Year: 2008

Kotaku has posted an article detailing the control scheme of Halo Wars – go see if it makes sense to you! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:46:59 UTC)

Al7eredBeasT stopped in with pictures of an infection form plushie he made this weekend… cute!(Louis Wu 17:42:56 UTC)

Okay, I’m confused. Back in March, Mindless Distortion released Gray Team Transmission One. A week later, they released Gray Team Transmission Two Trailer, and followed that up about two months later with Gray Team: Transmission 2 – Part 1. As far as I can tell, they never released part 2 – the next video in…

Wow. onebitrocket pointed out this artwork of an Elite (and some Brutes), done by Chase-SC2 over on DeviantART. Amazing! (He also did a pretty nice ODST image.) Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:47:46 UTC)

Back in January, we mentioned a ‘Build a Spartan’ flash app created by Scotty GEE – it wasn’t done, but it was pretty nice. We just got word from Scotty – it’s done now. Very cool! Go play with it. You can even take a screenshot when you’re happy with your creation!(Louis Wu 13:43:58 UTC)

Red vs Blue: Reconstruction Chapter 8 has been posted over at Rooster Teeth – this series just keeps getting better. These guys are taking machinima to a whole new level – I’m not sure how long I can say that about each new episode, but I really am impressed. Go watch. (I’ll echo BlueNinja’s “wow”.)…

Heh – over at Tied the Leader, you’ll find a fun exposition on the woes of wearing Recon in Matchmaking (made me smile), and a level-headed reminder that the subject we find ourselves up in arms about occasionally is, after all, only a game. Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 10:14:45 UTC)

Midni7ght posted a very high resolution (1900×1200) version of In Amber Clad flying through the Grand Canyon – no sound, but the camera angles actually gave me a moment of vertigo!(Louis Wu 10:13:56 UTC)

The Bungie.net blog posted a couple of items yesterday that were new to HBO. DigitalPh33r released a Director’s Commentary version of the first episode of Arby ‘n’ the Chief; he has a little trouble staying focused on what he’s saying at times, but in general, it’s an interesting look into how he works. And the…

Yesterday, Google Alerts brought me news of a new screenshot released by Predator5791 and highlighted by bs angel on her I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots website. I’m hesitant to point out specific screenshots on our front page, because… well, because there are millions of them out there, and once you start to spotlight individual shots,…

Bah. Hyokin sent along this screengrab from the ‘Five Long Years’ cinematic that Ensemble released to hype Halo Wars – it shows the Legendary emblem painted on the nose of some Pelicans. I don’t have high hopes for the whole ‘sticking to canon’ thing when UNSC aircraft, meeting Covenant forces for the very first time…

Kotaku talked to Phil Spencer and Shane Kim about Halo – seems to be a bit of spin about the botched announcement last week, but nothing was really said. The interviewer asked about Bungie’s new project, the Halo movie, Halo “Blue”, Peter Jackson’s project – and got positive but vague answers about all of them.…

Last night, we got a message from a pretty trustworthy Halo 3 player, discussing an incident that occurred in a game played a few minutes earlier. Before the veto countdown had finished, the opposite team sent messages to all players, and one of the recipients opened the image file included in the message – that…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 37 is up – not all reactions are induced by external forces.(Louis Wu 17:00:54 UTC)

Longtime forum member Gryphonosiris recently published a review of Halo 3 – apparently, it was written right after the game came out, but never went up. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:36:59 UTC)