Year: 2009

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of things for you this morning – there’s her standard Friday Caption Fun (the new image is lolcat-grade)… and there’s a birthday greeting to an old (in software years) friend. Go read!(Louis Wu 14:32:15 UTC)

Wesley Burket pointed out a thread on Bungie.net being used by folks finding ODST discs to be unreadable by their 360. If you’re in this boat, swing by!(Louis Wu 14:29:12 UTC)

Yesterday was Thursday, so there’s a new Breaking In article on Bungie.net – this week, it’s Senior Animator Tom Saville – he passed on a promising career in werewolf training to work for Bungie, so go see how he got there!(Louis Wu 14:11:15 UTC)

There are seven new stories for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – give ’em a read! (And don’t forget to check out the Feet First Into Hell Contest winners announced a couple of days ago, if you haven’t already…)(Louis Wu 14:06:57 UTC)

We neglected to mention an article posted yesterday afternoon on Bungie.net: ‘Link Up with the B.net’ seemed, at first glance, to be aimed at newcomers who wanted to tie their in-game experience in to Bungie.net’s amazing stat tracking system. It didn’t really seem like ‘news’ for the average HBO reader. A closer read, however, shows…

NeoGAF regular GhaleonEB pointed out that yesterday afternoon, a pretty cool milestone was hit, according to Bungie.net’s stats: Players (All Time): 15,000,231. Wow!(Louis Wu 13:20:06 UTC)

Nearly missed this – the Double XP Weekend Playlist is called ‘Prepare to Drop’, and it’s an “ODST-inspired” list. 4v4 social list, with lots of magnums and SMGs. Potentially interesting VIP mode… check it out!(Louis Wu 22:35:38 UTC)

Jordan117 wants to know how well you know your Halo map names. There are 102 of them in the Halo Trilogy (including ODST Multiplayer, but not its Campaign). Swing by sporcle to test your skillz!(Louis Wu 21:35:20 UTC)

mmm… I love me some pan-cammin’…(Louis Wu 21:28:29 UTC)

Looks like running a website has its perks – we made noise, so Bungie made noise, and Amazon decided to Do the Right Thing. Check it out. (We’ve heard reports of other vendors having other issues – not being able to get enough codes for the preorders they placed, for example – hopefully, those will…

Okay, not really. But in a discussion about the ridiculous lengths you could get to in a Firefight game, JonnyOThan estimated that scoring would stop after about 4 months of continuous play – but that you’d probably run out of disk space, because Bungie didn’t code in a max size to the film generated with…