Year: 2010

So if you checked the scenery closely on Powerhouse, you might have noticed a ‘Luminateboard’ in the Office. Yesterday, RVideo let us know that he’d been poking through the game files, and found ANOTHER one of these, in the Boneyard map files – but this one wasn’t empty. In fact, it looks more like someone…

harabek stopped in with word of a machinima music video contest – the band Take It To Sunrise wants you to create a music video for them – any game, any style (of course, Halo is a fine choice), and you could win some MS points, the band’s latest album, and more. Basic details on…

It’s a busy Sunday morning here, but this newspost is time-sensitive; if you read it in the next two hours, you’ve got a chance to bid on a fan-made Halo Reach helmet on eBay. Current bid is $217.50, closing time is 8:33 PDT this morning. Thanks, rolandk73 (who also found an already-purchased Spartan CQB Helmet…

General Vagueness noticed (before I did, dangit!) the cake on our front page, signifying our 11th birthday today – in Internet years, that means HBO is ready for Depends and a steady supply of Ensure. Thanks to all of you for being here… we couldn’t do this without you!(Louis Wu 11:10:01 UTC)

Nabsuh stopped in with a teaser from Legendary, an upcoming project from AVCOM Productions – looks great!(Louis Wu 11:09:07 UTC)

NartFOpc noticed a video showing off a mod for Super Smash Bros Brawl – nice work to get Master Chief into the game!(Louis Wu 11:06:17 UTC)

Halo 3 Screenshots is looking at ‘Spawn Points’ in the latest Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection. I wasn’t sure what this meant, until I looked at the pictures… but they’re shots of what you can make with the bright blue spawnpoint symbols in Forge. Very creative stuff!(Louis Wu 11:04:29 UTC)

If you were avoiding Halo Waypoint because you didn’t want your recent Reach Beta films to be cleared from the cache… avoid no more. Lots of good stuff coming this week. Today marks the kickoff of the full-length cut of ‘The Return’, the motion-comic version of the Evolutions story. If you missed it in its…

The Bungie Weekly Update is a quiet one this time around – a wind-down summarizing the end of the Beta, and what you should take away from it. Some great screens – and if you want more than they’re showing, get ’em now, they’ve already said they’re killing the Reach Beta content by the end…

Urban Reflex put together his own tribute to the Reach Beta with a new ‘Multiplayer Madness’ video – some fun gameplay moments! Not your typical montage at all… more a collection of funny bits. Some are VERY funny.(Louis Wu 19:37:01 UTC)

Bungie’s ‘Polish Complete’ milestone for Reach comes with a bunch of photos – swing by the Reach Developer Blog for a slideshow!(Louis Wu 19:29:45 UTC)

We got another update on Project Aftershock, a Halo mod for Crysis, from its developer, Warlord. (You can see older mentions here and here in our news archive.) Swing by Crymod’s forum for screenshots and a video!(Louis Wu 19:27:23 UTC)

93? Man… that woman’s been doing this for a WHILE. The latest round of Friday Caption Fun has some great captions for last week’s Elite Meets Ghost image… and then tosses one of the most captionable screenshots I’ve ever seen your way. Go read, then go play. (While you’re there, check out yesterday’s Twitter T&A…

Friday video fun at Bungie.net:H3AsiiM’s BetaLicious is a montage featuring gameplay from Kreger and AsiiM himself. Nice angles.Distraction is a montage from a trio of players – makes me sad I can’t jump on right now.betamaniaque created a Halo Reach community montage, using clips he found on Bungie.net. Lots of odd moments.Ain’t nothin’ wrong with…