Year: 2009

After a week of voting, the results are in – and our winners in the 2009 Guilt O’ Lantern contest have been posted! Swing by the Results page for full details. Congrats to EVERYONE who entered – it’s because of insanely cool content like yours that we keep doing this every year! (And thanks, once…

patfan8326 and skullkruncher13 put together a song that will drill its way into your skull and eat your brains. It will make your dreams come true.(Louis Wu 14:42:16 UTC)

A Hawty McBloggy fan named Skittles created a cool timelapse construction of the Superintendent… built out of Skittles. Bonus: You can eat your work when you’re finished! (Louis Wu 14:41:37 UTC)

Congratulations to Triggers Down, who beat Str8 Rippin 6-5 in the finals at Anaheim to walk away with the MLG First Place finish – and $20,000 – in the last regular-season event of the year. Full results and (rebroadcasts of the matches) can be found at MLGPro.com. (Louis Wu 14:40:22 UTC)

Adam Grumbo tells me it’s not really news, but I think I disagree. He’s posted some pre-production test footage the 405th crew put together while trying to see what sort of low-light capabilities their camera had. The answer seems to be ‘pretty nice!’ There’s no script, no real plot – it’s just a few minutes…

Bloogyo’s back with a new chapter of Rat’s Nest (the first three episodes are up), and yesterday’s Grin + Bear It contains a double-whammy – condom talk and a shot at the French. Whee doggies!(Louis Wu 14:33:49 UTC)

FyreWulff stopped in yesterday with word of a screenshot contest running on the Penny Arcade forums – it’s to commemorate 5 years of Halo love there. Swing by and read the rules – you might win yourself 1600 points!(Louis Wu 14:32:39 UTC)

Stuntmutt simply couldn’t resist the bait offered by 343 Industries with The Babysitter; a special Sunday One One Se7en looks at the issue. (Personally, I’d hesitate making comments like that next to a guy who obviously knows his way around a sniper rifle…)(Louis Wu 16:49:28 UTC)

A week or so ago, FireDragon04 told us about a teaser poster for an upcoming machinima project, Star Fell – today, there’s a Teaser vid up on YouTube. Nice work, if a little light on content! Take a look – it’s only a minute long.(Louis Wu 16:01:58 UTC)

DesignCritique has a look back at the Halo 3: Believe ad campaign, to see how it worked with the benefit of hindsight. Not surprisingly, it holds up, two years later. Amazing stuff!(Louis Wu 15:58:08 UTC)

Back in January, 2008, we mentioned a mod for Halo PC called ‘Halo FTW’ – Pepsi and Nessa were adding lots of shiny new textures to the game. The original screenshots and the fly-through movie are long gone – but they’re working on releasing FTW 2, a remade version of the mod. If you swing…

Mid7night officially released a playable F99 ‘Wombat’ for X-Plane 9.40 – if you want to fly it yourself, swing by and download a copy!(Louis Wu 15:52:17 UTC)

I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots has their newest Top 10 Halo 3 Screenshots feature online – this one is called ‘Nom Nom Nom’, and focuses on taking a bite! Lovin’ the shots – some are old, some are new, all are great!(Louis Wu 13:31:32 UTC)

Aymeric Neau let us know that Pete Cooper sent three new shots of a Marine helmet being worked on for Operation Chastity to Halo.fr; swing by to see ’em! (Louis Wu 13:30:55 UTC)

Saturday, November 7 is the release day for ‘The Babysitter'(the first of 7 anime pieces that will comprise Halo Legends) on Halo Waypoint (on Xbox LIVE) – it’s already online in New Zealand. Stuntmutt couldn’t let the occasion pass without comment… swing by One One Se7en and sigh.(Louis Wu 02:36:28 UTC)

GrimBrother One also let us know about an article on Kotaku in which 343 Industries’ Josh Holmes holds forth on the future of Waypoint. It can be what you make it – ask, and they’ll try and add. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 02:33:34 UTC)

KP pointed us to a Motorcycle News page (and GrimBrother One pointed us to a Kotaku page pointing to the same MN page) discussing a helmet that will be worn by Jorge Lorenzo as he competes in the 2009 MotoGP World Championship race in Valencia. It’s said to ‘replicate [the helmet] worn by the main…

Bungie wanted to remind you that MLG Anaheim is being streamed all weekend from mlgpro.com – swing by for the schedule, and watch yourself some sweet pro action!(Louis Wu 02:08:56 UTC)