Year: 2008

Charity Gamers is hosting a Toys For Tots Tournament on December 20 – registration opens tomorrow. It’s a 2v2 Halo3 tourney, with MLG rules. Registration is $20, and the first place team wins $100 – but mostly, you’re competing to bring gifts to poor children. Check out the info page for an overview, and register…

There’s a fascinating look at the construction of the Halo 3 Art book that goes on sale tomorrow – it’s not finished (the last part will be posted tomorrow), but what’s there is a great start. Check it out!(Louis Wu 21:44:59 UTC)

Gamers in Action sat down with Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris to talk about beating Halo 3 Solo, Legendary, All Skulls On – and what drives him to make that information available to the world. Fun read! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:00:44 UTC)

Gamasutra sat down with Graeme Devine and Bill Jackson, of Ensemble Studios, to talk about the control scheme of Halo Wars – how it developed, why it’s better than the way other games do it. It’s a pretty interesting discussion! Go give it a read.(Louis Wu 18:10:47 UTC)

Last night Bryan Simon let us know that he’s whipped up a new song – this one’s not really focused on Halo 3 (though it’s mentioned a couple of times), it’s more about Bungie. It’s called ‘If I Worked At Bungie (For A Day)’, and in it he muses about the fun he’d have. Watch…

For less than half the starting bid of that 8″ or so action figure, you can bid on a high-quality Master Chief helmet, being sold by Briar’s Armor. You’ve got almost a week to decide – starting bid is $149.(Louis Wu 12:48:14 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found an interesting custom action figure… with a starting price that’s more frightening than its visage.(Louis Wu 12:45:18 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 115 is online – which is more than we can say for the Reclaimer himself! Something’s gone wrong…(Louis Wu 12:41:01 UTC)

kr-1426 let us know that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live over at the HBOFF forums – there’s even one for the previous week, now. Go see who the regulars think is worth reading!(Louis Wu 12:39:46 UTC)

If you missed the live streams last night, you can read a recap of the MLG Las Vegas event over at the MLGPro.com website. (You can actually watch the action yourself, if you’d rather.) The money on the line was pretty steep – Str8 Rippin went home with $100,000 for winning the tourney, Instinct took…

MLG Las Vegas is down to its final four Halo teams – Str8 Rippin faces off against Carbon on the Winners Bracket, Final Boss and Instinct are the only two teams left in the Losers Bracket. Play resumes at noon Pacific Time (about 4 hours from the time this is being written) – go watch…

We’ve mentioned Sapber-Scorpion and his LEGO creations many times in the past (just search our news archives) – but recently, he finished up an entire cutscene in LEGO, and Willy noticed. Swing by to see Sierra 117 – Arrival, from start to finish, and more.(Louis Wu 15:39:30 UTC)

DigitalPh33r has posted Season 3 Episode 4 of Arby ‘n’ the Chief – Arby challenges Craig, in the Chief’s name. I guess you have to wait for Episode 5 to see how it turns out… Thanks, AvatarAang.(Louis Wu 22:47:36 UTC)

We’ve mentioned Halo work done in Mario Paint before… but it didn’t sound anything like the copy of One Final Effort that Hawty McBloggy found. Pretty amazing!(Louis Wu 22:15:15 UTC)

Just a reminder – MLG Las Vegas is running right now – the 2008 All-Star Classic has wrapped up (congrats to the East Coast), and the Halo 3 tourney kicks off in about 3 hours. Swing by for all the news, and video coverage!(Louis Wu 16:58:58 UTC)