Year: 2007

David Leggett let us know that Halo 3 Planet is giving away a bunch of goodies for folks who come up with the best maps/custom gametypes in Forge. Go read the giveaway page for full details; you’ve got until mid-November to work. Get going! (Louis Wu 18:55:48 UTC)

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 68 is up – they’ve got an interview with trigger119 (of GamingTV and MLG), they’ve got information about Gaming4Others, a group that runs tournaments for charity, and they’ve got their standard community news/tourney info. 37 minutes, 15 mb. Go listen! (Louis Wu 18:51:43 UTC)

GameDaily interviewed three of the Rooster Teeth guys about the dialogue they’ve added to Halo 3 – great stuff. Thanks, Joystiq (that article also points out a podcast at Xbox 360 Fanboy with RT’s Geoff Ramsey, who talks about a lot of stuff, including Halo 3).(Louis Wu 18:11:30 UTC)

UGO posted an article looking at a series of upcoming games, and rating them as “Halo 3 Killers”. Top contenders seem to be Call of Duty 4 (threat rating: 75%) and The Orange Box (Valve’s massive 5-game release – threat rating: 90%).(Louis Wu 18:07:19 UTC)

Getty Ritter put together a cute little cutscene in Flash – I wonder if Marty had problems like this? (Warning: language.) Thanks, Empress Cortana.(Louis Wu 18:05:07 UTC)

The New York Times looks at churches around the country that are using Halo as a ‘recruiting’ technique for teenagers (setting up lans, for example) – and how some in the community feel this is inappropriate. An interesting read. (Louis Wu 18:03:10 UTC)

EvanVolm wrote to point out that he’d combined all three Neil Blomkamp Halo shorts into a single piece, which is available on YouTube. I suppose if you haven’t seen them all, this isn’t a bad way to take them in. (Another option is FrAnK SiXeR’s Halo Tribute, which is higher-resolution than the YouTube flick; it…

Alekat pointed out that yesterday’s Red vs Blue comic (no registration needed to view) is a great take on the Bungie/MS situation – go laugh.(Louis Wu 17:52:26 UTC)

Ryan Pearson wrote a piece about how well the Halo 3 matchmaking system works; how it’s still fun for beginners, right from the start. If you’ve been tentative about jumping into Live… read this.(Louis Wu 17:49:47 UTC)

Heh – there’s a blog post from someone who recently joined Animation Mentor, an online animation school – he was amazed to find out that one of his fellow students was none other than CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s Cinematic Director. It’s a fun read – check it out. Thanks, elite89.(Louis Wu 17:41:46 UTC)

Major Nelson’s latest podcast is up right now, currently only in .wma format, but eventually on iTunes; it’s a monster of a show (2 hours long), with an interview with Marty O’Donnell. I haven’t had time to listen to it yet (been a busy morning), but I’d guess it’s absolutely worth hearing. Go grab it.…

V10L3N7 JAY stopped by to point out Issue 5 of Section 3, his comic-from-screenshots story that’s been unfolding for the last week or so, is now available. Action galore!(Louis Wu 14:56:35 UTC)

And ANOTHER Bungie/MS interview – this time it’s Harold Ryan and Shane Kim, talking to 4players.de, a German site. The interview is in German, but longtime Bungie fan Harry Al-Shakarchi was there to provide us with a beautiful translation. (Louis Wu 21:46:52 UTC)

There’s another interview with SketchFactor over at 1Up about the split; pretty much the same info as you’ll find in the other Bungie interviews. Sketch DOES suggest that Halo 3 might be better because of Bungie’s disappointments with Halo 2 – something I’ve believed since I first saw the game. Thanks, Zeouterlimits.(Louis Wu 21:26:03 UTC)