Back in the Saddle

Has it really been two months since our last update? For shame! We’ll have to get back into the swing of things and correct that. Expect a Late to the Party review of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood soon (TM), as well as the eventual return of Week in Miscellanea and the other stuff you love. In [...]

New Map for Halo Reach: Sky Temple

Tanith’s inspirational Promontory got me thinking about building my own map for Halo: Reach. After a couple of weeks of evenings-and-weekends work, I present my first ever attempt at level design: Sky Temple. It’s built high on the wall in the Lagoon area of Forge World, right between the two waterfalls. Here’s the layout: The [...]

Post-Match Report: 514 vs. BBC Halo

Just the facts, people, just the facts. I’m torn, you see.  I play Halo with some great people on the BBC Halo team in London and Manchester. But I learned to play the game with my boys from Montreal, way back when it was Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox. Naturally I jumped at [...]

A study in Cardboard

I suspect that we’ve all battled friends, siblings or imaginary dragons with cardboard tubes wielded as fearsome Swords of Legend. Some of us have probably built forts from discarded boxes, and I bet that one or two have purposed cardboard tubes and boxes into crude but amusing robot costumes. This kid makes all your shit [...]

Awesomesauce, still in UNSC green

  This is a -10 repost, especially considering the quality of the last three posts by tanith, rusty and trip. Still, I hadn’t watched it in a while, and it’s totally worth it if for no reason other than to see that Brute get his face owned in the last few seconds. I promise I [...]

Wear This to Your Next Halloween Party

Neil Ellis is in his final year at at the University Hertfordshire, England, where he is studying Model Design and SFX. Check out the work he did for his Independent Project. Top marks, Neil! Props to HBO, who are hosting the pics.

Mongoose Mowdown Massacre Mayhem

Veterans of Halo 3‘s multiplayer will know that one of the most frustrating and difficult kills to achieve is the coveted Mongoose Mowdown – killing an opposing player by running them over in the high-speed ATV. To date, none of the 514 stalwarts have managed it. But this guys has: For the record, the medals [...]