Month: March 2008

Mid7night put up a copule of movies of his X-Plane Hornet model in action – no sound, but it’s pretty cool-looking nonetheless!(Louis Wu 13:48:46 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out a moving entry in the MLG Film Festival – check out In Master Chief We Trust, by TheDuoGroup.(Louis Wu 13:37:08 UTC)

Halo Wars has put up another Monthly Update – mostly, it’s a discussion of some music recording the team is doing, and an upcoming tournament they’ll be playing. Give it a read! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:05:35 UTC)

Six new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:08 UTC)

Bungie posted their latest Halo Humpday Challenge last night – it’s easier to pull off a Bungie win when both teams are Bungie. They played on the new maps – if you want to get a sense for flow, give it a read! BolognaFire was first with the news.(Louis Wu 12:57:22 UTC)

The opening cutscene of Sacred Icon, ‘Uncomfortable Silence’, is now available in HD for your downloading pleasure from our Cutscene Library. Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist and Wraith7n. Man, I’d forgotten how gorgeous some of the settings in that scene were…(Louis Wu 22:35:13 UTC)

Wow. If you’ve got REALLY deep pockets, the Spiker from one of the Believe commercials is being auctioned off live, tomorrow – starting bid is $3500, with an expectation that it might reach $5500. (I’ve never participated in a live auction on eBay before – but apparently, they get to charge a premium on top…

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a new interview with an old name… Shishka is back at Bungie, and he’s here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he’s gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!)(Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC)

Have you ever wondered what grenades do when you’re not using them? ZZoMBiE13 has. Go read Another Halo Comic Strip for details.(Louis Wu 17:54:16 UTC)

Cody Miller announced the opening of High Score Halo, a subsite of High Speed Halo whereby you can win fame and accolades (or at least your initials on a cool retro high score list) by garnering the most points in a Halo 3 campaign run. Go see!(Louis Wu 15:40:52 UTC)

If it wasn’t enough to see articles that say “Halo sucks, even though it gave us the underpinnings of an entire generation of shooters”, and “Halo sucks, even Barbie’s Horse Adventure is more fun”, now SPARTAN 294 reminds us that Halo sucks, and has come in second again, to Call of Duty 4, for the…

Wow. OboeCrazy wrote an English Horn solo with some Oboe and experimentation with guitar pedals… and Elnea added some background effects… and the result is haunting. Go listen to ‘Prayer’, a “Covenant prayer to their Gods for the Great Journey…a prayer essentially for death, and filled with Flood.” (It’s unlikely that there’ll be bandwidth problems,…

Man, it’s the day to hate on Halo 3, I guess. ExtremeTech has an article that rates games as to whether they’re better, or worse, than Halo 3. Only one game lost to Bungie’s newest release on their entire 10-game roster – Crysis. I realized I couldn’t take the list seriously, though, when they described…

Dan Baker let us know that he’s added new content to his (very high quality) Halo comic – Page 3 has two new panels since we last mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. Go look! (He says more is coming soon.)(Louis Wu 14:17:21 UTC)

Over at Games Are Fun, there’s a summary of what Halo has done for the shooter genre on consoles. It’s a funny article, because the guy who wrote it clearly doesn’t like Halo at all… but still admits that it did a few things right. Give it a look.(Louis Wu 14:13:31 UTC)

Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #139 – the pretty blue lady explains how she makes her most important choices. I think it’s a valuable glimpse into the female mind.(Louis Wu 13:48:49 UTC)