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Saturday, May 6, 2006 |  |
New work from an old friend
Interesting. An artist known as GT Gundam over at DeviantART has been turning out great Halo artwork for years - we recently added a bunch of missing images to our Miscellaneous Art section, with his permission. Today, Juan Anselm points out that he's gone and created a new DA account, and has begun to populate it with new art - visit Marathon GTi for the first of these new pieces, 'Save the MD, revised' (Master Chief laying down supressing fire for a can of Mountain Dew - the original is here). Good stuff - we'll keep an eye on this account! (Louis Wu 11:34:20 UTC) (permalink)
Individual Recognition
Over at MLG, there's an interview with Gh057ayame - he's been nominated for the Scion Player of the Year award. Go read about what that means. Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 11:13:05 UTC) (permalink)
Halo References in Pop Culture
Heh. Over at Fark.com, one of the tidbits picked up yesterday was a story about a new pirate-fighting center opening in Mombasa. Fark's footnote: "Prophet of Regret unavailable for comment" - cute. Thanks, Paul Marsh. (Louis Wu 10:46:49 UTC) (permalink)
Near-Cinematic Brilliance
IGN's got a nice review of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2 - with minor exceptions, they gushed over it. Go read! (Louis Wu 03:44:16 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Girls
Heh - whoda thunk it? Lost the Lead has a Silent Hill/Halo crossover. Yes, Pinkuh's a little... odd. Great artwork, though! (Louis Wu 02:52:48 UTC) (permalink)
The snarkiness of critics
Wow, what a nasty shot. Some guy writes a daily blog on MS stuff - and in a paragraph making fun of MSN as a portal (and some of the silly things they tried in an attempt to gain market share), he made this snide comment:
Those days are largely laughed about today, in the same way that we might make fun of such other ill-advised products as Microsoft Bob or the Halo 2 Soundtrack (the latter of which, inexplicably, includes little actual music from the game).
He must have been talking about Volume 1, since Volume 2 is ALL game music (and since its Amazon Sales Rank was #154 in Music - out of three quarters of a million titles)... but still. Geez. (Louis Wu 00:39:24 UTC) (permalink)
We Don't Need No Steenkin' Patches
Blayne's got another batch of UNSC/UESC patches for sale - the first batch of 50 sold pretty quickly. If you missed it, but want one of these puppies... swing by MaraMERCH! (Louis Wu 00:17:59 UTC) (permalink)
Vomitous Lumps
Weekly Update is up - pretty short, because Frankie has no time, but hey. OMG - no Mister Chief. Louis am cry. Update: DOH! Forgot to mention that this was available in our Weekly Update Archive, as well. Update 2: Frankie rocks - he added an Angsty Mister Chief, just for me. I'm printing that and framing it. Really. (Louis Wu 00:13:16 UTC) (permalink)
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