Month: March 2008

Cody Miller posted highlights from the recent High Speed Halo tournament – check out the videos in his forum post. Looks like it was a lot of fun!(Louis Wu 21:40:03 UTC)

Bungie Lead Mission Designer Chris Opdahl has a sister at the Magnolia Intermediate School in Grass Valley, CA – and he’s managed to get her a Bungie-signed Legendary Helmet to auction on eBay as a fundraiser for the school. If you’re interested in the helmet, or in helping out the school… swing by the auction…

Schedonnardus went to an Election Coverage party at his school last night (he lives in Texas)… and snapped some pictures of a blue Master Chief pulling for Ron Paul. Check out his forum post for pics, and a vid.(Louis Wu 12:45:21 UTC)

QuickTactical showed off a YouTube vid of 4 school bands playing a Halo piece together – apparently, this was only the second time they’d played it as a group. Not bad!(Louis Wu 12:41:30 UTC)

Blinding stopped by to announce a ‘Forging Contest’ – he’s looking for a Forged map he can use to make machinima, and (for now, at least), the winner will get to have their map used in a Halo 3 machinima. (Eventually, if he makes enough money from Google’s AdSense, he’ll offer other goodies – but…

The Spawn.com website is giving away two complete sets of the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 1 figures – just fill in the form here, and you might win! (Hurry; contest ends next Thursday.)(Louis Wu 12:36:02 UTC)

oriol003 wanted us to know about a news post at Grunts R Us – apparently, a significant number of the Recon winners from the Valentines Day playlist have been ‘hacked’, and had their accounts stolen. (I have no way of verifying this information – but for the purposes of this newspost, we’ll assume it’s true.)…

Dan Baker contacted us and told us that because he was disappointed with Halo: Uprising, he decided to do something about it. He’s started his own Halo comic – penciled, inked, painted in Photoshop, laid out in InDesign. He’s going to be providing it in two formats – an online version posted panel by panel…

Digikid pointed out that Spriggs Episode 7 has been released; currently there’s only a DivX download available, but more is coming. 16 minutes, 87 mb, the story is getting far more coherent. (No less silly – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 01:13:26 UTC)

Lani let us know that Halownage is running a small 32-player online tournament – play starts and ends on March 20, with Microsoft points, XBL subscriptions, and HoC credits on the line. Go read the Halownage forum post for the full details.(Louis Wu 01:08:31 UTC)

It’s common knowledge that Bungie employees have access to heads of flame when playing on Xbox LIVE – ZZoMBiE13 shows you why that might not be something to strive for in today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip. (He also had something eloquent to say about Stuntmutt’s retirement yesterday… conveniently desktop-sized if you’ve got an…

Rokit and friends have kicked off an art contest on the Bungie.net forums – submit your Bungie-related artwork, maybe go home with some cool Bungie store schwag. Go read the rules! Thanks, Maximum Fear.(Louis Wu 19:35:59 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found an interesting lamp on eBay recently; a jackal squares off against a pair of spartans in a tree. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:25:15 UTC)

SPARTAN 294 pointed out that according to Major Nelson, Call of Duty 4 is still on top of the LIVE activity charts. I did some math… and I’d like to personally apologize for this. You see, CoD4 started this run on February 7… the day before I stopped playing Halo 3 – except for three…

I love it when a plan comes together. At least, that’s what it SEEMS like is happening with Halo Action Figure Theater – Elnea let us know that HAFT 133 went live last night, and things are STARTING to look like they have a shape. (She’s also got some interesting background info on the lengths…

Cocopjojo pointed out a new blog at Ascendant Justice – there are a few articles up already. Old and Aspiring looks at the upcoming Legendary Map Pack (and tries to make some predictions), they’ve got a Downloadable Content Page where they’ve compiled every quote Bungie’s given about each upcoming map, and they’re kicking off a…

Insight Gamer (and others in his thread) have been playing around with Spartan Laser physics – reminds me of the early days of Halo again! With Theater mode, you can see all sorts of secrets behind the curtain…(Louis Wu 13:54:54 UTC)