Year: 2011

GodlyPerfection is back from a break (instigated by the birth of his son last summer) with a new Forge Lesson – this one is designed to help you advertise your creations. (Louis Wu 13:35:24 UTC)

Nak3d Eli put together a video to show you how to get the current Weekly Challenge in as little as 13 minutes of gameplay. Now THAT’S a pretty easy 30,000 cR!(Louis Wu 13:33:31 UTC)

Rooster Teeth released Episode 18 of RvB Season 9 last night (thanks, Ibeechu) – some serious plot movement on this one! Things are beginning to come together… and some old friends are back.(Louis Wu 13:32:33 UTC)

Ty_Coker stopped in with word of ‘Return to CANADA!!!’ – a BCP Halloween special. Spooky!(Louis Wu 13:32:03 UTC)

HC Redemption had this up at HaloChallenges in time for Halloween yesterday – but our connectivity troubles kept us from seeing it before today. Nevertheless, it’s a fun-looking challenge – so swing by and see if you’re up for their Living Dead Challe…

Dani’s been busy finding previously unseen Halo concept art and adding it to the Forward Unto Dawn Concept Art Gallery – new work from Ryan Demita, Halo Wars stuff from Marco Nelor, a whole new Halo Wars section, and, in this NeoGAF post, a couple of N…

SonGoharotto pointed out that Halo (specifically, conventiongoers in Master Chief armor, and a Gunnery Sergeant you might know) plays a significant role in Season Five of The Guild, the long-running webseries that made Felicia Day a (geek) household na…

TheOddOne pointed out a pumpkin-centric Tweet from @WideEyedFox – dat Halo font… (Louis Wu 13:25:19 UTC)

More deviantART from CaptainTony – I think we’re going to start combining these a couple of times per week. Look for future roundups on Thursdays and Sundays! (Louis Wu 13:23:22 UTC)

Gametrailers has kicked off their Halo Anniversary coverage – uberfoop was the first to let us know about the Anniversary Trailer, released yesterday (already on YouTube), and ZZoMBiE13 forwarded links for their ‘Ultimate Fan’ contest and the first vid…

When poking around CGHub, I stumbled across an artist known as ‘alp’ – Allen Altiner is an art director in the film industry, but he does a lot of Halo work on his own time. Here are some of his pieces. Concept Painting – Spartan vs Elite Halo Fight…

Jarod Lenz Erwin, who created the UI and painted background for the Waypoint mobile app, posted a pretty cool picture of Jun he did for 343. Love that detail! Thanks to NeoGAF’s TheOddOne for finding it. (Wait… does this mean we’ll be seeing Jun in …

Podtacular 267 went live this weekend – Dust Storm talked to CruelLEGACEY about his series Playtime, and to one of Playtime’s characters about the plot. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:39:08 UTC)

It’s been a long time since we heard from ICDedPpl – but he sent us a link of his buddy’s Photobucket album showing off some great armor pics. thorn696 is a 405th regular who doesn’t even play Halo – but he makes armor good enough to win contests (thr…

CaptainTony pointed out a pretty cool Halo Comic poster created by Riznof he found on deviantART – look at that six-pack! (Louis Wu 22:35:49 UTC)

Morpheus noticed a GameInformer article on the Top Ten Launch Games of All Time (how do you measure this?) – Halo made the list. Pretty high up, even! (Louis Wu 22:35:27 UTC)

DaFrontlineTrooper put together a video showing off a Spartan Laser he built – very cool! Thanks to robofin117 for the heads-up – and for pointing out DaFrontlineTrooper’s Facebook page, which contains blueprints for his weapons! (Louis Wu 22:35:01 UTC)

nillapuddin is into remakes – check out his post for details on where you can find his work, and the work of his friends! (Louis Wu 22:34:20 UTC)

It’s been 17 hours – but it looks like AT&T managed to get a generator on the switching hut near HBO Central. The fiber line has power again, so things are running. Forums are back. We’re sorry for the downtime.(Louis Wu 22:05:19 UTC)