Year: 2010
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The Headshot Heard ‘Round The World – Results
The day did NOT go as planned – I thought I’d get the Headshot Heard Round The World results posted, and the voting started on the Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkins. Neither one happened. I do, in fact, have results for the Headshot contest – but the pumpkin v…
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Carney’s Crash Course: Map Design 101
There’s a new Top Story at Bungie.net – Chris Carney goes over the design process, from nascent idea to finished product, for building a Reach map. Solid info here – great read!(Louis Wu 01:38:31 UTC)
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Xenomorph Extravaganza
AfroRyan dropped in with more DeviantART goodness – this batch is all from opticneuralinterface, who’s done some amazing Halo work in the past. (I’ve actually seen the colored version of his ALIENS VS Halo piece before; I’m surprised it hasn’t been fr…
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Halo Related Deviance
nomis78 stopped by with a collection of links he found at DeviantART – good stuff! (ZZoMBiE13 sent me the physical shot not too long ago; it resonates all OVER the Halo community.) nomis also put up a few new panoramas in his own DA space. Links for e…
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Guaranteeing the Future
General Battuta wrote up a really solid treatise on the options available to a higher-level intelligence in our galaxy… read it and be chilled.(Louis Wu 01:24:43 UTC)
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Forging Ahead: Cut and Polish
GhaleonEB continues to work on his Forge map – and his Forge blog. The latest Forging Ahead article focuses on playtesting. Great read!(Louis Wu 01:18:32 UTC)
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Precious… the Video Game
Last week, Dustbunny27 pointed out that Halo got mentioned on Comedy Central’s Pretend Time – I let it go, because there was no clip for it. Today, though, 95ss dropped us a note that this sketch can be found on YouTube – and includes the cheesy Halo …
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Four-shottin’ Grunts
I was hoping to pass on this one altogether… but ChrisTheeCrappy noticed it and called me out. I played a bit of Firefight with the Waypoint team last month – the gameplay won’t amaze you, but it might amuse you. The company couldn’t be beat (I was …
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EOD Storm
Raide was walking through town, and saw a label that made him smile. (Those seem to be fireworks of some kind… but I’m pretty sure we have some cross-domain stuff going on there.)(Louis Wu 01:13:41 UTC)
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Leaving the Past
This came in a couple of days ago, but got lost in the insanity that has controlled this week. Slushy has edited a bunch of videos, but he’s finally created a Halo 3 montage with his own footage. Three and a half minutes, muted colors, mellow action. …
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Catchin’ Up
Videos we missed on Bungie.net this afternoon: TheYugiohForums put together Episode 3 of their Halo Reach Top 10 series – ths one looks at First Strikes. #6 is some great use of Evade. ReadyUpLive has Green’s Machines, Ep 1 – Killed by the Guardian…
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The lost sounds of a mothergoat
Good old mothergoat decided to show up on our forums and brought everyone an awesome treat! Go and check out his post for some outstanding music, or just to say hi to a beloved member of our community. Great to see you, mg!(GrimBrother One 18:03:59 UTC)