Year: 2008

ZZoMBiE13 explores the dangers of Grifball… for fans. Check today’s entry of Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 18:37:19 UTC)

Miles Dude sent in a funny dialogue clip he captured between a couple of marines – go listen to it in our Dialogue Databank!(Louis Wu 18:25:35 UTC)

Anti Enemy is selling (bartering?) the website, ‘spartan117.com’. He’s looking for best offer – doesn’t have to be money, I guess. Go check.(Louis Wu 18:23:01 UTC)

Herr Zrbo, among others, let us know that the Legendary Map Pack maps now have representative Heat Maps (showing kills and deaths) posted on Bungie.net. There’s no actual data yet – but the overhead views are nice…(Louis Wu 13:15:31 UTC)

Maximum Fear noticed that Fyreball is running a Halo tournament – 4v4, all team members must be signed up on Fyreball, all teams must be signed up by the end of today. Prizes!(Louis Wu 13:12:28 UTC)

Wow, this is very cool. pete_the_duck decided to see if he could use the camera coordinates (shown when in pan-cam mode, and visible in cutscenes) to revisit cutscene locations while in Theater mode. He was successful in a number of locations on the Ark. Check out his pics!(Louis Wu 12:56:38 UTC)

SirTopEmHat stopped by to point out a new montage preview he’s putting together, using gameplay from Str8 Rippin’s Tsquared. Short but sweet!(Louis Wu 12:45:32 UTC)

AngelicLionheart noticed a rendering of Master Chief doing the CaramellDansen. It’s much longer than it needs to be – but funny nonetheless.(Louis Wu 12:31:41 UTC)

John_117 put together a ‘War Memorial’ vid, which he posted on YouTube – it’s surprisingly evocative. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:08:55 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across another life-size, made-of-steel energy sword for sale on eBay. It ain’t cheap – but it’s pretty nicely finished! You’ve still got three and a half days to decide – current bid is just under $175.(Louis Wu 12:07:08 UTC)

Well, yesterday’s news was frozen at midday in order to keep the Vidoc story at the top; I thought it was a worthwhile sacrifice. However, it means there’s a bit of built-up queued news at this point… let’s start with some very cool panoramas posted yesterday by RVideo. (There’s also one extra one in this…

Bungie has posted ‘Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map!’ – a brand-new Vidoc that looks at the three new maps coming next week in the Legendary Map Pack. This one is fun – it’s along the lines of the old ‘Evolution’ video, where a bunch of Bungie guys get together and discuss the content, and…

Morpheus noticed that G4TV recently posted a ‘Top 7 Toughest Boss Battles of 07’ – and Halo 3’s Scarabs came in at Number 3. Fun watch!(Louis Wu 17:21:07 UTC)

Gamasutra has an interview with Englobe’s Tom Edwards about gaming’s ‘Geocultural Risks’. One of the examples he discusses is a name change he oversaw during the development of Halo 2. It’s been known for quite some time that the Arbiter was originally known as ‘Dervish’, and the name was changed for political reasons… but I’ve…

Halo France has interviewed Graeme Divine, from the Halo Wars team – there’s quite a bit of information here! Go give it a read – either in its original English, or its translated French. Thanks, Sirkan!(Louis Wu 17:00:15 UTC)

Underdawg253 dropped into our forum with word of ‘Ezekiel’, the latest offering from Etzun Films. This is the first part of 3, and it might confuse you. (Or it might not.) He links to a YouTube version, and mid-quality downloadable version from FileFront, and the original thread at HaloGrid (with hidden spoilers if you want…

SPARTAN 294 reported that once again, CoD4 is on top of the Most Played list on LIVE. From the thread responses, it sounds like our forum denizens are getting tired of hearing about it.(Louis Wu 16:36:10 UTC)