Author: Rampancy – Se7en Years Of Halo

1Up continues their “three weeks of Halo 3” online series to accompany their chocked-with-Halo 3-goodness December issue. The latest addition is a Humpday Challenge writeup where Bungie cheats and multiplayer lead Tyson “Ferrex” Green graciously stops at the appropriate number of 7 kills to leave 1Up with some self-esteem. Just not much.

Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards spends a lot of time online playing Halo 2. He brings an Xbox 360 to the hotel with him on the road and connects to Xbox Live through their Internet connection. What does he want to do next? According to Xbox.com, he wants to be a modder. “First it…

Nick from HaloDev let us know that their site has re-opened with a new backend system and a lovely bunch of coconuts. The site has FAQs for HaloDev as well as for the Prometheus editor, community forums, and developer blogs.

Funkmon over at Subnova wrote up a scathing review of Eric Nylund’s latest Halo novel, Ghosts of Onyx. Although he gave high marks for writing and story, in the end he wanted fewer new characters and more of the Master Chief– and the reality is the book isn’t about Master Chief at all. For my…

Coming Soon has up what it claims is an official press release from Wingnut Films, detailing a joint decision by Microsoft and Wingnut to delay production of the Halo feature film until such time as they can guarantee they’ll be bringing a “first class film” version of the game to screens. Cinema Blend linked to…

You’d have to have been under a rock (or on a business trip, natch) to have missed the revelations about Halo 3 multiplayer from Swedish gaming magazine, Level, last week. Similar material is upcoming from EGM, and their online presence, 1Up, is doing a special Three Weeks of Halo 3 page. They also summarized the…

In his blog, Eric Trautmann notes that author of the “Armor Testing” story in the Halo Graphic Novel, Jay Faerber, will sign your stuff and answer your questions at Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, WA. After that, there’s a Halo tournament with prizes!

Spong is reporting that the X06 Korea event gave details on a 100Gb hard drive unit for the Xbox 360. No official confirmation, or word on pricing or availability. Not sure why such news would surface first in Korea, so take this with the usual helping of salt you reserve for Spong stories. UPDATE: Microsoft…

Cinema Blend and CanMag have two completely different takes on the same event. Apparently, just before making an initial payment, Universal and Fox asked Microsoft and the producers to lower their profit-sharing on the Halo movie. Microsoft refused, and now Fox and Universal are out of the picture. Cinema Blend says this means the Halo…

A blog that seems to focus more on politics than gaming marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Marathon Infinity earlier this week. Needless to say, this game has given me and my friends many happy moments for the last 10 years, and it will continue to do so in the future, as Aleph…

GamePolitics points out Neilsen Entertainment’s third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, which says that there are 117 million “active gamers” in the United States. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Mr Sprout over at the new Halo Wars fansite, Halo Wars Central, was able to get an interview with Dispraiser, the lead of Slipstream Productions that was working on the Halo-themed Halogen mod for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Shortly before the announcement of Halo Wars for the Xbox 360 at the X06 event…

Next Generation: Game Trailers Hitch Up (mentions the H3 trailer) Marine Corps Times: Halo becomes literary blood-and-bone ballet (about the graphic novel) NG-Gamer: XCN Interviewed Peter Moore (Halo Wars, Bungie and Ensemble mentioned) Bungie.net: Halo 2 Vista Developer Diary Part Two (Vista is pretty and likes to kiss all the boys) Halo Wars.com: New forums…

A few more articles continue to pop up about the new Halo universe works being done by Wingnut Interactive and Ensemble Studios: The Record.com: Don’t Call Them Games Dallas News.com: Playing on two fronts

Dissatisfied with the crazy-AI, talking-plant route that Bungie seems to be taking with Halo 2 and Halo 3, GamePro decided to come up with their own design doc for Halo 3, featuring the Master Chief as a power-mad dictator who leveraged his defeat of the Covenant into hegemony on Earth.

Although Bungie is working on its own mobile portal, currently it’s only available for Verizon, and probably only available in certain countries. For the rest of us jonesing to have Halo wallpapers on our cellamaphones, there are other solutions, even for those without any Photoshop skills. Mid7night created four phone-sized wallpapers out of images captured…

Stuff has a story by Gerard Campbell on how the formation of Wingnut Interactive, working on a future series of digital entertainment products in Bungie’s Halo universe, is bringing New Zealand into the heart of the next-generation gaming industry.

Two new packs of maps at Aleph One this week: Azure Dreams and Oblivion Pack 2.0. Enjoy!

Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored…

In addition to the official HaloWars.com site and its forum, Halo Wars fansites are starting to sprout up. We saw the first of them linked from HBO: Halo Wars Central, which is currently running an art contest. We’ve added a Halo Wars section to our database of links to other sites.