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First part of the finale of season 1 of Master Chief Theater 3000.

Pyrosmile finishes off the cutscenes from The Covenant.

Pyrosmile parodies the opening cutscene of The Covenant.

Pyrosmile parodies the opening cutscene of The Ark.

You know Captain Spark. The guy who records all those audio snippets from Halo games? Yeah, that's him. He's weighed in now with a review of Halo 3's campaign. He starts by getting two beefs of his chest (the over-aggressive Arbiter and the so-called "Cortana Moments") before getting to what he likes. Well worth a read, go check it out.

Well, it's been awhile since COD4 and Halo 3 did the flip-flop on Major Nelson's ranking of top games on Xbox Live, but it's happened again: Halo 3 is number one, and COD4 is number two. Again.

How long that lasts is anybody's guess; perhaps the two games will get back on the seesaw. Until something else comes along to unseat them again (however temporarily-- the only game on the horizon I see that can do this is Gears of War 2) the determining factor on a week to week basis might become DLC.

Version 0.20.2 of Aleph One, the open source engine for playing Marathon games on MacOS, Windows and Linux, has been released.

After transcribing "Unforgotten" into a full score, I decided to do it again for the updated version, "Never Forget". I did it to the best of my ability, had to guess on some things, but I played it side by side with the Halo 3 CD and it sounded pretty darn close, if not exact, to me. So I think I got it right. Also, at measure 25, I couldn't quite pin down which key Marty switches to so I just left it in G Maj/E min. until measure 51 when he obviously goes back to the original key of "Unforgotten" (which is A flat Maj/F min). Any question you have, I will be happy to answer to the best of my ability. Enjoy.

This is a transcription done by myself concerning Unforgotten from Halo 2. There are 3 horns, full string orchestra, and a piano. I do not have a MIDI or MP3 of this file as of yet. Shouldn't need one anyway. Just listen to the Halo 2 CD. Anyway, hope you like this one.

Well, it took an extra few days, but Bungie.net's weekly update reports that the worldwide campaign kill count has reached the seven billion mark.

A new version of Aleph One, the open source engine for playing Marathon, is available. It fixes a few bugs and all current players are urged to update.

Hey guys, this is a song I made called Looking Back. It conveys pretty much what it says, kinda of a bitter sweet "remembrance" of the Halo Trilogy.
Hope you all like it!
I'll be posting up the sheet music in a bit.

Medium: Piano
Difficulty(1-5): 3

Included files:
- mp3 performance (Looking Back.mp3)
- sheet music COMING SOON

The file should appear below. (Remember, you must be registered to view and download attachments.)

Pyroman and mr smiley's MST3k-inspired spoof of the cutscene between Floodgate and The Ark.

From 5:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern next Friday, July 11, you can play Hail to the Chimp online with the developers, Wideload Games.

The play session will include Bungie alums Alex "The Man" Seropian, Matt Segur, and Doug Zartman.