Month: March 2008

JustAnotherFan stopped by to announce a teaser trailer for Grind Rider, a new machinima coming this summer. Camera work looks pretty cool – keep your eyes open!(Louis Wu 21:09:02 UTC)

Maximum Fear let us know he’s hosting a Forge art contest at his website – create a piece of art using Forge, take a screenshot, win a Bungie Store certificate! Go read all the rules and details.(Louis Wu 18:14:17 UTC)

Over at Ascendant Justice, vociferous has begun pinning down the story told by Halo 3’s terminals. It’s rather detailed, and chock-full of interesting stuff; give it a read! While you’re there, they’ve put up a review of Crow’s Nest – including a Legendary saved film of the entire level. (They’re doing this for every level;…

Cortana’s decline continues in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip – I think Arby’s got it right in this one.(Louis Wu 14:50:07 UTC)

Dan Lewis let us know that Halopedia has a Never-Ending Halo Quiz Game – users create the questions, so there’s really no finish. It’s already got over 2000 questions!(Louis Wu 14:43:45 UTC)

Some coordination problems delayed our next release of the Halo 2 cutscenes in HD – but ‘They’ll regret that, too’, along with both ‘Ladies Like Superior Firepower’ variants, are now available in our Cutscene Library. Thanks as always to HaLo2FrEeEk and Wraith7n!(Louis Wu 13:40:05 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy stumbled across a pretty cool video on YouTube; Kroden35 has created a Stereo 3D movie of a Mongoose jump (on High Ground) – no glasses required. The same eye skills that let you view magic pictures will let you watch this mongoose go off a rock… in 3D. It’s pretty amazing, once your…

Quikthnkr (the new commissioner of the Grifball Spring 08 League) dropped by to point out that signups are happening now. If your team participated in the Winter League (and didn’t get cut), you can sign up now – if you’re interested in starting a new team, signups begin today at noon (central time). More details…

Popular Mechanics has an article about the perils (and potentialities) of last year’s astounding year in videogame growth (led by Halo 3’s record-breaking first week of sales) – on the one hand, topping what has been done will be hard; there comes a point at which folks get apathetic. On the other hand, the boost…

Darknesshasfallen noticed new shots of the upcoming Cortana ArtFX statue (first mentioned a few weeks ago, with a cardboard mockup at ToyFair 08) – swing by Big Bad Toy Store to see it.(Louis Wu 13:28:33 UTC)

Cortana4ever let us know that sometimes the rivalry between Cortana and the Chief gets a little… competitive. Check it out – it’s fun!(Louis Wu 21:32:56 UTC)

Tyger was the first (but not, by a long shot, the only) person to point out that the Team Hardcore playlist will be replaced in a few weeks with a new MLG playlist. Details are at MLGPro.com.(Louis Wu 21:11:53 UTC)

Bzerker01 pointed out ‘Leprechauns’, a machinima short created by Treeskunk Productions for the GamingTV ‘Laughs for Cash’ contest. He said that it “goes further than anything we have released before into the land of weird.” After watching it, I can’t disagree. Available in a lot of formats, from a lot of places.(Louis Wu 18:07:31 UTC)

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 tonight and tomorrow at Roy Thomson Hall. This tidbit of information is on a Halo news page because the conductor, Peter Oundjian, and a journalist, John Keillor, suggest that Mahler’s impetus for the 4th and our enjoyment of the carnage of the Halo 3 battlefield…

It’s a day for comics, I guess – Dan Baker has posted Page 3 of his Halo Comic – it’s just a little one… but it sets up a pretty critical scene. Go see!(Louis Wu 16:58:51 UTC)

Psychophan7 noticed a new job offering at Bungie – Cinematic Animator. It’s not Halo-related (well, probably not) – but it’s of interest to a significant chunk of our reader base, so here you go. (I wish Bungie would date these…)(Louis Wu 16:55:18 UTC)

Dennis Powers wrote to say that the second episode of the Halo CE Chronicles Comic, ‘Everyone Out of the Pool’, is now online. He’s also posted a comic tribute to Stuntmutt. (We miss him too, Dennis.) (Louis Wu 16:53:19 UTC)