Year: 2012

Bungie’s seventh iteration of the new Mail Sack series is up now – as always, a great read, with plenty of excuses for covering it on a Halo news site. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:18:26 UTC)

pete_the_duck is back with another Forge Cipher (plus the solution to his first one, mentioned yesterday). Download the map, and try and figure out what it says! (Do it. This man is very, very creative.)(Louis Wu 17:56:44 UTC)

Cox sent word that a teaser for the second installment of Projet Alpha is now up – a full video of campaign glitches on the second level of Reach is coming soon! Go look.(Louis Wu 17:54:40 UTC)

CyReN stopped by yesterday to point out that Dave ‘Walshy’ Walsh has officially announced his retirement from Major League Gaming, and will be commentating instead, starting in Columbus at the end of this month. RVideo also sent along a link from The …

Zelda Williams (daughter of comedian Robin) has a small spotlight on G4TV, inspired by her appearance in the upcoming movie Noobz – the focus of the movie is Gears of War 3, but Williams mentions in the interview that she’s more of a Halo girl. (Even,…

The Halo Bulletin is online for this week – and it’s a doozy. The appetizer is Tweets of how folks would wake up the Master Chief, but the entree is the March Matchmaking Playlist Update. There are a bunch of changes, but the two biggies are that ther…

Tashi’s Weekly Montage Series is back – he’s released Season 2, Episode 1. It’s 2 minutes of clips that have all been collected in the past 7 days. (That’s the significance of the ‘Weekly’ in the title – much more than the actual frequency of releases…

Looks like we missed an interview with Corrinne Yu, Principal Engine Architect at 343. Girl Gamer sat down with her some time in December… great read! Thanks to Boomwood, at NeoGAF, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:23:13 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, CyReN pointed out a buddy, Cursed Lemon, playing In Amber Clad, from Halo 2. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:34:28 UTC)

DeeJ went on another Ride-Along with a Bungie.net group – this time, it was Death By Mongoose, a group linked by their love of quad bikes. Nice interview, and a fun montage of some gamplay insanity. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 13:22:10 UTC)

pete_the_duck told our forum about a new puzzle he’s created – it’s a Forge map… with a secret message. This one’s sort of a test, to see how people like it – give it a shot! If there’s interest, he can make more complicated ones!(Louis Wu 13:16:28 …

While we’re on the subject of podcasts… 343 has released its 10th Sparkast. You can grab a copy on iTunes (thanks, bryan newman) or download the mp3 directly from 343 (thanks, laird). David Ellis and Frank O’Connor are joined by Josh Holmes (Studio …

robowski sent word that Post Game Carnage Report Episode 105 is now up – Halo 4, Reach, why custom games no longer exist… wait, what? Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:08:58 UTC)

Gavin’s return to the Rooster Teeth offices seems to have rejuvenated Achievement HORSE – Episode 64 is pretty fun to watch! Go check it out, on either YouTube or AH.com. Thanks, as usual, to hezekiah for the heads-up (though maybe not so much for the…

The Verge’s Vox Games has an overview of the 2012 lineup for the Xbox360, and it includes comments from some of the developers of the most-anticipated titles. Frankie has a few words to say about the past, present, and future of the Halo franchise. Th…