Year: 2008

Over at Rampancy.net, OldNick has posted a new blog entry, this one looking at what can be learned from Bungie’s bold move of splitting the Halo 2 narrative between two opposing sides, and how the community reacted to it. What, exactly, are we looking for from our video games? Interesting subject, interesting blog post. Go…

ZZoMBiE13 takes a look at the Halo 3 machinima scene in the latest installment of Another Halo Comic Strip. We feel for ya, guys!(Louis Wu 19:33:47 UTC)

Last March, we reported a story about Zach Wigal, who tried to set up a Halo tournament at his high school – but got shut down at the last minute by people who misunderstood what he was trying to do. There was a followup in April, in which Zach had turned those negative feelings around…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a blog entry over at Rampancy.net that talked about game AI and what happens when low-level rules are overriden with scripting. Alex Champandard, of AIGameDev.com, has written a follow-up piece which looks at WHY this sort of thing happens, and how it might be avoided in the future.…

Wow. Brian Curry found a bunch of Halo 3 paper giclée prints (Wikipedia can help if you don’t know what giclée is) over at Entertainment Earth – they’re gorgeous. Check out Jolly Green ($89, in stock), Prisoner ($89, in stock), Dismount ($110, preorder only), and Chief and Arbiter ($89, out of stock, but orderable). Just……

Hawty McBloggy has posted a list of New Year’s Resolutions related to Halo gaffes she’s made in the past year – complete with film clips. Awesome. Go read, go download. Funny stuff!(Louis Wu 18:59:57 UTC)

Wow, very cool. Gilbert Arenas, the sponsor of MLG superstars Final Boss, has announced that he’s sponsoring the first online tournament that will determine seeding for the MLG 2008 Pro Circuit – he’s paying registration fees for all teams who enter. That’s right – you can enter for free, and have a shot at gaining…

Yahoo Games has posted their list of the 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2008 – and Halo Wars is smack-dab in the middle of the list. Nice going! Thanks, vshields ash.(Louis Wu 17:58:09 UTC)

Major Nelson has posted a summary of the top LIVE titles of 2007 – and Halo tops two of the three lists. Halo 3 is the top Xbox 360 title of the year (not bad, given that it only had 3 months to build up the largest number of Unique Users), and Halo 2 is…

Over at Planet Halo, Mr. Titan is unhappy with the choices he’s got for playing Halo 3 online; he wants a server browser, so that he can pick and choose the game he wants to play, rather than be thrown into a randomly-chosen game in matchmaking, or have to work to put together a full…

mrsmiley let us know that etoli, a regular at the Halo Babies website and a fantastic artist with a lot of Halo fan work under her belt, has gotten a job as a character designer on an upcoming Wii game. He’s interviewed her about the path she took from fan artist to professional artist -…

Bungie’s back to weekly updates – this first one since the holiday break is loaded with reminders, plus tidbits about the upcoming Pentathlon, some info about new maps, and info about an upcoming Live patch. Go read, either at Bungie.net or in our Weekly Update Archive!(Louis Wu 03:54:26 UTC)

GameZombie.tv had a video roundtable about Halo 3 – you can watch it at Revver. (Louis Wu 18:52:44 UTC)

Another minor spoiler in today’s One One Se7en – but a nice shot at a particularly unpleasant denizen of Xbox LIVE. Go read.(Louis Wu 15:42:26 UTC)

VVM noticed a post at MajorNelson.com that updates us all on some sales stats. You might remember that the worldwide numbers at the start of December were a bit below 6 million copies of Halo 3 sold – according to MN, worldwide numbers are now at 8.1 million copies, suggesting that 2.3 million copies were…

TTL Demag0gue continues Reclaimer with Chapter Two, Part Thirteen – and a new (old?) character appears. Are you confused yet? (Louis Wu 13:37:54 UTC)