Year: 2008

Terminator182 let us know that his HBO RSS News Widget has gotten a few minor tweaks (version number is now 2.22); looks like fonts have been cleaned up. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:03:55 UTC)

Sigafoos pointed us to The Riot 102 – 21 minutes, 9 mb, full of challenges, videos, and – mudkips? WTF…(Louis Wu 12:25:44 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by with word of a Tied the Leader update – no writeup on the LAN festivities yet (hey, they spent a couple of weeks partying, it might take a few days to recap the fun!), but there are two new articles: a new panel discussion about the parts of Halo that might be…

Captain Spark figured out a way to break Sierra 117 – nice going, dude. Who’s gonna pay for that? (Louis Wu 12:10:34 UTC)

Simpsons Rule was the first to notice an article over at Kotaku about Balloon Guy… and his amazing talents with balloons. (Check out his Featured Images slideshow – there’s some really cool stuff in there.)(Louis Wu 12:08:07 UTC)

Bungie.net contains a list of changes that will go live in roughly 5 hours to the Halo 3 Matchmaking playlist – 1v1 is back! (And 3Ball is coming in a few weeks…) Go read all the details.(Louis Wu 11:58:45 UTC)

RvB’s Reconstruction Chapter 2 is now online for the public (and in a larger format for Sponsors). We’re back to the humor! And the music. And stuff. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)

You may or may not have known that Tied the Leader held another of their huge clanwide LANs earlier this month – it was a full vacation for many of the attendees. My guess is tomorrow’s Tied the Leader update will have a full writeup of the event – but to whet your appetite, Stuicide…

Pez is pretty excited that halowiki.net is the top choice for Google if you search for ‘Halo 3 Tips’ – and he thinks it’s because they finally realized how bad their Tips page was, and reorganized it to be… well, good. Go check it out! (Louis Wu 22:56:36 UTC)

Xbox360Fanboy has shots of the packaging for the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 2 figures – things are a little less bulky this time around.(Louis Wu 22:51:27 UTC)

Once again, Luke Smith was the first to let us know about the latest episode of the Stride Championship Series at MLGPro.com – Week 3 is Final Boss vs Triggers Down, Team Slayer on Narrows. It’s a blowout – but maybe not the way you’d expect. We mentioned Week One back on May 24 -…

More Halo comic stuff for you around the web today – Shipwrecked Episode 25 (“Out of the Frying Pan”) and Larry the Marine Episode 24 (“How it all began, Part 9”) were both put up. Thanks, Dennis Powers and 2Phast!(Louis Wu 18:37:17 UTC)