HBO notes that they received a strange image, apparently one of many. Fan project? Another prong of the Iris ARG, thought finished last month? Who knows.
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Selling Gears To Buy Halo
Chris Martin at Games First writes that between glitchers, hackers, and eight-year-olds, he’ll be turning in his copy of Gears of War to pick up Halo 3 next week. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
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Know Your Halo History
IGN has put together a piece on the history of the Halo franchise; Louis Wu at HBO notes a few inaccuracies they’ve made, but if you weren’t a Halo fan eight years ago you might find some of this “old stuff” interesting.
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Possible Superbounces In Halo 3
SlashRF notes at High Impact Halo that zOMGWTFUDIED has gotten ahold of an early copy of Halo 3 and discovered what he thinks is a superbounce while dying near the Froman base on Last Resort (Zanzibar).
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Bungie Tripled Server Capacity For Halo 3
Bungie’s Jonty Barnes, talking to GameSpot at the Tokyo Game Show, mentioned that Bungie had to triple its server capacity to handle the increased load from Halo 3. Not sure whether that meant matchmaking, or community features, or what; but from the latest podcast it seems that stat-tracking will be vastly expanded, and Bungie is aiming to keep player career stats more or less completely and indefinitely.
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Tafiti – Halo-themed search
Microsoft has kicked off a Halo-themed version of Tafiti – go check it out. Tafiti is a search front end from Microsoft; it uses Silverlight (Microsoft’s Flash-like layer) and Live Search to bring you lots of Halo search goodness. It requires Silverlight, which is available (for free) for both Macs and PCs, and it currently doesn’t work on Safari 3 (though it does, for some reason, work fine with Safari 2) – but other than that, it should be a piece of cake to use. HBO’s content, for the most part, isn’t indexed yet (there was a mixup on the URLs they trawled, I think), but there’s plenty of other Halo content out there on the web – and this is one pretty way to find it! Thanks, Jamey.(Louis Wu 12:08:01 UTC)
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Halo Helmet – High Quality, High Price
The frenzy for high-quality Halo armor continues. (Remember that suit of armor we mentioned on September 11? The auction closed yesterday… for a mind-boggling $21,149.00. I mean… Wow.) Cpl. Fin Aeros points out another auction containing material from the same artist – this time it’s just a helmet, and the bidding currently stands at a bit over $1000, with almost 9 days to go. Read up on how he did the work, watch his videos… and if you’re wealthier than the average bear, toss in a bid!(Louis Wu 10:32:37 UTC)
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Believe Ad Satire
karebearstare put together his own parody of the Believe ads – it’s short, it’s cute, it’s available at MLG’s Gameroom and YouTube. Go see what you think.(Louis Wu 10:26:58 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Even the Fan Fiction writers are pumped up this week – fifteen new pieces for you. Now, I’ve looked at all of them, and made sure that none are OVERTLY full of spoilers for Halo 3… but I can’t be positive that nobody’s snuck in a one-liner somewhere just to be obnoxious. (Seems unlikely, but since I don’t have the time to read every story carefully, I need to make the warning.) You’re PROBABLY safe, but if you want to be 100% sure, you might want to hold off for a few more days.(Louis Wu 10:21:02 UTC)
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Painting the Controllers
Littlebigman found a cool little article on Spawn.com which shows how Todd McFarlane created the artwork that graces the two Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers. (Louis Wu 10:12:15 UTC)
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Evoking Emotion in Halo 3
Over at Music 4 Games, you’ll find a great interview with Marty O’Donnell – tons of info about how he works, how the music for Halo 3 was created, what’s next for him. Mike Salvatori sometimes gets left out of the equation when discussing Halo music, because he works in Chicago, instead of Kirkland… but Marty reminds us that he’s an integral part of the equation. Go read. Thanks, Greg.(Louis Wu 10:09:05 UTC)
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A Construct Isolated In The Pit
Rapture at The Hushed Casket has posted three videos from GameTrailers showing the Halo 3 multiplayer levels Construct, Isolation, and The Pit.
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Can Halo 3 Sell Xbox 360s?
That’s the question posed on the latest podcast at C|Net. With Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 vying for the spot of top dog among next generation consoles, Microsoft has to be counting on their flagship franchise, Halo 3, to provide that final push to original Xbox owners to pony up for a 360. Will it be enough? We’ll know soon.
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Master Chief Play Doh Crotch Armor
Hawty McBloggy figured yesterday should be the day everybody makes a Master Chief out of play doh, and that’s the part she started with, apparently.
Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
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Relief And Satisfaction For Bungie’s O’Donnell
Music 4 Games interviews Bungie maestro Marty O’Donnell about the soundtrack for Halo 3, and the news is all good for fans: more music, better fidelity, more orchestral arrangements and a more interactive feel this time around, not to mention another two disc soundtrack set due out sometime.
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Enjoying Your Mom For Over Two Hours
The latest Bungie Podcast is up and ready for your listening pleasure (and your mom’s); get it from Bungie.net or from iTunes. (Editor’s Note: I don’t see it available in iTunes yet, but I’m sure it’ll be there soon.)
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Pirated Halo 3 Hits Teh Intarwebz
Play.tm reports that images of Halo 3 retail discs have been seen online. Of course, they’re no good to owners of unmodified consoles, and modified consoles are of no use on Xbox Live, but still…
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Ferrex Puts You In Isolation
IGN talked to Tyson “Ferrex” Green about the Halo 3 multiplayer map, Isolation.
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Xbox Live By The Numbers
Next-Generation has a passel of interesting statistics about the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live— software sales, subscriber totals, the works– if you’re interested in that kind of thing.
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High Definition A Quantum Leap For Bungie, Halo 3
Digital Journal interviews Bungie environmental art lead Mike Zak about the challenges of designing the incredibly detailed environments of Halo 3.