Year: 2008

Due to a complicated sales manouver by Microsoft, players of Halo 3 in Europe and Africa have caused an intriguing pattern to be created on Bungie’s Players Online map (visible both on their website and in the Matchmaking lobby on Xbox LIVE). It’s unclear how long they can convince these players to stay online (and…

The massive Inside Job, a four and a half minute cutscene weighing in at about 200 mb in HD, is now up for downloading in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library. From a story standpoint, this one can’t be missed. From a gorgeousness standpoint, this one is up there with the best. Go watch! Thanks, as…

Ducain forwarded some interesting news from laser – looks like someone’s trying to bring Halo maps into Goldeneye 007. Check out the Hang ’em High movie!(Louis Wu 21:11:16 UTC)

A couple of months ago, someone (I can’t figure out who) pointed out this picture at Renderosity.com – a very nice render of a Halo landscape, built in Bryce. I asked for, and received, permission to add this to our Misc Art collection, from Orestes, the creator – but somehow, I never actually NOTICED the…

Hawty McBloggy found a fun shirt at Split Reason – go look!(Louis Wu 19:13:21 UTC)

Next-Gen has an interview with CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s cinematics director – read it for a glimpse inside the studio, a look at how the work pipeline has changed over the years, and a positive spin on Seattle’s weather! Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)

RVideo ran across a pretty impressive artist over at Renderosity.com – Ubald has been creating Halo-related images for a couple of years now. I’ve sent off a request to him to be allowed to mirror the Halo content here, for ease of viewing – but you should look through the links RVideo has supplied, and…

A couple of years ago, Cody Miller announced that he’d finished Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, with no deaths – if you wanted to watch it in a reasonably viewable form, you had to download a two-gigabyte file. A couple of days ago, we were contacted by SPDN p0iz3n0us, who’s now done the same thing…

This has been discussed before, but the inclusion of our planet for scale is a nice touch. Stephen Loftus has used a screenshot from Halo 3 along with some previous reference info to estimate the size of the Ark. That’s one big structure!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)

I’d like to apologize for a post I made yesterday, tying a UFO sighting to the IRIS ARG. While those images did surface during the ARG, they were shown to be unconnected to the game itself (the only thread I could find on a superficial search was this one). Thanks to DHalo for the heads-up.…

TTL Demag0gue has let us know that Reclaimer Part 38 is now online – Ferial becomes less, rather than more, clear. (The comic has also moved to its own domain. While the old links still work – they’re being redirected to the new site – I’ve updated the links in our news database just for…

Cocopjojo let us know that the second part in an analysis of Halo 3’s Terminals by vociferous is now online at Ascendant Justice. It’s a very extensive and well-researched look at the story of Didact and the Librarian – if you didn’t pay very close attention to the terminals as you ran through the game,…

EternalDarkWing let us know that a friend created a custom Halo 3 Grunt Birthday Party skull – pics and details can be found at Destructoid. It’s even got the input plug!(Louis Wu 12:44:31 UTC)

Dan Baker has stepped up the pace on his Halo comic – Page 3 has been finished, Page 4 has a gorgeous panel on it, and the whole thing, to date, has been made available in PDF format, if you want to print it out yourself. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:56:26 UTC)

Maximum Fear has an update on his Forge Art contest posted on his site – entries are still welcome until April 25, but you can see a few of the best things he’s gotten so far by swinging by his site.(Louis Wu 21:53:46 UTC)