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  • The Riot 91

    Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 91 is now up for downloading – 20 minutes, 8 mb, full of community stuff, discussion, mac software advice, and more. Oh, yeah, and a newly-designed front page. Go read, go listen!(Louis Wu 18:55:10 UTC)

  • Halo Story Timeline Updated

    UNSC Trooper took it upon himself to fill in a bunch of gaps in our Halo Story Timeline – he sent along key events from several sources we hadn’t gotten to yet (Contact Harvest, Halo Wars, Halo: Uprising, the Halo Graphic Novel), as well as some unmentioned events from sources we HAVE covered. We’re running…

  • Action Panoramas

    Logan “Crab” Rini sent along a bunch of panoramas he’s been putting together; they’re more varied than many of the ‘glorious landscapes’ we’ve seen from others. (Some are exactly that – but others are action shots with a much wider angle of viewing than we’re used to seeing.) These are quite large, for the most…

  • Navigating Halo – how intuitive IS it?

    This blog post showed up in my Google Alerts mailbox – I’m posting it because (past the amazing-to-me fact that an English teacher living in South Korea knows NO Korean) I found it interesting that Halo 3 seemed hard to navigate without verbal cues. I can’t remember any places where things weren’t mostly clear by…

  • Forge Art Contest Update

    A couple of days ago, we mentioned a contest at Maximum Fear – apparently, the submission email was incorrect. If you submitted an entry, you might want to swing by again and resubmit. Maximum Fear says “sorry!”(Louis Wu 14:58:44 UTC)

  • Do the Guardians make pie?

    Ultimate_Dragon wrote up a glitch he experienced a few days ago… but when he posted it in text form, it didn’t get a lot of response – maybe because people couldn’t really picture what was happening. So he made a small vid, which he’s posted on YouTube. His theory is that under certain conditions, if…

  • Painful Demonstration

    Halo Action Figure Theater is updated with more unveiling… and another mystery. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:31:57 UTC)

  • Arbiter Helmet – Detailing Starts

    Keegan has begun work on the detailing of his Arbiter helmet. (Search our news for earlier posts.) This pic is a bit out-of-focus… but it’s still clear enough to see that this is looking good!(Louis Wu 14:30:24 UTC)

  • Cubee Craft Master Chief

    Hawty McBloggy found a papercraft Master Chief at Cubee Craft – cut him out, fold him over, stand him up. (Apparently, it’s a bit more work than it looks…) Swing by and make your own!(Louis Wu 19:06:14 UTC)

  • Defrag

    Today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip solves the mystery of Cortana’s rampancy – I should have known.(Louis Wu 16:08:32 UTC)

  • Halo 3 Flashmaps

    PEZ let us know that halowiki.net is hosting new Flash map overviews, put together by Devozade. The first map up is Sandtrap, and the overviews should be embeddable in other sites. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:04:48 UTC)

  • Weta’s headed to London on May 24

    Ross Mills noticed a tiny reference in the writeup for the London Movie Comic Media expo, coming in late May – Weta workshops will be there, with (among a lot of other things) “A sneak preview of the new Halo range of Collectibles, featuring Master Chief.” Nice!(Louis Wu 16:01:57 UTC)

  • Whisper in the Storm in HD – on BT for now

    Okay, the next Halo 2 HD cutscene release is ready… but this one’s a little different. Whisper in the Storm is 5:40 long – an enormous piece of work. In HD, it’s also an enormous file – it’s roughly a quarter of a gigabyte. To save our servers just a little bit, we’re holding back…

  • A New Fantastic Point Of View

    Sane Intolerant has restarted Halo Toy Box – he, too, has switched to McFarlane figures, and like Elnea, has noticed Cortana’s hawtness. (Louis Wu 02:43:22 UTC)

  • Bungie animators talk to RZG

    Kevin Larrabee, of Red Zone Gamer, let us know that in their latest podcast (number 4), he interviewed Seth Gibson (Bungie Tech Designer) and David Hunt (Bungie Lead Character Rigger and Cinematics Technical Director) about working at Bungie, how they got into animation, what they enjoy playing now, and more. The podcast is two and…

  • Blackstone Teaser 2

    Lordstemplar1 stopped by to announce the release of Blackstone Teaser 2. Just under a minute, about 10 mb to download, or streamable from a couple of places. Looks a little scary!(Louis Wu 02:24:57 UTC)

  • Not sure I’d wanna use it, but it’s purty

    Pixellated ran across some pictures of a laptop case mod that’s heavily inspired by Halo. Nice!(Louis Wu 02:07:28 UTC)

  • Brawl

    SPARTAN 294 noticed that DigitalPh33r released Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 6 – “Brawl”. Eight and a half minutes long, it gets back to the fun that might have been missing from the last couple of episodes. Arby and the Chief play some Super Smash Brothers Brawl… and it doesn’t go so well for one…

  • Another Friday, Another Update

    Bungie’s Weekly Update is available now over at Bungie.net (and in our Weekly Update Archive) – lots of details about the upcoming MLG playlist, some stats about the popularity of various settings and armor choices, a few random Recon giftings, and some great screenshots of vehicles that have received a cosmetic (and in the case…

  • Pontiac rides the Halo 3 train – er, car

    As was noted last fall, Pontiac got involved in the Halo 3 hype with a ‘First to Play’ contest, and a Halo-branded G8. Zach Mulkey points out that the website for the G8 shows off a car covered with hundreds (thousands?) of photos and movies… and some of them are Halo-related. Can you find all…