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Friday, May 23, 2008 |  |
Thaw Loser
Oh, my goodness. The Guest Artist on today's Another Halo Comic Strip is... well, geez. Go read. And Groan. (Louis Wu 17:03:45 UTC) (permalink)
The Old and the New(ish)
DogCow spent a little time detailing the similarities between Halo's Library level and 'If I Had a Rocket Launcher', a Marathon 2 level released in 1995. He found seven of them - and now that I think about it, he's right! Makes you wonder if ferrex was thinking about Marathon 2 during the development of the Library... (Louis Wu 16:02:04 UTC) (permalink)
X-Planing inside a UNSC Cruiser
Mid7night stopped by to announce that he's released a scenery package for X-Plane - you can now fly around inside a Marathon-Class cruiser in that game, and try and land a Pelican or Longsword in there. Go look! (Louis Wu 15:20:46 UTC) (permalink)
No Mail for Cortana
Heh - Anton P. Nym noticed that Willamette Week, a Portland, OR weekly newspaper, interviewed Jen Taylor, because of a role she's got at Portland Center Stage right now... and when the conversation turned to Jen's experience voicing Cortana for the Halo series, she said that she doesn't get any fan mail related to the character. Steve (Mr. Nym) wonders if she hasn't inadvertently opened a floodgate or two... (Louis Wu 15:18:48 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 - an educational experience
There's a fascinating blog post from Mike Caulfield, an administrator at Keene State College in New Hampshire - it posits that games like Halo 3 are better at teaching problem-solving than 'puzzle' games. Go read why. (Louis Wu 14:27:39 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Grunt Action Figures as Art
Back in November, we mentioned that Curt Chiarelli, the sculptor that created the molds Joyride used to produce the first Halo action figures, was gearing up to create a limited-edition run of Covenant Grunts - yesterday, we were sent pictures of the final product. I have no idea if any of the 25 models are still available for sale... but at the very least, you can get a good look at Curt's work. An amazing Halo collectible... (Louis Wu 13:06:40 UTC) (permalink)
Halo-related video at CH.com... sort of
Psychophan7 pointed out a video on CollegeHumor.com that ostensibly relates to the MLG Meadowlands tournament, and the Halo 3 played there. You'd be well advised to pay attention to Psycho's warning, though. (Louis Wu 13:06:12 UTC) (permalink)
Community Spotlight: Ascendant Justice
Bungie has spotlighted the Ascendant Justice blog for its consistently high-quality writing; we've mentioned each piece they've published as it came out (because we agree with Bungie, the stuff they do is great), but if you missed any of it, this is a great reminder to go back and explore. (The point of this spotlight is to introduce the next community member to populate the 'Bungie Favorites' section of Bungie.net - go see what gametypes, maps, screenshots and films AJ thought was worth your time!) Thanks, Don. (Louis Wu 13:05:32 UTC) (permalink)
HBO Leaderboards at HaloCharts.com
A couple of days ago, JeSteR 343 started up a group at HaloCharts.com, allowing HBO regulars to compare themselves to other HBO regulars. It took a little while for the bugs to be worked out of the grouping system, apparently - but things seem fine now, and there are a number of members already signed up. Go add yourself! (Louis Wu 13:04:07 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
There are nine new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week - a great step up from the last couple of weeks! One of the stories has some artwork with it - this will be an option for submitters in the near future, but probably not for at least a couple of weeks. (Please don't try and add artwork to any submissions next week; doing so might get your story deleted. Apologies for that.) (Louis Wu 12:58:13 UTC) (permalink)
I'm not crying, because I don't want to.
Some of you may have noticed the little cake showing up next to yesterday's date at the top of the page - it marked the 9th anniversary of the inception of this site. It was blam.bungie.org back then, and in fact just a single, blurry picture stolen from Marathon... but it grew into the site you're reading now. And I'm still amazed by that. Thanks for the 3288 days of Halo goodness, everyone! (So no, SinisterSamurai, the cake was not a lie.) (Louis Wu 12:46:05 UTC) (permalink)
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