Month: July 2009

A few comics for your viewing pleasure this morning:The Catfish got back in touch with urk to point out a bunch of 2501 strips that had been made since his last update – you can find links in the B.net post.Chaos Theory started a 4-day finale to the series yesterday Episode 25 is called ‘Epilogue…

As many have realized, today is the 10th anniversary of the revelation of Halo at MacWorld 1999 – what a long, strange trip it’s been!(Louis Wu 21:56:41 UTC)

Frogwart noticed a new posting put up today on the writer job site, Poewar – Microsoft is looking for a Senior Writer for their Halo team. Could this be you?(Louis Wu 21:54:03 UTC)

Futur Life stopped in with word of a French HD montage featuring editing by Heimdall and gameplay by Tilou. Seven and a half minutes. Swing by MLGPro.com’s Game Room to watch. If you like what you see, you can talk to Futur Life about your own.(Louis Wu 21:48:13 UTC)

Weta’s ramping up its Halo offerings – the Cortana statue we heard about last year is now shipping, and three new helmets – Mark VI Spartan (green), EVA (white), and CQB (silver) will be shipping later this year. (Folks at Comic-Con this week will be able to see these live.) The new helmets are 1/4…

JonCGJ released a trailer for a new machinima series a couple of weeks ago – but we didn’t hear about it until this morning, when urk posted a link to the first episode of the series on Bungie.net. Anthony Heitzmann graduates high school… I guess teenage angst isn’t one of of the things that gets…

The Bungie Blog highlighted a new Halo 3 Trick Jumping montage – it’s only 3 minutes long, but contains some very nicely-timed jumps. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:21:38 UTC)

Halo Wars’ latest DLC drops today – and both ComputerandVideoGames and TeamXbox have writeups, images, and (in TXB’s case) video. Thanks, 2900d4u.(Louis Wu 16:04:52 UTC)

Last night was a standard release night for a Red vs Blue video – but because it was the fifth week of the new series, we got a PSA instead of a standard episode of Recreation. Fire Safety gives you lots of tips for extinguishing fires – if you’re currently on fire, go watch it!(Louis…

Over at HawtyMcBloggy.com, a new issue of The Katonian Press details what happened recently when a Blue soldier attempted to steal the Red flag. I don’t remember most of my games going this way… but hey, it’s the Press, it MUST be accurate.(Louis Wu 11:31:38 UTC)