Year: 2011

There are a couple of videos from TeamVVVGames – an interview with Dennis Ries and David Ellis, and a gameplay video showing the entire first level played through (offscreen footage). Thanks, Hypertrooper.(Louis Wu 19:19:55 UTC)

GameInformer has a 45-minute interview with 343’s Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross – pretty nice background on the studio, and the direction they’re headed! Go watch. Thanks, excowboy83.(Louis Wu 19:16:18 UTC)

Chromium stopped in with word of Seekers, Episode 1 – a new machinima series that isn’t sure whether it’s drama or comedy. Or maybe it IS sure. Go watch.(Louis Wu 18:38:51 UTC)

According to In Entertainment (a UK website), the Australian EB Games will be offering a ‘Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Collector’s Pack’ – for $88 (Australian – about $91 US), you get Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and an NKOK RC Warthog. I thou…

pete_the_duck was watching X-Factor recently, and noticed that the Stereo Hogzz had some interesting backup dancers… (check his post for links.) (Louis Wu 18:23:58 UTC)

Lord Friendship put together screenshots of ALL the BOBs you can find on ONI Sword Base – that’s a lot of BOBs!(Louis Wu 18:20:01 UTC)

Futur Life stopped by to let us know about an interview that the Halo Destiny crew did with Dennis Ries a couple of weeks ago – lots of good info. Go listen!(Louis Wu 17:44:12 UTC)

AYellowSnowball and SillyGoose teamed up to create Stickaholics, a Halo Reach Dual Sticktage. 8 minutes of blue goo. I LOVED the ideas for moving grenades around. Go watch. Thanks, RVideo.(Louis Wu 16:50:37 UTC)

Dragonclaws has taken on the Halo franchise in a series of analyses designed to evaluate the role of women in the games and books. (We’ve already highlighted her work a few times in the past few months.) She’s back with a closeup look at Halo 2 – text…

Yuri Walkiw stopped in to let us know he’s written up an article looking at the musical possibilities for Halo 4. He gives you a look at the man behind the music, Sotaro Tojima – and speculates on where he might be taking the Halo franchise, audio-wise…

zukan informed us of a metal cover, done by Brandon Strader, of some Halo 3 songs at DwellingofDuels – I’m not even a metal fan, and I liked it! the URL it’s sitting at suggests that it might be pretty transient, so we’ve put up a local copy (7.4 mb)….

Nak3d Eli posted a gameplay vid (with commentary) filmed in the MLG playlist – if you don’t stick your foot into that list, this video can help you see how things are different from vanilla Reach.(Louis Wu 15:45:25 UTC)

We’re late on this one too – but robowski let us know that Post Game Carnage Report 95 is up and ready for listening. Talk includes Halo Anniversary, Glasslands, and A Fistful of Arrows – aand don’t forget about their Doubles Tournament! You’ve got un…

Today is the 7th anniversary of one of the meatiest Halo resources on the web – Halopedia. Swing by and wish ’em a happy birthday! (Thanks to Nicmavr for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 15:40:43 UTC)

We didn’t get to this yesterday (I’d promised Thursday and Sunday updates) – apologies… but CaptainTony stopped in with a new deviantART roundup – lots o’ links. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:39:51 UTC)

Only one new piece is available this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read it!(Louis Wu 15:39:04 UTC)

Lurono posted a bunch of pics of Halo weapon replicas, built by Nick Jensen with LEGOs. We mentioned the sniper rifle recently – but the others were new to me (and really impressive). Take a look!(Louis Wu 17:22:27 UTC)

Firestorm12 sent word that War (or War) Issue 18 is online now – it’s rough to be paranoid and alone… (Louis Wu 17:21:50 UTC)

CruelLEGACEY just posted The Fails of Reach – Greatest Hits; it contains his favorite moments across the series. (Louis Wu 17:21:16 UTC)