Year: 2009

On Thursday night (seems odd to write that, because where I am, it’s still Thursday morning), Microsoft held a promotional event to show off Halo 3: ODST in Sydney, Australia. One major benefit – it’s just across the water from New Zealand, where Weta’s got all those cool Halo props… Partygoers got to pose in…

Pete Cooper stopped by to say that fundraising is going swimmingly for the Operation Chastity project – they’re bringing in lots o’ cash! If you’d like to help, swing by the site!(Louis Wu 15:20:33 UTC)

Last Night, G4TV’s Gamer’s Choice awards, G-Phoria, announced winners for 2009 – Halo Wars took Best Strategy Game. (They were up for Best Soundtrack, as well, but lost out to Fallout 3.) Thanks, General Vagueness.(Louis Wu 15:18:43 UTC)

We got word from Woody Tondorf (a comedy writer for HBO – the broadcast network, not us – and a contributor to our Fan Fiction section for almost five years) that he’s been working on a fiction series set in the Halo universe known as ‘Minutemen’ – he’s been publishing chapters on his blog. (He…

Dennis Powers sent us a Halo Custom Edition update from Halomaps – more than 100 files were added during July, including the CMT SPv2 beta (mentioned earlier today), the Ring of Life videos (mentioned the last couple of Mondays), and some new maps – single-player maps like Rio Firefight and Salisp, and MP maps like…

The latest community to be spotlighted is Outcast Reborn, a group that’s been around since 2005, and is still going strong. Go read about ’em on Bungie.net, then check out some of their favorite files in the Bungie Favorites section.(Louis Wu 18:39:25 UTC)

Ouch! I managed to miss an article from the Katonian Press – sounds like 343 Industries might not be as benign as we thought! Swing by Hawty McBloggy’s to read.(Louis Wu 17:47:01 UTC)

New videos courtesy of the BungLog™BacKtoBasiKs created ‘Bocket Jumping’ – using bubble shields and rockets to make jumps you can’t make with just one or the other. Fun stuff! Honor Guard has created Halolympics Episode 2 – testing yourself (and being laughed at) is becoming an institution! Ghoster released a ‘minitage’ called “Create” – it’s…

Well, I waited until afternoon in the hopes of getting some extra entries… but it seems today’s comic roundup is going to be pretty light. Tied the O7AH has some new episodes up (thanks, Cozmo23)… and ODS Steve #36 (Upgrades) is now live (thanks, Hawty). Better late than never!(Louis Wu 17:40:43 UTC)