Month: August 2008

Over at NeoGAF, Cocopjojo posted a Halo-inspired piece called ‘In Search of Truth’, written by his buddy musicman117. I think it’s great – you should go listen to it. It’s being hosted currently at Ascendant Justice.(Louis Wu 17:06:24 UTC)

S3NATOR stopped in with pictures of a wooden sniper rifle, made by Socket29 over at Bungie.net. Nice work!(Louis Wu 16:57:49 UTC)

MsValentine has appeared in public in her Halo 2 Cortana outfit a few times – but her recent outing, at the 2008 San Diego ComicCon, yielded some amazing photos. We’ve put up a gallery. Check it out.(Louis Wu 16:07:45 UTC)

Darkspire Films posted the final episode for Matchmaking Season One, ‘Matchmaking Episode 16 – Destiny’, a couple of weeks ago… but we missed it. Good stuff. There’s also a teaser for Season 2 – coming soonish! Thanks, UltimaPooh.(Louis Wu 15:51:58 UTC)

Hmm… this is a little odd. Gemini Ace has a pic of a couple of pairs of Halo-themed boxers and lounge pants found at Kohl’s (a nationwide department store chain). A little searching found the lounge pants for sale on eBay (just under 7 days remaining) – no luck on another source for the boxers,…

Scotty let us know that it’s double xp weekend at Halo 3 RPG again – Team Rockets.(Louis Wu 15:16:42 UTC)

Only five new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – but a bunch of familiar names!(Louis Wu 14:39:37 UTC)

OddGodHMK continues to incorporate Halo into his Boring Comics series – #8 takes a shot at Ensemble for inappropriately pimping their product. (Louis Wu 14:38:21 UTC)

Dragoncoals let us know that ForgeHub has announced the winners of its Best of Forge Spring/Summer 08 competition. Congrats to all the finalists! (Louis Wu 14:36:04 UTC)

Gamepro put together a roster of the 8 Most Powerful Video Game Studios. Bungie made the list, on the strength of its Halo products. Thanks to Black Six for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:59 UTC)

Insabul pointed out Alliance: Episode 1, kicking off a new machinima series. Goals seem to be pretty ambitious – it remains to be seen if they’ll achieve these goals.(Louis Wu 14:30:31 UTC)

H3Press and Injured Knee Productions have gotten together for a contest – prizes go to the best music video using only footage from IKProductions.net. Go read the full rules, and check out the prizes, at H3Press! Thanks, Mike Reiss.(Louis Wu 13:49:38 UTC)

Back in November 2006, There’s Something about Halo 2 was released on Newgrounds – a flash parody of the Halo 2 storyline. Apparently, the Halo 3 version was cancelled – but one part, The Covenant, was released recently by its creator. Too bad we can’t see the whole thing! Thanks, Psychophan7.(Louis Wu 13:25:30 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced the availability of Reclaimer 74 – the Reclaimer decides to take a more aggressive role in dealing with the Master Chief.(Louis Wu 12:38:45 UTC)