Year: 2009

Hawty McBloggy found a tiny (7-second) clip that shows off the true magic of Halo 3. Literally. (While you’re there, check out the Lovehog.)(Louis Wu 14:57:31 UTC)

It’s a holiday, so new comics are sparse: Bloogyo’s continued Rat’s Nest with Episode 15 6 (MC’s got a new sidekick), and Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater 180 (‘Arrowed’ has Chuck Norris being Chuck Norris). Enjoy!(Louis Wu 14:54:22 UTC)

Optimusprime117 noticed an article at Kotaku describing the future US soldier – and noted that we’re converging towards our own Master Chief. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:51:34 UTC)

Zola, the director behind one of the most-respected Halo 3 montages ever to be created (the Str8 Rippin team montage – you can find links here), recently sat down with RandomSauce for another Director Dialogue. This interview was ready for release on Thursday, in accordance with the regular DD schedule… but I completely forgot to…

ANUBIS x MT recently passed 25,000 sniper/beam rifle kills, and when he did, he had BLACKOUT edit some of them into a montage. This is a guy who’s really mastered the long gun… (Louis Wu 14:16:48 UTC)

Forecast The Series is nearly ready to kick off Season 2 – and a teaser is up now, courtesy of Young Street Productions. Swing by and watch!(Louis Wu 14:12:51 UTC)

Collin Searls let us know that there are some cool new toys coming in August – R/C Warthog, Mongoose, and Hornet, being manufactured by NKOK. (They make a lot of R/C vehicles already – but the Halo line isn’t on their website.) About $25 for the ground vehicles, and $40 for the flying one… get…

Bungie wants to give you Recon – just play some Team Control (this week’s Double XP playlist), take a cool screenshot (just one), tag it right, and you could be sporting the most exclusive armor by week’s end. (Read the rules, and play nice.)(Louis Wu 19:28:25 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy stumbed across ‘The Life of a Noob’, a song by JT Machinima’s skullkruncher13 and patfan8326 which will stick in your head… against your will. (Think of it as the Gilligan’s Island theme of Halo.) Watch it… and laugh.(Louis Wu 13:16:25 UTC)

BBC’s Radio 1 has put together a list of 100 games that their experts have rated as the best – they want you to pick a winner. Halo’s on the list four times (Halo, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo II, and Halo III – it’s unclear what the difference between the first two is, or why…

Avateur noticed that Halo Helljumper #2 has been fleshed out a little at Marvel.com – there’s a summary and a cover pic. Interesting stuff!(Louis Wu 13:14:32 UTC)

It’s Friday evening, so the Bungie Weekly Update is live – head on over to Bungie.net to read it (or just visit our Weekly Update Archive). Lots of choice tidbits – but my favorite is the return of the Action Sack playlist in the near future. Go see what else you can find!(Louis Wu 23:59:55…

The latest Aesthetic Artist Interview is now live – Team Pepto sat down with a cuban cat, a man with a serious way with the Halo Screenshot tools. Go read the details… and check out some of his amazing work. (Louis Wu 18:04:53 UTC)