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Friday, June 19, 2009 |  |
A Gamer's Alphabet - a charity project
I received an email from mick, a friend of Marissa's dad, Mike. (Marissa, if you haven't been reading long, is a little girl with infantile spasms; her dad started a program whereby Fairfax, a stuffed bunny, has been visiting people and places around the world (and getting photographed doing it) to raise awareness about Marissa's illness.) mick came up with the idea of creating a Gamer's Alphabet - a small book which would (in theory) contain a set of illustrated gamer words. (There is a conversation over at fazyluckers that might help explain what's involved.) If you'd like to help, swing by and sign up - you'll need to tell Chris, who approves all members, that mick sent you. There are so many amazing artists in the Halo community - by adding your skills to this project, you can help create a really cool little book that can be sold to help out Marissa! (Louis Wu 20:19:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Uprising - a commercial hit
Wow - the Halo Uprising hardcover isn't just doing well - it's #1 on the New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller List for June 13. (Okay, okay, it's the Graphic Book list... but still.) Little bit of a writeup, even... (Louis Wu 20:06:14 UTC) (permalink)
Eric Nylund Interview at the 405th
Adam Grumbo of the 405th has interviewed Eric Nylund about writing, Halo, and what else is going on in his life. It's got some meat, with respect to Halo tidbits we haven't heard before (mostly where ideas came from and such) - give it a read! Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 19:31:42 UTC) (permalink)
Super Smash Brothers: Halo Edition
wwm0nkey1 grabbed a Hyrule Temple map from ForgeHub and whipped up a 'Super Smash Brothers: Halo Edition' video. Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do... (Louis Wu 19:17:06 UTC) (permalink)
Aesthetic Artist Interview: Alec 944
The Aesthetic Artist Interview series is back - well, on its new bi-weekly schedule. The latest interview is with Alec 944, the man who started the whole 'interview a screenshot artist' idea in the first place. Go read - and check out some of his work! (Louis Wu 18:13:37 UTC) (permalink)
Impressions: Halo Uprising
Destructoid has put up an Impressions article about Halo Uprising - if you STILL haven't made up your mind about getting this, go read. (Louis Wu 18:07:39 UTC) (permalink)
The Community Marches On
Some goodies from the BungLog™ today:
- The Hope Unto Dawn charity event undertaken by Facility B5D was a success - over $2000 was raised for the Child's Play charity, and fun was had by a lot of people. A 'Supertage' (screenshots, clips, and pics commemorating the event) is linked, along with the thank-you message from the receiving charity. (Actually, the thank-you message redirects to msn.com; I'd guess B5D deep-linking is frowned upon. You can read it by visiting this forum post.)
- A couple of Forge groups got together for some friendly custom games, and wrote the results up, Halo Humpday-style.
- Bryan Simon has another song online - this one is a remix (well, rewrite) of Beyonce's Halo. If you don't know the original song, you should listen to it so you know how good Bryan's tribute is!
What would I do without urk? (Wait, I know... cry less. That man is mean to me.) (Louis Wu 18:04:18 UTC) (permalink)
The UNSC tire hardening experiment went horribly, horribly wrong.
It's Friday! Wanna play? Hawty McBloggy does. She's posted Round 51 of her Friday Caption Fun series - go check out last week's responses, and show off your with and style with the newest pic! (Louis Wu 13:21:09 UTC) (permalink)
A look at Reach, from IGN
Brooks Kuester was the first to let us know about an article at IGN entitled 'What to Expect from Halo: Reach' (though a thread started up not long afterward on our forum, thanks to GrimBrother One). The article contains a nice summary of what we know about Reach from all sources (books, games, trailers), and picks apart the trailer for as much detail as can be found. (Did you notice the drifting Spartan behind the damaged UNSC frigate?) Go check it out! (Louis Wu 13:18:57 UTC) (permalink)
Friday Comic Roundup
The comic list today is short, so far:
- Dennis Powers has once again updated Shipwrecked to Episode 72 - Weather War - the marines look to be pawns in a much bigger fight.
- The Catfish let urk know about 2501 Episode 68 - a long-thought-about scene comes to fruition.
- Bloogyo stopped in with word of Rat's Nest 19 1... and a little bonus.
Enjoy! (Louis Wu 13:17:44 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
Nine new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today - lots of meat! Go fill up. Update: Jake Trommer had tried to submit a chapter of his 'Attack on Installation 6' series that should have made this update - it's there now. (Louis Wu 13:09:46 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Canon Guide
Over on Bungie.net, Maximum FEAR is putting together a 'Guide to Canon in the Halo Universe' - he's collecting quotes from Bungie employees (and others closely associated with canon issues) in an attempt to nail down what is, and what is not, 'official'. Swing by to see what he's got - and if you know of sources he can use that aren't listed, let him know! (Louis Wu 13:07:28 UTC) (permalink)
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