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 [...]

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 [...]

I need gun – lots of gun

Rusty told us about this on Sunday, but it’s time to share with the whole Objective 514 community: the U.S. Navy recently tested a new toy: “The railgun uses electromagnetic energy instead of explosive chemical propellants to fire a projectile farther and faster. The railgun [...] will ultimately fire a projectile more than 230 miles (370 kilometers) [...]

Moer liek n00bstick, m i rite?

Zombie hunters rejoice! The AA-12 tactical shogun is here!