Year: 2009
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RT: Swine Flu confirmed at PAX
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FYI, PAX has announced a confirmed case of the virus at the show, and reports are coming in from many attendees that they have Swine Flu symptoms. Please be careful and keep up to date with PAX’s twitter account for more information. You can also visit the CDC website for everything regarding the virus itself.
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AH: AHTV Tomorrow: Sonic & Knuckles. Aww Yeah!
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Hells yes. Tomorrow, a person favorite of mine, for obvious reasons, Sonic & Knuckles is releasing on XBLA. I figured I’d share the experience of playing it with you with some AHTV action at 3:00 PM PT/6:00 PM EST/11:00 PM GMT. So, drop on by the Achievement Hunter TV page embedded in our site, or…
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RT: Terensire wins Video Contest
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Congrats to Terensire for winning the video contest. All the videos sent in were amazing. It was really hard picking a winner. I hope everyone had a good time all around. The artwork contest will continue for another week and for the first time, you can check out the submissions and they are flat out…
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RT: The More the Merrier
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One of the biggest highlights for me (and I’m assuming others) at PAX 09, had to be Left 4 Dead 2. The lines to play the game approached two hours in length, but as everyone who stood through them learned, it was well-worth it. The addition of new special infected is sure to change the…
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We’ll miss you, Peter.
We recieved word that Peter William Marks, known to Bungie fans as Mordia, Lud, and “the guy who built Hang ’em High” (among other things), passed away on September 7th, 2009 at 11:35 p.m. He fought to the very end, and will be missed greatly. The page we set up a couple of years ago…
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We Are ODST: Full-Length
GameTrailers has posted the HD, full-length ‘We Are ODST’ short that showed for the first time on Spike TV last night – swing by and check it out!(Louis Wu 17:46:40 UTC)
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Average Joe: BerserkerBarage
The latest Average Joe at Bungie.net is BerserkerBarage – he’s been around for a while, and has a long history of Bungie game fannage. (Fannage? That’s not right…) Go see what drives him!(Louis Wu 17:43:16 UTC)
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Tag and Release – Dark
Today’s Tag and Release term at Bungie.net is ‘Dark’ – and the resultant images are just that. Go look!(Louis Wu 17:40:42 UTC)
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Pup and Friends – PAX 2009 Edition
Pup and Friends whipped up a Grifball highlights reel for PAX – it’s online now. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:37:53 UTC)
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Halo CE and H2V Map Updates
Dennis Powers let us know about new stuff at HaloMaps… The Halo Custom Edition archive jumped by 120 new submissions during August, bringing the total to 4,333 files. Highlights of the new stuff include Maridia (Public Beta) (Metroid total conversion), TM Immolate, and Garden CE (very cool-looking). The Halo 2 Vista Map Archive got 22…
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Podcastin’ – Live
The record-it-live train continues to barrel through the Halo podcast scene – Episode 21 of The Running Riot podcast (guest-starring CMNeir) will be recorded September 14 at 9:30 pm ET, and Episode 5 of Zoxin It Up! LIVE (guest-starring Bryan Simon) will record on September 19 at 9 pm ET. Read the B.net posts about…
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Another view of the ODST mobile roadshow in Texas
BSG Surgeon let us know that BSG’s MB012 and Tied the Leader’s TTL Locke were in Texas at the ODST truck stop – and took pics and wrote up impressions. Go look, go read! (Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)
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Minutemen: The Crucible Chapter 11
Azrael stopped in with word of the latest chapter of his Minutemen: The Crucible fan fic. Swing by his blog to read it! (Louis Wu 17:19:15 UTC)
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Monday Comic Roundup – a day late, many dollars short
We forgot to post this yesterday – but Hawty McBloggy put up the latest Grin + Bear It (now hosted by her) on Sunday. Adult humor. Bad puns. What more do you want from a Halo comic? (Louis Wu 17:18:08 UTC)
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Best Buy Selling ODST at Midnight
Looks like Best Buy will be running midnight store openings to celebrate Halo 3: ODST’s release on the 22nd – swing by to see if your store is on the list.(Louis Wu 17:16:53 UTC)
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PAX 09 Cosplay Fun
Hawty McBloggy has a set of pictures of folks in costume at PAX – more than enough of them are Halo-related to warrant a newspost here. (She’s in a few herself…) (Louis Wu 17:15:02 UTC)
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Forge for HaloHolics, win stuff
HaloHolics is celebrating the release of ODST with a Forging contest – follow the rules, win, and you’re eligible for some prizes.(Louis Wu 17:14:25 UTC)
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Halo 3 Fails Episode 25
chris10023 let us know that Halo 3 Fails Episode 25 was live – three minutes of bad luck and bad decisions. My favorite was the Driving Failure Fail. I want that Mongoose.(Louis Wu 17:14:05 UTC)
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Building your own Assault Rifle
JAY132 sent word of a thread at The RFP – Howlrunner bought the Toys R Us Plasma Blaster and did some work to it. Looks great!(Louis Wu 17:13:45 UTC)