Year: 2008

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 tonight and tomorrow at Roy Thomson Hall. This tidbit of information is on a Halo news page because the conductor, Peter Oundjian, and a journalist, John Keillor, suggest that Mahler’s impetus for the 4th and our enjoyment of the carnage of the Halo 3 battlefield…

It’s a day for comics, I guess – Dan Baker has posted Page 3 of his Halo Comic – it’s just a little one… but it sets up a pretty critical scene. Go see!(Louis Wu 16:58:51 UTC)

Psychophan7 noticed a new job offering at Bungie – Cinematic Animator. It’s not Halo-related (well, probably not) – but it’s of interest to a significant chunk of our reader base, so here you go. (I wish Bungie would date these…)(Louis Wu 16:55:18 UTC)

Dennis Powers wrote to say that the second episode of the Halo CE Chronicles Comic, ‘Everyone Out of the Pool’, is now online. He’s also posted a comic tribute to Stuntmutt. (We miss him too, Dennis.) (Louis Wu 16:53:19 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue pointed out that Reclaimer Chapter Three, Part Eleven has been posted – are you starting to get an idea about Archimedes? (Louis Wu 13:50:40 UTC)

Omega noticed that there’s another Forerunner structure (as concept art) posted over at the Halo Wars website. This one looks pretty cool – I love the ground work!(Louis Wu 13:46:19 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a fun series on machinima.com – check out ‘Confirmed Kills’ for some great Xbox LIVE plays.(Louis Wu 13:32:05 UTC)

The Calgary Herald has a piece on the recent Pro Gaming League tournament in Alberta, Canada – it’s a view of the tournament scene from someone who really isn’t part of it. Short and sweet.(Louis Wu 12:32:01 UTC)

oriol let us know that Grunts R Us have put together a search function for Bungie.net’s Community Files collection. It uses Google’s search engine, with some custom tweaks; you can search by keyword, author, filetype, and more. Go try it out!(Louis Wu 12:30:04 UTC)

spesalfred is working on a Halo-based flash game in which you use MAC guns to protect Earth from the invading Covenant fleet. It’s coming along – but he really needs help with some artwork. He’s got a playable game you can try out; it’s rough, but it should show you where he’s going. If you’d…

Apologies for the delay – we’ve fallen behind on the release of the Halo 2 Hi-Def cutscenes, but the next one (Return to Sender) is now available. Once again, the link will give you a random selection from the mirror lists – hosts include ClanInfectionist, bungie.org, and Wraith-Ops. Thanks, all!(Louis Wu 20:45:32 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a rather intense modded action figure on eBay today; if I explain what makes it intense, I’ll need to put a spoiler tag on this newspost, so I’d rather just tell you to jump over to her blog post. You’ve got a few days to think about this… current bid is at…

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip is a little odd – but I think ZZoMBiE13’s motives were pure.(Louis Wu 15:21:30 UTC)

So even with a DoubleXP weekend, Halo 3 couldn’t pass Call of Duty 4 on the LIVE activity list. To all those who said CoD4 was just a flash in the pan… what have they to say now? (Thanks, SPARTAN 294.)(Louis Wu 14:31:45 UTC)

Over at Red vs Blue, folks who haven’t seen Recovery One can find Part Two available for watching… and sponsors can watch the director’s commentary. Pretty interesting backstory stuff!(Louis Wu 11:30:23 UTC)

Scotty let us know about The Social, a new website aimed at the social aspects of Halo 3. It’s a place to share content, stats, and more; they’ve even got their own medal chest (a lot like Bungie’s medal chest, except with different medals). Take a look – and if you like what you see,…

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for a Tied The Leader update. XerxdeeJ doesn’t disappoint – there are a few new bits to be seen. There’s a funny whine about those gold bars that’ll show up on the bottom of your rank icon if you wait too long to level up, there’s an interview with the…

Keegan stopped by again to show off the basic smoothing on his Arbiter helmet – looking pretty good! (If you missed ’em, earlier pictures went up a few days ago.)(Louis Wu 11:04:07 UTC)