Kotaku: forge

Adult Anime Drawings Forged in Halo 3

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:00:00 MDT

We've previously seen how Halo 3's Forge can be used as a canvas by the artistically included. And while the above image is certainly not the first "erotic" images made with Forge level editor by a damn sight. (Hey, give the plebs the ability to create, and you betcha, they'll whip up naughty bits!) But these are the first MAXIMUM RISKY Japanese anime-style ones we've seen — then again, we haven't exactly been looking. They, of course, were made by lining up weapons.

Hit the jump for the full image and another one. NSFW.

「HALO3」、武器を並べてエロアートを作る職人 [Hatimaki]

Kotaku Originals: We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

Owen Good — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:00:00 MDT

That's right, four score and seven years ago today at Valley Forge, John F. Kennedy and the Lone Ranger chopped down the cherry tree that Squanto ate at the first Thanksgiving, and Paul Revere hung a light in the Alamo to alert Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders: "N00B, red team has taken teh control point, FAIL." Then Batman crossed the Atlantic in an X-Wing Fighter to accept the Heisman Trophy from Winston Churchill, and Martin Luther King Jr. said "God bless us, every one of us."

Oh wait, today's July 5th. Shit.

Well, for those in the USophile-speaking world, this is a three day weekend and you should still be burning large amounts of animal flesh on a grill for the next two days, or else you hate freedom. And for that reason, Kotaku's U.S. staff is on an abbreviated schedule today and tomorrow. Our updates will come every two hours today and tomorrow, then it's back to full-strength when Luke Plunkett and the freedom-hating Australians take up the cause late Sunday evening. Until then, I regret that I have but these stories (more after the jump) to give to my country:

Battlefield: Bad Company Review: Going For The Gold
Once a Labor of Love, Sales of Football Rosters Now Inflame Passions
Former CEO Of Struggling Atari Got One Hell Of A Golden Parachute
Is Chrono Trigger DS Coming To America?
Xbox 360 Getting a 3D Dashboard Make-Over?
Too Human Hands-On: Six Hours In And Half-Way Home
The Man Behind Diablo III Talks Plot, Lore and Battle.Net

Playfire Launches PS3 Trophies Gamercard Service
Best Buy Ad Shows Xbox 360 Price Drop
Can You Really Win A Wii As A Carnival Prize?
Ninja Gaiden II Mission Mode Coming This Month
Come Party With Kotaku
Call of Duty: World at War Figures Show Off U.S., Brit Might
Too Human Online Co-op Hands On: Does Double The Baldur Mean Double The Fun?
Alpha Protocol Aims Ambitiously For RPG, FPS Fans
Frankenreview: Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360)
Infogrames-Controlled Atari Gets 49 Percent Of Publishing Revenues From DBZ
Devil May Explode BAM! BOOM! POW!
George Romero Clueless About Dead Rising?
Minority Report Designer Behind New, Motion-Controlled 360 GUI?
Aussie 360 Price Cut Official, Now Cheaper Than Wii<br />
Pachter: Rumored Xbox 360 Price, Feature Set Sprucing Could Squeeze Sony'
Game Club Beyond Good & Evil: The First Assignment
GameTap: Myst Pass-Back Benefits Fans
Sporelebrity Contest Kicks Off
Playing Spore: A Lesson in Teabagging
First Look At FIFA 09, PS3 Gets Exclusive "Game Mode"
Bling Gnome Pays Visit with Golden Offering
I Meet The Band, Get Sauced At The GH: Aerosmith Launch Party
Neil Young Launches iPhone Games Company
List of First PS3 Trophy Supported Games
$299 Price Drop Xbox 360 Is Refurbish? (Bwah?) [Updated]
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Level Up
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: “There Is No Penguin Level.”
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Day One
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: How Much Is Your Goody Bag Worth?
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Diablo III In-Depth

Most Unintentional Halo 3 Betrayal Falls From Sky

Mark Wilson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:00:00 MDT

Imagine Master Chief hanging out with Chicken Little. A Warthog drops from the sky and kills Master Chief. And Chicken Little is left with nothing to do but spend hours reviewing tape, discovering just who made the sky fall on our lovable hero/Little's fiance. Wait...was Chicken Little a girl? Was Master Chief a boy? Can we get some confirmation on this stuff before proceeding with the lame metaphor?

Thanks Jason!

Halo 3's Forge Gets Filtered

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:20:32 MDT

Enterprising map makers and modders will have a handful of new toys to play with in Halo 3's Forge creation tool when the Legendary Map Pack ships. And while new scaffolding and tweaked shipping containers may get you moist, it's the new suite of visual filters that may excite Halo fans most. The latest Bungie weekly update reveals the latest Forge improvements, including funky and fresh filters that will give your map a "juicy", "gloomy" or "old timey" look. That's great and all, Bungie boys, but what we need is the ability to generate lens flare under any lighting condition. We require massive amounts of lens flare!

Bungie Weekly Update: 4/04/08 [Bungie.net]

Halo 3 Dance Of Self Termination

Mike Fahey — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:20:15 MST

Holiday depression getting you down? Well if you are going to take yourself out, best to go out in a memorable, virtual fashion. Falling off the side of a level? Bah. Hugging a plasma grenade? You're getting warmer. Take a lesson from Evlmidget25 here, who ends his brief virtual life in a graceful, arcing dance of plasma and person, finally meeting in a coup de grâce that brings a tear to your eye. A ballet of self-destruction, if you will. Thanks NapalmBallad for sending the link, and possibly changing the way I play Halo 3. You can't kill me if I kill me first!

Using Halo 3's Forge As A Canvas

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:40:00 MST

Asking your girlfriend to join you in wedded bliss via the Halo 3 Forge tool is sweet and all, but it's cloyingly so to one who has zero faith in the institution of marriage. We're far more impressed by more egocentric endeavors, like spending the hours necessary to create a self-portrait in Forge, especially one that looks as challenging as the one above. The creator writes: "I was thinking that an image could be created if objects were placed in the foreground, middle ground and background and then viewed from a specific area that would converge the objects to make the image. If done correctly, the image would appear vertical and 3D as opposed to lying on the ground." Done correctly indeed!

Halo 3 Forge: Illusion Self Portrait [Flickr via Ozymandias]

New Halo 3 Vidoc - Cinema Paradiso

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:46 MDT

Here I thought I was going to get away with a day of no Halo 3 news, but Bungie went and released their latest vidoc explains the why and how of the saved films feature, which I've a feeling is going to be the most entertaining feature of Halo 3 for me along with Forge. Seeing as I suck at multiplayer, I'll just spend my time in the game trying to setting myself up to die humorously while recording it for posterity's sake.