Month: June 2012
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Waypoint Weekly Wrap-Up – 6.16.12
You’re a busy person, and we have a thing for releasing as much Halo-related content our multi-fingered appendages can handle. That means—assuming you aren’t a speed reading super-soldier—you probably missed a few stories along the way. No…
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Change of Scenery: Redux
Pierre Tartaix let us know that TGO GMBH has remade a 2009 machinima (now in HD, with re-recorded audio – we mentioned the original here) they’d done that tells the story of a soldier looking to get her job back. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:44:11 UTC)
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ARG content moves to ABO
UnrealCh13f stopped by to announce that a thread has been started over at args.bungie.org to keep up on any developments in the potential ARG revealed on ESPN.com yesterday. If you want to know where that’s going – bookmark the link!(Louis Wu 13:43:42…
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Top 100 Games of All Time… Again
G4TV has a top 100 Games of all Time list – and Halo took two spots; the original game’s at #37, and Halo 3 is at #23. Thanks, Morpheus. (For perspective, Mario games were at #41, #28, #7, and #1. And the WTF of the list… Bioshock is at #3.)(Louis W…
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Building Connections
There’s a tiny tibdit on Greg Bear’s blog that might or might not give you insight into upcoming Halo fiction. (How’s THAT for vague? 🙂 ) Thanks, bryan newman. (Louis Wu 13:42:41 UTC)
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Trick Flying
Mator stopped in to announce he’s put together a couple of videos showing you how to fly a Banshee upside in Halo PC. He says it’s not a new trick, but he’s been having trouble explaining it to people who’ve asked, so he figured a visual tutorial (inc…
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A cool Halo collection
Trooper905 has a Halo schwag collection that differs from the norm in one major respect – it has lots of standee displays (his dad works for the company that makes these). Take a look – some really cool stuff!(Louis Wu 13:41:50 UTC)
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A look at invisible Covenant technology
Fails of the Weak 91 (AH.com | YouTube) has Jack teaming up with Joel for some funny commentary about funny fails. (Well, not all commentary or fails are funny – but some of both are.) Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 13:41:24 UTC)
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Mythic Massacre Challenge – Tip of the Spear
The Tyrant showed off a run done by a friend, VincentKurayama – it’s a Mythic run through Reach’s Tip of the Spear on Mythic… with every possible enemy killed. Now THAT’s some dedication. The plan is to play the whole GAME this way. (This is just th…
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The Spartan Force presents: MKM 12
gunn3r11 let us know that The Spartan Force has a new community montage – it’s 3 minutes of fun gameplay. (Could have been set to a less-overused soundtrack, but hey.)(Louis Wu 13:40:40 UTC)
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Fails of the Weak 91
From Rooster Teeth: Jack and Joel look at a bunch of new fails in Halo: Reach! Join them and laugh along with their nuttiness! Fails of the Weak 91
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Friday Caption Fun 55
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a Jackal. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image! “Spartans executed stealth and ambush techniques perfectly…until they actuall…
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Jimmy Fallon Demos Halo 4
From Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Continuing Video Game Week, Josh Holmes from 343 let Jimmy play the highly anticipated Halo 4. This game is seriously sick. New world, new creatures, new weapons… Check it out! Jimmy Fallon Demos Halo 4
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Proving Ground: 6.15.12
From Community Customs: Community Customs is switching things up and running our Proving Ground again this week, where we’ll test maps and game types that aren’t quite ready for Primetime. Bring the maps and game types you’ve been working on, and we’…
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The Halo Council’s Top 5 Halo Plays 4
From The Halo Council: This is Episode 4 of The Halo Council’s Top 5 Halo Plays series, hosted by u4iX. Enjoy! The Halo Council’s Top 5 Halo Plays 4
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Super Jackpot Weekend: June 15-17
If you like action of the long barrel variety, hop into Team Snipers this weekend because starting today and ending on Sunday, games played and completed within that playlist will present you with the chance to receive a 20,000-credit bonus. So stop …
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Totally forgot to look in the Fan Fiction queue this morning – there’s one new piece this week. Go read!(Louis Wu 16:31:52 UTC)
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Inside Gaming goes to E3
Kiki Wolfkill talked to Inside Gaming’s Adam Kovic at the after-hours party during E3 – you can watch this at Halo Waypoint (or directly on YouTube). Topics of discussion include Spartan Ops and story across modes. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:30:16 UTC)
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Yeah, you should enter. Really.
pete_the_duck stopped in this morning to encourage folks to enter the Community Cartographers Forge Contest – he doesn’t want you to think that your entry would be a waste of time, because an awful lot of what he’s looking at (as a judge) is… well, …