Year: 2007

Rapture at The Hushed Casket has posted three videos from GameTrailers showing the Halo 3 multiplayer levels Construct, Isolation, and The Pit.

That’s the question posed on the latest podcast at C|Net. With Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 vying for the spot of top dog among next generation consoles, Microsoft has to be counting on their flagship franchise, Halo 3, to provide that final push to original Xbox owners to pony up for a 360. Will…

Hawty McBloggy figured yesterday should be the day everybody makes a Master Chief out of play doh, and that’s the part she started with, apparently. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

Music 4 Games interviews Bungie maestro Marty O’Donnell about the soundtrack for Halo 3, and the news is all good for fans: more music, better fidelity, more orchestral arrangements and a more interactive feel this time around, not to mention another two disc soundtrack set due out sometime.

The latest Bungie Podcast is up and ready for your listening pleasure (and your mom’s); get it from Bungie.net or from iTunes. (Editor’s Note: I don’t see it available in iTunes yet, but I’m sure it’ll be there soon.)

Play.tm reports that images of Halo 3 retail discs have been seen online. Of course, they’re no good to owners of unmodified consoles, and modified consoles are of no use on Xbox Live, but still…

IGN talked to Tyson “Ferrex” Green about the Halo 3 multiplayer map, Isolation.

Next-Generation has a passel of interesting statistics about the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live– software sales, subscriber totals, the works– if you’re interested in that kind of thing.

Digital Journal interviews Bungie environmental art lead Mike Zak about the challenges of designing the incredibly detailed environments of Halo 3.

Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will keynote the Indie Games Conference in Eugene, Oregon on October 10-11. He’ll be giving a talk on the mission of the new Wideload Shorts division of his company.

Bungie.net has a new VIDOC available– this one, called Cinema Paradiso, is about the Saved Films features of Halo 3.

THIS IS MADNESS!You gotta read the whole thing or it’s pointless!

Okay sorry for no game of the week this week.  This will be my last update before Halo 3.  I now shift your attention to the news desk.

It’s almost 2 hours long and boasts Marty O’Donnell, Joseph Staten and Web Dev Lead Chris Gossett–it’s Bungie Podcast Time.

Hey folks, its Thursday so you know what that means…comic time! Geoff agreed to let me post the comic today because I forgot to post an update about some events yesterday. So, if you read all of the event news I have, then you can have a comic. Fair…