the armor takes shape. For now, check out the helmet, along with notes on how it was created! Thanks, Xavier.(Louis Wu 19:34:45 UTC)

You might remember a custom female Spartan figure for sale on eBay back around the time Halo 3 launched; the artist is back, with two new versions. One’s pink and one’s green; they’ve got different weapons this time out, and they’re missing the fishnet tops… but beyond that, they look pretty similar. Bidding starts at…

Stuntmutt’s Advent Calendar is nearly full; today’s entry mixes a holiday joke with a bad pun. …wait, that’s every entry.(Louis Wu 17:55:28 UTC)

J C let us know that Master Replicas has posted their 2008 Product Line Announcement… and there are a number of new Halo items on the list. Go see what you’ll be spending your money on next year!(Louis Wu 17:52:47 UTC)

GameDaily posted a list fo the ’20 Biggest Stories that Rocked Our World in ’07’ – 10 was Bungie leaving Microsoft, and 7 was Halo 3’s amazing first-week numbers. Not bad!(Louis Wu 17:51:02 UTC)

Ultimate Dragon has created another Rube Goldberg machine – you might remember ‘How to trap a noob’, back in November… this time the noob gets revenge. Check out “Sniper vs. Noob: The Noob Strikes Back”, on YouTube. Pretty sweet kill! (Louis Wu 12:53:18 UTC)

Foundry Variants, from the Pros One of the perks for Bungie employees is that they get to stick their Foundry creations into the Bungie Favorites category whenever they want; go grab the maps mentioned in this article and see if it’s favoritism… or just plain good mapmaking. (Before anyone gets bent out of shape about…

Fourteen new pieces – prose and poetry, and even song – available for you today in the Fan Fiction section. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:38:39 UTC)

john.cb let us know that Episode 3 of Spriggs is up, both at their website, and on YouTube. Willy thinks he’s going to kill Spriggs… but Willy is wrong. Poor Willy! (Louis Wu 12:31:26 UTC)

Last week’s Humpday writeup mentioned that Bungie had played The Frag Dolls – it doesn’t, any more, but it did. And now we get the Frag Dolls Matchup in writing; this took place 10 days ago, but it’s still a win for Bungie. Having been fragged by at least one of these Dolls, I have…

BlitzSnake let us know that he’d posted an episode of a machinima program called ‘Neurons’ last summer – he’s still working on Episode 2, and looking back, he feels Episode 1 is somewhat ‘cheesy’ (his word) compared to what 2 will look like… but it’s still pretty well done; check it out on YouTube!(Louis Wu…

411mania posted nominations for the Working Title awards – Halo 3 is up for a bunch. They might not be what you think they are – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:25:06 UTC)

Captain Spark dropped off another 35 dialogue snippets, this time all from Marines, many, many funny ones. A whole bunch of Christopher Walken imitations, plus some other laugh-out-loud lines. Check ’em in our Dialogue Databank, or download ’em en masse from Spark’s site.!(Louis Wu 22:05:17 UTC)

Xbox.com is running their 2007 Community Choice Awards – and you can vote for Halo 3 a LOT. It’s on the ballots for Best Game, Best Game Add-on, Best Co-op Game, Best Weapon, Best Vehicle, Best Xbox LIVE Event, Coolest Xbox 360 Accessory, and Best Sequel. Thanks, Raulboy.(Louis Wu 19:37:32 UTC)