Year: 2010

FyreWulff is back with another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘New Dawn’, and it’s available at every difficulty level. And the new site design is live! Go check it out – and kill some Covenant!(Louis Wu 18:17:54 UTC)

Jaime Griesemer’s talk at the Game Developers Conference this year discussed why Bungie changed the time between shots with the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds in Halo 3 – and now you can download a PDF containing all 130+ slides of his presentation, along with notes. Great read!(Louis Wu 18:12:15 UTC)

Couple of new montages for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Glory and Fitzy provided the gameplay for Second Chance – very nice editing by Dudeman27. And Kravedwhipped up a short montage called Welcome to Bangkok with some slick gameplay. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:11:47 UTC)

Arm the Flag has a new podcast online – discussion topics include how their site got deleted, how cool urk is, and Reach. Go listen! Thanks, urk. You’re cool.(Louis Wu 18:11:24 UTC)

Sean Bradley (you might remember the name; he’s created some amazing Halo universe armor and weapons) has released a ten-minute live-action film with his brother called ‘After the Game’. It’ll give you a bit of an idea of what happens after you turn off your Xbox… (Seems like Master Chief thinks cats are in the…

Just two new pieces in the Fan Fiction section – today – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 16:04:00 UTC)

Brian Gilmore let us know that the Teabag Prevention Team is back with more Halo 3 tips – this time, they’re focusing on Heretic. Swing by to learn how to not suck!(Louis Wu 16:03:23 UTC)

Stuntmutt made good (good? wrong word) use of the One One Se7en Stripmaker to whip up a new forum comic – things you can worry about with respect to the new Player Investment system! (Louis Wu 16:03:02 UTC)

Cody Brigan is setting to work on a Flash-based movie of The Fall of Reach (the book) – a few days ago, he was looking for voice actors, and today, he’s shown off a tiny snippet of footage, so you can see the overall style of the project. Looks promising!(Louis Wu 16:02:24 UTC)

Hedgemony noticed that Halo Bloodlines #4 is now on store shelves – go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 16:02:07 UTC)

ElusiveEagle found a link for a potential source for early Reach Beta access. You have to be a member to get in… but apparently members will be getting access to the beta in April. Hmm…(Louis Wu 16:01:05 UTC)

seraph xxvii stopped in with word of the charity auction he hosted recently (original details are here) – once again, I’m floored by the generosity. (A little saddened that not all the figures sold – but floored by the generosity.)(Louis Wu 16:00:21 UTC)

Pete Cooper dropped in last night with a pic of the MA5C for Operation Chastity… completed. Looks gorgeous! (Louis Wu 15:59:48 UTC)