Year: 2012

The crew from the live-action fan film ‘The Fallen’ have put up a new request for funding – with a pretty clear explanation of what they need it for. The entire 5 minute piece is pretty nicely done, with humor, some example footage, and general inform…

The latest Arby ‘n’ the Chief Bytes has our protagonists discussing Halo 4 – I was amused. Go watch. Thanks, Ogan Panavo.(Louis Wu 17:29:24 UTC)

SniperStealth was inspired by Alex Chu’s original concept art for Reflection, the Reach remake of Halo 2’s Ivory Tower. He used that artwork to rebuild the center section of the map in the Unreal Development Kit. Go take a look at the work – it’s beau…

Halo Waypoint has pics of the latest batch of Halo 4 McFarlane toys… nice! Thanks, Mixmasterchief.(Louis Wu 15:36:32 UTC)

VentureBeat put together their list of the top 15 swag shirts of E3 2012… and a very exclusive Halo 4 shirt (passed out to visitors of an after-hours party) made the list. Drooling… (Louis Wu 15:35:09 UTC)

GeneticSpartan let us know of a new machinima he’s released in which a noob tries to learn how to superbounce in Halo Reach. You might think you know how this will go… but you don’t. Go watch. This video is GREAT. (Louis Wu 15:32:28 UTC)

Remix Fix did an amazing job of mashing up a bunch of Halo music (including some Halo 4 stuff), playing it metal-style, and setting it to a fantastic video that combines performance footage with gameplay footage with just plain fun. Go watch. Thanks, …

RvB’s Ragingterror recently posted a few pics he took at RvB CanWest last month – two, in particular, are pretty interesting to Halo fans. There’s an adorable MC Sculpy, and a pair of grenades… no clue how much either of these items went for at the a…

gunn3r11 sent word of a pretty cool blog post from ShadEO9, a UK blogger who was picked by the Xbox EMEA team to cover E3 as a man on the street. Amazing opportunity – great writeup! Take a look. (Louis Wu 15:19:02 UTC)

Shadders pointed out that at halftime of the England vs France Euro 2012 game (which should take place less than 2 hours from now), a Halo 4 live-action trailer (possibly an extended version of the live-action piece that opened the E3 campaign demo) wi…

Dust Storm let us know that there’s a new Pod TV analyzing the Spartan Ops gameplay vid – go watch!(Louis Wu 15:17:39 UTC)

Geekscape’s Jake108 was at E3 last week, and at their site you’ll find a summary of what was shown, along with his own impressions of Longbow, the vehicle map shown on the final day. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 15:12:32 UTC)

Rockslider’s back with more megabattle goodness. This time, it’s three separate videos – the first is a 10-minute tutorial, showing how he set up this latest masterpiece… and the other two show a variety of outcomes. Go read about ’em, and watch!(Lo…

It must be a “slow news day”, because Beorn’s name is appearing twice! This time he stopped by to let us know he’s whipped up a way for you to use the cool “hex grid-pattern” found in Halsey’s Journal on your iPad. Details are given in his post. Give i…

Oops, wrote this up a couple of hours ago and forgot to post it. Elamite and Neighbor talked to Bravo about their impressions of Halo 4 from the time they got to play at E3 – give it a watch for thoughts from a couple of pros! (One thing to keep in mi…