Year: 2008

retsamolah stopped by with details about the HBO League’s inaugural 1v1 season. (Never heard of the HBO League? Visit the site!) They’re currently in the planning stages for season 2, and this one’s gonna be 2v2. If you’re interested, there are more details in his post.(Louis Wu 18:29:40 UTC)

Gravemind noticed that Bungie has put up high-res versions of the Avalanche screenshots released yesterday in their Screenshots section. Go grab ’em!(Louis Wu 17:41:23 UTC)

In keeping with our ‘Thursday at HBO: All Movies, All the Time’ theme of the news this morning, we’ve got the contest winners from HaloGrid’s Broken Iris contest. All three winning videos are available in streaming and download forms thanks to GTV. Two of the winners are straight-up music videos (they even use the same…

Another one from trigger119 – the Halo Humpday Challenge against the ForgeHub guys was filmed, as planned, last night… and you can watch it (albeit without audio commentary) at GamingTV. Some bizarre gametypes there – I’m not sure what was going on. The first game had everyone (4 Bungie-ites, and 5 ForgeHubbers) on the same…

trigger119 stumbled on a trailer for Contamination, an upcoming machinima vid from rtidwell. Nice cinematography!(Louis Wu 14:56:23 UTC)

Ducain sent along this link to a video done by SneakyPete. It’s been a while since I watched a Halo 1 (well, in this case, Halo PC) trick vid… but man, this guy is GOOD. Check it out – for nostalgia, for smiles, just for the heck of it. YouTube-hosted.(Louis Wu 14:54:00 UTC)

I’ve been meaning to post this all day – but things keep getting in the way. We’ve posted six more HD cutscenes in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library – starting with Juggernaut, and running all the way through Edification, these cover all of the Arbiter and Oracle levels. Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist (and…

For folks who were worried that Avalanche might be less of a remake of Sidewinder, and more of a ‘spiritual successor’, as Guardian was of Lockout, and Valhalla was of Blood Gulch… SketchFactor stopped by our forum to reassure that it’s really “a true re-imagining of Sidewinder but with a few changes made to better…

Dan the Stick thought there wasn’t enough cake on our front page, so he sent along a link to DigitalPh33r’s blog – with pictures of a home-made Master Chief cake his girlfriend and her mother made for him. A lot of Halo cakes are just decals applied to the top layer of frosting – this…

Dennis Powers let us know that the Halo CE Chronicles comic, Episode 3, is now online – I gotta say, discussing pizza when marooned on an island isn’t the brightest course of action… but it looks like they’ll have other things to worry about soon. (Louis Wu 18:31:33 UTC)

Casey Phillips let us know that DashGrounds has opened – it’s a resource for Xbox 360 themes… but a lot of them are Halo-based. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:26:04 UTC)

So, last night we got mail from quinion, who pointed out an auction on eBay for a ‘Signed Halo Mountain Dew Vending Machine’. The seller was ‘bungie_llc’, with 0 feedback, and the picture was pretty generic – and too low-res to actually see any signatures, if there were, indeed, any to be seen. The description…

Halo Action Figure Theater 138 gets John out of the box… but not into Cortana’s (nonexistent) pants. Just as well, I guess.(Louis Wu 13:23:59 UTC)

Well, I was rushing to get all that news posted so I could get to the big stuff – Bungie posted pictures of ‘Avalanche’, one of the new maps coming in the Legendary Map Pack on April 15, along with an interview with some of its designers. Yes, it owes a lot to Sidewinder. No,…

According to Action Figure Insider, Entertainment Earth will be selling an exclusive yellow ODST McFarlane figure this fall. (If I’ve mentioned this before, apologies – it’s really hard to keep track of what’s gone up and what hasn’t, McFarlane-wise.)(Louis Wu 12:41:11 UTC)