Month: January 2008

Over at the 405th, Sean Bradley noticed that the US Army Sniper Training Videos are now online on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. (Thanks to Xavier for the heads-up on this.) To download them for yourself (they’re free), go to the Marketplace blade on your 360, then select ‘Spotlight’. Scroll over to ‘Free Stuff’ – you should…

Wow. Looks like teabagging – the act, virtual or otherwise, of lowering one’s crotch on the face of another – is being blamed on Halo, at least according to one New Jersey school board. Never mind that the practice has existed for far, far longer than Halo’s been around… thanks, Charley117, who found it at…

Many people noticed a new notice linked from the main page of mythica.org – Brian Towne is closing things down next month. Mythica.org has been a (maybe the) primary hosting site for Halo media content since there’s BEEN Halo media content. He hasn’t required logins, or made you jump through hoops, or made you watch…

ZZoMBiE13 takes another shot at the poor Arbiter in today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip. What a meanie!(Louis Wu 15:16:47 UTC)

Next Generation has posted a story from Edge Magazine which looks back on Stubbs the Zombie, the first creation of Wideload Games and the only game, so far, to utilize a licensed Halo engine. Was it successful at what it set out to do? Well… what DID it set out to do? Read the article…

Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #118 – the storyline is dark, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. She promises to brighten things up soon.(Louis Wu 14:53:44 UTC)

Z sent us word of a fun game he’s spotlighting over at Halo3Forum.com – Final Boss vs Best Kept Secret, King of the Hill, on The Pit, from the point of view of a PuRe GaNgSt3r (a member of BkS). You can stream it, you can download it (a 280 mb WMP9, just a straight…

Last night, Bungie posted a Q&A session with Brian Jarrard about the Bungie Pentathlon, an internal battle of skill that involves all (okay, a lot of) Bungie employees in a day of debauchery and gameplaying. Halo features strongly, which is what makes this relevant for HBO. Go read about it – and pick your favorite…

Week Two highlights are posted over at Grifball.com – go watch some great play in Flash or QuickTime formats. Rooster Teeth has added commentary this time around.(Louis Wu 14:02:31 UTC)

Doesn’t happen often – but today’s One One Se7en was a genuine laugh-out-loud moment.(Louis Wu 13:56:59 UTC)

I guess it’s the morning to announce movies – we heard from a couple of other people, as well. Lordstemplar1 stopped in to put up a teaser for Blackstone, an upcoming project, and AnTi PRO pointed out a thread on Arm the Flag which provides download links for Oregon Trail: Pioneering Evolved Ep 1. Go…

Geezer Gamers have posted their first annual Geezergamer of the Year Awards – and Halo 3 took both Multiplayer Game of the Year and Geezer Game of the Year. w00t!(Louis Wu 13:42:34 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a video of some pretty amazingly lucky sticks in Halo 3 – a couple actually look like the thrower wanted to hit something, but most were just ‘toss this and pray’ examples. Even so, it’s pretty funny to see folks turn glowy blue (or orange) with zero warning.(Louis Wu 13:40:27 UTC)

Ensemble Concept Artist Bart Tiongson was nice enough to put together a summary of his usual day – this can give you an idea of what a concept artist on a title like Halo Wars does for a job. (He’s also got a small update on Halo Wars itself.) Thanks, Planet Halo.(Louis Wu 13:37:20 UTC)

TheShadyGnome stopped by with word of the newest Forging 101 video tutorial – this one will show you how to build floating platforms. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:34:19 UTC)

A month ago, we mentioned a small app you could use from your iPhone to get your Halo 3 stats – now there’s another option, and it’s pretty amazing. iHaloStats.com shows you everything from a summary page to your medal chest to your weapons stats. All nicely formatted for the iPhone. Check it out! (This…

There’s an interesting piece over at Tied the Leader today – apparently, the Gunslingers are playing quite a bit of Call of Duty 4 these days, like many other people on Xbox Live, and XerxdeeJ looks at some of the reasons why. He also speculates on how long it’ll stay on top, given its strengths…