Author: halo@bungie.org
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Anniversary Delayed in Brazil
Marcelo Vega, a Brazilian fan from Too Gamers, sent word that there’s bad news regarding Halo Anniversary in his country – it’s being delayed a couple of days. Release is now set for November 17. (Reasoning is unclear.) On the bright side (well, for B…
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Confessions of a Halo Noob
GoozerNation has an article from a non-Halo fan who’s looking forward to Halo Anniversary – go read why!(Louis Wu 15:12:20 UTC)
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Halo Waypoint Sparkast 008
Yesterday 343 released Sparkast 008 – 50 minutes of Halo goodness and silly shenanigans. Frank O’Connor, David Ellis, Dan Ayoub and Dennis Ries discuss the fun of promoting Halo, worldwide. Go listen! Thanks, JDQuackers.(Louis Wu 15:08:36 UTC)
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A Fistful of Arrows gets a soundtrack
Sean Mortensen has been in our news before – he composes lots of music. Recently, he created an entire soundtrack… for A Fistful of Arrows, the graphic novel put together by Leviathan. Levi sent us the tracks, along with Sean’s commentary on each, a…
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Tyrant’s LASO Challenge Walkthrough – The Package
Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris has another installment of his LASO Challenge Guide – this one will show you all sorts of tricky techniques to make The Package go more smoothly with almost all Skulls on. Go watch!(Louis Wu 19:37:54 UTC)
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SYNAW S2 Ep3 – Vengeance
Ty Coker stopped in with word of a new installment from SYNAW Season 2 – Episode 3 lets you know who the good guys are!(Louis Wu 19:35:20 UTC)
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Fails of the Weak 59
It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Fails of the Weak – Episoode 59 has some pretty funny moments! Go watch! hezekiah has both YouTube and AchievementHunter.com links for you in his forum post.(Louis Wu 19:31:35 UTC)
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Glasslands Wallpaper
Tor is offering some cool Glasslands wallpaper (you can find it on Waypoint, as well) – thanks, Beckx.(Louis Wu 19:23:44 UTC)
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Anniversary Content from the UK
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)
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Halo’s Past, Present and Future
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)
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Seekers, Episode 1
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)
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Wait… Trixie?
Samurai Fronk rears his sharklike head again in our forum – and with him comes an interview with his creator. My head is spinning.(Louis Wu 18:37:17 UTC)
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Anniversary Collector’s Pack, Down Under
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…
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Hey… I recognize those helmets!
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)
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BOBoriffic
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)
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Dennis Ries talks to Halo Destiny
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)
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Stickaholics
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)
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Feminist Analysis of Halo 2
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…
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Behold an Unknown Horse
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…
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Halo 3 – In Memoriam
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)….
