Year: 2008

The Handmade Hero pointed out a trick jumping vid made by a group called Jump Theory, called ‘Circatage’. It shows off some amazing jumps. Clearly many of them were done with non-standard settings (‘standard’ meaning ‘base matchmaking’)… but all of the tricks are pretty incredible. (The cone-jumpers were definitely some of the most impressive.) Check…

XerxdeeJ stopped by on this special election Tuesday (don’t forget to vote, if you’re a US citizen over 18!), with news of a writeup for ChicagoLANd 3.0, a LAN party that gathered a few dozen Tied the Leader Gunslingers (and friends) for three days of cameraderie, carnage, and comestibles. There’s a video recap, as well…

During the Tokyo Game Show, some Halo Wars footage was released showing the buildup of Alpha Base, and the kickoff of the game. It was watchable live, and later archived on GameTrailers – but it was recorded in the room, off the screen, so audio is a bit hollow, and video is darker than it…

Azrael let us know that the latest HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live on the HBOFF forum. Go see what was good, and why.(Louis Wu 14:42:40 UTC)

Narcogen took exception to the points made in yesterday’s editorial, over at Cinema Blend, that Halo is ‘killing console gaming’. When Narc takes exception to something, he often offers a rebuttal – and this time he doesn’t disappoint. Swing by Rampancy.net for a well-written, 2200 word treatise on where multiplayer stands in the heirarchy of…

MasterCheifn noticed a small Flash piece over at DeviantART – Night-Strider wanted to see what Halo would look like with Mirror’s Edge’s Freerunning style. Interesting!(Louis Wu 14:39:36 UTC)

The newest Bungie.net blog piece is a ‘tag and release’ article – trolling the community fileshare for cool ‘Sniper’ pictures, maps, and game variants. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 21:40:33 UTC)

Dennis Powers sent along an October update for the Halo Custom Edition game Archive – there were 66 new maps and assets added during the month, bringing the total to over 3600 items. Two notable additions: Island Hopping by SiMuLaCrUm, and Snowcast by Sasc/Çound. Go look!(Louis Wu 21:38:57 UTC)

New project just went live over at I <3 halo 3 screenshots – Halo video game cover art. That’s right – they want you to build video game covers, using Halo 3 screenshots. Get to working! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:44:49 UTC)

Cinema Blend (a website that has not shown a lot of love for Halo in the past) has a new editorial up – this time, they’re claiming that Halo 2 and Halo 3 multiplayer are stifling your online gaming options. The argument is that since everyone online is playing Halo 2 or Halo 3, there…

Mondo J. Gecko stopped in with word of a montage of gameplay from him and his brother – mostly vehicle stuff, but also some clutch multikills. It’s not very long – check it out!(Louis Wu 19:04:22 UTC)