Month: March 2008

Black Six noticed that GoGamer.com is selling Halo 2 Vista for $15 – for the next 41 hours or so. (He actually told us about this 8 hours ago… but hey, we all gotta sleep sometime.)(Louis Wu 14:08:08 UTC)

Getting into the screenshot-based comic game is Dennis Powers, who’s creating a graphic novella about a couple of characters you’ll see more of in the Season 5 machinima of The Halo CE Chronicles, currently in production. New episodes will be up once per week. (Details about the comic are here – the comic itself is…

The Halo 2 HD Cutscenes have been updated to include ‘Home Field Advantage’, setting the stage for both the Cairo Station battles and the birth of a new ‘Arbiter’. 150 mb, give or take (depending on which version you grab). Thanks again to HaLo2FrEeEk for capturing these!(Louis Wu 18:09:09 UTC)

Omega noticed that the Halo Wars website has updated with new concept art of some Forerunner architecture. (Our forum denizens don’t think too highly of the design, apparently, if Omega’s thread is any indication.)(Louis Wu 18:04:12 UTC)

Icy Guy dropped off 13 new dialogue snippets, all captured from Halo 3 multiplayer – go listen in our Dialogue Databank!(Louis Wu 13:34:06 UTC)

Mr Sark reminded us that the Sarkathlon Contest running over at G4’s X-Play (we mentioned it last week) ends this Tuesday night (March 11) at midnight, PST. They aired the midway leaderboards on Wednesday, and the top time was DJ Maluu (the name should be familiar to folks who’ve watched Halo jump videos), at 1:50.13.…

Whoa, weird. I was closing out some temporary text files in preparation for heading up for the night… and found a news post I wrote this morning sometime, but forgot to post. Oops! John_117 made some more progress on his Master Chief wall painting – check his forum post for the pics!(Louis Wu 03:19:54 UTC)

Pico stopped by (welcome back, Pico!) with a stop-motion flick showing aoff a battle between… well, a lot of folks. Including Master Chief, which is what makes it all Halo-related. Pretty fun piece! (I especially loved the bit where Diablo flips Kaneda’s bike – nicely fluid, and great shadows!) There are multiple download links in…

SPARTAN 294 was the first to notice the new Bungie Weekly Update (it’s in our Weekly Update Archive, too, if you’d rather have the light background) – lots of cool info in this one. Stuff about how matchmaking deals with ‘mixed skill’ parties, fascinating details about how the game chooses which spawn point to bring…

DigitalPh33r has kicked off a new machinima series – ‘It’s a Wonderful LIVE, Episode 1’ chronicles his experiences with other gamers, as affected by his Recon armor. Thanks, SPARTAN 294.(Louis Wu 02:26:00 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy followed up on her story about Nathaniel, the unlucky gamer who had his Xbox 360 cleaned a little too well – looks like Bungie went a little overboard in an effort to even things out. A feel-good story for sure! Thanks, the Light Show.(Louis Wu 02:23:11 UTC)

The PRWeek 2008 awards were given out on Thursday night – and Microsoft and their external PR firm Edelman took home Technology Campaign of the Year for the Halo 3 launch. Nice work!(Louis Wu 02:20:32 UTC)

Terminator182 has updated his HBO News Widget (for Mac OSX’s Dashboard) – bug fixes and graphical tweaks make this useful tool even better! Check it out.(Louis Wu 02:08:20 UTC)

Leviathan has been working on Pixellated Halo for a while now – he’s getting tired of boring still shots for updates. So he made a movie. It’s a bit over 3 minutes long, and it does a good job of showing off gameplay, scenery, and cutscenes – it looks pretty exciting! You can grab it…

Sometimes things only get done here when people do them, and then tell us about it. Not long ago, HaLo2FrEeEk, of Clan Infectionist, contacted us about some hi-def (720p) versions of the Halo 2 cutscenes he’d created, using Halo 2 PC. They were beautiful… and big. So we’re sharing the load. If you visit the…

Hawty McBloggy found that her Friday Caption Fun experiment last week went really well; there were over 100 entries from users, some of them very funny. Go read what folks thought of the last entry… and think up your own witticisms for the new one she just posted!(Louis Wu 15:13:36 UTC)

Keegan stopped by to let us know that he’s started work on an Arbiter helmet; you can see some early progress pics in his forum post. NIce!(Louis Wu 13:12:18 UTC)