Month: February 2008

Halo Action Figure Theater was also updated today – Episode 126 is up a little later than Elnea expected because she was creating RvB Valentines for you to use. (Warning: some of these are… well, not polite.) Funny Valentines and mystery watermelons… what MORE could you want?(Louis Wu 12:56:06 UTC)

Okay, I’m officially too frickin’ busy for life. AGAIN, I forgot to post yesterday’s Another Halo Comic Strip. You still have time to make use of it, though – ZZoMBiE13’s made you some AHCS Valentines; you can cut them out and customize them before tomorrow, no problem!(Louis Wu 12:17:35 UTC)

In case you were taking the whole auction for charity thing too seriously (hard not to, when the top bid is almost $1300 now), Luke has interviewed Frankie about his motivations and inspirations for the piece. You can shovel that stuff up and grow flowers with it. (Great imagery, though.) Thanks, Spartan Jag.(Louis Wu 19:41:54…

Ars Technica has a story about a reader who signed up for the “Buy Xbox 360, Get Halo 3 Free” promotion (we mentioned this promotion back in November)… apparently, there are some issues with actually RECEIVING the free game. There’ve been some rumblings in our own forum about this (here’s one post, I remember others)…

Heh – Hawty McBloggy noticed another Halo-related custom Transformer on eBay; this one changes from the Master Chief to a Warthog (sort of). I got a lot of flak the last time I posted a Transformer auction – folks were suggesting it was a total ripoff, all the guy had done was paint a transformer…

McCann Erickson, the ad agency that came up with the Jake Courage aspect of the Believe campaign that launched Halo 3, has put up a movie showing how they did it. Interesting stuff! (I had no idea all the pics got stolen…)(Louis Wu 18:25:48 UTC)

We mentioned the awards Halo snagged at the Visual Effects Society yesterday – Bungie has posted a short interview with CJ Cowan, one of the winners, discussing what the awards are all about, and what they had to do to be considered. Pretty cool read!(Louis Wu 15:14:00 UTC)

Heh – bizarreness. Narcogen also noticed an interview with Eric Trautmann over at Earth’s Greatest – he talked about writing a lot of the dialogue in Halo in a really short time… and under absurd conditions.So, we had three days to bang out some ridiculous amount of dialogue, but they wouldn’t actually let us LOOK…

Narcogen pointed out a free program that will let you read PrintMusic files (the format many of Rampancy.net’s Sheet Music Archive offerings are in), and export as MIDI. To show you how it’s useful, he’s added PDF and MIDI files to a bunch of existing sheet music entries. Now Halo music is easier than ever…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a contest over at ThisIsSpartan117.com – they were soliciting for a new screenshot to use as their background image. The winner was announced yesterday. Thanks, alacaboose.(Louis Wu 14:57:36 UTC)

MasterChief2829 dropped off a link last night from Next-Generation – Hardy Lebel (Lead Multiplayer Design for Halo, Additional Mission Design for Halo 2, as well as Lead Design for Oni) has teamed up with some friends to form Tyrant Studios. For Bungie watchers, these guys join Wideload Games, Giant Bite Games, Certain Affinity, and others…

Thanks, Snave wanted to point out that he’s got a Halo photography gallery set up, with a bunch of contributors. Swing by for some nice pics, from all three games! (Louis Wu 14:43:06 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy put up some nice eValentines for you over at her site – go celebrate, Halo-style.(Louis Wu 14:41:18 UTC)

Gah! I did it again – and I’m not even sure HOW this time. I forgot to post yesterday’s One One Se7en – so here it is. (Maybe I passed out when I read it?)(Louis Wu 14:15:19 UTC)