Halo 3 Planet

Just a last minute note here that I’ll once again be at the Penny Arcade Expo, and once again I’ll be keeping our Twitter feed updated with all the latest hooplah that will inevitably be going on there. A fair deal of it will probably be Grifball related, as I’m on a panel there for the “online sport,” due to me being an administrator over at Grifball.com and the official Grifball league.

The updates should start coming in later today when I hop on my flight to Vancouver and then Seattle, and the gaming stuff (with the exception of a possible dinner/party with whoever’s there tonight that I might know) should start updating tomorrow morning when I sneak into the exhibition hall a couple hours ahead of the enormous line of gamers.

Amid all the confusion regarding E3’s gameplay trailer of ODST and the teaser for Reach, I forgot to update the front page.

Read the full story on Bungie.net. It’s news no Halo fan can miss out on.

We’ve just received word that the target of the dreaded Conficker worm is, in fact, Halo 3. The worm, which has infected as many as 20,000,000 home networks worldwide, has caused nearly every Xbox LIVE equipped Xbox 360 in South Korea to lose the ability to play Halo 3.

Theories abound about who came up with the dastardly plan have abounded since the news broke an hour ago, and the generally held belief that Gears of War icon Cliffy B is responsible has just been confirmed.

Says Cliffy B, “Suck it Bungie, I TOTALLY got you good.”

When questioned about why exactly he released the virus, Mr. B threatened the crowd with a real life version of the Lancer weapon from the Gears of War series.

Click here for important details regarding the Conficker worm.

Here at Halo 3 Planet, we’ve been anticipating the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack just as much as you have, and luckily we got our grubby little hands on a code yesterday.

Once the maps go live we’ll have HD videos of exactly how to get the three skulls on the maps (and the achievements that go with them), but for now, enjoy these six images we shot from outside the boundaries of the maps.  The scenery on these three maps is breathtaking, to say the least, and the full res versions of these screenshots would make some very nice looking desktop backgrounds.

The night sky above Orbital.

Took this one from outside of Orbital, facing the planet below.

Something of an establishing shot of Assembly’s immediate surroundings.

Assembly from above.

As wide a shot as we could manage on Assembly. That little “egg” in the middle of the shot is the entirety of what we had in the first Assembly image. The “cavern” is gigantic. Certainly bigger than the surroundings of the other two maps.

Shot of the cloud and mountains outline of Sandbox. Would have taken a shot of the sun-rise/set, but the way it’s set up it looks best from the map area anyway.

Click the images for the high-res (1080p) versions.

I mentioned on the forum that I’d be linking to the achievement guides I make on AchievementHunter.com, and with two weeks of videos under my belt, it’s time for the first batch.

Unfortunately my first batch happened to come about during a VERY busy time of my life, University Final Exam week(s). With all the studying I’ve been doing, I only managed to post two videos in my first two weeks with the site. Oh well. The videos are linked below.

The first 4 achievements in Fallout 3 (Vault 101 Citizenship Award, The G.O.A.T. Whisperer, Escape!, and Psychotic Prankster)

A guide to getting Fable 2’s “The Menace to Society” achievement

I apologize for the fact that neither of the videos is Halo 3 related, but realistically we won’t be covering much more of Halo 3 (at Achievement Hunter that is) until Halo 3: ODST arrives sometime next year. Until then, I hope you enjoy my guides all the same. I’ll be adding a new wrap-up of my achievement guides every second week.