Year: 2008

TTL Demag0gue has posted Reclaimer 37 – and Ferial’s scheming becomes more obvious, even as the mystery behind Archimedes deepens.(Louis Wu 15:10:23 UTC)

nomis78 put together a really nice panorama of the control room from the final level of Halo 3. (You can see a higher-res version of the pic in this post.) Pretty stuff!(Louis Wu 14:11:03 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy’s now-traditional (if by ‘traditional’ you mean ‘going strong after 5 weeks’) Friday Caption Fun feature has results from last week, and a new screen for you to caption. Just don’t take mine.(Louis Wu 13:59:58 UTC)

I thought this writeup of Halo 3’s good and bad points (more bad than good, according to the writer) was interesting just because of how differently we interpreted parts of the game. The writer found the opening level of Halo to be claustrophobic, plodding, and badly paced – I found it to be nearly the…

Mid7night put up a copule of movies of his X-Plane Hornet model in action – no sound, but it’s pretty cool-looking nonetheless!(Louis Wu 13:48:46 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out a moving entry in the MLG Film Festival – check out In Master Chief We Trust, by TheDuoGroup.(Louis Wu 13:37:08 UTC)

Halo Wars has put up another Monthly Update – mostly, it’s a discussion of some music recording the team is doing, and an upcoming tournament they’ll be playing. Give it a read! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:05:35 UTC)

Six new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:08 UTC)

Bungie posted their latest Halo Humpday Challenge last night – it’s easier to pull off a Bungie win when both teams are Bungie. They played on the new maps – if you want to get a sense for flow, give it a read! BolognaFire was first with the news.(Louis Wu 12:57:22 UTC)

The opening cutscene of Sacred Icon, ‘Uncomfortable Silence’, is now available in HD for your downloading pleasure from our Cutscene Library. Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist and Wraith7n. Man, I’d forgotten how gorgeous some of the settings in that scene were…(Louis Wu 22:35:13 UTC)

Wow. If you’ve got REALLY deep pockets, the Spiker from one of the Believe commercials is being auctioned off live, tomorrow – starting bid is $3500, with an expectation that it might reach $5500. (I’ve never participated in a live auction on eBay before – but apparently, they get to charge a premium on top…

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a new interview with an old name… Shishka is back at Bungie, and he’s here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he’s gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!)(Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC)

Have you ever wondered what grenades do when you’re not using them? ZZoMBiE13 has. Go read Another Halo Comic Strip for details.(Louis Wu 17:54:16 UTC)

Cody Miller announced the opening of High Score Halo, a subsite of High Speed Halo whereby you can win fame and accolades (or at least your initials on a cool retro high score list) by garnering the most points in a Halo 3 campaign run. Go see!(Louis Wu 15:40:52 UTC)

If it wasn’t enough to see articles that say “Halo sucks, even though it gave us the underpinnings of an entire generation of shooters”, and “Halo sucks, even Barbie’s Horse Adventure is more fun”, now SPARTAN 294 reminds us that Halo sucks, and has come in second again, to Call of Duty 4, for the…

Wow. OboeCrazy wrote an English Horn solo with some Oboe and experimentation with guitar pedals… and Elnea added some background effects… and the result is haunting. Go listen to ‘Prayer’, a “Covenant prayer to their Gods for the Great Journey…a prayer essentially for death, and filled with Flood.” (It’s unlikely that there’ll be bandwidth problems,…