Year: 2007

Heh – Pedro the Penguin noticed that IGN visitors REALLY want some Halo today… because the ‘Most Popular’ sidebar on their homepage changes, we’ve screenshotted it as of about 5 pm, ET, on Saturday September 22.(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)

Decent musings on difficulty levels… and how they affect reviews, over at PCWorld.com. (For the record – Bungie made me play through on Heroic.)(Louis Wu 21:00:11 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy’s activity of the day is drawing Mister Chiefs – go have a blast!(Louis Wu 19:31:25 UTC)

Rapper Lil’ John isn’t much of a Halo player – but his son is teaching him. Thanks, singkeo2002. (Louis Wu 19:13:42 UTC)

Marcelo Vega, of Xbox Today (a Brazilian website), let us know that there was a Halo 3 launch party in Brazil – Halo 3 is going to be the first midnight launch of a game in that country. They put up an article about the launch, as well as pictures of the Limited Edition’s Artbook,…

This is the funniest Halo video I’ve seen in a while. (Yes, that includes Halo Nights.) Go watch it. You’ll laugh. Thanks, Jim Bob. (Louis Wu 18:44:13 UTC)

Also from Anton P. Nym – ReportonBusiness.com (a part of Canada’s Globe and Mail) has an article in which Jerret West, Senior Global Product Manager for Xbox, talks about how the overall marketing campaign for Halo 3 was built the way it was. I must say… it seems to be working!(Louis Wu 18:35:48 UTC)

Wow, this is pretty cool. If you visit this website, you’ll see movies and photos of the Royal Swedish Ballet practicing for an interpretive dance on September 26, at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will be playing Halo music, and Halo machinima will be shown. Pretty amazing looking…

ManKitten sent in a link to a YouTube version of a Believe ad I haven’t seen yet – it’s called ‘Hunted’, and it looks at a soldier reliving a frightening night during the war. It might be my favorite, so far… as far as I can tell, it hasn’t appeared in Hi-res anywhere yet.(Louis Wu…

Halopen has chosen this weekend to release Threshold Part 2, a new machinima. They’re very excited about it – so much so that they really want me to post a description of the movie that they wrote. We don’t usually do this, but I’ll make an exception this time: A lone general known as Hypnos,…

DHalo was the first to point out the new Bungie Online section of Bungie.net – on the one hand, it might make you sad, because there are currently 1,325 Halo 3 players online, and the kill counts for the UNSC Campaign are already absurdly high… but on the other hand, most of us will be…

The Orlando Sentinel has an article on the PMS Clan, as they prepare for MLG Orlando. (The headline for this news post came from the PMS team captain, before I get accused of anything.)(Louis Wu 12:08:50 UTC)

The formatting is awful, but a new article in the Vancouver Sun has some new quotes from Bungie and Microsoft folks. (Louis Wu 12:06:13 UTC)

Ouch. Destructoid, among other sites, are reporting that folks on the NeoGAF forum are having major troubles with the Limited Edition of Halo 3; the clip that holds the discs in place inside the box is too small, and the discs are moving around… which leads to scratching. (I’m really surprised by this, because scratching…

XBOX 360 Wire has an article on how to have the best Halo 2 lan party/sendoff. If you’re planning on getting some friends together this weekend for a big Halo 2 bash, in preparation for Halo 3… you might wanna read this.(Louis Wu 11:10:35 UTC)

The UK’s Daily Telegraph is giving away a pair of tickets to the IMAX gala on launch night in London; if you’re interested in winning, check this page.(Louis Wu 11:09:46 UTC)

Yahoo Games has another ‘looking back’ movie; this one is called ‘Halo So Far’, and is a retrospective of the plots of Halo and Halo 2, using the same voiceover guy that was used for the Weapons overviews. If you’ve forgotten stuff, go watch.(Louis Wu 11:09:12 UTC)

Grable pointed out a new hoody for sale at the Bungie Store – it’s called the ‘Weapon Bolt Full Zip Hoody’, and contains a weapons montage on the front, and a lightning burst on the back. Interesting! (Louis Wu 11:07:01 UTC)

Heh – interesting. MthdDirector points us to a blog post which looks back at J. Allard’s GDC 2005 keynote speech… and compares what he said then (and what developers then weren’t all thrilled to hear) with what’s happening now, especially with Halo 3. J. Allard – ahead of his time?(Louis Wu 11:04:39 UTC)