Blog of another Halo fan

Merry Christmas!

Friendly Grunt — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:55:06 +0000

I want to thank everyone who have visited my blog and I want to wish everyone merry xmas! I just watched The Snowman and it was good as before.

December tribute

Friendly Grunt — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:19:44 +0000

Ok I have been doing xmas stuff so there is some articles that should have posted. Well, what happened between 1 and 24 december? There’s a random list about Halothings at December

Heroic map pack was released at Marketplace. Price is 800 MS points till next map pack when they will be free. Map pack includes 3 different maps: Rat’s nest, Foundry and Standoff. Click here for more…

12.12 podcast out. Click here for more…

Bungie released new ViDoc called ‘Journey’s end’ to marketplace. Later that came downloadable to Bungie.net

Red vs Blue tribute to new maps. You can find it from Live Marketplace

…and more and more. Check out rest small updates etc. from Bungie.net

New Weekly Update is out

Friendly Grunt — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:24:05 +0000

Short update from me: This is little bit late but last updatebefore december is out. Frankie tells you something about DLC, MM updates and what they are doing at Bungie right now.
There’s also new Mr Chief so check it out.
Click

New ViDoc is here!

Friendly Grunt — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:38:55 +0000

Personally, I have been waiting something new from Bungie and now I don’t need to wait a while because new Bungie ViDoc is here. It’s called Journey’ End and it’s about 750 MB big. If you’re happy Xbox 360 owner you can download it from Marketplace (Game Videos -> New Arrivals -> Halo 3 ) If you don’t have an Xbox 360 you have to wait a while that someone upload it to Youtube or Bungie will put it to Bungie.net.

Halo Wars monthly update

Friendly Grunt — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:19:16 +0000

Little bit late but at 20.11.2007 Ensemble Studios posted their monthly update to HW sites. They’re writing about Contact Harvest and character (Grunts!) chatter at game. Interested? Read it from here.

Site of the month: Halouvre.org

Friendly Grunt — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:07:52 +0000

I decided to start “Check this out” ehm.. thing. :) Old and new sites, I will bump them up for maybe not-so-old-and-wise Halo fans. So if you know some cool Halo fan-sites, post those for me.
1 month. 1 site. Simple.

! Oh and by the way, next weekend will be very cool for retro game fans because you will see something very retro and not halo things then. !

This isn’t quite new site but first time I saw Halo 3 HUDless pictures there so it’s time to take that site back to my favourites.
Halo 3 pics are here but there is also very nice panorama and “art” pics from Halo and Halo 2. There’s also some fan made videos about Halo world and cool forum. Check it out. Really

Halo Wars: Spirit of Fire

Friendly Grunt — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:08:55 +0000

Just so cool pics from Spirit of Fire which is in Halo Wars.
You can find the pics from here.

Pics and tips about new maps

Friendly Grunt — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:02:26 +0000

Ou yeah. New multiplayer map pack called Heroic map pack is coming on 11 december with three maps which are Rat’s nest, Standoff and Foundry.
For a little dissapointment, they are all based on earth. But that’s not bad.
Map pack costs first 800 MS points and at next spring, little bit before next map pack, they are free.

Rat’s nest
Standoff
Foundry

Bungie at GDE

Friendly Grunt — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:31:25 +0000

Where? San Francisco
What? Gamer Designers Expo
When? February 18
Who? Game designers that includes Bungie

Bungie is there but how and what are they talking about?

Chris Butcher will be discussing Matchmaking in Halo 3
Hao Chen will be talking about Lighting And Material Of Halo 3
CJ Cowan will look at the Halo 3 Cinematic Process
Yaohua Hu will discuss Lightmap Compression In Halo 3
Marty O’Donnell will do an Audio Post-Mortem of the game
Luis Villegas and Sean Shypula will talk about distributed processing to speed up development tasks, will lessons from Halo 3

Source: Click

Listen Halo 3 soundtrack NOW

Friendly Grunt — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:31:22 +0000

Short update about Halo 3 Official Sound Track. It’s coming at December and you can find info about it from here. I have listened those clips and they are just so awesome to hear alone without any other sounds. Just go and listen.