Year: 2008
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Nine new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read! (Submitters – don’t forget to read the submission guidelines… I hate having to delete submissions because they violate the rules.)(Louis Wu 17:17:11 UTC)
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Stride Championship Series, Episode 4
MLGPro.com has posted Episode 4 of its Stride Championship Series – this time it’s Fatal Images vs Ambush on Guardian, and it’s a nailbiter. Thanks to the Bungie Blog for the heads-up (though it’s incorrectly labeled as Part 5 there).(Louis Wu 17:15:49 UTC)
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Part 5 of the Stride Championship Series
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Episode 5 of the MLG Stride Championship Series is out on mlgpro.com.
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RT: Learning on the streets
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Just in case you missed it, today’s comic is a followup to Tuesday’s. See how we layer that shit? We’re like the Steinbeck of video game comics. Additionally, today’s sponsor comic is living it up over here. dggeoff
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The Lord of the Halo
Wow – ReleasetheMonk continues with his Halo-footage-and-movie-soundtracks mashups – this time, it’s Lord of the Rings, and I have to say, I’m impressed with the timing. Great clip choices, great synching! Go watch. (Louis Wu 21:10:31 UTC)
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Wartogs in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
elessar787 noticed a photoshop contest on cracked.com where people added video game items to real-life photos. Halo gets its share of love.(Louis Wu 21:09:31 UTC)
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Terminal Smuggling
Wow, very cool. Capt Spanish has reformatted the Smuggler text (provided for us in recent Bungie Weekly Updates) into a more… appropriate style. Go see!(Louis Wu 20:32:59 UTC)
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Deconstructing the Spawn Point
Over at Forge Hub, Devinish has put together a pretty extensive Advanced Guide to Respawns – if you’re into building maps with Forge, this puppy is almost certainly worth reading. Thanks, Luke.(Louis Wu 20:21:15 UTC)
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Reverse Engineering the Spawn System
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Halo community member Devinish theorises on The Forge’s spawning system. Expect mathematical precision, big friendly diagrams and potential enlightenment in this detailed article at Forge Hub.
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Not Sisterball This Time
As of half an hour ago, the latest Double Experience Weekend went active on Xbox Live – Grifball (Spring League Rules, for real this time) is going until Monday morning, early. Go get hammered!(Louis Wu 18:32:15 UTC)
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Misc Art Deluge – restoppering dam
Okay, it’s not COMPLETELY clear – there’ve been submissions in the past couple of weeks that haven’t made it in, I think – but the last batch of processed Miscellaneous Art is now up for viewing. Some pretty cool stuff in there today! (I’d have to say my favorites were from Trevor Corbin and Nelson…
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Free Games for South Africans
You may have noticed – it’s a pretty slow news day, Halo-wise. If you live in South Africa, you’ve got a chance to win a ‘games hamper’ (a collection of 360 games, including Halo 3) just for filling out the form on this page at iafrica.com. Not a bad deal!(Louis Wu 17:57:39 UTC)
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Foundry Designer (Forgers Look!)
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Hey everyone, Just wanted to share a new application I found called the Foundry Designer. It is a flash-based application created by the guys over at Forgehub.com which allows you to build a 2D floor plan of your next foundry map! You can find the Foundry Designer at FH’s website here. For bandwidth reasons, they…
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User-Generated Foundry Flash Player
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Folks at ForgeHub created a flash-based Foundry Designer where users can mock up their Foundry maps.
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Official Grifball Tourney Tonight
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Grifball.com is hosting an official Bum-Rush Tournament tonight to launch the new Grifball Summer League Map!
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Ascendant Justice’s Hindsight Series Continues
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Cocopjojo once again revisits Halo 3’s campaign, this time tackling the horrors of Floodgate…
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Check out The Running Riot’s favorite Community Files
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The Running Riot received about 100 Screenshots and 80 Film Clips in the past two weeks. We picked 3 of each as our favorites and they are up now!
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Misc Art Deluge Continues
As promised (I BET YOU THOUGHT I FORGOT! HAH!), there’s another batch of Miscellaneous Art posted today – sketches, paintings, even a panorama. Go see! (No, the queue’s not empty yet.)(Louis Wu 18:22:02 UTC)
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Enigma Chapter 1
Moorhead let us know about Enigma, his new machinima series – Chapter 1 is up on YouTube now. It’s a mystery! (Nice cinematography.)(Louis Wu 18:08:37 UTC)