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The Seventh Day Trailer
Harabek pointed out a trailer for ‘The Seventh Day’, a new project he’s working on. Looks promising!(Louis Wu 14:18:33 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:03:50 UTC)
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For Jake’s Sake Charity Halo 3 Tournament
Miss Tique from Team Bombshells told me about a new Halo 3 charity tourney coming up:
We are hosting a charity Halo 3 tournament next week on 12/21 at 7pm EST and continue throughout the night. We have partnered up with UGS, GnG Magazine, Charity Gamers and Gamers United. It will be 4v4, it is a min of $5 per player towards the For Jakes Sake Foundation. The winning team will win 30% of the pot as a thank you for their contributions. So more the money, bigger the pot, and more towards Jake.
Who’s Jake you might ask? At the age of 3 he has Mitochondrial Disorder, and his family are running into a financial hardship to pay for his medical bills. Team Bombshells has teamed up with them to help them raise the awareness of this disorder and to help their son have a normal healthy life. There’s more info at For Jakes Sake to read about what this disorder can do to someone. Register for the tournament here!
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Wake the Machine
TTL Demag0gue has posted the next chapter in his Reclaimer comic – Chapter Two, Part Ten looks to give Team Viper a way out. (Good thing, or this would be a much shorter comic.)(Louis Wu 12:18:47 UTC)
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Haven Teaser
Back in August, blackouTT released a teaser for his latest machinima project, ‘Haven’. It was (duh) built in Halo 2, because Halo 3 hadn’t been released yet. He was planning for the film itself to be made in Halo 3 – but on September 25, he discovered that there were no maps that worked for the script he’d written. Haven was on hold… until December 11, when the Heroic maps came out, and he found his locale. He’s created a new teaser for the project – you can download it from links in his HaloGrid forum post. (If you’d rather watch in QuickTime format, we’ve put up a copy ourselves – 26 mb.) He’s submitted this teaser to the Ziddio Machinima Contest (we mentioned it last month) – so if you feel inclined, swing by, create an account, and rate it there! (Public rating is the first round of judging – the top five rated entries will move on.)(Louis Wu 12:08:39 UTC)
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Looks like it was a triple to end game 2, Luke.
This week’s Humpday Challenge is posted over at Bungie.net; they faced off against Clantacular on the new DLC maps. As an example of how big and powerful Bungie.net has become: near the bottom, the automatic censoring code in the website rewrote something Luke put in – it’s 6:30 in the morning here, and I haven’t had any coffee yet, so I was struggling to figure out what got ‘blam’ed in the phrase ‘”-blam!-le Sayers”. I dropped “le Sayers” into Google, to see if anything obvious popped up… and the Humpday writeup was hit number five. It’s been online for less than 12 hours, fergoshsakes! (This post will probably make it rise, even.) I still don’t know what was censored… but the writeup is entertaining anyway. Thanks, Psychophan7.(Louis Wu 11:39:42 UTC)
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Forge Maps db opens at R.net
Heh – yesterday, I mentioned that the community could really use a searchable database for Forge creations – and today, Rampancy.net opened a Forge maps database. You can browse/search/download maps without logging in, but you’ll need to have an account to submit them. (They need to know who they belong to, after all.) Ask, and ye shall receive!(Louis Wu 10:28:01 UTC)
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Humpday Challenge: Clan Practice
The kind and well-behaved folks from Clantacular met us on the Internet for a “friendly.” Did we lose again?
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Maps and Cannibals at Gamasutra
RotaJota noticed a couple of Halo articles at Gamasutra – both are interesting, though one has lots of meat and the other’s just an appetizer. For snacks – an article suggesting that Halo 3 sales caused many, many fewer than expected sales for Stranglehold. (What… mediocre reviews might not have something to do with it?) The main course – a Q&A session with Bungie’s Steve Cotton about the thought processes that went into the development of the DLC maps. It’s a great read, and might give you some ideas about customization after the fact.(Louis Wu 23:39:55 UTC)
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Protips from the devs
Bungie’s posted a ‘Quick and Dirty Guide to the Heroic Maps‘ – layouts, weapon locations, vehicles, basic strats – absolutely worth reading if you want a leg up on the competition when you jump into the Heroic DLC playlist. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 23:29:48 UTC)
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Twelve. (And Thirteen.)
Whoops. Hikaru-119 pointed out that I forgot to mention yesterday’s or today’s One One Se7en Advent offerings… the dangers of auto-updates. Sorry about that! (Well… you might actually thank me after reading them.)(Louis Wu 23:22:44 UTC)
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Inside Halo episode 4
Machinima.com’s Inside Halo Episode 4 is now online – you can watch or download it at machinima.com, or stream it at YouTube. SodaGod is off this time around, but the dead pixel will walk you through the basics of making machinima with Halo 3. Good info, interesting to watch, funny! Go grab it. Thanks, Adam Kovic.(Louis Wu 22:14:27 UTC)
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RT: Burnie Bump Redux
It’s becoming my mission in life to bump Burnie’s posts as soon as I possible can. How dare he post on the main page – my page! Anyway, his post immediately below is pretty awesome, and is all about our Grifball tournament this weekend. I heard that ESPN…
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UNSC Messenger Bag
ThinkGeek is selling a pretty nice messenger bag – comes in Khaki or Grey, and holds an awful lot of stuff. Check it out!(Louis Wu 21:25:37 UTC)
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Quick and Dirty Guide to the Heroic Maps
Fast and hard look at the maps: what they contain and what to play from the Halo 3 Heroic Map pack.
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Halo 3 Voted Retail’s Highlight Of 2007
There’s a press release at GamesIndustry.biz that announces that MCV, the leading trade publication for the video games industry, has named the Halo 3 launch as the “best single moment in 2007”. Not bad!(Louis Wu 21:19:57 UTC)
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Halo makes people spend big
Hawty McBloggy wrote up her experience at the Childs Play Charity Dinner Auction a couple of nights ago – her focus was on the Halo-related items, of which there were many for sale. A chance to use Bungie’s ‘Flaming Helmet’ armor on Xbox Live went for $740, a bag of schwag (along with Recon armor) went for over $5000. All the proceeds went to Child’s Play, the charity started by the Penny Arcade crew to bring games (and smiles) to hospitalized kids everywhere. Go read about it all!(Louis Wu 21:15:35 UTC)
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CNN says Halo launch a top sci-tech story of the year
CNN.com has posted their Top sci-tech stories of the year as part of their Year in Review coverage – use the little circles on the bottom to jump to September 25, and you’ll see that Halo 3’s launch made the list. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 21:03:59 UTC)
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Another shot at a cheap Legendary Edition
If you missed out on Amazon’s $59.99 Halo 3 Legendary Edition on Black Friday, you’ve got another shot – while supplies last. Wal-Mart (well, walmart.com, at least) is selling the helmeted game for $59.82 right now. What are you waiting for? Update: looks like Clefton Twain noticed this, too.(Louis Wu 19:55:07 UTC)
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Unforgotten Sheet Music
chrischang127 has transcribed Unforgotten, from Halo – it’s available at Rampancy.net as a PDF. (Remember, you must be logged in to see the download links.)(Louis Wu 17:00:26 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft