Month: March 2009

Awesome story over at Destructoid today – “How Killzone 2 is blatantly better than Halo 3” is full of the sort of sharp insights, logical conclusions, and serious reporting that has made game journalism what it is today. (In all seriousness, it’s very funny.)(Louis Wu 15:08:29 UTC)

If you’ve got a minimum of 60 posts already on the XboxGameZone forums (they’re a UK Xbox site), you should read this news post – qualified members have a shot at a Mythic Map Pack code to be given out in two weeks. (I suppose you don’t have to have 60 posts NOW – you…

Using a name that should have been obvious MONTHS ago, Bungie has morphed the ‘Humpday Challenge’ a little bit into a community ‘play with Bungie’ night. If they win, they write it up, in all its glorious detail. If they lose, they’ll ban the other team’s players and purge the stats. (Not really. Probably.) In…

1UP gave out 50 Mythic codes last week – and held a massive game night for the winners. The video of the evening is up now – it’s an hour-long discussion of the maps, interspersed with copious amounts of gameplay. minasodaboy (who won one of the random codes we gave out) participated, and stopped in…

The first screenshot in this post is epic.(Louis Wu 15:02:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy got her hands on a pair of very cool posters created by the wizards at the 405th – and she’s giving them away. Swing by to see how you can win them! (Louis Wu 15:00:52 UTC)

The Catfish came by to announce 2501 Episode 23 – with guest stars.(Louis Wu 14:56:43 UTC)

Bungie.net has word of a montage from Bagel, which has some nice gameplay synched (really well) to a really catchy tune. Worth the watch. In HD.(Louis Wu 14:55:47 UTC)

Fan-generated artwork today:NG put some of the Halo work he’s done in the past three years into a video – go watch it in HD.Cody Gordon created some interesting Mythic panos – they’re up for viewing on his Flickr stream. Not your typical pano fare…PsH Bling added a bunch of shots to his pano thread…

Halo Wars content today:Virulent Aesthetics put up a review (thanks, Scotty)The official site has released a Tech Tree (a 4-page PDF detailing all of the tech available in Halo Wars) – thanks, Psychophan7.LIVE is offering a premium theme for 250 points. No preview I can find. Thanks, Exanubisleader.CNET’S Crave blog has reviewed the game.411mania.com has…

Last night, I got word from Domino Theory that he’d made it through all of the entries for the Ask the Rookie contest, pared it down to his favorites, and picked a winner. Just to give you an idea of the work he faced: all of the entries, added sequentially to a Microsoft Word document…

Blast has a short Hands-on with the Mythic Maps – go see.(Louis Wu 21:00:53 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update the Bungie Favorites – the second batch of Black Water Ops files have gone up, along with an interview with the group’s Commander-in-Chief, Ironskull. Go read, and look!(Louis Wu 21:00:35 UTC)