Year: 2008

Last night, Bungie posted a Q&A session with Brian Jarrard about the Bungie Pentathlon, an internal battle of skill that involves all (okay, a lot of) Bungie employees in a day of debauchery and gameplaying. Halo features strongly, which is what makes this relevant for HBO. Go read about it – and pick your favorite…

Week Two highlights are posted over at Grifball.com – go watch some great play in Flash or QuickTime formats. Rooster Teeth has added commentary this time around.(Louis Wu 14:02:31 UTC)

Doesn’t happen often – but today’s One One Se7en was a genuine laugh-out-loud moment.(Louis Wu 13:56:59 UTC)

I guess it’s the morning to announce movies – we heard from a couple of other people, as well. Lordstemplar1 stopped in to put up a teaser for Blackstone, an upcoming project, and AnTi PRO pointed out a thread on Arm the Flag which provides download links for Oregon Trail: Pioneering Evolved Ep 1. Go…

Geezer Gamers have posted their first annual Geezergamer of the Year Awards – and Halo 3 took both Multiplayer Game of the Year and Geezer Game of the Year. w00t!(Louis Wu 13:42:34 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a video of some pretty amazingly lucky sticks in Halo 3 – a couple actually look like the thrower wanted to hit something, but most were just ‘toss this and pray’ examples. Even so, it’s pretty funny to see folks turn glowy blue (or orange) with zero warning.(Louis Wu 13:40:27 UTC)

Ensemble Concept Artist Bart Tiongson was nice enough to put together a summary of his usual day – this can give you an idea of what a concept artist on a title like Halo Wars does for a job. (He’s also got a small update on Halo Wars itself.) Thanks, Planet Halo.(Louis Wu 13:37:20 UTC)

TheShadyGnome stopped by with word of the newest Forging 101 video tutorial – this one will show you how to build floating platforms. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:34:19 UTC)

A month ago, we mentioned a small app you could use from your iPhone to get your Halo 3 stats – now there’s another option, and it’s pretty amazing. iHaloStats.com shows you everything from a summary page to your medal chest to your weapons stats. All nicely formatted for the iPhone. Check it out! (This…

There’s an interesting piece over at Tied the Leader today – apparently, the Gunslingers are playing quite a bit of Call of Duty 4 these days, like many other people on Xbox Live, and XerxdeeJ looks at some of the reasons why. He also speculates on how long it’ll stay on top, given its strengths…

ZZoMBiE13’s getting into the bad pun biz – check out today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip. Ouch!(Louis Wu 15:18:20 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy wants to give you stuff. Good stuff. She’s got a Halo 3 soundtrack, a $20 gift certificate, a 1-month Gold subscription card for LIVE, and maybe more. And it’s all gonna go to whoever comes up with the best caption for a pic Bungie posted last week. Go read her site for full…

Elnea’s posted Episode 117 (!!!) of her Halo Action Figure Theater – things are looking grim for Admiral Norris! However, the fact that she actually modeled a UNSCDF badge for his hat makes everything better. That… or the cake.(Louis Wu 14:41:27 UTC)

A few weeks ago, we mentioned some performances of the PLAY! concert series in Seattle this month – there are more details now in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Marty O’Donnell will be at both shows!(Louis Wu 14:29:08 UTC)

The Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, TN will be host to a Halo 3 tourney this weekend – check this article in TriCitiesSports.com, or visit the tourney website. Entrance fee is $25/event, and top prize is $1000.(Louis Wu 14:25:03 UTC)

If you’re interested in speedrunning Halo levels, you could just watch the videos at HighSpeedHalo.net – they’ll show you how others are doing it. However, if you’re looking for philosophy of route-taking, you need a blog entry. Ken Henderson has written up a piece on how to beat The Covenant in 20 minutes – I…

Halo 2 was released on November 9, 2004 – and from that point, until the week of November 13, 2006, it was the number one most played game on Xbox LIVE. (Part of that long, long run has to do with a dearth of killer titles for the time frame in question… but certainly Halo…