Year: 2009

For nine weeks, Tyrant ran the Summer Mythic Recon Challenge; you were exhorted to complete each level of Halo 3 on Mythic difficulty (solo,legendary, all skulls on). Each week, one contestant won Recon armor to wear with pride in multiplayer. This week, each contestant who completed all nine levels is eligible for one more shot…

HC Redemption wrote up a new review of the HaloScreenshots.com service – swing by HaloCharts to read it. It does a great job of pointing out the reasons you might want to avail yourself of this service – and then gives you a pretty straightforward set of instructions for doing just that. Thanks to urk…

Kotaku took a cool pic of Paul Bertone’s desk – if you want to play Halo 3: ODST’s campaign with ZERO spoilers, don’t look at this, but if you’re curious about the mapping of encounters, check out the layout behind his desk! Thanks, Eddy 071.(Louis Wu 19:53:11 UTC)

Azrael’s back with another chapter of Minutemen: The Crucible – Chapter 8 is up on his blog. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 18:12:13 UTC)

The Tag and Release feature on Bungie.net today is labeled ‘Ninja’ – go see what people are tagging with this word!(Louis Wu 17:40:27 UTC)

Britain’s Echo has a story about a Halo-themed wedding in Southend-on-Sea, outside of London. Red and blue flags, a map-based cake, and the game’s logo embroidered on the bride’s dress were some of the touches. Nice! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:32:17 UTC)

New movies, from the BungLog™:The Lucky Twenty Episode 1 is a montage of clips put together by FortNight Productions – highs and lows of lucky plays from Matchmaking, all narrated. There’ll be a new one every two weeks.Funny Halo 3 Productions put together a splatter montage, set to the 1812 Overture.Whifffproductions are back with more…

Bloogyo is back with new episodes of Rat’s Nest – swing by his forum post for links. (Louis Wu 17:29:53 UTC)

A bunch of new ODST stuff since the last update… IGN has released three videos you might want to watch. The Aussie Sneak Peek Event is a few minutes long, and includes footage recorded at the Sydney press event held a week or so ago. There’s a 5-minute interview with Curtis Creamer, recorded at the…

Marty O’Donnell has a Twitter account. Amazing, huh? Reading it can teach you cool stuff… like the fact that the Halo 3: ODST Official Sountrack, coming from O’Donnell and Salvatori, will be available for purchase the same day as the game itself (September 22). Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5 (and SoundEffect and ElusiveEagle519 for the headline expansion).(Louis…