Year: 2007

DevinOlsen, goatrope, jayWHY, and EA demonstrate that with the right settings it’s possible to get through any soft elastic barrier on Halo 3 in the latest in the Trickity Trick series.

The Zero Punctuation videoblog at The Escapist proves that it’s much easier to be funny when criticizing something than praising it, and their review of Halo 3 is indeed funny. I just can’t figure out if it’s funny for the sake of it, or whether the reviewer honestly dislikes the game as much as the…

Back in August, before Halo 3 went gold, OXM senior editor Andrew McCaffrey got to visit Bungie and play Halo: We were fortunate enough to actually make it past the locked doors and get to step inside the heart of Bungie’s newsroom-style studio on Day 2, being taken up into the “loft” area where Frank…

Version 1 of MLG’s official gametypes and settings for Halo 3 are now available for download and playing on your very own Xbox 360. No word yet on whether or not every single weapon has been replaced by a Battle Rifle, or if Luke Smith has had an orgasm yet. UPDATE: Yes, the primary weapon…

Saved Films is a great feature. It lets anybody who has Halo 3 and an Xbox Live account share game films with each other. It’ll be great for documenting tricks, speedruns, the works. However, it can’t do everything. It’s not a video editing suite; you can’t add effects or music, and you need to have…

Inside Pulse reviews Halo 3, and in the process, invents more subcategories to assign ratings to than I could possibly imagine would be relevant or useful, including truly subjective things like Appeal, Originality and Miscellaneous. As the kids say, whatever. They liked the game: It’s Halo 3. It fixed everything that was wrong with Halo…

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Journalist Dean Takahashi is having a lot of fun, not just playing Halo 3, but utilizing the new features, like saved films and screenshots. He asks readers to write in with their experiences playing Halo 3.

Wired takes a look at the psuedoscience of Halo weaponry and gadgetry, including the Spartan Laser and the Bubble Shield: Some of the equipment came about through happy accident. One of the most popular new tools — the “bubble shield,” a pocket of temporary protection from weapons — nearly didn’t make it into the game.…

This is the most definitive link I can find for what is so far a non-story story about Microsoft somehow letting Bungie become independent again. The official Microsoft response to reports in Jacob Metcalf’s blog that allege Bungie is leaving Microsoft was: There’s been no such announcement. That’s the kind of non-denial denial you’d expect…

Frankie says that if you post a question relating to Halo 3 in this thread, they’ll try to provide answers in the next Weekly Update.

Bungie.net has a guide on how to use the gold skulls in Halo 3 to change your play experience.

Amazing how people always choose last year’s blockbuster Xbox 360 shooter, Gears of War, when they want to suggest that Halo 3’s visuals are weak. Because Mark Rein, the guy who runs Epic Games, developers of Gears, likes Halo 3 just fine even if it doesn’t have the flashiest effects: Speaking about the enduring appeal…

Think Gabe is having trouble finding skulls? Yeah. Could be.

At HaloWars.com there’s a new monthly update about Halo Wars, written by Thunder. It’s mostly about the game’s AI: Ultimately, the philosophy that we’ve had at Ensemble Studios is that the most fun games are when you think you might lose but don’t. The CPAI should attempt to provide the player with this challenge in…

With the release of Halo 3, players will not only see the return of the staples of past Halo games, but also see some new rides that have their own set of strengths and weaknesses, and all with more details and versatility than ever before. Let’s take a look. Mongoose M274 Mongoose ULATV Being the…

Organized CRSX Matches!!!

Ske7ch wrote up how-to score in Halo 3, now we’ve got a brief guide on what Skulls to use during Campaign.

Today is a very important birthday here in the office. It marks the third year of our community website. On October 3rd, 2004 we officially launched the roosterteeth.com site with community features like journals, image galleries, friends lists, you know,…