Year: 2008

El Mayimbe let us know about the fifth (and final) piece of Kasra Farahani’s concept art from the project being put together by Stuart Beattie – this one shows off the destruction of the Pillar of Autumn, which blends in to the beginning of the first Halo game. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 22:49:38 UTC)

Elnea’s back – Halo Action Figure Theater #151 is now online. I’m not sure the Canadians are going to be happy. I laughed, though.(Louis Wu 20:04:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has been busy – she’s got three new Halo-related things for you to check out. The biggest is her writeup of the Bungie experience at PAX (great pics – and you should page back through her blog for lots more in the last few days), but there are also some gorgeous pictures of…

Last week, we mentioned an ode to Bungie from Bryan Simon – he’s back, with another piece. This time, he’s offering Bungie the chance to burn out their frustrations with fan anger on him… go listen. Thanks, Stacey. (Louis Wu 14:37:00 UTC)

At 5:30 on Sunday afternoon, Bungie got rid of a huge number of boxes of schwag that had been taking up room in storage somewhere; they did it by tossing stuff out to a large crowd in front of their booth. It’s sort of amazing nobody got hurt – some of those boxes have really…

NeoGAF’s Kibbles was amused by ScrewAttack’s “Hard News” segment in which Assembly was described this way: “It looks like a remake of Midship, the popular Halo 2 map that a lot of people love” (2:05 in). Before you go insane, it looks nothing like Midship, except for the color scheme. (Louis Wu 13:57:00 UTC)

Maxim posted a list of the “13 Most Badass Video Game Power Suits” – they’re not all armored, some are literally power suits (pinstripes and all), but Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor made it to number 12. Thanks, NickLee808.(Louis Wu 13:56:41 UTC)

Cody Miller noticed a Master Chief costume in Hollywood yesterday. His speculation is clearly a joke, but it’s a nice shot! (Louis Wu 13:56:11 UTC)

TDG, over at NeoGAF, noticed a pretty high-quality film of Assembly on GameVideos – the gameplay’s nothing special, but the view of the map is the best I’ve seen on the web. (You can download a 720p version of it from that page.) (Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)

Al7eredBeasT posted a pattern for creating your own infection form plushie, along with a tutorial for building it. Swing by if you want one of these cuties!(Louis Wu 13:54:24 UTC)

This weekend, Z sent along a link to a tritage featuring MoNsTeR, vFoFo, and Tags II (Tags II did the editing); it’s more than 10 minutes long, but it’s got a lot of fun plays, and plenty of slick editing. Just under 200 mb – an enjoyable watch. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:53:43 UTC)

Okay, I thought i could come home and clear out the mail queue – but I didn’t count on the plane trip from hell. I’m pretty lucky I made the drive from the airport in one piece – there’s no way I can get coherent news on the front page. More tomorrow, I guess…(Louis Wu…