Year: 2011

The Defiant Map Pack is now available for download from Xbox LIVE Marketplace… 800 spacebucks buys you three of the best Reach maps there are! (Louis Wu 14:11:16 UTC)

Our winners from the Fly to Win contest have been notified, with their codes – congrats to: Level 1: Hitmonchan107, dCon V, ANUBIS x MTLevel 2: SPECLAFRYRICE, Shuntup, theUnjustLevel 3: chris101b, windupharlequin, PfhrogblastLevel 4: TacoPizzaHunter, …

Adam Pavlacka let us know that WorthPlaying is giving away Defiant codes on Twitter – no later than end of day tomorrow. Start following!(Louis Wu 23:24:04 UTC)

Blinkz let us know that HaloTracker has a pair of Defiant codes to give away – one at 8PM EST, the other at 10PM, both in their forum chat box. Codes will be posted with missing characters to give everyone a chance to guess correctly. (Given the respo…

GhaleonEB has gone into great detail about how his most recent map has evolved, and why – the discussion should help almost anyone creating maps with Forge. I don’t build maps with Forge, and I found it fascinating – it’ll make you look at play spaces…

Joe Spataro and Tam Armstrong have released the animation talk they gave at the GDC this year – and you can download it from Bungie.net. (Warning: my (older) version of Powerpoint was unable to view the video files, though a 3-year-old version of Appl…

Bungie All Stars is up to Round 10 – and your chance to add that exclusive star to your gamertag involves Halo: Reach, Forge, and a bunch of rocks. Go read about it at B.net!(Louis Wu 20:50:34 UTC)

Burnie and Geoff present an in-depth tour of the 3 new maps of the new Halo Reach DLC. The Defiant map pack features an awesome new slayer, big team and firefight maps. Check it out.

Hey guys, if you are crazy in to Halo: Reach like we are, you may want to check out this early preview of the Defiant Map Pack that releases tomorrow! Enjoy!

If you’re hating the idea of being the fastest Twitter reader, we’ve got another way for you to win Defiant Map Pack codes – all you need to do is prove your skill at a retro Halo game. Back in 2002, BOLL created a Pelican Flash game – fly that Pelica…

Straight outta GDC.

TiberiusAudley was another gamer who snagged an early map code – and you can read his impressions at Audley Enough. I’m still waiting to read a negative review… that I’ve waited this long bodes well for Certain Affinity’s craftsmanship.(Louis Wu 17:…

Another cool walkthrough of the Defiant Map Pack – this time from the Rooster Teeth crew. Burnie and Geoff show you all of the goodies available. As you might expect, camera control is very clean. Thanks, onebitrocket.(Louis Wu 16:26:24 UTC)

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Dani’s got a full writeup of the new maps, as well, over at Forward Unto Dawn. Good read!(Louis Wu 13:35:21 UTC)

FyreWulff wrote up a text-only review of the Defiant Map Pack (he’s waiting for the official embargo to end to include screens/videos) – you can find it over at the Fire Team Zulu website. Interesting stuff!(Louis Wu 13:32:53 UTC)

AngelicLionheart stopped in with word of an artist who’s doing a 24 hour draw-a-thon for Japan relief – he’ll draw whatever you want, with the money going to the Red Cross tsunami relief effort. We recently mentioned some Halo work he’d done… jump i…