Month: March 2008

Quikthnkr stopped by late last night to point out The Grifball Explosion, a new podcast devoted to Grifball and the working of the Spring League. If you’re playing in the league (or even just interested in the sport itself), swing by and listen! (Division details are up now in the Grifball forum, though they haven’t…

Today’s Larry the Marine celebrates St. Paddy’s Day… in a way that maybe it shouldn’t be celebrated. Thanks, 2phast. (No, really, thanks.)(Louis Wu 14:21:29 UTC)

Halo was a part of the World Cyber Games in 2003, 2004, and 2005 – but they dropped it in 2006 and 2007. (2001 and 2002 were PC-only competitions; Halo wasn’t even eligible.) It’s back now – Halo 3 was announced yesterday as one of the fourteen games (four console titles) in WCG 2008. Nice!…

A couple of hundred people have downloaded A Whisper in the Storm via BitTorrent, saving us a bunch of gigs of bandwidth – I’m pretty sure we can handle the rest of the demand via direct downloads. (The torrents are still running, and we’re still supplying a healthy seed for those who would like to…

We’ve made a couple of mentions of the obstacle course set up by Mr Sark, over at G4TV (when it was announced, and about halfway through); Thursday, final results were posted, and I’d have to say High Impact Halo played an enormous role. One of the three honorable mentions hails from there… as well as…

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 91 is now up for downloading – 20 minutes, 8 mb, full of community stuff, discussion, mac software advice, and more. Oh, yeah, and a newly-designed front page. Go read, go listen!(Louis Wu 18:55:10 UTC)

UNSC Trooper took it upon himself to fill in a bunch of gaps in our Halo Story Timeline – he sent along key events from several sources we hadn’t gotten to yet (Contact Harvest, Halo Wars, Halo: Uprising, the Halo Graphic Novel), as well as some unmentioned events from sources we HAVE covered. We’re running…

Logan “Crab” Rini sent along a bunch of panoramas he’s been putting together; they’re more varied than many of the ‘glorious landscapes’ we’ve seen from others. (Some are exactly that – but others are action shots with a much wider angle of viewing than we’re used to seeing.) These are quite large, for the most…

This blog post showed up in my Google Alerts mailbox – I’m posting it because (past the amazing-to-me fact that an English teacher living in South Korea knows NO Korean) I found it interesting that Halo 3 seemed hard to navigate without verbal cues. I can’t remember any places where things weren’t mostly clear by…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a contest at Maximum Fear – apparently, the submission email was incorrect. If you submitted an entry, you might want to swing by again and resubmit. Maximum Fear says “sorry!”(Louis Wu 14:58:44 UTC)

Ultimate_Dragon wrote up a glitch he experienced a few days ago… but when he posted it in text form, it didn’t get a lot of response – maybe because people couldn’t really picture what was happening. So he made a small vid, which he’s posted on YouTube. His theory is that under certain conditions, if…

Halo Action Figure Theater is updated with more unveiling… and another mystery. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:31:57 UTC)

Keegan has begun work on the detailing of his Arbiter helmet. (Search our news for earlier posts.) This pic is a bit out-of-focus… but it’s still clear enough to see that this is looking good!(Louis Wu 14:30:24 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a papercraft Master Chief at Cubee Craft – cut him out, fold him over, stand him up. (Apparently, it’s a bit more work than it looks…) Swing by and make your own!(Louis Wu 19:06:14 UTC)

Today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip solves the mystery of Cortana’s rampancy – I should have known.(Louis Wu 16:08:32 UTC)

PEZ let us know that halowiki.net is hosting new Flash map overviews, put together by Devozade. The first map up is Sandtrap, and the overviews should be embeddable in other sites. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:04:48 UTC)

Ross Mills noticed a tiny reference in the writeup for the London Movie Comic Media expo, coming in late May – Weta workshops will be there, with (among a lot of other things) “A sneak preview of the new Halo range of Collectibles, featuring Master Chief.” Nice!(Louis Wu 16:01:57 UTC)