Author: Bungie.net’s Recent News

Christopher Barrett, the creative director on Halo 3’s downloadable content sits, cracks open a cold one and chats about DLC, old school Bungie and how he got started in the game industry.

The final ViDOC, Journey’s End, which debuted last week on Xbox Live Marketplace, is now available for download here at Bungie.net.

The Heroic Map pack is a week away and here’s a metric ton of images to look at from Standoff, Foundry and Rat’s Nest.

Halo: Combat Evolved is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace as a part of Microsoft’s new Xbox Originals program.

1UP is hosting a poll for its reader-voted Games of the Year and it’s over at this link. We’re against shameless self promotion however, so we absolutely forbid you to vote. Mind you… if we did win, that would be sort of cool and  we’d probably remember that when it came to handing out Recon…

If you enjoy playing around with Forge, our new maps are going to give you some useful tools to create wholly unique experiences. So here’s a shout out to one of several community-driven Forge sites. This one is called Forge Hub, and is a cool gathering place for ideas and maps.

Bungie Studios’ Sandbox Design Lead Jaime Griesemer is appearing in the Discovery Channel documentary series “Rise of the Video Game.”

Applying soothing unguents to the Internet’s furious rage, one calming paragraph at a time. The Weekly Update.

We show our junk to Halo3.Junk.ws and when it comes to junk, our junk is funky.

The past is the new future. “Journey’s End,” a ViDOC tracing the events leading up to Halo 3 is now available on Xbox Live.

The MJOLNIR mix of the Halo Theme, first heard in Halo 2 is now available for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 3.

With the content announced and priced, we talk to a couple of the DLC leads for some more details.

The penultimate in Downloadable Content teases, a visit from giants and Optimatch/playlist information.

Still on the fence about purchasing an Xbox 360 and Halo 3? Check out this latest promotional offer from Microsoft – buy a console, hook up to LIVE and get a free copy of Halo 3.

This week we brave the perils of Matchmaking in honor of Xbox Live’s birthday.

A bunch of us are going to be online from 3 p.m. Pacific to 5 p.m. Pacific today in Halo 3. The results of some of those matches will become this week’s Humpday Challenge.

The Halo 3 matchmaking playlist changes we mentioned in last week’s Weekly Update are now live. Check the list out inside.

Want a sonic sneak peek at the Halo 3 Original Soundtrack (due next week in stores)? There’s an officially sanctioned website that can satiate your desires.

Heatmaps, DLC, birthdays, joyful music and housecleaning.

Through flame, ice, wind and shame, we get turned into chumps in this week’s Humpday. Or do we?