Year: 2007

No, this has nothing to do with Rooster Teeth; this is an Australian fundraising effort for Mission Australia and Make a Wish Australia, with lots of cool goodies from Microsoft to make it fun. Filefront has done a nice job of describing what’s going on – or you can simply explore the official Red v…

Some new stuff at the Bungie Store – there’s a dual deco MC hoody (embroidered AND screened), a pair of mixer glasses (they look perfect for beer), and free with every purchase, a Halo 3 Video Calibration Filter (useful only to those with Halo 3 Essentials Disc One, which comes with the Limited and Legendary…

Joe Markert let us know that Gamehelper is giving away a Halo Zune… and some copies of Halo. Swing by their contest page for full details (registration required to enter). (Louis Wu 16:03:10 UTC)

Wow… if I don’t visit Rampancy.net for a couple of days, I miss a lot. (This is true for you, too – remember that.) Lessee what we got…Narc has posted his first impressions of Halo 3. Minor spoilers in the writeup, of the first few levels… but generally, he’s pretty happy so far.Meyeselph is creating…

Small collection of Halo 3 reviews today:CordWeekly says it’s more of the same, but better.Animation World Magazine says there’s nothing new, but it’s fun anyway.The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says its a fight worth finishing (they gave it an A-).GotFrag DPAD gave it a 4.5/5; they were a little disappointed with the current crop of multiplayer maps.Is…

Frank O’Connor was a guest on this week’s Game Theory Podcast – the topic (surprise, surprise) was Halo 3. Thanks, Zeouterlimits.(Louis Wu 15:14:48 UTC)

Maybe I’m just a statistics junkie, but I found this fascinating. Sandvine Network Demographics saw a 100% to 200% increase (that’s a doubling or tripling, for those of you who failed 5th grade math) in peak bandwidth of Xbox Live traffic in the week following Halo 3’s release. However (and here’s the fun part), the…

It’s pretty big news when a first person shooter tops the Japanese sales charts. According to Jonnyram at NeoGAF, though, that’s exactly what Halo 3 did last week. (Avateur picked it up at Kotaku, if you want to discuss flying pigs or something on our forum.)(Louis Wu 14:19:25 UTC)

Remember this post? There wasn’t any speculation on our forum, but over at Rampancy.net, there were two guesses: ‘Loser’ and ‘Believe’. We got the next letter last night… and clearly, both of those guesses are wrong. And it seems like the MC and his opponent are pretty beaten-up… (Louis Wu 13:54:37 UTC)

Heh – almost missed this. N’Gai Croal, over at Newsweek, has posted a bunch of Halo 3 ‘first kill’ pics from notables in the gaming industry, along with their comments. He calls it ‘Postcards from the Edge’. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 13:37:58 UTC)

Frogblast has supplied a video walkthrough to get you (by yourself) to an easter egg on The Storm; yes, you could get there easily from any saved film of the level, but Frogblast has ALWAYS been about the ‘elegant’, rather than the easy. (This egg was revealed in [T]rickety Trick 6, released a week ago…

Ezandora posted a full week’s timelapse of the world activity map you can see on Bungie’s Online page. (We already noted a couple of versions that included the first day or so – this is even better.) If you’d rather watch it in QuickTime, you can. (I tried to make a WMP9 version, but I…

Elnea’s posted another pair of Halo Action Figure Theater episodes – you can read about them (and get a one-paragraph plot synopsis of the series) in this forum post. She says she doesn’t feel comfortable posting this stuff here any more – let her know if you enjoy it! (Louis Wu 12:52:07 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, a couple of regulars have picked their favorite Halo 3 launch maps (and provided rationale); one likes Epitaph, the other likes The Pit. Go see why! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 12:50:48 UTC)

3Suns posted a link to an AWESOME stick by BlackShadowMist over at MLGPro.com – nobody’s saying it was planned, but because of Saved Films, you get the chance to WATCH it, which is pretty cool. For folks who don’t like streaming Flash, I dropped off a couple of downloadable versions – WMP9 (1.6 mb) and…

Gah. I HATE forgetting stuff. I didn’t post yesterday’s One One Se7en on time – so it’s up now. If it makes no sense, you haven’t played the first couple of minutes of the campaign… or you can just blame Stuntmutt. (I do.)(Louis Wu 12:24:03 UTC)