Year: 2008

Taco Power is looking for help with ideas for his Green and Red stop-motion Halo Kubrick videos – you can watch the first three (they’re each just a few seconds long, and they’re just him playing around with the technique), and then suggest plotlines for him!(Louis Wu 14:56:25 UTC)

Over at the Rooster Teeth website, Burnie’s posted a video that shows off one of the weird glitches in Halo 3 that they (and really MOST) machinima creators need to work around – and some ways of doing exactly that. Education can be entertaining!(Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC)

zukan pointed out a video on YouTube – ‘Le Zapatabadou’ is a French machinima version of Adult Swim’s ‘Robot Chicken’. As he says, even though the dialogue is in French, it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on most of the time – and some of the sketches are quite funny. Take a look!(Louis…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 113 is live – the Reclaimer meets two more members of the Cavalcade.(Louis Wu 14:06:24 UTC)

According to the New York Times, Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor’s mug will appear on 175 million Dr. Pepper labels starting in January – the MLG Pro’s deal is the label’s first sports promotion with national distribution. He’s bigger than the Dallas Cowboys! (They only got regional distribution on Dr. Pepper labels.)(Louis Wu 13:35:01 UTC)

Episode 2 of ODS Steve is now live at Hawty McBloggy’s – DeepCee’s hapless Helljumper proves he has trouble reading (or at least processing).(Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC)

Metalingus627 pointed out a thread at Bungie.net that contains a series of artist renditions of new armor perms (fan-made) – some interesting stuff in there!(Louis Wu 13:34:12 UTC)

Linken91 posted a series of ‘Heroes vs Nemesis’ wallpapers, to commemorate a machinima series – if you like your wallpaper with lots of words, check these out. (Louis Wu 13:33:53 UTC)

nomis78 stopped in with six new panoramas – gorgeous work. Take the time to look at these. Update: looks like radiant penguin has posted his own, today (reminded by nomis78). Some great ones here, too!(Louis Wu 13:31:45 UTC)

Ross Mills noticed an article at Maxim entitled ‘The 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games’ – Halo’s Voice of God renderer makes the list. Some of the ‘memorable lines’ attributed to him, though, might make you wonder. (Louis Wu 13:30:39 UTC)

Anoj108 has posted Episode 14 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Moments series – this one is just a highlights reel from ‘Season 2 (Episodes 8-13). Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:30:16 UTC)

More Halo Wars coverage – The Halo Wars website mentions writeups at Joystiq and Xbox360Achievements.com, in addition to the stuff we mentioned a couple of days ago (post 1 | post 2). Planet Halo points out one at TeamXbox, too. And Wired has put up its own piece. On top of this news, the Halo…

Bungie.net’s ‘Average Joe’ series of interviews grew yesterday when a discussion with Tied the Leader’s XerxdeeJ hit the front page (thanks, Bryan Simon). deeJ isn’t your average ‘Average Joe’, as far as Halo community members go – but he’s modest enough that you’d almost think he wasn’t really responsible for the success of TTL if…

Aaron Spuler was the first to point out a blog post over at Tobias Buckell’s website – the author of the soon-to-be-released ‘Cole Protocol’ novel was admitted to the hospital recently with heart trouble. Here’s hoping this all turns out well! (Louis Wu 13:27:44 UTC)

RandomSauce let us know about a video from CO0L Beans – the man risks life and limb to promote the cause of Halo 3 MythBusters on Xbox Live. Funny stuff – but I’m telling you now, if I met him in Matchmaking, I’d still shoot him. (Louis Wu 13:26:59 UTC)